Four Harvard students and one alumna won Marshall scholarships this week, the most of any American university, for two years of graduate study at a U.K. university of their choosing. Nine Harvard students were earlier named 2026 Rhodes Scholars, affording them at least two years of study at the University of Oxford.
The Marshall scholars announced on December 9 include Kashish Bastola ’26 of McKinney, Texas, who will study military history at Oxford; Hannah Duane ’26, of San Francisco, who will study political theory and political science at Oxford; Tenzin Gund-Morrow ’26 of New York City, who hopes to pursue a master’s in public policy at Oxford followed by regional and urban planning and political science at the London School of Economics; Ashwin Sivakumar ’26, of Portland, Oregon and Pasadena, California, who will study genetics at the University of Cambridge; and Edith O. “Tomi” Siyanbade ’23 of Atlanta, Georgia, who will study clinical medicine at Oxford.
Harvard’s nine 2026 Rhodes scholars attending Oxford next year include eight undergraduates and Harvard Law School student Omid E. Yeganeh of Montreal, Canada, who plans to study international law. The undergraduate winners include three Americans and five international students. The American students are: Anil Cacodcar ’26 of Lafayette, Louisiana, who will study economics; Emma Finn ’26 of Annapolis, Maryland, who will study biological and mechanical systems, statistics, and machine learning; and Yael S. Goldstein ’26 of Barrington, Rhode Island, who will study philosophy.
The international Rhodes Scholars are: Sazi Bongwe ’26 from Johannesburg, South Africa, who plans to study literature and visual arts; Je Qin “Jay” Chooi ’26, from Malaysia, who plans to study computer science and AI governance; Hairong “Helen” He ’26, from China, who plans to study computer science, followed by Chinese philosophy, history, and culture; Fajr Khan ’26, from Pakistan, who hopes to study clinical neuroscience, psychology, or psychiatry; and Will J. Flintoft ’26, from Australia, who plans to study mathematics, computer science, and philosophical theology.
