2025 Scholarship & Fellowship Recipients
Founded with an award from the Indiana University Women's Philanthropy Leadership Council in 2018, the Women Engaging Globally Scholarship funds undergraduate women who attend the Language Workshop in preparation for an international career. Here are the 2025 Women Engaging Globally Scholars.
Xinrui Xie is a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in Japanese Buddhism. Having studied in the United Kingdom and the United States, she brings a cross-cultural perspective to her research on Buddhist literature, book history, and intellectual exchange. Ultimately, she aspires to foster global engagement and strengthen academic connections between the East and the West as a professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. She studied Japanese 2 with her Women Engaging Globally Scholarship.
Clara Biela is an International Relations Major at Cornell College with a passion for languages. A student of both Russian and Spanish, she is preparing for a career in international diplomacy and security. She studied Russian 1 with her Women Engaging Globally Scholarship.
Kristie Moore is an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley studying Global Studies with a concentration in Peace & Conflict studies. She studied Azerbaijani 1 with her Women Engaging Globally Scholarship, in preparation for a career in mass atrocity prevention.
Administered by the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the Title VIII program promotes regional expertise at the national level by funding graduate students to study the languages of Eastern Europe and the states of the former Soviet Union. The 2025 Title VIII Fellows were:
| Kaitlyn | Cannady | Nebraska State University | Czech 1 |
| Andrew | Carter | University of Wisconsin | Estonian 1 |
| Daniel | Cooper | Florida State University | Polish 1 |
| Stayc | DuBravac | University of Kentucky | Lithuanian 1 |
| Angela | Horvath | University of Wisconsin Milwaukee | Finnish 1 |
| Angela | Horvath | University of Wisconsin Milwaukee | Estonian 1 |
| Gabriel | Kelly | American University | Latvian 1 |
| Nicole | Kemmett | University of Iowa | Estonian 1 |
| Nickolas | Khimerik | Columbia University | Romanian 1 |
| John | Lennon | University of Notre Dame | Russian 6 |
| Colin | McKinzie | University of North Carolina | Russian 5 |
| Owen | McNeely | Ohio State University | Romanian 1 |
| Dragan | Mikulin | University of Wisconsin | Ukrainian 1 |
| Alexandra | Puccio | Indiana University | Russian 6 |
| Lyndsay | Ricks | Indiana University | Russian 6 |
| Ian | Scott | University of Maryland | Russian 4 |
| Samantha | Sharp | Binghamton University | Estonian 1 |
| Sydney | Sheppard | University of California Riverside | Ukrainian 1 |
| Maia | Simon | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Russian 5 |
| Erin | Steitz | Indiana University | Estonian 1 |
| Katie | Stewart | Knox College | Estonian 1 |
| Kristof | Szabo | Indiana University | Hungarian 1 |
| Elena | Tiedens | University of Chicago | Russian 3 |
| Max | Wellbrock-Talley | Kansas State University | Russian 3 |
| Bonnie | Wren-Hardin | Ohio State Univeristy | Azerbaijani 1 |
Project 'Global Officer' improves the language skills, regional expertise, and intercultural communication skills of future military officers by providing scholarships for summer language training to ROTC students. The 2025 Project GO scholars were:
Chinese in Taiwan
| Emma | Carpenter | University of Florida |
| Kevin | Conjalka | George Washington University |
| Molly | Edmonds | William & Mary |
| Michaela | Fischer | Harvard University |
| Luke | Frazier | Citadel Military College of South Carolina |
| Amelie | Galimba | University of South Carolina-Columbia |
| Edward | Kim | New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| Arjav | Krishna | Northwestern University |
| Marco | Martini | Cornell University |
| Luke | Mitchell | William & Mary |
| Ashton | Pease-Smith | Tuskegee University |
| Victor | Perez | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Olinmazatemictli | Reyes | Columbia University in the City of New York |
| Seggi | Shin | University of South Carolina-Columbia |
| Tristan | Stowe | Benedict College |
| Joey | Yong | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities |
| Kaylee | Zimmerman | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities |
Russian in Kyrgyzstan
| Winston | Bergseid | University of Caifornia Santa Barbara |
| Payton | Frederick | William & Mary |
| Louis | Gillian | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Victor | Gumenyuk | University of Nevada-Las Vegas |
| Taylor | Jackson | Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott |
| Alina | Kitceniuk | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| Benton | Morse | The University of Texas at Austin |
| Ethan | Moudry | Gustavus Adolphus College |
| Fabian | Perez-Munoz | University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez |
| Misty | Schinneller | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Loghan | Shanmuganathan | University of Virginia-Main Campus |
| Anthony | Vitale | Tufts University |
| Charles | Whitmire | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Ivan | Zhivaga | University of California-Los Angeles |
Foreign Language and Area Studies Awards are funded by the United States Department of Education in support of students studying less commonly taught languages, in particular, those considered to be of critical interest to the United States. FLAS Awards promote the training of students who plan to make their careers in fields where knowledge of foreign languages and cultures is a prerequisite to success.
The 2025 Workshop's FLAS Awardees were:
Nathaniel Baggerly | William Jewell College | Russian 2 |
Erik Dabelko | Indiana University | Arabic 2 |
Audrey Digua | University of Oklahoma | Arabic 3 |
Desmond Dine | Baylor University | Russian 3 |
Jonah Gotkin | Indiana University | Arabic 2 |
Emma Griffin | New York University | Dutch 1 |
Katherin Groner | Commonwealth University | Russian 2 |
Mason Hartlage | Indiana University | Russian 3 |
Claire Kinderwater | Indiana University | Russian 2 |
Joseph Larson | Indiana University | Estonian 1 |
Grace Pechianu | Indiana University | Romanian 1 |
Lewis Poggie | Indiana University | Ukrainian 1 |
Alison Roush | Florida State University | Russian 3 |
Aleksei Rumiantsev | Indiana University | Turkish 1 |
Noor Sami | City University of New York | Persian 1 |
Aidan Schilling | Indiana University | Russian 3 |
Bradley Weiss | Indiana University | Dutch 1 |
Sydney Witham | Indiana University | Russian 2 |
The Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies provides scholarships for students studying Estonian, Latvian, or Lithuanian in BALSSI, the Baltic Studies Summer Institute. The 2025 AABS Scholar was:
| Daniel | Peters | Illinois Department of Revenue | Latvian 1 |
The HLS Scholarships are funded in part by alumni and supporters of the Workshop. Meet this year's HLS Scholarship recipients.
| Ezra | Naranjo | United States Air Force | Turkish 1 |
| Melinda | Susanto | Leiden University | Japanese 3 |
| Julia | Welp | The George Washington University | Arabic 3 |
| Keiko | Behrens | Kenyon College | Russian 3 |
| Nathaniel | Baggerly | William Jewell College | Russian 2 |
| Lillian | Farley | Western Kentucky University | Chinese 2 |
| Helen | Hopersky | Lingua Balance LLC | Ukrainian 1 |
| Alexia | Bozas | Pennsylvania State University | Arabic 1 |
| Lindsey | Olivero-Gong | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign | Chinese 3 |
| Yun Kiu | Lo | Indiana University | Japanese 3 |
The CIBER Scholarship supports undergraduate business majors studying in the Language Workshop. The 2025 CIBER Scholar was:
| Jia | Park | Indiana University | Chinese 2 |
The Qatar Foundation International Scholarship supports high-school juniors and seniors studying Arabic in the Language Workshop. The 2025 QFI Scholar was:
| Zaleigh | Hornsey | HS NAME PENDING | Arabic 2 |
2025 Award Winners
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 student awards for Outstanding Academic Achievement.
| Arabic 1 | Alexia Bozas |
| Arabic 2 | Zaleigh Hornsey |
| Arabic 3 | Julia Welp |
| Azerbaijani 1 | Margaret Fitzpatrick |
| Chinese 2 | Neve Scalf, Lilian Farley, Natalie Lashley |
| Chinese 3 | Christina Li |
| Czech 1 | Ian Danner |
| Dutch 1 | Lucie Baltunis |
| Estonian 1 | Katie Stewart |
| Hungarian 1 | Kristof Szabo |
| Japanese 1 | Morgan Hart |
| Japanese 2 | Xinrui Xie, Erica Thieneman |
| Japanese 3 | Renle Fei |
| Korean 1 | Upamanyu Dutta |
| Korean 2 | Sarah Mollineaux |
| Korean 3 | Jesse Gonzales |
| Kurdish 1 | Marianna Smith |
| Latvian 1 | Olivia Berzups |
| Mongolian 1 | Bo Chao |
| Pashto 1 | Heather Thoelecke |
| Persian 1 | Hongyu Zhang |
| Persian 2 | Yutong Ma |
| Polish 1 | Jessica Foster |
| Russian 1 | Aidan Hewett |
| Russian 2 | Claire Kinderwater, Emily Runions |
| Russian 3 | Aidan Schilling |
| Russian 4 | Adrian Bader |
| Russian 5 | Maia Simon |
| Russian 6 | Lyndsay Ricks |
| Swahili 1 | Derrik Rivet |
| Turkish 1 | Samuel Parks-Penwell |
| Ukrainian 1 | Helen Hopersky |
| Uzbek 1 | Yong Cho |
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 student awards for Greatest Improvement in Language Proficiency.
| Arabic 2 | Jonah Gotkin |
| Arabic 3 | Audrey Digua |
| Chinese 2 | Andrea Montejano, Denali McDermott-Sipe, Samual Meares |
| Chinese 3 | Micah McCauley |
| Dutch 1 | Emma Griffin |
| Estonian 1 | Nicole Kemmett |
| Hungarian 1 | Jordan Borns |
| Japanese 1 | Diana Siwicka |
| Japanese 2 | Elizabeth Hart, Victoria Stanley |
| Japanese 3 | Xinming Gu |
| Korean 1 | Jeffrey Stafford |
| Korean 2 | Addison Clark |
| Korean 3 | Yutong Feng |
| Latvian 1 | Daniel Peters |
| Mongolian 1 | Dulguun Damdinbayar |
| Pashto 1 | Wafa Zaka |
| Persian 1 | Thaddeus Stringer |
| Persian 2 | Ozlem Elif Isler |
| Polish 1 | Jake Wareham |
| Romanian 1 | Owen McNeely |
| Russian 1 | Paul Murphy |
| Russian 2 | Henry Stover, Chloe Varney-Irlam |
| Russian 3 | Max Wellbrock-Talley |
| Russian 4 | Ian Scott |
| Russian 5 | Adrian Balta-Ferguson |
| Russian 6 | John Lennon |
| Swahili 1 | Haley Kilayo |
| Turkish 1 | Joseph Larson |
| Ukrainian 1 | Arielle Trakhtenberg |