Senior Nolan Musslewhite, a history major, and Travis Kanoa Chai Andrade, a 2024 graduate, have been named 2025 Marshall Scholars to pursue two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom.

The Marshall Scholarship allows "intellectually distinguished young Americans, their country’s future leaders" to study at the U.K. institution of their choice, according to the Marshall Scholarships organization. Chai Andrade and Musslewhite are among the 36 winners of the 2025 Marshall Scholarships, selected from nearly 1,000 applicants from colleges and universities across the United States.

Nolan Musslewhite

Musslewhite, of Washington, D.C., is a history major who is also pursuing minors in classics, European studies and humanistic studies, and a certificate in history and the practice of diplomacy. For his first year of graduate study, he will pursue an MA in African studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, followed by an MSt in history in the Modern British History strand at the University of Oxford.

In his application statement, he wrote about the moment in his Princeton experience that crystallized his interest in African studies — while participating in Princeton in Kenya in 2022, a summer program with intensive study of Swahili:

“[One] Sunday, I arrived as a guest for Mass at the nearest Anglican church, eager to find community through my faith. Congregants urged me to introduce myself during the service, and, hearing me speak their native Swahili, invited me to become an official member of their congregation. That was the moment — overwhelmed by their warmth and hospitality — when I knew I wanted to spend my life studying and learning from East Africa.”