Twelve Scholars and Four Teachers Honored April, 2022

In fulfillment of its mission to encourage scholarship and research, the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association is honoring the following outstanding Phi Beta Kappa graduate students with $10,000 scholarship awards to assist them in completing their educational objectives:

The Scholarship Awards for 2022 were presented to:

Feyaad Allie, Stanford University, Political Science

Daniel Friedman, UC Berkeley, History

Linda Kinstler, UC Berkeley, Rhetoric (Hardardt Award)

 Alan Kong, UC San Francisco Medical Doctorate (studying glaucoma), (Hendess Award)

Rebecca Nelson, UC Davis, Ecology

Ryan Page, UC Santa Cruz, Film & Digital Media

Elizabeth Postema, UC Davis, Animal Behavior

Maria-Fatima Santos, UC Berkeley, Sociology (Gilliland Award)

Hope Schwartz, UC San Francisco. Medicine M.D., (Reed Award)

Vannessa Velez, Stanford University, History, (Norall)

Sarah Wilker, Stanford University, Classics

Madeline Wyse, UC Berkeley, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures 

The Scholarship Committee: Jeff Fenton, Lynne Fovinci, Judith Hardardt, Jean James, Joanne Sandstrom (Chair)

The Teaching Excellence Award, given to teachers nominated by their students, consists of a Certificate and a $1000 honorarium

The Teaching Excellence Awards for 2022 were presented to:

Michael Dylan Foster, Ph.D., Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Professor and Chair, UC Davis

Laura D. Gutiérrez, Ph.D., Dept. of History, Assistant Professor, University of the Pacific 

Claire Waters, Ph.D., (Hasenkamp Award) Dept. of English, Affiliated Faculty - Program in Classics, Dept. of French and Italian, Professor and Chair, UC Davis

Clancy Wilmott, Ph.D., Dept. of Geography and Berkeley Center for New Media, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley.

Teaching Excellence Committee: Andrea Braga, Melisa Lasell, Melissa Stevens (Chair)