John Bundschuh (doctoral candidate,
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, College of Arts and Sciences) for "Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Creation of Narrative Structure in Japanese Kundokugo Buddhist Texts"
Ashlee Dauphinais (doctoral candidate,
Department of Spanish and Portuguese, College of Arts and Sciences) for "Linguistic Practices among Women with Turner Syndrome in Brazil"
Katherine Fitzgerald (doctoral candidate,
Department of Comparative Studies, College of Arts and Sciences) for "No Pure Lands: The Contemporary Buddhism of Tibetan Lay Women"
Barbara Y. Roth (doctoral candidate,
Department of Political Science), College of Arts and Sciences for "Settlement Social Norms and Conflict Migration in Bosnia"
Nathan Young (doctoral candidate,
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences) for "Modernization’s Other: Nostalgia for Village Life in Turkey"