BU Ling convocation 2021

On May 15, the department graduated 23 BAs, 8 Graduate Certificate recipients, and 23 MAs at the 2021 department convocation ceremony, held virtually in Gather. The faculty speaker was Prof. Elizabeth Coppock, the graduate student speaker was Kate Stenberg, and the undergraduate speaker was Natalie Swiacki.

BA graduates:

• Cody Stephen Arnold (cum laude)
• Joe Quang Bui
• Giuliana Franca Carder (magna cum laude)
• Jane H. Choe
• Bridget Lindsay Cohen (Phi Beta Kappa)
• Mara Adrienne Coolidge
• Victor Yu Cui
• Letian Hao
• Lucina Hawkins (Ken Hale Book Award)
• Emma Henne
• Kloe Doiron Hidri
• Saadia T. Islam (summa cum laude; Barbara Argote Senior Award in Linguistics)
• Tomiris Kaumenova (magna cum laude)
• Christof Tyler Ketchmark (magna cum laude)
• Kamillah Rae Khalif
• Juniper Mai (cum laude)
• Teddy Manning
• Ivan Manuel Mata
• Arisa Matsuo (cum laude)
• Mia M. Sisco
• Natalie Danielle Swiacki (summa cum laude; Honors in Linguistics; Barbara Argote Senior Award in Linguistics)
• Mercy Valladares (summa cum laude; College Prize for Excellence in Linguistics)
• Flora I. Wong (cum laude)

Graduate Certificate graduates:

• Viyath Fernando
• Shaked Gabbay
• Melinda Gutermuth
• Darcie Patterson
• Christopher Perl
• Emma Slater
• Amelia Tighe
• Jacob Vlahakis

MA graduates:

• Michael Joseph Alexander-Yang
• Andre Batchelder-Schwab
• Megan Brown
• Giuliana Franca Carder
• Mara Adrienne Coolidge
• Danielle Dionne
• Ying Gong
• Jackson Kellogg
• Christof Tyler Ketchmark
• Kamillah Rae Khalif
• John Patrick Kinney IV
• Alexandra Kohut
• Ka Chun Lee
• Walter Lehner
• Eugenia Lukin
• Daniel Joseph Neault
• Kelsey Del Barco Pember
• Elizabeth Platz
• Kevin Samejon
• Kaitlin Stenberg
• Natalie Danielle Swiacki
• Lee-Ann Vidal Covas
• Nairan Wu

Non-graduating (junior) award winners were: Adriana Celaya and Ryan Chon (Edwin S. and Ruth M. White Prize); Ione Madsen Hardy (Alice M. Brennan Humanities Award); Abigail Roberts and Ferryn Sosenko (Robert E. Yellin Award); and Abisola Akinsete, Adriana Celaya, Ryan Chon, Lutece Dekker, Glenn Ee, Ferryn Sosenko, and Anastasiia Tatlubaeva (Barbara Argote Junior Award in Linguistics).

Congratulations to all!