Boren Graduate Fellowship | Nationally Competitive Awards

The Boren Fellowship funds language study and research abroad in world regions critical to U.S. interests for graduate students. Regions include Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Preferred languages include Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Russian, Swahili and others. Boren Fellows commit to working for at least a year with the federal government upon graduation.

Next deadline: January 2025

Award Recipients

Award Recipients
	Victor Montgomery 2022 Diplomacy and International Commerce graduate student Victor Montgomery received a Boren Fellowship to study Russian language. Victor’s award will fund Russian language study with local tutors and research in Tallinn, Estonia, alongside information security classes at the Tallinn Institute of Technology. Read more in UKNow.
	Kayden Jenson 2021 Rosenberg College of Law and Patterson School student Kayden Jenson received a 2021 Boren Fellowship to study Turkish. Jenson’s award, which is part of the Turkish Flagship Language Initiative (TURFLI), funds a summer program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in addition to language study at the Azerbaijan University of Languages in Baku, Azerbaijan, during the fall semester. Read more in UKNow.
	Brittney Woodrum 2020 Brittney Woodrum, a 2015 arts administration and Spanish graduate, has received a 2020 Boren Fellowship to travel to Yangon, Myanmar for a year of intensive language study. Woodrum is currently pursuing a master’s degree in international security/humanitarian aid at the University of Denver. Read more in UKNow.
	Robert Kimberlin 2019 Robert H. Kimberlin, a graduate student in the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, has been awarded the National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Fellowship. The fellowship awards Kimberlin up to $24,000 toward the study of the Portuguese language. He is one of only 106 graduate student award winners selected nationally. Read more in UKNow.
	Lydia Roll 2015 Anthropology doctoral candidate Lydia Roll was awarded the National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Fellowship for up to $30,000 toward study of the Kurdish language and work on her dissertation research in Istanbul, Turkey.
	Cassidy Henry 2014 Diplomacy and International Commerce graduate student Cassidy Henry was awarded a National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Graduate Fellowship of up to $30,000 to study Russian in Irkutsk and Vladivostok, Russia.
	Aleta Botts 1999 Agriculture student Aleta Botts was awarded a National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Graduate Fellowship to Russia.
	Jonathan Taylor 1998 Geography student Jonathan Taylor was awarded a National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Graduate Fellowship to Japan.
	Lauren Lovelace 1997 Public Administration student Lauren Lovelace was awarded a National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Graduate Fellowship to Russia.
	Anne Marie Jackson 1994 Diplomacy and International Commerce student Anne Marie Jackson was awarded a National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Graduate Fellowship to Russia.