Penn senior Christina Steele and 2018 graduate Erin Hartman have been named Marshall Scholars. Established by the British government, the Marshall Scholarship funds up to three years of study for a graduate degree in any field at an institution in the United Kingdom. They are among 46 Marshall Scholars for 2020 chosen from more than 1,000 applicants. The scholarship, meant to strengthen US-UK relations, is offered to as many as 50 Americans each year. 

Ms. Hartman, from Medford, New Jersey, graduated magna cum laude from the School of Nursing in 2018. She is currently a registered nurse in the emergency department at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where she also works as a certified sexual assault forensic examiner in the Victim Intervention Program. She plans to pursue a master of laws degree in international human rights and practice at the University of York, followed by an master’s degree in gender, peace and security at the London School of Economics. Her passion is in empowering women, and her ambition is to help eradicate violence against women around the world. 

Ms. Steele, from Valley Stream, New York, is majoring in psychology with minors in religious studies and biological basis of behavior in the School of Arts and Sciences. She will pursue a doctorate in social psychology at the University of Edinburgh with a goal of developing evidence-based interventions that target interpersonal conflict and foster positive relationships in society. Ms. Steele is a 2019 Beinecke Scholar and a recipient of the George Weiss Challenge Scholarship and the Gillian Meltzer Miniter Scholarship. 

Ms. Steele and Ms. Hartman applied with assistance from CURF. Penn has had 17 Marshall Scholars since the scholarship’s 1953 inception.