Margaret Comer ’04 Named 2015 Gates Cambridge Scholar
Margaret Comer ’04 was named one of 40 U.S. Gates Cambridge Scholars for 2015. The scholarships, which will allow recipients to study at the University of Cambridge this autumn, are awarded to the most academically brilliant and socially committed young people. This postgraduate scholarship program is unique in that it emphasizes social leadership as well as academics.
Comer will pursue her doctorate in archaeology. While studying Soviet-era repression, she hopes to “connect patterns of change in memorialization and commemoration to concurrent changes in political regimes and wider attitudes towards identity and civil or human rights.”
Calvert School is a coed independent lower and middle school.
