Fellowship Recipients
Where available, links are provided to press coverage of award recipients and their interests. Explore and imagine what you might do if you were to apply for the same award!
Also note, some past recipients have generously made their application essays available to future Wesleyan applicants. Find those on the Application Essay Examples page (Wesleyan login required for access).
2025
Critical Language Scholarship
, Class of 2025, Korean, South Korea
, Class of 2025, Arabic, Jordan
, Class of 2025, Korean, United States
, Class of 2025, Russian, Kyrgyzstan
, Class of 2026, Russian, Kyrgyzstan
Goldwater Scholarship
Kaylin Maher, Class of 2026
Antonio Rivera, Class of 2026
Keasbey Memorial Foundation Scholarship
, Class of 2025, English, United Kingdom
Samuel Huntington Public Service Award
Diana Naiyanoi Kimojino, Class of 2025, Kenya
Watson Fellowship
, Class of 2025
, Class of 2025
2024
Critical Language Scholarship
Henry Leighton, Class of 2025, Advanced Beginner Chinese, Taiwan
Kat Basilio, Class of 2027, Beginner Indonesian, Indonesia
Lyla Normand, Class of 2025, Advanced Japanese, Japan
Sophie Raiskin-Wood, Class of 2025, Intermediate Portuguese, Brazil
Eli Siegel-Bernstein, Class of 2025, Advanced Arabic (declined)
Aniya Akhtar, Class of 2024, Advanced Beginner Urdu (declined)
Fulbright US Student Program
Melanie Cham, Class of 2024, Study/Research Grant (Paleontology), India
Eliot Kimball, Class of 2024, English Teaching Assistant, Argentina
Sophie Mann-Shafir, Class of 2022, Study/Research Grant (History), Italy
Daisy Montoya, Class of 2024, English Teaching Assistant, Mexico
Simon Worth, Class of 2024, English Teaching Assistant, Madagascar
Joanna Paul, Class of 2018, English Teaching Assistant, Germany
Amina Mednikoff Misra, Class of 2024, English Teaching Assistant, Germany (declined)
Rachel Wachman, Class of 2024, English Teaching Assistant, France (declined)
Gaither Junior Fellows Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
, Class of 2024, Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics Program
Goldwater Scholarship
, Class of 2025, Physics
Kanders Churchill Scholarship for Science Policy
Sophie Wazlowski, Class of 2022 (alternate)
Truman Scholarship
, Class of 2025
Watson Fellowship
, Class of 2024
, Class of 2024
Also:
1 Marshall Scholarship finalist
1 Rhodes International finalist
1 Fulbright alternate
2023
Boren Scholarship
Eli Siegel-Bernstein, Class of 2025, Jordan (declined)
Critical Language Scholarship
Henry Leighton, Class of 2025, CLS Spark, Chinese
Mika Zapf, Class of 2025, Korean
Natasha Muromcew, Class of 2026, Korean (declined)
Fulbright US Student Program Grants Awarded in 2023
Nick Bowman, Class of 2022, Fulbright Masters Degree Award, Israel
Lizzie Edwards, Class of 2021, English Teaching Assistant, Thailand (declined)
Margalit Katz, Class of 2022, English Teaching Assistant, Mexico
Ben Levin, Class of 2023, English Teaching Assistant, Czech Republic
Emily McDougal, Class of 2023, English Teaching Assistant, Argentina
Anna Tjeltveit, Class of 2023, English Teaching Assistant, Germany
Mariah Saunders, Class of 2023, English Teaching Assistant, Cambodia (alternate)
Betsy Zaubler, Class of 2021, Fulbright-Aalto University Graduate Award (alternate)
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad
Garrett Groesbeck, PhD Candidate, Japan
Gilman Scholarship
Julia Augustyn, Class of 2025, Brazil
Goldwater Scholarship
, Class of 2024
, Class of 2024
Watson Fellowship
, Class of 2023
Also:
2 CLS alternates
20 Fulbright semifinalists
1 Rhodes semifinalist
2022
Fulbright US Student Program Grants Awarded in 2022
, Class of 2020, English Teaching Assistant, Belgium
Alphina Kamara, Class of 2022, English Teaching Assistant, Zambia
Andrew Finkelman, Class of 2022, English Teaching Assistant, Spain
, Class of 2022, English Teaching Assistant, Greece
Justin Kim, Class of 2019, Research: Creative & Peforming Arts (Filmmaking), South Korea
Lizzie Edwards, Class of 2021, English Teaching Assistant, Turkey (declined)
Sarah Backer, Class of 2022, English Teaching Assistant, Taiwan (declined)
Goldwater Scholarship
, Class of 2023
Watson Fellowship
, Class of 2022
Schwarzman Scholarship
, Class of 2022
2021
Beinecke Scholarship
, Class of 2022
Critical Language Scholarship
Megan Levan, Class of 2022
(due to COVID, we list grants offered rather than grants accepted)
Susannah Greenblatt, Class of 2016, Research (Creative Writing), Spain
Mira Guth, Class of 2018, Research, Norway
Ji Yoon Park, Class of 2021, English Teaching Assistantship, South Korea
Lupita Sanchez, Class of 2020, English Teaching Assistantship, Taiwan
David Vizgan, Class of 2021, Research, Denmark
Edward Yanez, Class of 2021 (alternate)
Lizzie Edwards, Class of 2021 (alternate)
Rhodes Scholarship International
, Class of 2021 (for Jamaica)
Also:
9 Fulbright semi-finalists
2020
Beinecke Scholarship
, Class of 2021
Critical Language Scholarship (program canceled)
Elizabeth Edwards, Class of 2021
Megan Levan, Class of 2022
Inayah Bashir, Class of 2020, English Teaching Assistantship, Kenya
Abraham Kipnis, Class of 2019, Graduate Study, Finland
Nicole McCann, Class of 2018, Research, Kenya
Jed Munson, Class of 2019, Arts, South Korea
Anthony Price, Class of 2020, English Teaching Assistantship, Netherlands
Ananya Subrahmanian, Class of 2018, Binational Internship, Mexico
Afrah Boateng, Class of 2020 (alternate)
Gustavo Sanabria, Class of 2019 (alternate)
Goldwater Scholarship
Thomas McKenzie-Smith, Class of 2022
Watson Fellowship
, Class of 2020
, Class of 2020
Also:
1 Rhodes finalist
8 Fulbright semi-finalists
2019
Amad Amedy, Class of 2019, Research, Spain
Emma Distler, Class of 2019, English Teaching Assistantship, Italy
Ulysses Estrada, Class of 2017, Binational Internship, Mexico
Jordan Legaspi, Class of 2019, English Teaching Assistantship, Taiwan
Stephanie Loui, Class of 2014, English Teaching Assistantship, Thailand
Ellie Martin, Class of 2016, English Teaching Assistantship, Colombia (did not apply through Wesleyan)
Katelin Murray, Class of 2019, English Teaching Assistantship, Spain
Emma Porrazzo, Class of 2019, English Teaching Assistantship, Taiwan
Hai Lun Tan, Class of 2018, English Teaching Assistantship, Taiwan (declined)
Rachel Yanover, Class of 2019, English Teaching Assistantship, Nepal (declined)
Goldwater Scholarship
, Class of 2020
Rhodes International Scholarship
, Class of 2018 (for Kenya)
Schwarzman Scholarship
, Class of 2016
Watson Fellowship
, Class of 2019
, Class of 2019
2018
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Grants
Isabella Banks, Class of 2015, Graduate Study, Netherlands
William Tyner, Class of 2013, Nat-Geo Storytelling, Romania
Luce Scholarship
, Class of 2016
2017
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Grants
Claire Brady, Class of 2015, Research, Jordan
Jennifer Cascino, Class of 2017, Research, Spain
Sarah Altemus Cullen, Class of 2016, Research, Chile
Warren Enstrom GRAD, Creative Arts, Sweden
Rob Roth , Class of 2014, English Teaching Assistantship, Colombia
Shourjya Sen, Class of 2015, English Teaching Assistantship, Laos
Sophie Zinser, Class of 2016, Research, Jordan
Goldwater Scholarship
Maya Lopez-Ichikawa, Class of 2018
, Class of 2017
2016
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Grants
Leah Bakely, Class of 2016, English Teaching Assistantship, Spain
Stephanie Blumenstock, Class of 2016, English Teaching Assistantship, France
Abigail Gruppuso, Class of 2016, English Teaching Assistantship, Taiwan
Tenzin Kyisarh, Class of 2016, English Teaching Assistantship, Thailand
Colfax Phillips, Class of 2016, Research, Jordan
Nellie Triedman, Class of 2013, Research, Chile
Emily Weinstock-Collins, Class of 2016, English Teaching Assistantship, Spain
Keasbey Scholarship
, Class of 2016
Mitchell Scholarship
, Class of 2017
Watson Fellowship
Noah Hamlish, Class of 2016
Chando Mapoma, Class of 2016