Honors and Awards

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MELC Updates 2024-2025
February 18, 2025
Adrian Brunke
UW undergraduate Adrian Brunke awarded the Redhouse Best Progress in the Turkish Language Award
November 14, 2024
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ALTA to offer a translator of Persian literature prestigious fellowship
July 16, 2024
Mo Habib
Hajar Hussaini Wins Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature
June 25, 2024
Business Language - Persian
Global Business Center Awards Grant for Persian Business Language Curriculum
May 16, 2024
Prof. Elkhafaifi's Award, a Libyan Clock
MELC Faculty Honored during Arab American Heritage Month
April 25, 2024
Melike
Prof. Melike Yücel-Koç Receives Language Educator of the Year Award
February 28, 2024
A test wall at the excavation site, after cleaning and conservation.
Prof. Stephanie Selover Awarded a Site Preservation Grant by the  American Institute of Archaeology
February 27, 2024
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MELC Updates 2023-2024
February 26, 2024
Naomi Sokoloff
From the Chair
February 20, 2024
Elkhafaifi, Hussein
Prof. Hussein Elkhafaifi Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
January 4, 2024
Alum awarded the Middle East Medievalists Book Prize
Alum awarded the Middle East Medievalists Book Prize
November 27, 2023
Svetlana Ostroverkhova
Student Spotlight: Svetlana Ostroverkhova
October 26, 2023
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Call to Poetry Translators: Second Cycle of Mo Habib Translation Prize
September 6, 2023
Mo Habib: Artwork by Amelia Ossorio, MELC student majoring in Persian
A Novel Prize for Persian Translation
August 21, 2023
Mo Habib: Artwork by Amelia Ossorio, MELC student majoring in Persian
Announcing the Winner of the Inaugural Mo Habib Translation Prize  
June 5, 2023
Anaëlle Enders
MELC minor Anaëlle Enders awarded the prestigious President’s Medalist Award
March 1, 2023
Anaëlle Enders
MELC Faculty and Student Updates
February 27, 2023
Mo Habib
Call for Translations: MELC Launches Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature
September 2, 2022
Forrest Martin
NELC graduate student, Forrest Martin, is the recipient of this year's Michael A. Williams Award.
May 16, 2022
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NELC major Lucida Olson awarded the prestigious Irene Dickson McFarlane Tuition Scholarship for 2022-23.
May 9, 2022
Piper Coyner
NELC Student and Faculty News and Awards
March 22, 2022
Piper Coyner
NELC Major Piper Coyner Awarded the 2020-21 Junior Medalist for High Scholarship
January 18, 2022
Hamza Zafer
UW NELC Associate Prof. Hamza Zafer accepts prestigious Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Fellowship.
October 6, 2021
Ottoman Lyric Poetry
American Association for Turkic Teachers Names Award After Prof. Walter G. Andrews
October 15, 2020
Professor Aria Fani
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Professor in Persian and Iranian Studies
October 12, 2020
Picture of NELC Student Piper Coyner
NELC Major Piper Coyner Awarded UW President's Medal
May 26, 2020
Noah Gruenert in the mountains of Tajikistan
NELC Major Noah Gruenert Broadcasts in Persian on Radio Iranshahr
January 14, 2020
Scott Noegel Delivers U-Wisconsin-Milwaukee Commencement Address
Professor Scott Noegel Receives Honorary Ph.D. in Letters from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
October 7, 2019
andrews, mentor award, UW research conference
Walter Andrews receives Undergraduate Research Mentor Award with the Newbook Project
May 17, 2018
Turkish American Cultural Association of Washington (TACAWA) at the Turkish Republic Day Reception
NELC Professor Awarded by the Turkish American Cultural Association
November 1, 2016
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Alumna Morgan Cassell Awarded Rangel Fellowship
April 7, 2013