Congratulations to the Class of 2024-2025! | Department of German Studies

Submitted by Michael Neininger on May 15, 2025 - 4:54 pm

Congratulations to the Class of 2019-2020

Bachelor of Arts - German Studies

Majors:

Ariana C McLain

Minors:

Dean Angelo Bartholome

Alexander James Hurchalla

Annika Heide Jensen

Aileen Murphy Laubach

Meghan Elizabeth Sexson

The department congratulates all students of the graduating class of 2024-2025!

Ariana McLain and Aileen Laubach "graduate" their profiles from the German Studies Facewall!

Undergraduate Awards and Scholarships:

The German Studies faculty have selected the following outstanding students to be this year's recipients of our undergraduate prize for excellence:

--German Literary Studies: Shannon M. Paeth

--German Cultural Studies: Aileen M. Laubach

--German Language: Cassandra Benson

These awards were endowed by Prof. Sammy McLean.

Rachel Lundeen was the German Studies nominee for the competitive Humanities Awards open to all UW Undergraduates. She won the prestigious Mary Katherine Mackenzie and Mary Ann Whitmore Endowed Scholarship. Congratulations, Rachel!

Graduate Awards and Scholarships:

Inga Schwemin was awarded the Chester William Fritz Scholarship, one of the UW Humanities Awards for Graduate Students. Inga also received a Max Kade Dissertation Grant awarded by the American Friends of Marbach for archival research and a Graduate Student Travel and Research Fund by the Goethe Society of North America to support her dissertation project.

Martin Schwartz was selected as a 2025-26 Stroum Center for Jewish Studies Dissertation Writing Fellow. He also received a Dissertation Research Grant from the American Academy of Jewish Research.

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