Keto '13 Awarded a Marshall Scholarship

Elizabeth Keto '13 has been awarded the highly selective and prestigious Marshall Scholarship in recognition of her academic excellence and leadership.

 

Keto is graduating this year from Harvard College with a concentration in history of art and architecture. She told the Harvard Gazette that she plans to use the scholarship to study at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

 

"I'm interested in how we can make museums more equally representative in terms of contributors. Curating modern and contemporary art is a way to write that next draft of history and hopefully have it be more inclusive than previous versions have been, and I really want to be a part of that," she told the Gazette.

 

Keto's interest in art reaches to her time on the Close: She was awarded the Art Prize during her senior-year Flag Day; Keto also won the Flag and the Lorna Cogswell Mason Award and was named to the Cum Laude Society.

 

The British government founded the Marshall Scholarship in 1953 to honor former secretary of state George C. Marshall. The award provides for postgraduate study in England, covering tuition, living, and travel expenses. The previous NCS alumna to receive the scholarship was Sarah Norvell '11, who attended Oxford University. Marshall recipients have gone on to become members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, corporate CEOS, and Pulitzer Prize winners. This year, 43 U.S. students were chosen as scholars.

 

"[T]he recipients of this year's Marshall Scholarship ... represent the brightest young minds and leaders the U.S. has to offer," said Sir Kim Darroch, British ambassador to the United States.

 

Congratulations, Elizabeth, on this fantastic accomplishment!