3 Princetonians Win Rhodes in 2014

The Rhodes Trust announced today this year's 32 American winners of the Rhodes Fellowship. Princeton had 3 winners -- two seniors and one graduate -- ranking only behind Yale in the number of awardees, which had 4.Below are their profiles, as announced by the Rhodes Trust:Joseph W. Barrett, Port Washington, graduated summa cum laude from Princeton Universityin June with a major in History and a minor in South Asian Studies. He won the highestaward for undergraduates, based on scholarship, character and leadership, as well as the prizefor the best thesis in American History. Joe is passionate about prison education and reform,an issue he focused on as a freshman and that led him to establish a program on incarcerationissues at Princeton that he has expanded to other colleges. He has worked with theMillennium Challenge Corporation in Lesotho, spent a year learning Hindu [sic] and Urdu andworking on literacy projects in Varanasi, India, and is passionate about social justice andeconomic development. Joe plans to do the M.Phil. in Economic and Social History atOxford.Rachel A. Skokowski, Palo Alto, is a senior at Princeton University majoring in French. Shehas a deep commitment to making the arts more relevant and accessible in the modern world.Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, she has a superb academic record across the humanities and acommitment to forge strong connections between art museums and local communities,especially to expose underprivileged children to museums and to the beauty of art. She hascurated or interned at the Morgan Library and Museum, the Princeton Art Museum and forthe Santa Fe Arts Commission, and is a Behrman Undergraduate Fellow. She is also a threeseason (year-round) varsity cross country and varsity track athlete. Her career aspirations areto push the boundaries of art curation. Rachel will do the European EnlightenmentProgramme within the M.Phil. in Modern Languages at Oxford.Sarah E. Yerima, Los Angeles, is a senior at Princeton University where she majors in Sociology. Much of her scholarly work relates to what she describes as the fallacy of post-racialism in the United States, and framed by her own and her family’s experiences, her grandparents’ in the rural south, and hers in an all-black neighborhood in Los Angeles and finally in the privilege of Princeton. Her senior thesis is on the evolution of colorblindness in American jurisprudence and the perpetuation of racial inequality. Sarah has an exceptional academic record across the social sciences at Princeton, has been active as a peer and residential college advisor and as a women’s mentor, and is a member of the Behrman Undergraduate Society of Fellows. She also studied in Brazil where she investigated racial prejudice in a different historical context.