The Department of Anthropology is pleased to share that Harvard Anthropology Alum Katherine Enright (March '23, joint concentration in Anthropology and History) has received the Gates Cambridge Scholarship and will begin the MPHil in Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge this fall.
The Gates Cambridge Scholarship selected twenty three of the "most academically outstanding and socially committed US citizens" to be part of the 2023 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge.
The US Scholars-elect, who will take up their awards this October, are from a wide range of backgrounds. They come from 24 universities across the United States and beyond, including four institutions that have for the first time produced a Gates Cambridge Scholar (Hunter College (CUNY) in New York, Towson University in Maryland, Hochschule RheinMain (HSRM) in Germany and St Olaf College in Minnesota).
Sixteen are women and seven are men. Fourteen will pursue PhDs while nine will undertake one-year master’s degrees. Both of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship recipients from Harvard University are graduates of the Anthropology Program.
Enright shares:
I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to further my studies in the Digital Humanities MPhil program at Cambridge. My academic interests lie at the intersection of history and museum studies, with a focus on science and empire in Southeast Asia. In my MPhil research I hope to develop tools to integrate natural science data with historical archives, with the ultimate goal of confronting the enduring imperial legacies of natural history museums.
As I leave Harvard, I would like to thank the many mentors and instructors who have enriched my experience within the Anthropology department—in particular Ajantha Subramanian, Anna Jabloner, Damina Khaira, and Lilia Kilburn. I am ever so grateful for their guidance and inspiration.
Congratulations to Katherine Enright for her outstanding work.