IUB-Illinca Zarifopol Johnston Award

The Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston Award is given in honor of the life of Professor Zarifopol-Johnston, an accomplished translator, scholar, and teacher who earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and then taught in the department from the 1990s until her death in 2005.

The award is given in alternate years to a graduate (in odd-numbered years) or an undergraduate student (in even-numbered years), chosen on the basis of GPA, breadth of interests, originality, academic and/or creative achievement, and overall promise.