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Anthropology

Khant Wai Yan Khantyan2030@u.northwestern.edu 
Mounica Sreesai mounicasreesai@u.northwestern.edu 

Alumni
Ashley Agbasoga
Andrew Kim
Elisa Lanari
Nazli Ozkan
Stephen Sullivan


Art History

Anna Dumont adumont@u.rochester.edu
David Jones davidjones2028@u.northwestern.edu
Ozge Karagoz okaragozge@u.northwestern.edu 
Stephanie Lee stephanielee2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Ruslana Lichtzier ruslanalichtzier2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Risa Puelo Rpuleo@u.northwestern.edu  
Talia Shabtay talia.shabtay@u.northwestern.edu
Will Edgar WillEdgar2032@u.northwestern.edu 
Jacob Waits JacobWaits2027@u.northwestern.edu
Grant Williams-Yackel grantwilliams-yackel2032@u.northwestern.edu 


Alumni
Maryam Athari
Emma Chubb
Caitlin DiMartino
Benjamin Jones
Tamar Kharatishvili
Brian Leahy
Jacob Leveton
Thomas Love
Cameron McKee

 

Art Theory & Practice

Lamia Abukhadra lamiaabukhadra2026@u.northwestern.edu 
Daniel Dobrow danieldobrow2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Morisha Moodley morishamoodley2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Renee Royale reneebest2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Eshan Rafi erafi@u.northwestern.edu

 

Alumni
Layan Attari
Yani Aviles
Naakita Feldman-Kiss
Waseem Nafisi
Cory Perry
Isaac Vazquez

Black Studies

Marquis Bell-ard marquisBell-ard2028@u.northwestern.edu 
Charlene Carruthers charlenecarruthers@u.northwestern.edu 
Corbin Covington corbin.covington@u.northwestern.edu 
Carmen Crusoe carmencrusoe2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Mishana Garschi mishana@u.northwestern.edu 
Isaac Ginsberg Miller isaacginsbergmiller@u.northwestern.edu 
Yasmine Grier yasminegrier@u.northwestern.edu 
Charina Herrera charinaherrera2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Æryk Hollis O'Neil aeryk.hollis.oneil@u.northwestern.edu 
Chloe Jones chloejones2024@u.northwestern.edu
Viashima Ko viashimaKo2029@u.northwestern.edu 
José Madrid josemadrid2024@u.northwestern.edu
Jordan Mulkey JordanMulkey2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Kahlil Oatis garretoatis2027@u.northwestern.edu 
Stephen Ogunsakin stephenogunsakin2030@u.northwestern.edu
Sabrina Robleh SabrinaRobleh2030@u.northwestern.edu 
Dandara Jesuine Souza do Espirito Santo dandaradoespiritosanto2026@u.northwestern.edu 
Demetrius Underwood demetriusunderwood2027@u.northwestern.edu 
 
Alumni
Cecilio Cooper
Bernard Forjwuor
Claudia Garcia-Rojas
Casey Goonan
Candice Merritt
Christopher Montague
Tyrone Palmer
Sam Tenorio



Chemistry

Haofeng Wu haofengwu2029@u.northwestern.edu 



Comparative Literature

Xena Amro XenaAmro2026@u.northwestern.edu 
Viola Bao violabao2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Griffin Berlin griffin.berlin@u.northwestern.edu 
Micol Bez micolbez2027@u.northwestern.edu
Raina Bhagat rainabhagat2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Jose Chavez josechavez2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Klaudia Cierluk klaudiacierluk2028@u.northwestern.edu 
Hannah Kadin hannahkadin2028@u.northwestern.edu 
Kang Kang kangkang@u.northwestern.edu 
Emily Landkamer EmilyLandkamer2028@u.northwestern.edu
Xiao Ma V9Y2H6@u.northwestern.edu
Ishan Mehandru ishanmehandru2025@u.northwestern.edu
Jesús Muñoz j.munoz@u.northwestern.edu
Barbara Polster barbarapolster2028@u.northwestern.edu
Matthew Reeder matthewreeder2029@u.northwestern.edu
Moe Romanoff moeromanoff2027@u.northwestern.edu 
Soumya Shailendra soumyashailendra2027@u.northwestern.edu


Alumni
Omoyemi Ajisebutu
Genevieve Amaral
Carly Bortman
Brett Brehm 
Eloisa Bressan
Virgil Brower 
Arif Camoglu
Charles Coustille
Priyanka Deshmukh 
Caitlyn Doyle 
Sorrel Dunn
Maziyar Faridi
Menglu Gao
Sabrina Jaromin
Ozge Kocak
Sarah Mann-O'Donnell
Maïté Marciano
Lorena Iglesias Melendez 
Marjan Mohammadi
Taymaz Pour Mohammad
Scott Newman
Folahan Olowoyeye
Saein Park 
Mauricio Oportus Preller
Kritish Rajbhandari
Benjamin Robinson 
Jonas Rosenbrück
Azadeh Safaeian
Ben Schacht
Ben Trivers
Vincent Valour
Caroline Vial 
Ariel Weiner


Computer Science (McCormick)

Kabir Dubey kabir@u.northwestern.edu 



Documentary media (school of communication)


Alumni
Jacob Kessler JacobKessler2023@u.northwestern.edu 
Laura Gede LauraGede2022@u.northwestern.edu
Eleanor Harmon eleanorharmon2023@u.northwestern.edu

Earth and planetary sciences 

Jackson Watkins jacksonwatkins2026@u.northwestern.edu 


English 

Samuel Aftel samuelaftel2029@u.northwestern.edu 
Maggie Allan margaretallan2030@u.northwestern.edu 
Agam Balooni agambalooni2025@u.northwestern.edu
Kayla Boyden kaylaboyden2027@u.northwestern.edu 
Alexandra Ibarra alexandraibarra2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Lauren Johnson laurenjohnson2028@u.northwestern.edu 
June Li juneli2028@u.northwestern.edu 
Ryan Nhu ryannhu2026@u.northwestern.edu 
Govind Narayan Ponnuchamy gnarayan@u.northwestern.edu 
Sarah Nisenson sarahnis@u.northwestern.edu 
Alaia Snell AlaiaSnell@u.northwestern.edu 
Adam Syvertsen AdamSyvertsen2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Maria Vieytez mariavieytez2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Elizabeth Winter elizabethwinter2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Yuan-Chih Yen sreddyen@u.northwestern.edu 
Yasmin Yoon yasminyoon2027@u.northwestern.edu 
Anna Zalokostas azalokostas@u.northwestern.edu


Alumni
Erin Andrews
Jeremiah Barker
Samantha Botz
Kaitlin Browne
Casey Caldwell
Min Li Chan
Jennifer Comerford
Maria Dikcis
Bradley Dubos
Bonnie Etherington
Rickey Fayne
Mohwanah Fetus
William Graves
Eric Hengstebeck
Chad Infante
Delali Kumavie
Nina Ahn Moon
Todd Nordgren
Antonio Papanikolas
William Pierce
Khan Sajjad
Cameron Schell
Tanushree Vachharajani
Harrington Weihl


FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

Sophia Shieh sophia.shieh@northwestern.edu 

French and Italian

Anna Batty annabatty2030@u.northwestern.edu 
Arundhati Ghosh arundhatighosh2029@u.northwestern.edu 
Amanda Parraguez amandaparraguez2025@u.northwestern.edu  

Alumni
Etienne Lussier
Noran Mohamed
Jessica Passos
Maureen Winter
Tamara Tasevska
Tanushree Vachharajani

 

German

Eleonora Antonakaki Giannisi  EleonoraAntonakakiGiannisi2026@u.northwestern.edu 
Robert Świstelnicki RobertSwistelnicki2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Maria Eliza Zahner mariamoreirazahner2029@u.northwestern.edu 

Alumni
Clemens Ackerman
Jonathan Agins
Wiebke Bullermann
Hector Joniel Feliciano
Henrik Sunde Wilberg 

 

History

Lauren Cole lcole@u.northwestern.edu 
Miguel Giron miguelgiron2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Alexandrea Keith alexandreakeith2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Victoria Pham victoriapham2027@u.northwestern.edu 
Weiliang Song weiliangsong2026@u.northwestern.edu

Alumni
Jessica Biddlestone
Michael Brownrigg
Heather Menefee
Eunike Setiadarma
Angela Tate


Human Development and Social Policy

Alumni
Kim Fernandes


Media Technology & Society

Taylor Agajanian tjaggie@u.northwestern.edu 
Mora Matassi moramatassi@u.northwestern.edu
Sohyeon Hwang sohyeonhwang@u.northwestern.edu
Nash Jenkins nash@u.northwestern.edu

Alumni
Erin Flynn
Chelsea Peterson-Salahuddin

Medill School of Journalism, Integrated Marketing Communications


Alumni
Marta Cattaneo

Music

Miguel Garcia mgarcia@u.northwestern.edu 
Tanya Landau tanyalandau2030@u.northwestern.edu 
Mick (Bing Nan) Lim binglim2026@u.northwestern.edu 
Paul Patinka paulpatinka2031@u.northwestern.edu
Nick Piato nickpiato2030@u.northwestern.edu 
Kristian Rodriguez kristianRodriguez2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Pia Rodriguez piarodriguez2027@u.northwestern.edu 

Alumni
Kimberly Ackney
Kirsten Carithers
Stefan Greenfield-Casas
Jack Hamill
Kyle Kaplan
Miriam Piilonen
Olga Sanchéz-Kisielewska 
Michael Slattery
Ben Weissman
Benjamin Zucker

Performance Studies

Nora Alami nora.alami@u.northwestern.edu
Archita Arun architaarun2026@u.northwestern.edu 
Ethan Fukuto fukuto@u.northwestern.edu 
Ali Gali aligali2030@u.northwestern.edu 
Olabanke Goriola olabankegoriola2026@u.northwestern.edu 
Michael Landez michaellandez2027@u.northwestern.edu 
Madeleine Le Cesne madeleine.lecesne@u.northwestern.edu 
Clara Wenrong Lee claralee@u.northwestern.edu 
Jared Onyango jaredonyango2032@u.northwestern.edu 
Malú Machuca Rose malu@u.northwestern.edu 
Gregory Manuel gmanuel@u.northwestern.edu 
Daisy Matias daisydonaji@u.northwestern.edu 
Devika Ranjan devi@u.northwestern.edu 
Cordelia Rizzo almarizzo2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Camila Simonin camilasimonin@u.northwestern.edu 
Makeda Thomas makedathomas@u.northwestern.edu 
Enzo Vasquez enzo@u.northwestern.edu
Elise Williams elisewilliams2030@u.northwestern.edu 
Benjamin Zender brz@u.northwestern.edu 

Alumni
Arnaldo Rodriguez Bague
Ivan Bujan
Misty De Berry
David Calder
Kelly Chung
Colleen Daniher
Thomas DeFrantz
Ali Faraj
Eddie Gamboa 
Wilfredo Gomez
Joonsuh Jo
Nathan Lamp
Margaret Lebron
Jonathan Magat
Gervais Marsh
Andreea Micu
Didier Morelli
Justin Moore
Shoniqua Roach
Ashlie Sandoval
Kantara Souffrant
 

Philosophy

Bernardo Barzana BernardoBarzana2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Calvin Bell calvinbell2029@u.northwestern.edu 
Julia Burke juliaburke2030@u.northwestern.edu
Mauricio Rebolledo Cervera mauriciorebolledocervera2029@u.northwestern.edu  
Alan Chavoya alanchavoya2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Phedias Christodoulides V7J1P5@u.northwestern.edu 
Carlos Coronado CarlosCoronado2024@u.northwestern.edu  
Christina Falceto ChristinaFalceto2024@u.northwestern.edu
Samuel Filby samuelfilby2025@u.northwestern.edu
Mark Gorthey MarkGorthey2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Abigail Iturra abigail.iturra@u.northwestern.edu 
Naila Jubara o8h2g2@u.northwestern.edu 
Khin Oo Khin KhinKhin2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Eli Lichtenstein eli.b.lichtenstein@u.northwestern.edu
Virginia Moscetti virgimoscetti2029@u.northwestern.edu 
Spencer Nabors spencernabors2026@u.northwestern.edu 
Vincent Nolan vincentnolan2030@u.northwestern.edu 
Mauricio Rebolledo mauriciorebolledocervera2029@u.northwestern.edu 
Gisela Reyes GiselaReyes2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Sooraj Saksena SoorajSaksena2027@u.northwestern.edu
Gabriel Sanchez Ainsa gsainsa@u.northwestern.edu 
Gabriel Schat gabrielschat2028@u.northwestern.edu
Carlos Schoof carlosschoof2028@u.northwestern.edu 
Bijan Terani bijanterani2028@u.northwestern.edu 
Ken-Terika Zellner Ken-TerikaZellner2025@u.northwestern.edu 


Alumni
Marzouq Alnusf
Henry Andrews
Justin Bouteloup
Hansen Breitling
Carmen De Schryver
Chelsea Egbert 
Eskil Elling
Debbie Goldgaber
Kasey Hettig-Rolfe
Mauricio Maluff Masi
David Benjamin Johnson
Hannah Kovacs 
Morganna Lambeth
Seth Mayer
Kurt Mertel 
William Parrott
Kyle Scott
Michael Schwarz
Daniel Trujillo
John Vandenburgh
 

Political Science  

Jinxue Chen jinxuechen2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Emma Davis emmadavis2025@u.northwestern.edu
Larissa dePalma LarissaGamaDePaula2026@u.northwestern.edu
Amanda Fu ziyifu2026@u.northwestern.edu 
Salih Emre Gercek gercek@u.northwestern.edu 
Hevi Gokdemir hevigokdemir2029@u.northwestern.edu 
Shai Karp shaikarp@u.northwestern.edu  
Emerson Murray emersonmurray2026@u.northwestern.edu
Elizabeth Orrego Torres ElizabethOrregoTorres2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Usdin Martinez Orellanos usdinmartinez2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Charlotte Mencke charlottemencke2025@u.northwestern.edu
Audrey Nicolaides M7E8H9@u.northwestern.edu 
 Dinara Urazova dinaraurazova2024@u.northwestern.edu


Alumni
Rhiannon Auriemma
Malia Bowers
Tristan Bradshaw
Owen Brown
Javier Burdman
Lucy Cane
Gent Carrabregu
Arturo Chang
Timothy Charlebois
Shah Zeb Chaudhary
Giuseppe Cumella
Horia Dijmarescu
Ceyda Erten
Lucien Ferguson
Jennifer Forestal
William French
Marion Gutwein
Mark Kelley
Alan Kellner
Elizabeth Linn
Boris Litvin
Christina LoTempio
Kyle Jones
Nathalia Justo
Samuel McChesney
Gde Metera
Evgenia Mikriukova  
Anna Morath
Andrew Munro
Shaul Notkin
Tatiana Poddubnykh
Noga Rotem
Christopher Sardo
Swati Srivastava
Anna Terwiel
Desiree Weber

 

Religious Studies

Asmae Hadidi asmaehadidi2031@u.northwestern.edu
 

Alumni
Jennifer Callaghan
Joel David Harrison
Marlon Millner

Rhetoric and Public Culture/ Rhetoric Media and Publics

Andy Acosta andy.acosta@u.northwestern.edu
Genius Amaraizu amaraizu@u.northwestern.edu 
Srishti Chatterjee srishtichatterjee2029@u.northwestern.edu
Beatrice Choi beachoi@gmail.com
Skylar Clark skylarclark2026@u.northwestern.edu
Elise De Los Santos elise.santos@northwestern.edu 
Madeline Denison mdenison@u.northwestern.edu 
Patricia England tricia.england@gmail.com 
Kaitlyn Filip filip@u.northwestern.edu 
Adam Goldsmith adamgoldsmith2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Sung Gi Kim sungkim2000@u.northwestern.edu 
Ifra Javed Ifrajaved2029@u.northwestern.edu
Paul Mart Jeyand Matangcas paulmatangcas@u.northwestern.edu 
Eva Rubens Celem evarubenscelem2026@u.northwestern.edu
Bipin Sebastian BipinSebastian2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Behailu Shiferaw Mihirete behailumihirete2027@u.northwestern.edu 
Margaret Solice l9w1g7@u.northwestern.edu 
Mario Ulloa marioulloa2030@u.northwestern.edu 


Alumni
Ryan Bince
J. Dakota Brown
Marissa Croft
Lauren Michelle DeLacruz
Lucia Delaini
J. Daniel Elam
Ashley Ferrell
Gabby Garcia
Sarah Idzik
Eric James
Harriette Kevill-Davies
Sarah Lingo
Robert Elliot Mills
David Molina
Racel Rigdon
Dylan Rollo
Robert Topinka
Zhiqiu Zhou



Screen Cultures

Tatiana Anoushian anoushian@u.northwestern.edu 
Arundhati Chauhan arundhati@u.northwestern.edu
Kelly Coyne kcoyne@u.northwestern.edu 
Katherine Erskine katherineerskine2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Kaiwen Huang kaiwen.huang@u.northwestern.edu 
Stephen Kuster stephenkuster2030@u.northwestern.edu 
Nicola McCafferty nicolamccafferty2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Ziza Nshakira ethannshakira2030@u.northwestern.edu 
Amin Pakparvar aminpakparvar2031@u.northwestern.edu
Rachel Pittman rachelpittman2028@u.northwestern.edu 
Emmanuel Ramos-Barajas ramosbarajas@u.northwestern.edu 
Sarah Sachar sachar@u.northwestern.edu 
Jennifer Smart jennifersmart2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Kylie Walters kyliewalters@u.northwestern.edu
Ana Yoo anayoo@u.northwestern.edu 

Alumni
Madison Alan-Lee
Marisela Chavez
Leigh Goldstein
Julia Peres Guimaraes
Eleanor Harmon
Ian Hartman Anthony
Pamela Krayenbuhl
Rongyi Lin 
Myrna Moretti 
Whitney Pow
Karly-Lynn Scott
Ashley Smith

 

SESP/Learning sciences

Sarah Lee spl@u.northwestern.edu 
Collin Lejano collinlejano2029@u.northwestern.edu 
Miguel Angel Ovies-Bocanegra movies@u.northwestern.edu

Slavic Languages & Literatures


Alumni
Maximilian Michael Gordon  
 Jacob Wirt
Jessica Crane

Sociology  

Max Barte maxbarte2030@u.northwestern.edu 
Iolanthe Brooks iobrooks@u.northwestern.edu
Sino Esthappan sinoesthappan2026@u.northwestern.edu 
Prince Grace pgrace@u.northwestern.edu 
Vineet Gupta vineetgupta2028@u.northwestern.edu  
Kristina Lee Kristinalee2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Tyler Milks  tylermilks2024@u.northwestern.edu
Salma Mostafa salma@u.northwestern.edu 
Yi Ming Ng yiming.ng@northwestern.edu 
Ewurama Okai ewuramaokai2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Khoa Phan Howard khoaphan2025@u.northwestern.edu
Miranda Simes mirandasimes2028@u.northwestern.edu 
Katelyn Taylor kabrota@u.northwestern.edu 
Bambang Trihadmojo bambangtrihadmojo2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Evie Lopoo melissalopoo2027@u.northwestern.edu
Cristian Valenzuela cvalenzuela@u.northwestern.edu 
Jack Votava jackvotava2027@u.northwestern.edu
Luna White lunawhite2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Teke Wiggin theodorewiggin2026@u.northwestern.edu 
Wara Urwasi wara.urwasi@u.northwestern.edu


Alumni
Emma Brandt
Brandon Honore
Erik Lovell 
Anna Michelson 
Kevin Patrick Loughran
Kenneth Pass
Jane Pryma
Matthew Snow
Qi Song
Devin Wiggs
 

Spanish & Portuguese

Michelle Davo michelledavoortiz2029@u.northwestern.edu 
Oana Katz OanaKatz2028@u.northwestern.edu
Andres Mendieta amendieta@u.northwestern.edu 
Ethan Moscoso ethanmoscoso2028@u.northwestern.edu 
Jesse Rothbard jesserothbard2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Alumni
Jose Manuel Delpino Vivas  
Leonardo Gil Gomez
Carlos Halabruda
Minwook Oh
Stephen McNabb
Catalina Rodriguez
Cintia Vezzani 

 

SpS/Master's in writing

Timantha Goff timanthagoff2024@u.northwestern.edu


Statistics


Alumni
Eleanor Colligan eleanorcolligan2023@u.northwestern.edu 

Technology and Social Behavior

Jessica Feuston jes.feustone@u.northwestern.edu
Kevin Ouyang kevinouyang2029@u.northwestern.edu 

Theatre and Drama

Alex Baines alexbaines2025@u.northwestern.edu 
Jooyoung Cho jooyoung.cho@u.northwestern.edu 
Lia Christine Dewey liadewey2026@u.northwestern.edu
Jessica Friedman jessicafriedman2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Raunak Ghosh rounak.ghosh@northwestern.edu 
Heather Grimm heathergrimm2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Jordan Chloë Jackson jordanjackson2028@u.northwestern.edu
Minjoo Kim minjoo.kim@u.northwestern.edu 
Alex Knapp Alexknapp2026@u.northwestern.edu 
Ferdinand Moscat ferdmoscat2024@u.northwestern.edu 
Hannah Probst hannahprobst2029@u.northwestern.edu 
Emry Sottile emrysottile@u.northwestern.edu
James Weston Twardowski twardowskitheatre@gmail.com
Keary Steven Watts R8A5S7@u.northwestern.edu
Alumni
Ana Diaz Barriga  
Lauren Beck
Matthew Bent  
Rebekah Bryer 
David Calder
Bethany Hughes
Elizabeth Leopold
Dwayne Mann
Gordon Mercer
Tara Rodman
Chelsea Taylor
Elena Weber

 

TGS Counseling

Alumni
Allison Hauser allisonhauser2023@u.northwestern.edu