The Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships awarded annually in two categories: Academic Year and Summer.
Awardees
2024
Academic Year: Hindi Matthew Busch (UC Berkeley); Bengali Rokshana Bushra (UC Berkeley); Persian Ross Rosenthal (UC Berkeley)
Summer: Urdu Evan Grennon (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Kevin Morales-Bernabe (UC Berkeley)
2023
Academic Year: Hindi Matthew Busch (UC Berkeley), Lucas Mendoza Rojas (UC Berkeley); Urdu Yasmeen Azam (UC Berkeley), Sarah Merchant (UC Berkeley); Telugu Mayadevi Murthy (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Monica Thunder (UC Berkeley)
Summer: Bengali Daniel Adel (University of Hawaii at Manoa); Urdu Joshua Jacobson (UC Berkeley), Isa Syed (Yale University); Eric Villalobos (UC Santa Barbara); Tamil Jeevan Palaniyandy (Tufts University)
2022
Academic Year: Urdu Keyle Horton (UC Berkeley); Sarah Merchant (UC Berkeley); Hindi Surili Seth (UC Berkeley)
Summer: Bengali Tausif Noor (UC Berkeley); Urdu Ambika Athreya (UC Berkeley); Hindi Anisha Ahuja (Claremont Graduate University), Thom Tyler (University of Denver); Bengali Basil Bastaki (Yale University); Sanskrit Eric Davenport (University of Virginia), Anya Fredsell (Emory University), Ria Gandhi (UC Berkeley), Tertia Gillett (Villanova University), Mackenzie Haight (University of Virginia), Aaron Minnick (Harvard University), Hannah Stoltenberg (University of Hawaii at Manoa) ; Bengali Spencer Pennington (UC Los Angeles); Malayalam Alexander Verdolini (Yale University)
2021
Academic Year: Bangla Rumassah Chohan (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Alexandra Ciolac (UC Berkeley); Petra Lamberson (UC Berkeley); Urdu Britt Leake (UC Berkeley), Sarah Merchant (UC Berkeley)
Summer: Urdu Rachel Hirsch (Harvard University)
2020
Academic Year: Hindi: Britt Leake (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit: Alexandra Ciolac (UC Berkeley), Gideon Enz (UC Berkeley). Telugu: Anjali Kantharuban (UC Berkeley), Bhumi Purohit (UC Berkeley). Urdu: Andrew Kerr (UC San Diego)
Summer: Assamese Derrika Hunt (UC Berkeley); Bengali Devin Choudhury (UC Berkeley), Patrick DeSutter (UC Berkeley); Hindi Shreya Kareti (UC Berkeley), Urdu Eliza Hollingsworth (UC Berkeley)
2019
Academic Year: Bengali Patrick DeSutter (UC Berkeley); Hindi Sarah Manchanda (UC Berkeley), Gauthami Penakalapati (UC Berkeley); Panjabi Ravleen Kaur (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Gideon Enz (UC Berkeley)
Summer: Assamese Derrika Hunt (UC Berkeley); Bengali Devin Choudhury (UC Berkeley); Hindi Arianna Pemberton (UC Berkeley); Malayalam Brent Otto (UC Berkeley); Pashto Nicole Ferreira (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Gideon Enz (UC Berkeley); Urdu Elizabeth Gobbo (UC Berkeley)
2018
Academic Year: Bengali Devin Choudhury (UC Berkeley), Patrick DeSutter (UC Berkeley); Hindi Julia Nee (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Maxwell Brandstadt (UC Berkeley), Gideon Enz (UC Berkeley), Petra Lamberson (UC Berkeley); Tamil Rabindra Willford (UC Berkeley)
Summer: Bengali Devin Choudhury (UC Berkeley); Hindi Lauren Nippoldt (UC San Diego), Nicole Price (University of Kansas); Malayalam Lisa Brooks (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Gideon Enz (UC Berkeley); Tamil Keith Cantu (UC Santa Barbara)
2017
Academic Year: Hindi Tara Gonsalves (UC Berkeley), Sohini Pillai (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Max Brandstadt (UC Berkeley), Hannibal Taubes (UC Berkeley); Tamil Ned Dostaler (UC Berkeley); Urdu Rachael Hyland (UC Berkeley)
Summer: Hindi Sarah Manchanda (UC Berkeley), Samuel Cushman (UC Santa Cruz); Malayalam Brent Otto (UC Berkeley), Lisa Brooks (UC Berkeley); Punjabi Nick Randhawa (UC Berkeley), Rishi Khalsa (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Jessica Merritt (Indiana University-Bloomington); Tamil Ned Dostaler (UC Berkeley), Keith Cantu (UC Santa Barbara)
2016
Academic Year: Hindi Katherine Harloe (UC Berkeley); Bengali Rachael Hyland (UC Berkeley); Persian Nicole Ferreira (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Max Brandstadt (UC Berkeley), Khenpo Yeshi (UC Berkeley); Tamil Sohini Pillai (UC Berkeley)
Summer: Hindi Samuel Cushman (UC Santa Cruz), Ralph Gustav Steinhardt (UC Berkeley), Sarah Schear (UC Berkeley); Assamese Derrika Hunt (UC Berkeley); Bengali Rachael Hyland (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Mauricio Najarro (UC Berkeley), Jolisa Wilfong (UC Berkeley); Tamil Helena Reddington (McGill)
2015
Academic Year: Hindi Rachael Hyland (UC Berkeley), Christopher Hyun (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Khenpo Yeshi (UC Berkeley); Tamil Sarah Bakst (UC Berkeley), Erin Bennett (UC Berkeley), Ruvani Fonseca (UC Berkeley); Urdu Nicole Hemenway (UC Berkeley)
Summer: Bengali Rachael Hyland (UC Berkeley); Hindi Erin Bennett (UC Berkeley); Malayalam Lakshmi Eassey (UC Berkeley); Persian Jonathan Peterson (University of Colorado); Sanskrit David Bratt (UC Berkeley), Sahaj Patel (Columbia), Kellie Powell (UC Berkeley), Karl Schmid (Emory); Tamil Allyson Czadowski (University of Illinois); Telugu Harita Koya (NYU)
2014
Academic Year: Hindi Padma Maitland (UC Berkeley), Ajay Pillarisetti (UC Berkeley), William Stafford (UC Berkeley), Elizabeth Thelen (UC Berkeley), Vania Wang (UC Berkeley); Marathi Gregory Goulding (UC Berkeley), Hareem Khan (UC Santa Barbara), Aaron Young (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Meghan Howard (UC Berkeley); Telugu Anisha Gade (UC Berkeley); Urdu Inderjit Kaur (UC Berkeley)
Summer: Hindi Joseph Albertson (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Julia Corwin (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities), Carly Nichols (University of Arizona), Angela Oberg (Rutgers University), Shivani Sud (UC Berkeley), Lindsay Vogt (UC Santa Barbara); Sanskrit Eli Sharf (Brown University), Alexander Yiannopoulos (Kathmandu University); Sinhala Ruvani Fonseka (UC Berkeley); Tamil Jodi Shaw (Loyola Marymount University); Telugu Kristina Rogahn (UC Berkeley); Urdu Sarah Fasano (Connecticut College), Jaslina Paintal (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill);
2013
Academic Year: Hindi Padma Maitland (UC Berkeley), Maria Montano (UC Berkeley), William Stafford (UC Berkeley), Prithvi Trivedi (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Catherine Dalton (UC Berkeley); Tamil Bharat Venkat (UC Berkeley); Urdu Ali Hassan (UC Berkeley), Inderjit Kaur (UC Berkeley);
Summer: Bengali Ashlee Andrews (Indiana University-Bloomington), Laura Tavolacci (UC Davis), Rebecca Whittington (UC Berkeley); Hindi Nidhi Anamkath (UC Berkeley), Sarah Carson (Dartmouth College), Padma Maitland (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Norielle Adricula (UC Berkeley), Amanda Culp (Columbia University), Nicole Hemenway (UC Berkeley), Meghan Howard (UC Berkeley), Jonathan Peterson (University of Colorado at Boulder); Tamil Madeline Chera (Indiana University-Bloomington), Bharat Venkat (UC Berkeley); Telugu Hannah Archambault (UC Berkeley)
2012
Academic Year: Bengali Ryan Damron (UC Berkeley); Hindi Padma Chirumamilla (UC Berkeley), Padma Maitland (UC Berkeley), Cheryl Young (UC Berkeley); Marathi Vivek Virani (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Catherine Dalton (UC Berkeley); Tamil Maria Packman (UC Berkeley), Lalli Venkatakrishnan (UC Berkeley), Rebecca Whittington (UC Berkeley); Urdu David Boyk (UC Berkeley), Emma Kalb (UC Berkeley)
Summer: Bengali Kathrine Starkweather (University of Nebraska at Lincoln); Hindi Padma Maitland (UC Berkeley), Nurolhoda Bandeh-Ahmadi (UC Berkeley), Kenneth Bitner (University of Chicago), Cherish Bolton (UC Irvine), Kristin Franceoeur (Indiana University-Bloomington), Camille Frazier (Scripps College), Sagar Raju (Bridgewater Raritan High School), Tara Yarlagadda (Acalanes High School); Marathi Vivek Virani (UC Los Angeles); Sanskrit Kristina Anderson (Northwestern University), Vincent Burgess (University of Colorado at Boulder), Eric Gurevitch (Trinity High School New York City), Adam Krug (Naropa Institute), Aniel Mundra (University of Chicago); Urdu Meredith Gloger (Harvard University), Katie Lazarowicz (Harvard University), Matthew Phillips (University of Chicago), Lioudmila Zaitseva (Harvard University)
2011
Academic Year: Hindi Padma Chirumamilla (UC Berkeley), Kashi Gomez (UC Berkeley), Emma Kalb (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Ryan Damron (UC Berkeley), Gregory Goulding (UC Berkeley), Ashwin Manthripragada (UC Berkeley); Tamil Rebecca Whittington (UC Berkeley); Urdu Hannah Archambault (UC Berkeley), Elizabeth Thelen (UC Berkeley)
Summer: Bengali Rahul Parson (UC Berkeley), Laura Tavolacci (UC Davis), Rebecca Whittington (UC Berkeley); Hindi Nishant Bagadia (UC Berkeley), Andre-Jacques Elias (University of Washington), Kristin Francoeur (University of Miami), Fredrick Hohlen (UC Berkeley), Adam Newman (University of Virginia), Sara Price (Oregon State University), Andrew Snyder (UC Berkeley); Sanskrit Hillary Langberg (UC Berkeley), Jesca Scaevola (University of Missouri-Columbia); Tamil Eleanor Power (Stanford University), Hannah Smith (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Urdu Nurolhoda Bandeh-Ahmadi (UC Berkeley), Emma Kalb (UC Berkeley), Jeffrey Roy (UC Los Angeles), Dustin Smith (Harvard University)