2024 Recipients

Our awards are generously supported by friends and alumni of the Faculty of Arts. The 2024 recipients of these philanthropically funded awards are presented here.

Faculty of Arts awards

Alma Hansen Scholarship

  • Megan Allis
  • Kerui Huang
  • Lillian Phillips
  • Karla Shanley
  • Evelyn Thompson
  • Yingyu Yang

Executive Master of Arts Scholarship

  • Linxian Cai
  • Qiyu Cai
  • Wei Chao
  • Wenli Cheng
  • Kai Yi Kelly Choy
  • Liuqing Deng
  • Xuewen Fan
  • Meizi Gao
  • Wing Ha Lee
  • Taoxi Ran
  • Liberty Yang
  • Chenyan Wu
  • Xun Zhang

Hansen Little Public Humanities Grants

  • Lia Alejandra Acosta Rueda
  • Katherine FitzHywel
  • Patrick Gigacz
  • Samara Greenwood
  • Asha Hamilton
  • Moyan Liu
  • Emilie Sunde
  • Ameliah-Rose Tioriori

I-LEAP Excellence Scholarship

  • Anthony Brooks
  • Ethan Dunn
  • Rosa Flynn-Smith
  • Darcy Hammond
  • Emma King
  • Liliana Mitchell
  • Soledad Musk
  • Sammaya Okan
  • Ryan Prehn
  • Miranda Guy

Indigenous Futures Scholars Award

  • Brittney Henderson

Faculty of Arts 110 Scholarship

  • Edelweiss Angelita
  • Beatrix Brenneman
  • Ruby Connor
  • Jiahe Ding
  • Yiping Dong
  • Fatemeh Pashm Foroosh
  • Flick Flick
  • Joseph Moore
  • William Mott
  • Thi Cam Tu Nguyen
  • Annabelle Dillon Nocka
  • Lillian Phillips
  • Brooke Prendergast
  • Kwanchanok Rimteerkaul
  • Mao Sasaki
  • Yingyu Yang
  • Qianchao Zhou

Lochrie Indigenous Leadership, Excellence and Achievement Scholarship

  • Brigalow McIntosh
  • Mia Thom

Miranda Jane Hughes Scholarship

  • Seth McKellar

Omero Schiassi Prize

  • Jacinta Baker

W T Mollison Scholarship

  • Jacinta Baker
  • Angelique Diana Konstantinou
  • Lillian Phillips
  • Victoria Winata

Bachelor of Arts awards

Alexander and Bridget Jones Memorial Arts Scholarship

  • Isabel Natividad

Melbourne Access Bachelor of Arts Scholarship

  • Aleyna Aydinli
  • Nguyen Minh Khue Ha
  • Lucius Power
  • Miles Verschuur

Miltiades and Alkistis Chryssavgis Scholarship

  • Tahlia Watt

Asia Institute awards

Asia Institute Honours Scholarship

  • Artemis Arthur-Andrews
  • Astrid Hickey
  • Jake Matthews
  • Karin Nakata
  • Jennifer Simcock

Asia Institute awards by discipline

Chinese Studies and Indonesian Language and Studies

Kiaw Lim Memorial Award

  • Samantha Warner

Japanese Studies

Keiko Hongo Japanese Scholarship

  • Misha Wilson

School of Culture and Communication awards by discipline

Art History and Art Curatorship

Eugenie La Gerche Scholarship

  • Gabriella Bartolo
  • Beatrix Brenneman
  • Eliza Coyle
  • Georgia Puiatti
  • Mira Twigg
  • Chibeidi Yao
  • Shiyun Zheng
  • Camille Orel

National Gallery of Victoria Art History Prize

  • Juliet Day

Ursula Hoff Art History Scholarship

  • Shiyun Zheng

Creative Writing

Felix Meyer Scholarship

  • Jessica Faulkner
  • Ella Mittas

H B Higgins Scholarship

  • Katherine FitzHywel

Melbourne Writers Festival Creative Writing Prize

  • Elizabeth Broome

English and Theatre Studies

Alexander Sutherland Prize

  • Finley Japp

Cromarty Prize

  • Hannah Phung

Dwight Prize for English

  • Liliana Mansergh

Enid Derham Prize

  • Bronte Lemaire

Gwenda Ford English Literature Scholarship

  • Ruby Connor
  • David Nguyen

Percival Serle Prize for second year English

  • Marco Jim

Percival Serle Prize for Honours English

  • Saskia Paxton

Richard Gunter Prize for English

  • Elizabeth Browne

Richard Gunter Scholarships

  • Laura Karlson-Carp
  • Gemma Howe
  • David Dodson
  • Ella Gibson
  • Emily Prater
  • Lachlan Wells

Shakespeare Scholarship

  • Elizabeth Browne
  • Alicia Savy

Screen and Cultural Studies

Eric Ormond Baker Scholarship

  • Oscar Hales
  • Pan Hsu Pyae Eain

Melbourne International Film Festival Screen Studies Prize

  • Zoe Beazley

School of Historical and Philosophical awards by discipline

Classics and Archaeology

Antonio Sagona Scholarship

  • Ronak Alburz
  • Cassandra Kiely

Chris Manousopoulos Prize in Ancient History

  • Harriet Pollitt

D H Rankin Essay Prize

  • Hannah Lewis

Elizabeth and James Tatoulis PhD Scholarship in Classics

  • Meg Challis

Jessie Webb Scholarship

  • Viktor Linusson
  • Tayla Newland

Panagacos Family Prize in Ancient Languages

  • Marco Jim

Thérèse and Ronald Ridley Scholarship

  • Ronak Alburz
  • Christian Bagger

William Culican Memorial Award

  • Peggy Lucas

Cultural Material Conservation

Willem Snoek Conservation Award

  • Mollie Liu

History

Donald Mackay History Prizes

  • Ella Lin
  • Rosabella Stephen

Dr Rodney Lloyd Benjamin OAM History Prize

  • Patrick Gigacz

Dwight Prize for History

  • William Mott

Exhibition for first year History

  • Clare Saubern
  • Flynn Slater

Felix Raab Prize

  • Edith Beattie

Gilbert Postdoctoral Career Development Fellowships

  • Bronwyn Beech Jones
  • Simon Farley

Gyles Turner Prize

  • Arwen Cropley

Hansen Scholarship in History

  • Isabelle Moss

Ian Robertson Travel Prize

  • Jacobin Bosman
  • Jack Norris

Indigenous History Honours Prize

  • Greta Kantor

Lloyd Robson Memorial Award

  • Jacobin Bosman
  • Jack Norris

Margaret Kiddle Prize

  • William Mott

R G Wilson Scholarship for third year

  • Hugh Magnus

Rosemary Merlo Prizes

  • Clarissa Sothy
  • Lucy Eliza Dillon Russ

Wyselaskie Scholarship for History

  • Jesse Seeberg-Gordon

Jewish Culture and Society

A D Hallam Memorial Prizes

  • Madeleine Grist

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

  • Madeleine Grist

Takamitsu Muraoka Prize

  • Madeleine Grist

Philosophy

Adele Henderson Prize

  • Max Hepperlin

Brenda Judge Prizes

  • Calvin Chen
  • Jim Findlay

Hastie Scholarship

  • Jovan Stojkovski
  • Lia Carrick

Laurie Prizes

  • Elizabeth Mansergh
  • Logan McPhail

Wyselaskie Scholarship for Logic

  • Tung Khanh Ho
  • Lydia Colla

School of Languages and Linguistics awards by discipline

French Studies

Colin Nettelback for Excellence in French Studies

  • Harper Grutzner Hamilton

Doctor Joseph Birch Hanson Prize

  • Nyah Seelig-Schattner

Dwight Prize for French

  • Genevieve Byrne

Elizabeth and Nicholas Slezak Scholarship

  • Heidi Bula
  • Genevieve Byrne
  • Lillian Phillips

Mary Taylor Scholarships

  • Ruby Ginnane Baines
  • Ryan Rohit

Professor A R Chisholm Memorial Prize

  • Nyah Seelig-Schattner

Richard Gunter Prize for French

  • Claire Le Blond

University of Melbourne French Trust Fund

  • Jessica Marian
  • Madeline Roycroft

German Studies

Robert and Johanna Exiner Scholarship

  • Kerui Huang
  • Karla Shanley
  • Evelyn Thompson

Italian Studies

Emma Grollo Memorial Scholarship

  • Ella Barmby
  • Amelia Rose Di Nuccio
  • Maria Gottoli
  • Elizabeth O'Dwyer
  • Kip Philips
  • Alisha Verga

Hiller Italian Art History Award

  • Amelia Pontifex

Italian Australian Foundation Bursary

  • Isla Cardinali
  • Hugo Di Mattina

Italian Australian Foundation Travel Scholarship

  • Ella Barmby
  • Francesca Brand
  • Amelia Rose Di Nuccio
  • Harriet Freeman
  • Maria Gottoli
  • Kip Philips
  • Alisha Verga

Sir James Gobbo Scholarship in Italian Studies

  • Laura Di Blasi
  • Angelo Dian

Linguistic and Applied Linguistics

Appen Prize for Excellence in Linguistics

  • Huynh Nguyen Le

Dwight Final Assessment Prize for Linguistics

  • Geordie Kidd

Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Prizes

  • Aimee Pownall
  • Shian Tan
  • Xinyu Xu

Russian Studies

Igor Meshakov-Korjakin Russian Scholarship

  • Jacobin Bosman
  • Charles Duffus
  • Rebecca Kuhlmann

School of Social and Political Sciences awards by discipline

Criminology

Margaret Cohan Research Scholarships

  • Vita Pilkington