Travis Chai Andrade ’24 and Nolan Musslewhite ’25 have been named Marshall Scholar Recipients for 2024.
This announcement follows the absence of any Princeton Rhodes scholars this year for the first time in 20 years. No Princeton students won the Marshall scholarship last year, the first time in nearly a decade.
When Andrade found out, he had just missed his connecting flight back home. “I had just landed in Honolulu,” Andrade told The Daily Princetonian. “Then I got a voicemail that was like ‘Oh, please give us a call’ … I called them, and they were like congratulations!”
“I did end up making it home, but I did have a small breakdown in the airport,” he added.
The scholarship covers two years of study in the United Kingdom. Each student in the program can pursue either one Master’s degree over one year, two Master’s degrees over two years, or begin work on a Ph.D. Andrade and Musslewhite will both be pursuing two Master’s degrees over two years.
Andrade graduated from Princeton last year with an anthropology degree. He was co-President of Natives at Princeton and advocated for the inclusion of Pacific Studies while at the University. He will be pursuing a Master’s degree in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the University of East Anglia, and in Information Technology and Cartography from the University of Glasgow.
“I’m really interested in using that first degree to understand Oceanic material culture and material history through museums in archives, and then the second degree is visualizing those stories and understanding them in different ways and actually sharing the story,” he said in an interview with the ‘Prince.’
Musslewhite, who is currently a History major with minors in Classics, European Studies, Humanistic Studies, and History and Diplomacy, will be pursuing a Master's degree in African Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and in Modern British History at the University of Oxford.
During his time at Princeton, Musslewhite studied Swahili. He participated in Princeton in Kenya during Summer 2022 where he took Intensive Intermediate Swahili. Musslewhite shared that “Kenya really got me interested in doing more work on East Africa, and I ended up writing my Spring JP (junior paper) on Ethiopia.”
He has also studied British history, getting particularly interested when he took HIS 445: Winston Churchill, Anglo-America and the ‘Special Relationship’ in the Twentieth Century.
“After that class, I was able to go every year to the International Churchill Society … the first year I was in Edinburgh and then the next year in London,” he said. “I really got interested in doing graduate work in British history.”
Applicants for the Marshall Scholarship first submit their applications to the University for Princeton’s endorsement and then apply for the national scholarship by region. Once invited to interview, students visit the British Embassy in Washington.
Andrade explained that the University provides a lot of support for the scholarships. “I did two mock interviews for the Marshall this year,” Andrade said, “and they had sort of a mock panel. They went through questions, and then I got interview feedback.”
“There’s definitely a lot of support throughout the whole application process,” he said.
Luke Grippo is a News contributor for the ‘Prince.’
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