Scholarship Awards

Saint Andrew's Society of Washington, DC's Washington Scots Charity & Education Fund Scholarship Program

Congratulations to the recipients of the grants awarded for the academic year 2009-10.

• Ms. Cassandra Smith-Christmas has received a St. Andrew’s Scholarship in the amount of $7,500. Ms. Smith-Christmas, of Stafford, Virginia, will be continuing her work toward a Ph.D. in Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow. A champion Scottish fiddler and a linguist with degrees cum laude from the College of William and Mary in Virginia and the Universiteit Leiden in The Netherlands, she will be focusing her doctoral work on the preservation of endangered languages – specifically Scottish Gaelic. Her long-term aims include an academic post in Linguistics, research and teaching contributions to Gaelic language preservation programs, and the creation of a publishing house for children’s books in endangered languages.
  
  
• Mr. Martin McGuinness has been awarded The James & Mary Dawson Scholarship of $5,000 for Scots coming to the USA for graduate or post-graduate level study. Hailing from Eaglesham, near Glasgow, Scotland, he will be pursuing a Master of Laws degree in International Legal Systems at New York University’s Graduate School of Law in New York City.
  
  
• Mr. Thomas McAlpine Gray will receive The John P. McAdams Memorial Scholarship of $3,500 for Scots or Scottish-Americans pursuing degrees in history or Scottish culture. Mr. Gray, of Tomatin, Inverness-shire, Scotland, and a graduate of the University of the Highlands & Islands’ prestigious Gaelic-language College, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, is beginning his work toward a Ph.D. in Highland History with an M.Sc. in Social History from the University of Glasgow. He will be doing important original research on the social history of the Scottish Gaels in the 20th century.
  
  
• Ms. Diana V. Miller has been awarded The Donald Malcolm MacArthur Scholarship of $2,500, for Americans studying in Scotland. Ms. Miller originally from Columbia, Maryland, and a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University, is a passionate student of Urban Design and will be working toward a Master of Science degree at the Edinburgh College of Art.
  
  
• A St. Andrew’s Scholarship in the amount of $2,000 has been awarded to Ms. Abbie N. Sprague, formerly of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, now a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at Cambridge University’s Pembroke College in the United Kingdom who is researching the Scottish-led Arts & Crafts Movement and the 19th century Tempera Revival.

St. Andrew’s Scholarships in the amount of $1,000 each have been awarded to:

• Ms. Elizabeth Anne Gulledge (Raleigh, NC), completing her Doctoral dissertation at the University of St. Andrews. Her research concerns business management and the preservation of the creative industries in Scotland.
  
  
• Ms. Aurelie Marie Beatley (Kensington, MD), an MLitt candidate in Celtic Civilizations at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.