Critical Language Scholarship
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, this award offers intensive summer language institutes overseas in eleven critical need foreign languages. The CLS Program is part of the National Security Language Initiative, a U.S. government interagency effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical need foreign languages.
2024
- Anna Givens (Alternate)
- Ryan Rohrbach (Alternate)
2023
- Zanaya Hussain
- Ryan Rohrbach (Alternate)
2022
- Abigail Bykowski (Alternate)
- Julia Jeon
- Sophie May (Alternate)
- Annalyse Paulsen (Finalist)
2021
- Ashley Cercone
- Cameron Houser (Finalist)
- Sophie May (Alternate)
2020
- Brian Kwong
2019
- Ashwaq Asfour (Alternate)
- Jonathan Bessette
- Kayleigh Hamernik (Alternate)
- Conor McMahon
2018
- Jenny Simon
- Ethan Wolfson-Seely
2017
- Kayleigh Hamernik
- Hanna Santanam
2016
- Kayleigh R. Reed
2015
- Nida Syed
2012
- Matthew Zambito