2023 Recipients

Our awards are generously supported by friends and alumni of the Faculty of Arts. The 2023 recipients of these philanthropically funded awards are presented here.

Faculty of Arts awards

Alma Hansen Scholarship

  • Ellen McLinden
  • Mona Rahimpour
  • Aleksandra Riabichenko

Executive Master of Arts Scholarship

  • Xiyu Bi
  • Siyun Chen
  • Yao Chong
  • Xiaoyu Fu
  • Olivia Hally
  • Lianghui Jiang
  • Wenxi Li
  • Yue Li
  • Dana O'Reilly
  • Vanessa Power
  • Mingyue Yang
  • Ang Yue
  • Hannah Wijesinghe
  • Jiaxuan Zhu
  • Limiao Zhong

Faculty of Arts Excellence Scholarship

  • Roan Johnson
  • Craig Edwin Land

I-LEAP Achievement Scholarship

  • Amali Andrews
  • Sydney Auld
  • Anthony Brooks
  • Aimee Bugeja
  • Tui Butler
  • Lucia Carolan
  • Monique Chong
  • Imogen Colls
  • Laura Fernando
  • Mila Rennie Galvin
  • Lucas George
  • Darcy Hammond
  • Elias Jarvis
  • Alayna Kennedy
  • William McClure
  • Soledad Musk
  • Angus Saunders
  • Thomas Williams

I-LEAP Excellence Scholarship

  • Jessica Alderton
  • Katelyn Allison
  • Ethan Dunn
  • Rosa Flynn-Smith
  • Michael Gentle
  • Miranda Guy
  • Liliana Jaques Mitchell
  • Sammaya Okan
  • Ryan Prehn

Indigenous Futures Scholars Award

  • Jessica Alderton

Faculty of Arts 110 Scholarship

  • Imogen Bacon
  • Longgina Novadona Bayo
  • Xiaolin Chen
  • Yusufu Dannier
  • Mariyam Fahmy
  • Prasakti Ramadhana Fahdi
  • Fatemeh Pashm Foroosh
  • Ann Fuata
  • Bolormaa Ganbat
  • Ulya Niami Efrina Jamson
  • Rhiannon Joyce
  • Qaim Lashari
  • Xinyi Liu
  • Nusrat Jahan Mukta
  • Lillian Phillips
  • Yingyu Yang
  • Qianchao Zhou

Lochrie Indigenous Leadership, Excellence and Achievement Scholarship

  • Kayla Clinch
  • Emma King
  • Alena Landers
  • Jordan Price
  • William Smith
  • Mia Thom

Miranda Jane Hughes Scholarship

  • Ines Jahudka

W T Mollison Scholarship

  • Penny Vakalopoulos
  • Esther Vincent

Bachelor of Arts awards

Alexander and Bridget Jones Memorial Arts Scholarship

  • Vy Phan

Ben Cowen Scholarship

  • Dilan Attallah

Miltiades and Alkistis Chryssavgis Scholarship

  • Ao Shen

Asia Institute awards by discipline

Chinese Studies and Indonesian Language and Studies

Kiaw Lim Memorial Award

  • Victoria Winata

Japanese Studies

Keiko Hongo Japanese Scholarship

  • Calvin Truong

School of Culture and Communication awards by discipline

Art History and Art Curatorship

Eugenie La Gerche Scholarship

  • Yuzhen Cheng
  • Camille Orel
  • Ethan Savage

National Gallery of Victoria Art History Prize

  • Georgia Puiatti

Ursula Hoff Art History Scholarship

  • Jessica Benter
  • Sarah Rogers

Creative Writing

Felix Meyer Scholarship

  • Abigail Fisher
  • Scott Limbrick

H B Higgins Scholarship

  • Jeremy George

Melbourne Writers Festival Creative Writing Prize

  • Isabel Greenslade

English and Theatre Studies

Alexander Sutherland Prize

  • Abigail Meadows

Bowen Prize

  • Ann Cao

Cromarty Prize

  • Katie Fyssarakis

Dwight Prize for English

  • Deeksha Koul

Enid Derham Prize

  • Laura Charlton

Gwenda Ford English Literature Scholarship

  • Lillian Phillips

Percival Serle Prize for second year English

  • Joanne Yuvaraj

Percival Serle Prize for Honours English

  • Angelina Fry

Percival Serle Prize for Master of Arts Thesis in English

  • Matilda Knowles

Professor Morris Prize

  • Deeksha Koul

Richard Gunter Prize for English

  • Milly Chen

Shakespeare Scholarship

  • Mary Bellman

Shirley McLaren Prize for Middle English Literature

  • Adelaide Greig

Screen and Cultural Studies

Melbourne International Film Festival Screen Studies Prize

  • Quynh Huong Vu

School of Historical and Philosophical awards by discipline

Classics and Archaeology

Antonio Sagona Scholarship

  • Cassandra Kiely

Chris Manousopoulos Prize in Ancient History

  • Isabella Greene

D H Rankin Essay Prize

  • Emily Morgan

Douglas Howard Exhibitions

  • Harriet Pollitt
  • Shian Tan

Exhibition for first year Classics

  • Rachel Lynch

H B Higgins Exhibition

  • Roderick Dong

Jessie Webb Scholarship

  • Emily Tour
  • Anastasia Vassiliadis

John Grice Exhibition

  • Kate Dospisil

Ken McKay Prize for Beginners Greek

  • Henry Mathison

Panagacos Family Prize in Ancient Languages

  • Luca Vetere

Thérèse and Ronald Ridley Scholarship

  • Lily Moore

William Culican Memorial Award

  • Erin Calico

History

Dennis-Wettenhall Prize

  • Elizabeth Muldoon

Donald Mackay History Prizes

  • Elanor Parkinson

Exhibition for first year History

  • Ebony Freestone

Felix Raab Prize

  • Kameron Lai

Gilbert Postdoctoral Career Development Fellowships

  • Nicole Davis
  • Divya Rama Gopalakrishnan

Gyles Turner Prize

  • William Mott

Hansen Scholarship in History

  • Seth McKellar

Indigenous History Honours Prize

  • Santilla Chingaipe
  • Willa Swift

Laurie R Gardiner Prize

  • Ann Cao

Margaret Kiddle Prize

  • Jacobin Bosman

Marion Boothby Exhibition

  • William Douglas

R G Wilson Scholarship for third year

  • Georgia Topalidis

Rosemary Merlo Prizes

  • Olivia Gladwell-Bolte
  • Emily Knott

Wyselaskie Scholarship for History

  • Shannon Peters

Jewish Culture and Society

A D Hallam Memorial Prizes

  • Baruch Goberman

National Council of Jewish Women of Australia Fanny Reading Scholarship in Hebrew Language

  • Libby Farkas

Takamitsu Muraoka Prize

  • Libby Farkas

Philosophy

Adele Henderson Prize

  • Liliana Mcrae

Brenda Judge Prizes

  • Lee Hazel
  • Jovan Stojkovski

Hastie Scholarships

  • Beau Kent

Laurie Prizes

  • Ekaterina Tulyakova

Wyselaskie Scholarship in Logic

  • Oliver Kalicin

School of Languages and Linguistics awards by discipline

European Studies

Anna Lodewyckx Scandinavian Scholarship

  • Michael Niewidok

French Studies

Colin Nettelbeck Prize for Excellence in French Studies

  • Larissa Oqueli Ambrose

Doctor Joseph Birch Hanson Prize

  • Ella D’Cruz

Dwight Prize for French

  • Ella D’Cruz

Elizabeth and Nicholas Slezak Scholarship

  • Rosalind Braham
  • Ella D'Cruz
  • Arielle Marshall
  • Ekaterina Tulyakova

Mary Taylor Scholarships

  • Alejandra Camacho
  • Marion Doerig

Professor A R Chisholm Memorial Prize

  • Ella D'Cruz

University of Melbourne French Trust Fund

  • Georgia Comte
  • Corey Cribb

Italian Studies

Emma Grollo Memorial Scholarship

  • Elena Pilo Boyl di Putifigari
  • Olivia Hartley
  • Pearl Truswell
  • Meredith Walker

Isobel Prowse Travelling Scholarship

  • Luciana Nicholson Marshall

Italian Australian Foundation Travel Scholarship

  • Mia Costanzo
  • Laura Di Blasi
  • Elena Pilo Boyl di Putifigari

Sir James Gobbo Scholarship in Italian Studies

  • Laura Di Blasi
  • Angelo Dian
  • Elena Pirovano

Linguistics and Applied Linguistics

Appen Prize for Excellence in Linguistics

  • Geordie Kidd

Dwight Final Assessment Prize for Linguistics

  • Phoebe Leggett

Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Prizes

  • Vhinayark Gunasingam
  • Geordie Kidd