Marian Beane Crossing Borders Writing Competition Winners Archive

2023 Marian Beane Crossing Borders Writing Competition Winners

Graduate Student Category

Winner: Iván Flores Martínez – Untitled

Honorable Mention:
Caren K. Berrier – Untitled
Grace Pyke – Different Culture, Different Me: From Athens to Charlotte

Undergraduate Student Category

Winner: Kirthi Kaushik – Different Culture, Different Me

Honorable Mention:
Tucker Evans – Tacos, Bathroom Breaks, and Beach Days
Kiara Turner – Untitled

ELTI Student Category

Winner: Monica Ortega Gajardo – Untitled

Honorable Mention:
Fatma Karaman Odabaşı – Whose Matter Is This?
Syahmi Sabri – Untitled

2022 Marian Beane Crossing Borders Writing Competition Winners

Graduate Student Category

Winner: Shai Nickerson – Self, Unrecognized

Honorable Mention:
Leonardo Herrera – A New Me, a Different Me!
Miguel Wilson –

Undergraduate Student Category

Winner: Danielle Brown – Different Culture. Different Me.

Honorable Mention:
Sharma Krish – It Runs in the Family
Brenda Morales Flores – Learning Through Cross-Cultural ‘Textiquette’

2021 Marian Beane Crossing Borders Writing Competition Winners

Graduate Student Category

Winner: Bentic Sebastian – Crossing Borders

Honorable Mention:
Lilian Ademu – Different Culture. Different Me. A Kaleidoscope of Changes
Sophie Hirsch – How to Ask for Help

Undergraduate Student Category

Winner: Christina Lee – Beauty in the Forgoten and Untouched

Honorable Mention:
Saghar Kholghi Arris – Unseen Shades of Sunset
Katelyn Perez – Through the Barbed Wire

2020 Marian Beane Crossing Borders Writing Competition Winners

Graduate Student Category

Winner: Lydia Grier – Lessons From My Mothers

Honorable Mention:
Tequilla Bennett – Different Culture, Different Me, Same World, New Perspective
Ivan Flores Martinez – Crossing Borders

Undergraduate Student Category

Winner: Afra Mahmood – A Not-So “Sore” Sore Thumb

Honorable Mention:
Jazmyne Carter – Crossing Borders
Areanna Nixon – Crossing Cultures

ELTI Student Category

Winner: Reem Alshalal – A True Story May Be Dangerous For People With Weak Hearts

Honorable Mention:
Hussam Mohammed Aljohani – A Different Life in the Other Side
Eman Alnasr – My International Expereince Has Created a New Version of Me

2018 Marian Beane Crossing Borders Writing Competition Winners

Graduate Student Category

Winner: Reem Muharib – Crossing Borders: How My International Experience Has Affected My Worldview

Honorable Mention:
Ziqing Yu – Puzzle Pieces
Stephanie Branscum – Heaven on Earth: The Warm Heart of Africa

Undergraduate Student Category

Winner: Bilal Laghari – Blue Jumpsuits

Honorable Mention:
Christina Tran – Crossing Borders
Nicole Guglielmo – What Are You?

ELTI Student Category

Winner: Anna Gelich – Women’s March

Honorable Mention:
Qiuli Zhu – Journey to the West
Iago Santos de Oliveira – Untitled

2017 Marian Beane Crossing Borders Writing Competition Winners

Graduate Student Category

Winner: Hannah Kessler – The Boy with the Red Rag

Honorable Mention:
Heather Webb – Into the Warm Heart of Africa I Went
Elina Sukaryavichute – Different Culture. Different me.

Undergraduate Student Category

Winner: Oluwatobi Kalejaiye – Untitled

Honorable Mention:
Lindsay Newton – Where I Found Freedom
Smrawit Yohanis – Untitled

ELTI Student Category

Winner: Jasem Alenezi – Untitled

Honorable Mention:
Abduralrrahman AlGadi – Untitled
Lugain Alqattan – International Experience

2016 “Crossing Borders” Writing Competition Winners

Graduate Student Category

Winner: Yu-Chen Hsu – How My International Experiences Has Affected My View of the World

Honorable Mention:
Kyle McLain – How My International Experience Led to My Withdrawal from the Military
Laura Myers – No Title

Undergraduate Student Category

Winner: Meaghan Shea – Over the River, Through the Woods

Honorable Mention:
Lauren Lee – The One Thing the Transcends Time and Space
Lamia Suko – From Concrete to Rubble

ELTI Student Category

Winner: Juliana Martins Imperador – The Relentless Life of Living Abroad

Honorable Mention: None

2015 “Crossing Borders” Writing Competition Winners

The competition was on hiatus during 2015.

2014 “Crossing Borders” Writing Competition Winners

Graduate Student Category

Winner: Lindsay Shytle – One World

Honorable Mention:
Abeeer AlJarrah – Crossing Borders
Jiali Liu – Untitled

Undergraduate Student Category

Winner: Taryn Walls – A Worldview Seen Through Pronouns

Honorable Mention:
Khalima Khan – Crossing Borders
Yaejun Sun – The Way To Love Myself as What I Am

ELTI Student Category

Winner: Sokona Bocar Sow – My International Expereince

Honorable Mention:
Hanin Elathram – Untitled
Nesreen Elathram – Untitled

2013 “Crossing Borders” Writing Competition Winners

Graduate Student Category

Winner: Reshma Babu Reddy – Crossing Borders

Honorable Mention:
Jaclyn P. Wright – Masukani – Be Free
Elizabeth Ashley Ward – How My International Expereince Affected My View of the World

Undergraduate Student Category

Winner: Uyanga Ganbold – Crossing Borders

Honorable Mention:
Sarah Walz – Crossing Borders
Mohammed Zwayyer – Untitiled

ELTI Student Category

Winner: Ghader Hussain AlRabaan – Crossing Borders

Honorable Mention:
Kenny Mvutuela Mayifulua
Jose Martinez-Loyo

2012 “Crossing Borders” Writing Competition Winners

Graduate Students

Winner: Johanna Claire Schuh

Honorable Mention:
Chantel Hemphill
Yousra Javed

Undergraduate Students

Winner: Yuu Ohara

Honorable Mention:
Erin Strauss
Wenjing Sun

ELTI Students

Winner: Yoo Hyun Choe

Honorable Mention:
Dan Ah Kang
Seong-Hye Kim

2011 “Crossing Borders” Writing Competition Winners

Honorable Mention:
Yongming Cao
Nan Zhang

2010 “Crossing Borders” Writing Competition Winners

Graduate Students

Winner: Heather Johnson

Honorable Mention:
Trevor D’Silva
Paul McDaniel

Undergraduate Students

Winner: Erica Bleicher

Honorable Mention:
Matt Gaskey
Hope Maitwe

ELTI Students

Winner: Toma Kusakawa

Honorable Mention:
Marion Scotti
Jingjing Zhao

2009 “Crossing Borders” Writing Competition Winners

Graduate Students

Winner: Onyewuchi Obirieze

Honorable Mention:
Syed Haque
Sushma Srikanta Murthy

Undergraduate Students

Winner: Amy Mitchell

Honorable Mention:
Jieun Bae
Bradley Griffin

ELTI students

Winner: Seden Yapa

Honorable Mention:
Bo-young Kim
Thao Nguyen

2008 “Crossing Borders” Writing Competition Winners

Graduate Students

Winner: Lalit Mandal, “Crossing Borders – how my international experience has affected my view of the world”

Honorable Mention:
Iryna Bugayova, “Crossing Borders – how my international experience has affected my view of the world “
Chengxiu Sun, “Crossing Borders – how my international experience has affected my view of the world “

Undergraduate Students

Winner: Ji-Hye Kim, “Long day”

Honorable Mention:
Russ Powell, “My Trip to the Holy Land: Digging Through the Past and Present”
George Schaaf, “A Marxist and the Window Pane“

ELTI students

Winner: Tam T. Nguyen, “Crossing Borders – how my international experience has affected my view of the world“

Honorable Mention:
Young Mon Kim, “Crossing Borders“
Un Jin Park, “Flying into the world“

2007 “Crossing Borders” Writing Competition Winners

Graduate Students

Winner: Prasanth Ramu, “Crossing Borders – How my international experience has affected my view of the world .”

Honorable Mention:
Ashwin Subramanian, “Crossing Borders: How my International experience has affected my view of the world.”

Undergraduate Students

Winner: Marc Petrequin, “Riding the Rails.”

Honorable Mention:
Anonymous, “Outlander.”

ELTI students

Winner: Adrian Acuna, “Crossing Borders.”

Honorable Mention:
Deise Vilela, “The Inverse Pangaea of Our Minds.”

2006 “Crossing Borders” Writing Competition Winners

Graduate Students

Winner: Katrina Peterson “How my international experience has affected my view of the world”

Honorable Mention:
Wujian Xue “How my international experience has affected my view of the world”

Undergraduate Students

Winner: Amina Saadaoui “How my international experience has affected my view of the world”

Honorable Mention:
Rachel Keeton “How my international experience has affected my view of the world”

ELTI students

Winner: Abdullah Naji Al Saka – “A Frightened Journey to Face and Accept the Reality”

Honorable Mention:
Kenichiro Taniguchi – “Living in the United States”

2005 “Crossing Borders” Writing Competition Winners

Graduate Students

Winner: Daljit Kaur, India ” Running head: HOW MY INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE HAS CHANGED MY VIEW OF THE WORLD”

Honorable Mention:
Martha Cecilia Bottia Noguera, Colombia, “How my international experience has affected my view of the world”

Undergraduate Students

Winner: Elizabeth C. Gardner, U.S.A “FRANK”

Honorable Mention:
Aneeta Menon, Australia, “Around the World in 12 Credit Points A Student Exchange Experience”

ELTI Student

Winner: Hye Rin Kang, South Korea “What I learned from the world through my international experience”