A brilliant lady named Julia Chaffers has been awarded a scholarship to study for two master’s degrees at two different t universities in the United Kingdom.
Julia, from Massachusetts in the United States was awarded Marshall Scholarship to pursue two years of graduate study in any university of her choice in the United Kingdom. She is among the 41 winners of the 2022 Marshall Scholarship, selected from nearly 1,000 applicants f across the United States.
The Marshall Scholarship offers intellectually distinguished young Americans the opportunity to develop their abilities as future leaders by studying at a U.K. university of the recipient’s choice.
She graduated with a degree in History and pursuing a certificate in African American studies at Princeton University. Julia said for her first year of graduate study, she will pursue a master’s degree in United States History and Politics at University College London.
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Julia added that for her second year, she plans to study British history with a focus on public history at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. ”History allows me to answer the questions that keep me up at night, the questions that others share but cannot answer,” Julia said.
“I want to continue studying history to tell more undiscovered stories, and bring communities together around a more complex shared understanding of our past and present,” she added.
While at Princeton University, she was the president of the American Whig-Cliosophic Society, a literary and debate society. She is also a senior columnist for the Daily Princetonian student newspaper and was a communications assistant for the Department of African American Studies.
Julia said her studies as a Marshall Scholar will build on her research related to the legacies of slavery and racism in the United States which would allow her to examine these subjects within a more global context.
“Through these two master’s programs, I hope to explore the connections between how the U.S. and U.K. create and maintain collective memory around slavery and race,” Julia said.
”In 2020, protest movements in both countries targeted statues of enslavers and other oppressors and opened conversations about the stories we tell through our built environment. I look forward to digging deeper into these questions and learning how British scholars and activists approach these issues,” she added.
She stated that she is especially excited to learn about and engage in public history and consider how they use history in the public sphere, whether through monuments, museums, or media.
Julia said she hopes to eventually become an academic historian in a way that incorporates her interests in public commentary and community engagement.
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