FLAS Fellows Summer 2024

Katherine Guild (she/her, Korean)

Katherine is a junior double-majoring in Linguistics and Korean. She has studied Korean for nearly three years, including a year-long study abroad program at Korea University in Seoul, and she plans to utilize her FLAS award to deepen her knowledge of Korean in relation to the linguistic subfields of phonetics, language acquisition, and language documentation.

This summer, Katherine will participate in American Councils and Chungbuk National University’s Korean Intensive Summer Language Program (KISLP) in Cheongju, South Korea. She will cultivate her academic and colloquial Korean language skills during this program, which she believes will prove vital in her future pursuits as a translator or linguistics instructor. Katherine is excited to continue developing both her Korean proficiency and overall understanding of language in a rigorous academic environment.

Mimi Martin (she/her, Japanese)

Mimi is a sophomore double majoring in Asian Languages & Cultures and Global & Regional Studies with a focus in Asian Studies. She plans to study abroad in Tokyo, Japan at the KCP International Japanese Language School to improve her Japanese, thanks to the Summer FLAS 2024 Fellowship from the East Asia Center. With FLAS, Mimi is able to travel to Japan and continue her Japanese studies and improve her language skills. Mimi hopes to eventually become a translator and her travels abroad will help provide her the linguistic skills and cultural knowledge to be able to achieve her future goals.

Nathaniel Kent (he/him, Japanese)

Nathaniel is a first-year student at the University of Washington. He is concurrently in the College of Engineering and the Jackson School of International Studies, where he is pursuing a major in Global and Regional Studies. Once he graduates, Nathaniel plans to become a foreign service officer. Receiving the Summer FLAS Fellowship is an amazing opportunity for him to continue studying Japanese and Japan Area Studies into next year, which will provide him with the pathway to graduate with a degree focus in East Asia. He is incredibly excited to study Japanese at KCP International School in Tokyo this summer as a FLAS Fellow. The language training he will receive through being a FLAS Fellow will bring him far closer to fluency in Japanese, which is both a personal goal and a major boon for a career in the foreign service.