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 Critical Language Scholarship 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.

2023 Honorees

Fowjiya Anisha

Geographic Information Science

Award Status: Nominee

Mohammed Chowdhury

Anthropology

Award Status: Nominee

Thomas Dias

Philosophy; Political Science and Economics

Award Status: Nominee

Calvin Gath

Social Science Interdisciplinary (Alum)

Award Status: Nominee

Alexis Heng

Classics; English

Award Status: Nominee

Zanaya Hussain

Social Science Interdisciplinary; Urban and Public Policy Studies

Award Status: Recipient

Hasson Jafri

Biological Sciences; Political Science

Award Status: Nominee

Jenny Nguyen

Asian Studies

Award Status: Nominee

Nels Otterson

English; Political Science

Award Status: Nominee

Ryan Rohrbach

Political Science; Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Award Status: Alternate

Ahnaf Tahmid

Studio Art

Award Status: Nominee