On Saturday, November 19, Elliot F. Gerson, American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust, announced the names of the thirty-two American men and women chosen as Rhodes Scholars representing the United States. Rhodes Scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England and may allow funding in some instances for four years.

Among those selected is current Undergraduate Fellow, Nancy Ko, from Brooklyn, New York. Nancy is a senior at Harvard College, where she concentrates in history and Near Eastern languages and civilizations. The daughter of Korean immigrants, with proficiency in both Hebrew and Arabic, as well as four additional language, she is writing her senior thesis on the political life of Jews in Iran during the Persian constitutional revolution of 1905. She is an organizer of Open Hillel, dedicated to promoting open discourse about Israel and Palestine, and is senior editor of the Harvard Undergraduate History Review. She has won college and national awards in history, Jewish studies, and German language and literature. She is also a skilled knitter and a marathoner. At Oxford, Nancy will do the M.Phil. in Modern Middle Eastern Studies. Read full press release here.