We are very grateful to all those who have generously contributed to our Fellowship Program and to the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association (NCA) for their support of our students. Each year as funds permit, both NCA and our chapter Alpha of California award fellowships for graduate study. Recent past fellowship winners are listed below:
Fellowship Winners 2024
Alpha of California: Jennie Barker, Political Science; Augustus Holley, Music
NCA: Sophie Cushman, Classical Archaeology; Brianne Felsher, Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program; S. Freeman, Geography; Yisheng Tang, Japanese Language; Alexander Ullman, English
Fellowship Winners 2023
Alpha of California: Annie Helms, Romance Languages and Literatures; Julia Irwin, Film and Media; Annalise Taylor, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
NCA: Katherine Magoulick, Integrative Biology
Fellowship Winners 2022
Alpha of California: Devin Choudhury, Rhetoric; Rebecca Levitan, History of Art; Xingzhi Wang, Chemistry; Jacob Wolbert, Ethnomusicology
NCA: Daniel Butler Friedman, Chinese History; Linda Kinstler, Rhetoric ; Maria-Fátima Santos, Sociology; Madeline Wyse, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
Fellowship Winners 2021
Alpha of California: Greyson Abid, Philosophy; Mary Mussman, Comparative Literature; Talia Prussin, Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology
NCA: Gil Breger, Near Eastern Studies; Jonathan Andrew Lear, History; Claire Harmange Magnani, Chemistry; Joseph Passman, History; Kit Pribble, Slavic Languages & Literature
Fellowship Winners 2020
Alpha of California: Carmen Brick, Sociology; David Delano, History; Juliana Friend, Anthropology
NCA: Dominick Lawton, Slavic Languages & Literatures; Matthew Libassi, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Fellowship Winners 2019
Alpha of California: Katherine Bruhn, Southeast Asian Studies; Kimberly Killion, History
NCA: Keru Cai, Comparative Literature; Natalia Duong, Performance Studies; Emma Steigerwald, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
; Gloria Yu, History
Fellowship Winners 2018
Alpha of California: Alicia Roy, German; Daniel Valella, English
NCA: William Callison, Political Science; Marie Hartono, History; Adam Lichtenheld, Political Science; Kevin Moch, Classics; Jeremy Nowak, Chemistry; Kerry Shannon, History; Kathryn Wilsteran, Integrative Biology
Fellowship Winners 2017
Alpha of California: Eric Driscoll, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology; Rachel Kjolby, Molecular & Cell Biology; Katherine Klymko, Chemistry
NCA: Joseph Albernaz. English; Joseph Kellner, History; Jason Klocek, Political Science; Elizabeth Thelan, History
Fellowship Winners 2016
Alpha of California: Melissa Cradic, Ancient History and Mediterranean Studies; Esther Yu, English
NCA: Jesse Cordes Selbin, English; Jacob Habinek, Sociology; Jasmine Mote, Psychology
Fellowship Winners 2015
Alpha of California: Charity C. Ketz, English; Elise A. Piazza, Vision Science
NCA: Rebecca Elliott, Sociology; Derin McLeod, Classics; Elise M. Stickles, Linguistics
Fellowship Winners 2014
Alpha of California: Kathryn M. Fleishman, English; Ianna H. Owen, African Diaspora Studies
NCA: Emily S. Cibelli, Linguistics; Melissa V. Eitzel, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; Serena T. A. Le, English; Christopher P. Miller, English; Sarah M. Selvidge, History
Fellowship Winners 2013
Alpha of California: Winners Nicholas W. Baer, Film & Media; Matthew W. Goodheart, Music Composition
NCA: Abigail L. Andrews, Sociology; Carrie A. Cizauskas, Environmental Science, Policy, & Management; Rachel N. Denison, Neuroscience; Alison M. Weiss, History
Fellowship Awards 2012
Alpha of California: Sonal Singhal, Biology; Sean Curran, History & Literature of Music
NCA: Rebecca Grove Munson, English; Elizabeth Boatman, Materials Science & Engineering
Fellowship Awards 2011
Alpha of California: Jason Steven Purcell, Political Sciencece & International Relations; Batya Ungar-Sargon, English
NCA: May deVries, Integrative Biology; Michael James Levien, Sociology
Fellowship Awards 2010
Alpha of California: Jennifer Gipson, French; Rebekah Linh Collins, Southeast Asian Studies
NCA: Harold Mayi Haggard, Physics; Alexis Peri, History
Fellowship Awards 2009
Alpha of California: Marques Jerard Redd, English; Colin Dingler, Rhetoric
NCA: Jordan Luc Gans-Morse, Political Science; Emily Christine Jacobs, Neuroscience
Fellowship Awards 2008
Alpha of California: Matthew Christopher Brandley, Integrative Biology; Margaret Inkpen Ronda, English; Melissa Fabros, English; Amanda Lee Hollis-Brusky, Political Science
NCA: Matthew Kenji Fujita, Integrative Biology; Elizabeth Anne McGuire, History; Jessica Mai Walter, Physics; Leslie Kim Wang, Sociology
Fellowship Awards 2007
Alpha of California: Taylor Chase Boas, Political Science; Anne Pycha, Linguistics; Rebecca Anne Lave, Geography
NCA: Tasha Fairfield, Political Science; Natasha Hausmann, Integrative Biology; Christopher S. Weinberger, English and Japanese
Fellowship Awards 2006
Alpha of California: Justin Notestein McClelen, Chemical Engineering; Joseph Howard Ring, English; Elana Ripps Shever, Anthropology; Joel Solomon Yurdin, Philosophy
NCA: Arthur Bahr, English; Talissa Jane Ford, English; Eleanor Bayne Johnson, English and Medieval Studies; Darius Parke Ornston, Political Science
Fellowship Awards 2005
U.C. Berkeley Chapter: Benjamin Richard Gardener, Geography; Ivan Andree Ascher, Rhetoric; Naazneen H. Barma, Political Science; Sarah Elizabeth Reed, Environmental Science, Policy and Management; Joel Tyler Nickels, English
NCA: Laura D. Steele, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology; Catherine Marie Becker, History of Art; Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Comparative Literature; Mary Elizabeth Paster, Anthropology and Linguistics; and Laura Hubbard, Anthropology
Fellowship Awards 2004
U.C. BerkeleyChapter: Maria Teresa Agozzino, Folklore and Celtic Studies; Jason Delborne, Environmental Science, Policy and Management; Lee Lynn, Chemistry; Thomas Medvetz, Sociology; Jennifer Scappettone, English; Karen Zumhagen, Comparative Literature
NCA: Eleonory Gilburd, History; Lital Levy, Comparative Literature; Ellen Samuels, English
Fellowship Awards 2003
Alpha of California: Maren Songmy Aukerman, Education; Elizabeth Paulette Baughan, Classical Archaeology; Suzie Asha Park, English; and Irene Perciali, Comparative Literature
NCA: Jorge Jose Bravo III, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology; Arianne Jessica Chernock, History; Hsuan Lin Hsu, English Language and Literature; Selby Wynn Schwartz, Comparative Literature and Medieval Studies; Boris Yanislav Wolfson, Slavic Language and Literature
Fellowship Awards 2002
Alpha of California: John Abromeit, Philosophy; Ivana Alexandrova, Statistics; Deanna Kiser, Near Eastern Studies; Lenore Kitts, Comparative Literature; Brian McCook, History and German; Holly Watkins, Music
NCA: Amy E. Freund, History of Art; Susannah Palitz, Psychology
Fellowship Awards 2001
Alpha of California: Gia Kim, English; Heather Madari, History of Art; Nicole Maestas, Economics; Peter Schmelz, Music; Justin Suran, History and Rhetoric; Sarah Trainor, Energy and Resources
NCA: Jill Letitia Grenier, Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Fellowship Awards 2000
Alpha of California: Zygmunt Ronald Bialkowski III, History; Elizabeth Ann Gessel, History; Beth Ellen Levy, Musicology; Catherine Mitchell, English; John Randolph Williams, History
NCA: Julia Teresa Anderson, Comparative Literature; Jessica Green, Nuclear Engineering; Jeffrey Aaron Karlsen, Slavic Languages and Literature; Natasha Schull, Anthropology; Anna Wertz, History
Fellowship Awards 1999
Alpha of California: John Elliott Barnes, Political Science; Elizabeth Bernstein, Sociology; Samuel Aaron Moyn, History; Travis Dean Williams, English; Marnin Young, History of Art; Susan Marjorie Zieger, English
NCA: Helen Fox, Integrative Biology; Eric Klinenberg, Sociology; Scott Tang, History; Tony Wong, Astronomy
Fellowship Awards 1998
Alpha of California: Sylvia Brandt, Economics; Margaret Perrow, Education; Jason Bridges, Philosophy; Jeff Porter Fort, Comparative Literature; Julie Goldberg, Psychology; and Andrea Zemgulys, English
NCA:: Faith P. Barrett, Comparative Literature; Karen D. Chapple, Urban Planning; Carolyn E. Chen, Sociology; Eric J. Gawiser, Physics; Deborah G. Goldman, Mathematics; Laurie Schaffner, Sociology
Fellowship Awards 1997
Alpha of California: Jacqueline Carr Frobose, History; Rachel Adele Morello-Frosh, Environmental Health Sciences, Joanna Magali Picciotto, English; Helen Marie Sillett, History; Carolyn Rachel Trist, Geography
NCA: Matthew Baerman, Slavic Languages and Literature; Danielle Marie Lussier, Music; John Wyatt Randolph Jr, History; Daniel Kenneth Rolde, History; Linda Kay Sawyer, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Fellowship Awards 1996
Alpha of California: Paul Robert Brown, Mathematics; Caroline Helen Cox, History; John Eric Oliver, Political Science; Henry A. Span, Political Science; Ilya Vinkovetsky, History
NCA: Susan Christianne Courtney, Rhetoric; Mark Allyn Holman, History; Scot Daniel Medbury, Environmental Science; Michael Lawrence Witmore, Rhetoric