From Penn Arts and Sciences website:
Penn Arts & Sciences has named 20 students from the College of Arts & Sciences, the College of Liberal & Professional Studies, and the Graduate Division as this year’s Dean’s scholars.
The honor is presented annually to students who exhibit exceptional academic performance and intellectual promise. They will be recognized at the Stephen A. Levin Family Dean’s Forum on April 8.
Eugenia Xu, C’25, History; Digital Humanities minor
Eugenia is a History major and Digital Humanities minor with a passion for textile histories and an impressive range of interdisciplinary skills. Eugenia’s honors thesis examines Dutch East India Company shipping logs, challenging conventional historiography by revealing European dependence on local Asian merchants. Eugenia’s research, supported by fluency in English, Mandarin, Spanish, and Dutch, includes paleography of early modern Dutch and a funded trip to the Dutch National Archives. Eugenia has also co-authored the Optical Character Recognition code for South Asian languages and contributed to lab research tracking cotton origins in pre-colonial South Asia. Combining expertise in humanities and digital methods with hands-on experience as a costume designer, Eugenia exemplifies academic innovation and leadership.
For the full list of this year's awardees, please read here.