Scholars 2011/2012
Erin Lee
Erin Lee was born and raised in Scotland. She was educated in Scotland and went up to Oxford in 2006 to read Classics where she achieved a 2:1. In 2010 she joined the Graduate Trainee Librarian at St John’s College, Cambridge and am thoroughly enjoyed her year here. It is due to this position that Erin became certain that her future career lied in the information profession. Currently she is studying for her Masters in Library and Information Science at Syracuse, has the leading faculty for information resources in the United States.
After her year of study in the United States, Erin intends to return to the UK, preferably Scotland, and use what she have learned in America to the benefit of whichever library situation she enters. At the moment I would be keen to continue my career in academic libraries but the electives at Syracuse may well broaden by experience and ambition.
Kate Darracott
Kate Darracott is twenty-three year old Scot with a passion for studying International Law.Born and raised in Glasgow, Kate attended Glasgow University and in 2010 completed joint honours in Law and Geography.
Kate spent six months working as an analyst for Morgan Stanley and raised enough funds to travel to Bangladesh where she volunteered for BNWLA, an organization that provides legal aid to women and children.
At Harvard, she will continue to focus her studies on international law and development.
She plans to undertake further legal aid work in a developing country for a few years after she completes her Masters.
In the future Kate wishes to study to PHD level and hopefully return to Scotland to teach international law.
Meghan Stewart Healy
Meghan Healy hails from Woodstock, Connecticut and studied English and Romance Languages at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. During her junior year, she studied abroad at the University of St Andrews and fell in love with the university, town, and people. She is overjoyed at the prospect of returning, thanks to generous support of the Saint Andrew’s Society of New York.
At St Andrews, she will be earning her MLitt in Romantic and Victorian Studies; from there, she hopes to earn a PhD in nineteenth-century literature and go on to become a professor of literature. She is thrilled that Scottish literature comprises a major part of the St Andrews MLitt curriculum. At Mount Holyoke, her studies focused on English, French, and Portuguese literature, and she is eager to explore the differences in Scottish literature.
Healy is equally eager to explore the land of her Stewart ancestors, to be able to attend a Burns supper in Scotland, to learn new Scots words through friendly banter over games of squash, and to participate in the vibrant cultural societies at St Andrews.
Hannah Cunningham
Hannah Cunningham is a recent Williams College graduate, where she majored in sociology and fulfilled the premedical requirements.
She is pursuing a master’s in global health and anthropology at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Science. After which, she expects to attend medical school and work internationally.
Inspired by her mother, a pediatric infectious disease specialist, and her aunt, a Peace Corps worker, Cunningham took a leave of absence from Williams in 2007 to spend six months in Masaka working with the Uganda Rural Fund. There she organized a women’s domestic violence prevention project, taught English and computer skills, and helped build a school and orphanage.
She also spent a summer conducting research on the H1N1 virus with the Duke University Department of Infectious Disease.
Her collaborative research has been published in the Journal of Clinical Virology, accepted for publication to the Journal of American College Health, and presented at two conferences on infectious disease and antimicrobial agents.
Cunningham also has been active in student life at Williams, having played on the ice hockey and lacrosse teams, performing with the Inish, the Irish music and dance company, student symphony and concert choir, and serving as co-president and treasurer of Students for Social Justice, president and co-founder of Peace Talk Africa, and founding member of the All Acoustic Alliance.