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.
2024 Tristan Perlroth Prize Awardee - "Yale Summer Session in Siena: Elementary Italian I & II + Culture"
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.
2024 Tristan Perlroth Prize Awardee - "Reimagining the Olympic Games: the legacies, realities, and possibilities of an urban utopic spectacle"
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.
2024 Tristan Perlroth Prize Awardee - "Portugese Language Immersion in Brazil"
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.
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.