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Honors and Awards
MELC Faculty and Student News 2025-2026
February 7, 2026
Award-Winning Persian Poetry in Translation: The Shape of Extinction and Elegies of the Earth
February 6, 2026
From the Chair (2026)
February 6, 2026
Aria Fani Awarded the MLA Roth Translation Award for 2025
December 30, 2025
Lillian McCabe Recognized with Honorable Mention for the Kerr Dissertation Award at MESA
December 1, 2025
Corinna Nichols selected to receive the Graduate School’s 2025 Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Humanities & Fine Arts
June 27, 2025
Aria Fani awarded René Wellek Prize for Best Book in Comparative Literature
June 17, 2025
MELC Major Remi Alidon Awarded Bonderman Fellowship
May 20, 2025
MELC minor, Griffin Hehmeyer selected for the 2025 Husky 100!
April 22, 2025
MELC Updates 2024-2025
February 18, 2025
UW undergraduate Adrian Brunke awarded the
Redhouse Best Progress in the Turkish Language Award
November 14, 2024
ALTA to offer a translator of Persian literature prestigious fellowship
July 16, 2024
Hajar Hussaini Wins Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature
June 25, 2024
Global Business Center Awards Grant for Persian Business Language Curriculum
May 16, 2024
MELC Faculty Honored during Arab American Heritage Month
April 25, 2024
Prof. Melike Yücel-Koç Receives Language Educator of the Year Award
February 28, 2024
Prof. Stephanie Selover Awarded a Site Preservation Grant by the American Institute of Archaeology
February 27, 2024
MELC Updates 2023-2024
February 26, 2024
From the Chair
February 20, 2024
Prof. Hussein Elkhafaifi Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
January 4, 2024
Alum awarded the Middle East Medievalists Book Prize
November 27, 2023
Student Spotlight: Svetlana Ostroverkhova
October 26, 2023
Call to Poetry Translators: Second Cycle of Mo Habib Translation Prize
September 6, 2023
A Novel Prize for Persian Translation
August 21, 2023
Announcing the Winner of the Inaugural Mo Habib Translation Prize
June 5, 2023
MELC minor Anaëlle Enders awarded the prestigious President’s Medalist Award
March 1, 2023
MELC Faculty and Student Updates
February 27, 2023
Call for Translations: MELC Launches Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature
September 2, 2022
NELC graduate student, Forrest Martin, is the recipient of this year's Michael A. Williams Award.
May 16, 2022
NELC major Lucida Olson awarded the prestigious Irene Dickson McFarlane Tuition Scholarship for 2022-23.
May 9, 2022
NELC Student and Faculty News and Awards
March 22, 2022
NELC Major Piper Coyner Awarded the 2020-21 Junior Medalist for High Scholarship
January 18, 2022
UW NELC Associate Prof. Hamza Zafer accepts prestigious Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Fellowship.
October 6, 2021
American Association for Turkic Teachers Names Award After Prof. Walter G. Andrews
October 15, 2020
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professor in Persian and Iranian Studies
October 12, 2020
NELC Major Piper Coyner Awarded UW President's Medal
May 26, 2020
NELC Major Noah Gruenert Broadcasts in Persian on Radio Iranshahr
January 14, 2020
Professor Scott Noegel Receives Honorary Ph.D. in Letters from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
October 7, 2019
Walter Andrews receives Undergraduate Research Mentor Award with the Newbook Project
May 17, 2018
NELC Professor Awarded by the Turkish American Cultural Association
November 1, 2016
Alumna Morgan Cassell Awarded Rangel Fellowship
April 7, 2013
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