Williams College Junior Awarded Beinecke Scholarship
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Chelsea Thomeer, a junior at Williams College, has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship in support of her graduate education.
The scholarship grants $4,000 immediately prior to entering graduate school and an additional $30,000 during graduate school. She is one of 20 students in the United States to receive the award this year.
Thomeer, an English and political science major from Williamsville, N.Y., plans to pursue a Ph.D. in English literature. Next year, she will write a senior thesis exploring the ways that ideas of power and revolution are presented in early 20th century literature.
“I’m very grateful to have been selected,” Thomeer said. “I’d love the chance to keep studying literature in graduate school, and this is a big help in potentially getting there.”
At Williams, Thomeer is the executive editor of The Williams Record student newspaper and a member of Kinetic, a student-run, action-oriented think tank. She studied abroad in Dublin, Ireland, during the fall semester of her junior year. As a first-year student in 2014, Thomeer won the college’s William Sloane Coffin Public Speaking Prize in the Faith and Spirituality category. She also spent a summer working as a research assistant for English professor Stephen Tifft, compiling sources on the topic of aesthetic outrage.
Established in 1971 by the Sperry and Hutchinson Company to honor Edwin, Frederick, and Walter Beinecke, the Beinecke scholarship program seeks to encourage highly motivated students to pursue opportunities available to them and to be courageous in the selection of a graduate course of study in the arts, humanities, or social sciences. Each year, approximately 100 colleges and universities are invited to nominate a student for a Beinecke Scholarship. Thomeer’s award follows a Beinecke given to Jeffrey Wang ’16 last year and one to Sam O’Donnell ’15 in 2014.
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