UW undergraduate Adrian Brunke was recently awarded the Redhouse Best Progress in the Turkish Language Award by the American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages (AATT). Adrian is a student in the Department of Linguistics and has been working with MELC professor Melike Yücel-Koç in the MELC Turkish & Ottoman Studies Program since fall of 2023.
According to Yücel-Koç, Adrian is a curious, diligent, self-disciplined, and creative language learner. He is an independent student who takes initiative in his own progress and is courageous in terms of playing with the language.
This academic year, Adrian is enrolled in Intermediate Turkish and continues his Turkish studies at UW. He previously completed the Elementary Turkish language series at UW with a 4.0 GPA. He is planning to apply to the Turkish Language Program at Bosphorus University for a summer study program in Istanbul in 2025.
Because of his success and progress in the Turkish language program, he was nominated for the American Association Teachers of Turkic Redhouse Award for Best Progress in Turkish for the2023-2024 academic year. The Redhouse Prize for Best Progress in Turkish was established by the Turkish Studies Association (now the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association) in 1991, and continues to be available annually, designated for four outstanding students in North America who deserve public recognition. Any student (graduate or undergraduate) who, in the designated academic year, completes a full-year course at any level in Modern Turkish at a university in the US and Canada offering such courses in its regular program (including summertime courses) is eligible for nomination.
We congratulate Adrian for his progress in the study of Turkish!