FLAS Fellows


Each year, the US Department of Education awards Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) funding to Area Studies Centers at the University of Kansas. FLAS funds are awarded in a competitive process open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students to pursue foreign language and area studies for professional purposes. FLAS funds are intended to support high-level second language acquisition among US professionals.

Academic Year 2021-2022

Graduate Students:

  • Cora Caton (Arabic)
  • Allison Charba (Kiswahili)
  • Aron Finholt  (Kiswahili)
  • Alexandra Sue Koran (Kiswahili)
  • Maggie Wilcox (Kiswahili)
  • Alicia Houser (Somali)
  • Allison Lewis (Wolof)

Undergraduate Students:

  • Radhia Abdirahman (Arabic)
  • Abby Hall (Arabic)
  • Sura Jaradat (Arabic)
  • Mary Morrison (Arabic)
  • Rachael Lawler (Arabic)
  • Nicholas Simpson (Arabic)
  • Katherine Ewing (Arabic)
  • Catherine Timkar (Kiswahili)

Academic Year 2020-2021

Graduate Students:

  • Eric Splavec (Kiswahili)
  • Maggie Wilcox (Kiswahili)
  • Eva Fisk (Wolof)
  • Heather Snay (Wolof)

Summer Semester 2021

Graduate Students:

  • Brien Stonebreaker (Arabic)
  • Cora Caton (Arabic)
  • Maggie Wilcox (Kiswahili)
  • Alicia Houser (Somali)

Undergraduate Students:

  • Kalkidan Haboro (Amharic)
  • Mercy Haboro (Amharic)
  • Catherine Timkar (Kiswahili)
  • Lucy Whittington (Kiswahili)

Academic Year 2019-2020

Graduate Students:

  • Douglas Eifler (Arabic)
  • Raychel Gadson (Kiswahili)
  • Ousmane Diop (Wolof)
  • Eva Fisk (Wolof)
  • Heather Snay (Wolof)

Undergraduate Students:

  • Leena Abdelmoity (Arabic)
  • Radhia Abdirahman (Arabic)
  • Dawson Blackley (Arabic)
  • Kat Frenzel (Arabic)
  • Abby Hall (Arabic)
  • Nicholas Simpson (Arabic)
  • Mary Morrison (Kiswahili)
  • Atlee Myers (Kiswahili)

Summer Semester 2020

Graduate Students:

  • Aaron Finholt (Kiswahili)
  • Heather Snay (Wolof)

Undergraduate Students:

  • Edan Belihu (Amharic)
  • Radhia Abdirahman (Arabic)
  • Tarik Aginar (Kiswahili)
  • Tyler Cargill (Kiswahili)
  • Evalyn Ngugi (Kiswahili)

Academic Year 2018-2019 

Graduate Students:

  • Jacqueline Fisk (Arabic)
  • Mariah Crystal (Kiswahili)
  • Symantha Dawson (Kiswahili)
  • Julie Morris (Kiswahili)
  • Allison Lewis (Wolof)

Undergraduate Students:

  • Chally Miller (Arabic)
  • Grace Anne Lamar (Arabic)
  • Lilah Wilder (Arabic)
  • Macie Rouse (Kiswahili)
  • Eric Splavec (Kiswahili)
  • Rachel Wakefield (Kiswahili)

Summer Semester 2019

  • Eva Fisk (Arabic)
  • Tyler Cargill (Kiswahili)
  • Joe Clark (Kiswahili)
  • Raychel Gadson (Kiswahili)
  • Evalyn Ngugi (Kiswahili)
  • Alex Cateforis (Wolof)

Academic Year 2017-2018 

Graduate Students:

  • Jenna Swanson (Arabic)
  • Mariah Crystal (Kiswahili)
  • Julie Morris (Kiswahili)
  • Lia Thompson (Kiswahili)
  • Delarice Staley (Wolof)

Undergraduate Students:

  • Caitlin Smith (Arabic)
  • Daniel Lee (Kiswahili)
  • Emily Hoy (Wolof)
  • Sierra Hurd (Wolof)

Summer Semester 2018

Graduate Students:

  • Eva Fisk (Arabic)
  • Joseph Clark (Kiswahili)
  • Symantha Dawson (Kiswahili)
  • Allison Lewis (Wolof)
  • Danielle Schablitsky (Wolof)
  • Emily Hoy (Wolof)

Undergraduate Students:

  • John Cormier (Kiswahili)
  • Macie Rouse (Kiswahili)
  • Eric Splavec (Kiswahili)
  • Shannon Warren (Kiswahili)
  • Serigne Seck (Wolof)

Summer Semester 2017

Graduate Students:

  • Jenna Swanson (Arabic)
  • Mariah Crystal (Kiswahili)
  • Lia Thompson (Kiswahili)
  • Mfon Udoinyang (Kiswahili)
  • Angela Murphy (Wolof)
  • Delarice Staley (Wolof)

Undergraduate Students:

  • Daniel Lee (Kiswahili)
  • Emily Hoy (Wolof)
  • Sierra Hurd (Wolof)