The Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization at the University of Colorado Boulder has awarded four language study scholarships and one internship grant for summer 2021. The awards are $1000 each.
“The Benson Center is proud to continue our support for language study by undergraduate and graduate students at CU,” said Benson Center Director Daniel Jacobson. “The ability to speak and read more than one language is an important part of a liberal education, and it is crucial for many aspects of advanced study of Western Civilization.”
Congratulations to the following CU Boulder students who were named Benson Center scholarship recipients.
Alexander (AJ) Shively will be a senior at CU in the fall, majoring in strategic communications with a focus on advertising strategy, and minoring in business and philosophy. For the past year, Shively has been a Benson Center social media and communications intern. Shively will spend fall semester studying at the Florence University of the Arts in Italy, furthering an interest which began with CU classes in Italian culture, innovation, philosophy and the Renaissance. This summer he will study Italian, thereby enhancing his experience during his semester abroad.
Amanda Loeffelholz, a first-year PhD student in philosophy, will study German this summer to gain a working knowledge of the language for translation purposes. By doing so, she hopes to maximize the value of her interpretation of 19th and 20th century German philosophers and contribute meaningfully to dialogues centered around contemporary social and political issues.
Amirhossein Ajalloeian, formerly a doctoral student in electrical engineering, recently switched to the doctoral program in philosophy. He will study German this summer in preparation for a hoped-for internship at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy next year. He is also interested in reading seminal texts in the philosophy of language in their original German.
Dawn Jacob is a third-year student in the Philosophy doctoral program, with a primary interest in ancient philosophy, especially ancient approaches to moral and political issues. Jacob will study German this summer because it is a primary language of scholarship in ancient philosophy. Jacob says, “being able to read German competently is especially important when working on philosophers of the 5th century and earlier, since scholarship on these philosophers is relatively sparse.”
Dylan Yachyshen, a fifth-year senior in the fall, will use his grant to support a summer internship with Gulf State Analytics, a Middle East geopolitical consulting, research and analysis firm. Yachyshen, a Benson Center Wehman Scholar and Undergraduate Fellow, is majoring in international affairs and economics, and minoring in French.
For more information on Benson Center scholarships, the Undergraduate Fellows program and other student resources, please see the Benson Center website.