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Recognising high-achieving students in language and culture studies
16 December 2020
Annual awards for academic excellence
The School of Languages and Cultures congratulates 75 students who have received scholarships and prizes in 2020.
A total of 63 scholarships and prizes have been awarded for the 2019 academic year across 13 departments to undergraduate and postgraduate students from various faculties.
Head of School of Languages and Cultures, Professor Yixu Lu FAHA, commends the award recipients for their achievements and dedication to the study of languages and cultures.
“It is a great honour for me to recognise our best and most hardworking students whose achievements we celebrate in spite of the year’s challenges with COVID-19. The school is proud to have attracted the most talented students to study with us.”
On behalf of the school, I congratulate all our award recipients on their deserved success. You have worked hard and I am very pleased to see that your efforts are acknowledged and rewarded.
Professor Yixu Lu FAHA, Head of School of Languages and Cultures
Professor Lu also thanks donors, benefactors, as well as local and international community members for their invaluable support.
“The school expresses sincere gratitude to our donors. It is the generosity of our benefactors that enables us to give our high-achieving students the recognition they deserve. I would also like to thank official representatives from different countries and community groups who continually show support for our students and our school.”
Ranking first in the state and top 30 of universities worldwide*, the School of Languages and Cultures offers a wealth of language offerings to provide a breadth of understanding of cultures, including their traditions, histories, societies, media, politics and literatures.
| Arabic Language and Cultures | |
| Patrick Conroy Fatima Ibrahim Jenanne Ibrahim Eleanor Murray Moira (Genevieve) Peters Francesca Spry | PD Jack Prize |
| Chinese Studies | |
| Janet Cao Altay Hagrebet Xinyi Li Gabriela Powell Thomas | Asian Students’ Council’s 1963 Festival of Asia Scholarship for Proficiency in Chinese Studies |
| Michelle Chen Yuya Kiseki | Li Zuoji Prize in Chinese Language |
| Chen Zhang | The Raymond Hsu Scholarship |
| Cosette Craig Seohyun Kim Toby Warden Haini Yang | To Wing Undergraduate Chinese Studies Prize |
| Alvina Chi-Kwan Lock | Winston G Lewis Prize in Chinese History |
| European Studies | |
| Chi Chan | EU Ambassadors Prize |
| Vivienne Goodes | Robert Schuman Prize |
| Camilla Cerciello | The European Studies Konrad Adenauer Prize |
| French and Francophone Studies | |
| Maria Valdes Gonzalez Jamie Howe | Anne Bates Memorial Scholarship for French |
| Joel Agius Xinyue Cai | Banque Nationale de Paris Prize for French |
| Maria Valdes Gonzalez Jamie Howe | French Embassy Prize I |
| Joel Agius Xinyue Cai | French Embassy Prize II |
| Imogen Biggins | French Embassy Prize III |
| Maria Valdes Gonzalez | Garton Scholarship No. I for French |
| Charley Groen | Garton Scholarship No. II for French |
| Edward Koorey | Graham Jones Prize for French |
| Imogen Biggins | Ian David Armfield Memorial Prize (French) |
| Melissa Catt Simon Tang | Joan Norris Prize |
| Jianyao Chen Josephine Goldman | Margaret Ann Bailey Memorial Prize for Honours in a Modern European Language (French) |
| Josephine Goldman | Peter Edward Moran Memorial Prize for French |
| Edward Koorey | Ronald Horan Prize for French |
| Maria Valdes Gonzalez Jamie Howe | Sonia Marks Memorial Prize for French |
| Emily Bakker Marina Liu | The Emilie M Schweitzer Honours Scholarship in French Studies |
| Maria Valdes Gonzalez Jamie Howe | Total Australia Prize in French |
| Germanic Studies | |
| Edna Boey | Austrian Embassy Prize |
| Mai Hoang | Enid Watson Memorial Scholarship in Germanic Studies |
| Isabel Garnham | Garton Scholarship No. IV for First Year German |
| James Boland | Garton Scholarship No. V for Second Year German |
| Dorothy Symons | Garton Scholarship No. VI for Third Year German |
| Isabella Hellig-Smith | Goethe Prize in German Studies for German Honours |
| Carl Bodnaruk | Ian David Armfield Memorial Prize (German) |
| Isabella Hellig-Smith | Margaret Ann Bailey Memorial Prize For Honours in a Modern European Language (German) |
| Carl Bodnaruk Daqi (Peter) Chen Dorothy Symons | The Emilie M Schweitzer Honours Scholarship in Germanic Studies |
| Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies | |
| Christine Barbar | Bernard and Lotka Ferster Scholarship for First Year Beginners’ Modern or Classical Hebrew |
| Sidney Melamdowitz Verity Plimsoll-Kanakova | Ivan and Ursula Cher Prize |
| Lisa Edinger-Reeve | The Bernard and Rodia Ferster Prize |
| Eve Altman | The Percy Joseph Marks Prize for First Year Beginners’ Classical Or Modern Hebrew |
| Daniel Barel Nell Cohen Keren Lax | The Percy Joseph Marks Prize for Intermediate (2000 Level) Modern Hebrew |
| Kristen Lewis | The Percy Joseph Marks Prize for Senior Classical Hebrew |
| Lisa Edinger-Reeve Amir Elsaidy | The Percy Joseph Marks Prize for Advanced (3000 Level) Modern Hebrew |
| Indian Subcontinental Studies | |
| Ian McCrabb | Khyentse Foundation Award for Excellence in Buddhist Studies |
| Indonesian Studies | |
| Claudia Petrin India Richardson-Thornton | Asian Students’ Council’s 1963 Festival of Asia Prize for Proficiency in Indonesian Studies Second Level |
| International Comparative Literature and Translation Studies | |
| Myra Opdyke | International Comparative Literary Studies Program Award |
| Italian Studies | |
| Grace Reid | Beatrice Moran Memorial Prize in Third Year Italian |
| Lily Bell MacDonald | Countess EM Freehill Prize No. I for First Year Italian |
| Simon Bortolussi Jessica Page | Countess EM Freehill Prize No. II for Second Year Italian |
| John Zafiropoulos | Rosina Tedeschi Memorial Prize for Italian Conversation |
| Riley Treisman | The Silvana D’lapico-Bien Prize in Italian Studies |
| Japanese Studies | |
| Vanessa Recinos | AL Sadler Prize for Excellence in Japanese Studies |
| Rhiannon Kumar | Hugh Clarke Prize for Excellence in Japanese 6 |
| Seohyun Kim | James Murdoch Prize for Excellence in Japanese 4 |
| Dasol Yoo | Mark Kwan Memorial Prize for Excellence in Beginner Japanese |
| Laura Bocks | Sakuko Matsui Prize for Excellence in Japanese Literature |
| Korean Studies | |
| Josephine Lee Yusha Liu | Korean Consulate Prize |
| Chu Chu Nonlapan Sangsrichan | Korean Consulate Prize (Sponsored by Top Media) |
| Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies | |
| Katherine Lambros | GS Caird Scholarship in Second Year Modern Greek |
| Marina Dionysiou | GS Caird Scholarship in Third Year Modern Greek |
| Harry Varvaressos | Order of the Australian Hellenic Education Progressive Association Scholarship in Modern Greek |
| Nicholas Varvaressos | Robert William Henderson Memorial Prize |
| Elefteria Antonelli Harry Varvaressos | The Modern Greek Studies Foundation Prize in Modern Greek Studies 1 |
| Nicholas Varvaressos | The Modern Greek Studies Foundation Prize in Modern Greek Studies 2 |
| Stefanos Stavropoulos | The Modern Greek Studies Foundation Prize in Modern Greek Studies 3 |