SIS Awards 2025

Achievements

Congratulations to all of our award winners!

SIS Winners of University Awards

Scott A. Bass Outstanding Scholarship at the Undergraduate Level Award: Anna Keyes
Library Research Award: Best Undergraduate Paper Award (First Place): Sarina Govindaiah
Carlton Savage Award: Risako Sho
CSI Award of Excellence: Colleen Cohen

SIS Distinguished Service Award: Claire Brunel
SIS Scholar/Teacher of the Year: Guy Ziv
SIS Outstanding Scholarship, Research, Creative Activity & Other Professional Contributions: Sumitra Badrinathan; Walter Flores
SIS Outstanding Contributions to Fostering Collaborative Scholarship: Samantha Bradshaw; Judith Shapiro
William Cromwell Award for Outstanding Teaching: Tamar Gutner; Victoria Kiechel
Darrell Randall Award for Outstanding Service to the University Community: Anders Hardig; David Simpson; Nina Yamanis
F. Gunther Eyck Award: Jonathan Crock
Outstanding SIS Teaching in an Adjunct Faculty Position: Nancy Sachs
SIS Outstanding Contribution to Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Mohammed Abu-Nimer
SIS Outstanding Faculty Administrator: Claudine Kuradusenge-McLeod
SIS Outstanding Faculty Mentor: Elizabeth Cohn
SIS Collaborative Research Award: Sumitra Badrinathan; Sarah Khan
SIS High Performing Scholar Award: Samantha Brashaw; Jesse Ribot

Outstanding Service to Students: Officer of Career Development Team (Sara Jones, David Fletcher, Gianell Lopez, Olivia Geveden)
Outstanding Team Player: Mike Rosenberger
Outstanding New Team Member: Calvin Elison; Adriana Metin
Outstanding Service to the SIS Community: Jim Banks
Outstanding Performance: Nathan Osenberg; Amy Zawada
Outstanding Service to the University Community: Lee Ullmann
SIS Special Recognition: Paula Warrick

Inspire the Professor: Daniel Vaysman
Outstanding Academic Achievement: Bailey Schiff
Creative Work in International Studies Research: Katie Barnett
Exemplary Original Research: Anna Keyes
Lead, Serve, Make a Difference: Isabel Sunderland
Frank Willis Scotton Award: Kayleigh Hendy
Pittman B. Potter Award: Jacob Erhart
Charles H. Heimsath Award: Henry Su
Thematic Area Award: Peace, Global Security, and Conflict Resolution: Aidan Springs
Thematic Area Award: The Global Economy: Emme Richards
Thematic Area Award: Foreign Policy and National Security: Nicholas Chen
Thematic Area Award: Global Inequality and Development: Amelia Keeton
Thematic Area Award: Environmental Sustainability and Global Health: Abby Gee
Thematic Area Award: Identity, Race, Gender, and Culture: Ella Izenour
Thematic Area Award: Justice, Ethics, and Human Rights: Mia Westfere
Thematic Area Award: Global and Comparative Governance: Jackson Meisner

Goodman Award for Outstanding Academic and/or Scholarly Performance, SIS-Wide: Telmen Altanshagai
Outstanding Professional and/or Policy Contribution, SIS-Wide: Layma Murtaza
Outstanding Service On-Campus, SIS-Wide: Roger Rolando Reyes; Giulia Rozzo
Outstanding Voluntary Service Off-Campus, SIS-Wide: Anna Studilko; Joel Suarez
Goodman Award for Outstanding Academic and/or Scholarly Performance: Tyisse Baxter; Thahira Cader; Carrington Chung; Alayna Cicchetti; Isobel Day; Aisha Jallow; Jeffrey Jordan; Alyssa Kuraishi; Daisy Lupa; William Price; Jack Sphen; Emily Stoehr; Holly Tolley; Christopher Unruh
Outstanding Professional and/or Policy Contribution: Edgar Aguilar; Tyquiashia Dickerson; Anna Fritz; Atefa Ibrahimi; Mona-Mae Juwillie; Courtney McGourty; Hallie Millsaps; Lindsey O’Neal; Natalie Petrulla; Frank Spathanas; Nisitha Viswanathan
Outstanding Service: Jessica Bansil; Jude Braithwaite; Colleen Cohen; Claudia Coscia; Erica Cherepko; Chris Chavers; Anna Marie Fama; Nicolas Gourgues; Erica Jones; Joshua Palmer; Melissa Vasquez; Benjamin Weise; Mai Sia Yang
Mahmoud Hamid Award: Amanda Clark
Excellence in Quantitative Research: Edgar Aguilar

Boren Fellowship: Adam Blugerman; Steven Bradford; Maveen Mallah; Sofia Walsh; Jamison Williams
Boren Scholarship: Joshua Michals
CLS Program, In-Person Institutes: Savannah Riddick; Tanishka Khanna; Amy Tsou
Gates-Cambridge (PhD): Aneisa Babkir
Gilman Scholarship: Ashley Gunn; Katherine Carroll; Yash Momaya
Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship: Melia Hawthorne Klinger
Princeton in Asia: Lurilla Bereveskos
Yenching Scholar: Barak Levitt