Graduate School recognizes student scholarship and faculty mentors at annual Convocation

On May 17, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences held its annual Convocation Ceremony. Graduating students were recognized with academic prizes for outstanding achievement, including academic awards by department and two University awards. The ceremony also honored four faculty members for exemplary graduate student mentorship.
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Graduate Mentor awardees with Dean Cooley
From left: Jessica Peritz, Ivan Loseu, Lynn Cooley, Joseph Craft, and Egor Lazarev

On May 17, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences held its annual Convocation Ceremony at the Yale University Art Gallery.

Graduating students were recognized with academic prizes for outstanding achievement, including academic awards by department and two University awards.

“To receive a graduate degree from Yale is no small feat, and these award winners have gone above and beyond to truly push the boundaries of scholarship in their fields. They epitomize what it means to be a scholar,” said GSAS Dean Lynn Cooley in her remarks.

Classics and History PhD student Daniel Graves received the John Addison Porter Prize for his dissertation on Thomas Jefferson.

Jeanne Sauvage, a PhD student in French, received the university's Theron Rockwell Field Prize for her dissertation, “The Translator’s Workshop: The French Invention of U.S. Literature.” 

The Porter and Field prizes are among the university’s most prestigious awards.

In addition to the academic prizes, the ceremony also recognized the graduating winners of the GSAS Prize Teaching Fellowship. Each year, undergraduates recognize their most talented teaching fellows by nominating them for the fellowship. The students honored at the May 17 ceremony included past and current recipients of this coveted award, including Xinyu Guan; Brandon Hubbard; Tyler Myers; Maryam Parhizkar; Alejandro Quintana; and Alexa Williams.

The ceremony concluded by highlighting four recipients of the Graduate Mentor Awards, which honor one faculty member from each academic division for exemplary teaching and mentoring of graduate students. The 2026 recipients include Joseph Craft, the Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine (rheumatology) and Professor of Immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine; Jessica Peritz, Assistant Professor of Music; Ivan Loseu, Professor of Mathematics; and Egor Lazarev, Assistant Professor of Political Science.

View the full list of GSAS academic prize winners in the 2026 Convocation Ceremony Program.