Student Eleanor Wikstrom Wins Rhodes Scholarship

Undergraduate Associate Eleanor Villafranca Wikstrom, from the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard College, is one of ten Harvard students named Rhodes Scholars this year. Created in 1902 through the will of Cecil Rhodes, Rhodes Scholarships cover all expenses for two or three years of study at Oxford. Wikstrom’s research focuses on the twentieth-century US system of English-only education in the Philippines as a form of epistemic colonialism. At Oxford, she will pursue studies in imperial and global history and in US history.