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Tristan Perlroth

Tristan Perlroth during the summer of 1991 in Florence, Italy.

About Tristan Perlroth

Tristan Perlroth of Portola Valley, California, Grace Hopper College ’93, passed away from cardiac arrest on May 23, 1992, while shooting baskets with a good friend at Menlo-Atherton High School near his home. He had completed his junior year at Yale and returned home to study for the Law School Admission Test before going to London for the summer to work in an international business as the recipient of a McDonnell-Douglas Fellowship.

Committed to experiencing the world and working to make a difference in the human condition, Tristan traveled extensively throughout Eastern and Western Europe. Tristan was a dual major in History and International Studies and enjoyed the mastery of different languages. He spoke French, Spanish and German and had studied Italian. He played on the varsity water polo team and had been elected its captain for 1993. He was captain of the Hopper swimming team and a member of the Yale Political Union.

It is the wish of the Perlroth family that those who travel with the assistance provided by this prize and, like Tristan, share the same formative experiences at Yale, will have the opportunity to relive his adventures vicariously and profit from them.

Testimonies

Personally, I have found great developments in my cultural sensitivities and awareness to different ways of life that exist beyond my own. This challenged my pre-program outlook on what a ‘successful’ and ‘fulfilling’ professional life after college could look like, teaching me that we are not confined to the mentalities, thoughts, and ideas we grew up with.

Julie Fan

2024 Tristan Perlroth Prize Awardee - "Yale Summer Session in Siena: Elementary Italian I & II + Culture"

Julie Fan

Academically, this experience deepened my understanding of what constitutes “urban studies,” particularly the concept of placemaking and space-making in various international contexts. The hands-on research and field-work of travel combined with the mentorship I received from experts like Professor Monica Degen has significantly shaped my thesis and future academic pursuits.

Laura Zeng

2024 Tristan Perlroth Prize Awardee - "Reimagining the Olympic Games: the legacies, realities, and possibilities of an urban utopic spectacle"

Laura Zeng

This experience has allowed me to grow as a person both academically and personally, in addition to expanding my view of the world. Not only have I strengthened my identity and learned more about my place in the world, but I also learned so much about a culture and area of the world of which I had no prior knowledge. The program has also contributed to my second major in Portuguese.

Ian Fernandes

2024 Tristan Perlroth Prize Awardee - "Portugese Language Immersion in Brazil"

Ian Fernandes

I cannot be more grateful to the Tristan Perlroth Prize. It has given me a place that I can now call home, knowledge that now I can use to create something big and important, and an experience I will never forget. I also received a return offer from the studio in Paris and will be going back.

Kalina Mladenova

2023 Tristan Perlroth Prize Awardee - "Intersection of Design and Culture and its Significance in Innovation"

Past Tristan Perlroth Awards

2024

River Dufour

Julie Fan

Ian Fernandes

Aden Gonzales

Luis Guevara-Flors

Kathryn Hemmer

Clara Kleindorfer

Shoshana Promer

Nick Shoemaker

Conan Thibodeau

Aiden Urbina

Olivia Woods

Laura Zeng

Lucy Zuo

2023

Joshua Blochover

Ida Brooks

Dean Centa

Alexis Esi

Dylan Gunn

Charnice Hoegnifioh

Sreenivas Kuntamukkala

Kalia Mladenova

Edward Seol

Hannah Szabo

Elyse Thomas

2022

Claire Chang

Deirdre Flanagan

Olivia Genao

Sam Heimowitz

Nick Jacobson

Domenic Jancaterino

Alexandra McGuire

Sheryl Ofwona

Julia Oladipo

Abbie Thomas

2021

Caitlyn Clark

Matus Kopunec

Naomi Messer

Tom Murray

2020

No awards were granted because international travel was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

2019

Keera Annamaneni

Simon Custer

Ella Fanger

Anna Howard

Nour Hussari

Charlie Markert

Jonathan Palacios

Noah Parnes

Timothy Ryan

Gabi Seo

Alexander Sikorski

Adam Thompson

Kahi Tran

Nyamal Tuor

Kathleen Wells

2018

Lindsey Combs

Brian Dolan

Lilla Felix

Kelly Fu

Emily Ge

Amy Kwarteng

Somto Okreke

Chatherine Peng

Nikita Raheja

Rayan Semery-Palumbo

Filip Sestan

Alice Yang

2017

Genna Abele

Pranav Bhandarkar

Aisenour Bitsen

Anna Rose Canzano

Dante De Blasio

Meredith Derecho

Charlotte Desprat

Sarah Gomez

Simon Horn

Sarah Householder

Hannah Kazis-Taylor

Erica Kocher

Jack Lawrence

Alexandra Lombardo

Isadora Milanez

Gor Mkrtchian

Jolanta Pach

Caroline Posner

Connor Reed

Elena Saavedra Buckley

Lucy Tomasso

Max Vinetz

2016

Emily Barnes

Gideon Broshy

Sarah Cohen

Edward Columbia

Irene Connelly

Charlotte Desprat

Benji Fleischacker

Myles Garbarini

Joe Haberman

Alexander Herkert

Elena Hodges

Alexander Jacobson

Emaline Kelso

Caroline Kuritzkes

Wa Liu

Anna Lu

Elizabeth Miles

Amelia Nierenberg

Ryan Simpson

Ruben Vega Perez

Eleanor Woodward

Tong Yin

2015

Ricardo Alvarez Pimentel

Kristina Arakelyan

Elizabeth Berk

Jialu Chen

Gaurav Chiplunkar

Barbara Di Gennaro

Brianne Dolce

Avery Grayson

Ian Hathaway

Efeoghene Igor

Keri Lambert

Jessica Minor

Alyssa Paredes

Samuel Severson

Ashanti Shih

Sara Smith

Catherine Tourangeau

2014

Andrés Bustamante

Joshua Cofsky

Laurel Cohen

Alexander Dubovoy

Ellie Dupler-McClintock

Natalia Forbath

Abigail Johnson

Ethan Kyzivat

Sophia Mendelson

Melina Sánchez Montañés

Alexandra Schmeling

Hannah Untereiner

Lily Vanderbloemen

Jacob Wolf-Sorokin

2013

Ifeanyi Awachie

Laura Brink

Andrew Freeburg

Radhika Koul

Isaiah Lyons-Galante

Arvind Mohan

Edirin Okoloko

Aubrey Renault

Caroline Rouse

Jessica Saldinger

Justin Schuster

Felicity Sheehy

Austin Smith

Melia Ungson

2012

Juliana Biondo

Nicole Endsley

Henry Epps

Melissa Hou

David Langdon

Hannah LaPalombara

Rory Marsh

Charlotte McCurdy

Charlotte Parker

Kelly Payne

Paul Rizk

Diana Saverin

Lucia Tang

Samuel Telzak

Meghan Uno

2011

Marissa Benavides

Michael Blume

David Carel

Ryan Caro

Alyssa Cheung

Samantha Dixon

Samuel Gamer

Allison Hadley

Jonathan Koch

Vinicius Lindoso

Omar Mumallah

Rachel Needle

Meredith O'Hare

Jacqueline Outka

Shira Petrack

Taylor Purvis

Holly Rippon-Butler

Courtney Rubin

Archit Sheth-Shah

Jessica Shor

Elizabeth Starr

Danielle Tomson

Gabriel Zucker

2010

Abigail Cheung

Michael Educate

Micah Hendler

Nicolas Kemper

Savannah Kleinlein

Kaozouapa Lee

Jessica Lei

Yun Lu

Mari Oye

Amy Radding

Bianca Rolon

Nicholas Sam Rosenbaum

Yaron Schwartz

Emily Sigman

2009

Ari Berlin

Kathleen Borschow

Elie Chau

Hayley Israel

Mariel Novas

Charlotte Renfield-Miller

Daniel Schlosberg

Jennifer Wang

2008

Rachel Bayefsky

Eva Bitran

Edwina Clarke

Sarah Cunningham

Shijie Feng

Lucineida Fonseca

Alice Henly

Katharine Kendrick

Rishabh Khosla

Joel Knopf

Christopher Lewine

Nadav Night

Lauren Tatsuno

2007

Lora Nicole Allan

Samantha Amodeo

George Beane

Neil Chatani

Molly Fox

Madeleine Gelblum

Anna Graber

Elizabeth Hanly

Jessica Harris

Lauren Harrison

Nicholas Hutchings

Xiaodong Jiang

David Kasten

Aaron Nissen

Freya Pitts

Govind Rangrass

Morgan Robinson

Suzanne Salgado

Kalindi Winfield

2006

Marcus Boeckmann

Elizabeth Dickinson

Michael Dziuban

James Fishelson

Semuteh Freeman

Sean Jackowitz

Joshua Krug

Francisco Morales

William Perdue

Miguel Rubiano

Yassmin Sadeghi

Diana Schawlowski

Benjamin Siegel

Cynthia So

Gregory Thaler

 

2005 - 1994

For awardees from 1994 to 2005, please contact macmillan.fellowships@yale.edu for access to the archived records.