Honors & Awards

Charles D. Allis Scholarship

This monetary award honors a junior or senior student majoring in economics with a GPA of 3.0 or higher who has demonstrated excellence in statistics and quantitative methods, a consistent work ethic in both academic and outside activities, and the quality of thinking of others before one's self. This award was created by Willamette alumnus Edward L. "Nick" Allis, '70, to honor his father, whose life has been a testimony to these qualities.

• 2025 Samuel Dillon & Sally Richter
• 2024 Graham Blechschmidt & Aiyana Brown
• 2023 Rodney Gray & Landon Waters
• 2022 Keyan Krabill & Gabe Kronisch
• 2021 Jan Werkmeister-Martin & Matthew Quirarte Valencia
• 2020 Joel Westby & Jennifer Truong
• 2019 Stuart Ovens & Christopher Gatling
• 2018 Kelcie Urstad & Christopher Ishihara
• 2017 Avery Bento & Tom Farley
• 2016 Maximilian Kroner Dale & Brianna Ellis
• 2015 Connor Donahue & Marin Harris
• 2014 Kathleen Hendersen & Shawn Wong
• 2013 Gregory Ebert & Kai Yoshioka
• 2012 Eva Sharf & Zachariah Zegzdryn
• 2011 Lauren McKallor & John Cornwell
• 2010 Alexander Mozell & Kate Wilhelm
• 2009 Kendra Kennedy
• 2008 Ben Bryant
• 2007 Casey Murphy
• 2006 Travis Dailey
• 2005 Sam Brown
• 2004 Jun Zhang
• 2003 Corrinne Hill
• 2002 Anne Merten
• 2001 Elizabeth Miller
• 2000 Anthony Mader
• 1999 Colleen Chrisinger
• 1998 Stacy Eubanks
• 1997 Megumi Aoki

Oliver C. Brown Scholarship

This monetary award is a gift of Oliver C. Brown, honors a junior or senior majoring in economics with a GPA of 3.0 or higher. Mr. Brown was an employee of the credit/finance division of the General Motors Corporation until his retirement in 1965. He and his wife moved from Kansas City to Salem to spend their retirement years. Mr. Brown became a great fan of Willamette's sports programs and established this scholarship to honor students majoring in economics.

• 2025 Nicholas Cottril & Frances Peterson
• 2024 Maggie Malley and Alysha Villelli
• 2023 Gabe Kronisch & Aanya Friedeman
• 2022 Amanda Buschke & Ian Curtis
• 2021 Chris Brown & Jack Boydell
• 2020 Isabel Duxbury & Johnny Valdez
• 2019 Drew Farmer & Hannah Deighton
• 2018 Colin Hakeman & Avery Bento
• 2017 Allison Kerkoff & Nicolas Troplent
• 2016 Paimon Jaberi & Madeline Furey
• 2015 Hans Lehndorff & Angela Witty
• 2014 Hans Lehndorff & Ying Meng
• 2013 Emily Brixey & Yang Lin
• 2012 Blair Davis & Joshua Dean
• 2011 James Webber & Daniel Robinson
• 2010 Nate Bender & Michelle Fairfield
• 2009 Michelle Fairfield & Brian Alexander
• 2008 Trevor Gamache & Chris Plantano
• 2007 Erica Morbeck
• 2006 Jessica Lammers, Rebecca Mix
• 2005 James Furlo, Mikki Pomerenke
• 2004 Alicia Andrews, Kristin Kutara
• 2003 Paul Crisalli, Anthony Dahl Ponte
• 2002 Corrinne Hill, Ryan Rhalfs
• 2001 Katie Baker, Casey Pileggi
• 2000 Leif Anderson, John Hall
• 1999 Monica Atiyeh, Kristin Bailey-Chace
• 1998 Brad Nelson
• 1997 Stacy Eubanks

Departmental Honors

The designation of Departmental Honors is reserved for outstanding Senior majors, as determined in accordance with the following criteria: Cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher, GPA of 3.7 in the Economics major, and a distinguished Senior Seminar research paper.

2023

Seth Bell

2021

Jennifer Truong, Sam Johnston, Joel Westby, McCullum van der Velde, Liandra Chapman, Timo Gunsalus, Gregory Gandy, Jake Procino, Jack Carpenter

2020

Riley Burton, Dru Draper, Kelcie Urstad, Colin Hakeman, Christopher Ishihara

2019

Lindsey Shimazu, Avery Benton, Katherine LaChasse, Allison Kerkhoff, Kaitlyn Wiggins, Thomas Farley, Quinlyn Manfull, Davis Wolfe, Yan Chen, Aubrey Kraabel, Jackson Lewis

2018

Anya Clowers, Maximilian Kroner Dale, Nicolas Troplent, Yun Kim, Hanh-Thao Tran, Jessica Weiss, Meredith Marshburn

2017

Maggie Boucher, Madeline Furey, Ryan Gail, Danielle Henderson, Kandace King, Jacob Kirn, Christine Schilliger

2016

Hans Lehndorff, Yang Lin, Marin Harris, Caroline Brinster, Whitney Rogers

2015

Emily Brixey, Benjamin Beeler, Gregory Ebert, John Kingsley, Eric Henry, Kathleen Hendersen, Lauren Travis, Shawn Wong, Jerome Sader, Bradley Russell, Jack Nelson, Devin Bales, Jonathan Wenger 

2014

Kai Yoshioka, Tana Watanabe, Shannon Waltz, Raymond Hayashi, Devin Abney

2013

Kevin Johnson, Sarah Larsen, Daniel Robinson, Neal Rusk, Eva Sharf

2012

2011

2010

Brian Alexander, Robert Clarke, Kendra Kennedy, J. Michael Miller, Christopher Platano, Caitlin Rathe, Collin Schilling, Yu Senzaki

2009

Lauren Attinasi, Ben Bryant, Sammy Campillo, Trevor Gamache, Colin Gardiner, Josh S. Gordon, Dan Maslanik, Tim Mitchell, Cameron Ramey

2008

Sara Bader, Kevin Beeman, Shain Corey, Trevor Gamache, Angela Giandomenico, Tim Hagan, Andrew Lazzeri, Erica Morbeck, Tyler Robinson, Collin Siu, Jonathan Williams

2007

Jennifer Anderson,Vanessa Bloomsburg, Wyatt Boyd, Travis Dailey, Masashi Kogure, Jessica Lammers, Rebecca Mix, Sage Nusbaum, Mikki Pomerenke, Jared Reiger, Ryan Sandler, Jessica Smith, Lin Zhao

2006

Jake Goldfield, Kristin Kutara, Britten Martin, Hristo Pavlov, Mikki Pomerenke, Sean Powers, Ashleigh Williams

2005

Alicia Andrews, Andrew Frey, Jonathan Higa, Jennifer Levy, Jun Zhang

2004

Emily French, Tyler Gaspard Bethanee Gibson Corrinne Hill Anne Merten Whitney Rolig Emily Zinn Michael Rice

2003

Jeffrey Bresslour,Donald Condry, Jeffrey Deeder, Meghan Mallea, Michael Ott, Joseph Jody Smith, Jami Tautfest

2002

Dru Dillard, Gerg Jones, Jon Oakdale, Jennifer Pike, Casey Pileggi, Tyler Webber

2001

Jason Ackerman, Leif Anderson, Patrick Anderson, Nicole Bankhead, Daniel Boyer, Matthew Dunphy, John Hall, Kip Ioane, James Jensen, Anthony Mader, Amanda Nobel

2000

Monica Atiyeh, Kristen Bailey-Chace, Abby Bilkiss, Shawn Gahr, Lisa Hondo, Stephen Kosovich, Robert Laizure, Joshua Lakin, William Norling, Matthew Wellner, Ivan Wood

1999

Kristin Dahl, Stacy Eubanks, Amy Gergen, Katie Goetz, Nykki Hardin, Rhiannon Kruse, Corina Mallory, Brad Nelson, Jennifer Nelson, Pavel Nikitin, Amy Paetsch, Sabrina Webb

1998

Hilary Bayly, Marisa Benedetti, Kelli Downs, Mark Hughes, Justin Isle, Mark Martin, Shayne Martin, Kevin Vandenbrink, Deborah Wolfe

1997

Evgenia Abbruzzese, Bonnie Bauer, Jeffrey Brislin, Scott Dilworth, Kely Dougherty, Brian Harper, Amber Lierman, Oksana Lomazova, Pamela Ly, Joshua Norman, Jean Orth, Todd Sexton, Seth Smith

Richard M. Gillis Scholarship

This scholarship is awarded to sophomore economics majors whose academic performance shows promise for outstanding work in economics and substantial contribution to the department. Richard Gillis came to Willamette University in 1956 and served as the Chair of the Economics Department for many years.

2025

Elise Lien & Zoe Place

2024

Jillian Layton & Zoe Place

2023

Sally Wooster & Jillian Layton

2022

Lane Mikkelsen & Sally Wooster

2021

Chance Harp & Matt Ihling

2020

Matt Ihling & Chance Harp

2019

Alexander Efland & Samuel Johnston

2018

Kaitlyn Wiggins & Alexander Efland

2017

Anya Clowers & Kaitlyn Wiggins

2016

Anya Clowers & Christine Schilliger

2015

Kandace King & Christine Schilliger

2014

Lauren Travis & Yang Lin

2013

2012

2011

2010

John Cornwell

2008

John Michael Miller

2007

Sammy Campillo

2006

Wyatt Boyd, Tyler Robinson

2004

Hristo Pavlov

2003

Michael Rice

2001

Dru Dillard

2000

Amanda Nobel

1997

Kristin Dahl, Corina Mallory

Richard M. Gillis Senior Award in Economics

This award is presented to senior economics majors for outstanding work in economics and substantial contribution to the department. Richard Gillis came to Willamette University in 1956 and served as the Chair of the Economics Department for many years.

2025

Kiera Atkinson, Rodney Gray, Jillian Layton, Landon Waters

2024

Aanya Friedman, Sean Kim, Gabe Kronisch, Lane Mikkelsen, Spencer Veatch, Sally Wooster

2023

Seth Bell, Jack Boydell, Michael Burke, Amanda Buschke, Ian Curtiss, Andrew Hull, Jazmin Hurtado Cortez, Keyan Krabill, Jan Werkmeister-Martin

2022

Giovanni Bautista, Amy Nelson, Chance Harp, Jewel Fleckenstein

2021

Sam Johnston, Chagall Ford-Roshon, Niko Hellman, Isabel Duxbury, John Valdez, Liandra Chapman, Kaizen Betts-LaCroix, Joel Westby, Callia Stylianou, Jennifer Truong

2020

Riley Burton, Kelcie Urstad, Dagny Layman, Colin Hakeman, Hannah Deighton, Drew Farmer, Alex Palmer

2019

Allison Kerkhoff, Eurydice Chen, Katherine LaChasse, Aubrey Kraabel, Thomas Farley, Avery Bento, Lyndsey Shimazu, Kaitlyn Wiggins

2018

Max Kroner Dale, Anya Clowers & Meredith Marshburn

2017

Christine Schilliger, Kandace King, Madeline Furey & Jeremy Coste

2016

Yang Lin, Marin Harris, Hans Lehndorff, Ying Meng & Caroline Brinster

2015

John Kingsley, Eric Henry, Kathleen Hendersen, Lauren Travis & Jack Nelson

2014

Kai Yoshioka & Shannon Waltz

2013

2012

2011

2010

John Michael Miller & Christopher Platano

2009

Ben Bryant & Sammy Campillo

2008

Kevin Beeman & Erica Morbeck

2007

Travis Dailey, Sage Nusbaum, & Jared Rieger

2006

Hristo Pavlov, Mikki Pomerenke

2005

Jennifer Levy, Jun Zhang

2004

Emily French, Tyler Gaspard

John D. Gray Scholarship

This monetary award honors a junior or senior student majoring in economics with a GPA of 3.0 or higher who has consistently demonstrated the qualities of leadership, personal integrity, fairness in dealing with others, humility, initiative and vision in daily life in and out of the classroom. All of these qualities have characterized the personal and professional of Mr. Gray during his many years of providing leadership in the industrial, business, environmental, and

2025

Anastasiia Lemesh

2024

Axel Smart

2023

Kiera Atkinson

2022

Paulina Konev

2021

Will Reeves

2020

Callia Stylianou

2019

Kelcie Urstad

2018

Quinlyn Manfull

2017

Adrian Uphoff

2016

Danielle Henderson

2015

Caroline Brinster

2014

Gregory Ebert

2013

2012

2011

2010

Mark Meek

2009

Caitlin Rathe & Angelika Orletsky

2008

Caitlin Rathe & Cameron Ramey

2007

Sarah Bader & Collin Siu

2006

Sage Nusbaum, Jessica H. Smith

2005

Paul Jones, Liberty Upton

2004

Jean-Pierre Hill, Jennifer Levy

2003

Tyler Gaspard, Anne Merten

2002

Jeffrey Deeder, Meghan Mallea

2001

Jennifer Pike

2000

James Jensen

1999

Robert Laizure

1998

Shawn Gahr

1997

Katie Goetz

Dale T. Mortensen Scholarship

Dale T. Mortensen, Willamette University class of 1961, earned the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2010.  Mortensen graduated from Willamette with a bachelor’s degree in economics and math.  He served as senior class president and participated in theater and policy advocacy.   After earning his Ph.D. in economics from Carnegie Mellon University, Mortensen joined the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965.  Professor Mortensen pioneered an approach to studying labor economics that led to a better understanding of unemployment and earned him the Nobel Prize.   Prior to his death in 2014, Mortensen created an endowed scholarship fund bearing his name.   At the time, Mortensen explained, “A liberal arts college trains people to be both literate and analytical, and that’s the best training you can have for the future.”

2025

EMMA SCHNEIDER

2024

LEO SCHOENBRUN

2023

SPENCER VEATCH

2022

WILL REEVES

2021

RIVER BELL

2020

SAM JOHNSTON

2018

ALLISON KERKHOFF

2017

MAXIMILIAN KRONER DALE

2016

JEREMY COSTE

2015

YANG LIN

Phi Beta Kappa Honors

"Philosophia biou kubernetes" "Love of wisdom, the guide of life." Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the nation's oldest academic honor society. Its mission is to foster and recognize excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. Students are elected to Phi Beta Kappa as seniors (a small number may be elected as juniors) based on scholarly achievement, broad cultural interest and good character. Members of the Willamette University chapter, Delta of Oregon, base selection largely on an adjusted GPA, considering also departmental recommendations and academic honors. Membership is by invitation only.

2017

Danielle Henderson & Christine Schilliger

2016

Kandace King, Caroline Brinster, Hans Lehndorff & Ying Meng

2015

Lauren Travis, Shawn Wong

2014

John Kingsley, Shannon Waltz & Kai Yoshioka

2013

Tana Watanabe, Kevin Johnson & Sarah Larsen

2012

Adam J. Lozier

2011

Nathan A. Smith

2010

John Michael Miller, Christopher Platano

2009

Ben Bryant, Sammy Campillo, Josh Gordon

2008

Sarah Bader, Kevin Beeman, Andrew Lazzeri, Erica Morbeck

2007

Sage Nusbaum, Jaren Rieger

2006

Kristin Kutara, Hristo Pavlov, Sean Powers

2005

Alicia Andrews, Jun Zhang

2004

Emily French, Tyler Gaspard, Bethanee Gibson, Corrinne Hill, Ann Merten

2003

Jeffrey Deeder, Meghan Mallea

2002

Dru Dillard, Jonathan Oakdale, Meghan Mallea, Casey Pileggi, Alyssa Story, Tyler Webber

2000

Shawn Gahr, Stephen Kosovich, Ivan Wood

1999

Stacy Eubanks, Katie Goetz, Nykki Hardin, Corina Mallory

1998

Hilary Bayly, Marisa Benedetti, Mark Hughes, Justin Isle

Theodore E. D. Shay Scholarship

Established by family and friends in memory of Theodore E.D. Shay, '79, this funded monetary scholarship is awarded annually to the junior economics major with the highest cumulative GPA.

2025

Sophia Daukas

2024

Kiera Atkinson

2023

Lane Mikkelson

2022

Seth Bell

2021

Giovanni Bautista

2020

Niko Hellman

2019

Dagny Layman

2018

Aubrey Kraabel

2017

Anya Clowers

2016

Kandace King

2015

Kara Merrill

2014

John Kingsley

2013

2012

2011

2010

Lindsay Meloy

2009

Robert Clarke

2008

Josh S. Gordon

2007

Kevin Beeman

2006

Jared Rieger

2005

Sean Powers

2004

Anthony Dal Ponte

2003

Emily French

2002

Leslie Tomokiyo

2001

Tyler Webber

2000

Nicole Bankhead

1999

Stephen Kosovich, Corina Mallory

1998

Corina Mallory, Katie Goetz

1997

Jeff Brislin