Senior and Young Alum Named Marshall Scholars

Nolan Musslewhite ’25 and Travis Kanoa Chai Andrade ’24 have been named 2025 Marshall scholars and were awarded all-expenses-paid opportunities to study at British universities for two years.

Musslewhite, who comes from Washington D.C., is a history major at Princeton. He has interned for three U.S. senators and the U.S. Department of Defense, and he was a War Studies Fellow at the Institute for the Study of War in 2023, according to the Marshall announcement. At Princeton, he co-founded and co-directs the Africa Program at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, and he is co-president of the Alexander Hamilton Society. Musslewhite plans to study African studies at The School of Oriental African Studies and history at the University of Oxford, with the goal of shaping U.S. policies impacting Africa.

Chai Andrade, who majored in anthropology at Princeton, is from Keaau, Hawaii. According to his LinkedIn, as a student he received numerous awards from the University including the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence and a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, and he served as a Residential College Adviser, co-chair of the Rockefeller College Council, and a research fellow at Nuclear Princeton.

Earlier this year, Chai Andrade received a fellowship from ReachOut 56-81-06, an organization of alumni from the Classes of 1956, 1981, and 2006, to “complete a wahi kūpuna [heritage] stewardship on protecting Hawaii’s ancestral places and uplifting local and Native communities,” according to the announcement. He is planning to pursue a master’s degree in the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the University of East Anglia, with the aim of eventually becoming a professor.

According to the organization, Marshall award recipients “are talented, independent, and wide-ranging,” and the goal of the program is to “strengthen the enduring relationship between the British and American peoples, their governments, and their institutions.” The scholarship covers tuition fees, grants for books and other miscellaneous expenses, travel to and from the United States, and a personal allowance for the cost of living. Thirty-six students were selected for the Class of 2025 cohort.