Katherine Thornton of Clarksville Completes Comegys Bight Fellowship

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CHESTERTOWN, MD (10/23/2012)(readMedia)--  Washington College is pleased to announce that Katherine Thornton '13 of Clarksville, MD has completed her work as a Comegys Bight Fellow. Presented by the College's C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, the Comegys Bight Fellowship Program offers stipends to support summer internships at some of the nation's leading historical and cultural institutions. These paid internships annually provide a handful of students with high-level research experience on topics related to American history pre-1900.

Over the summer, Thornton worked at the Maryland State Archives in Annapolis. There, she helped historian Christopher Haley (nephew of Roots author Alex Haley) document slavery and resistance on Maryland's upper Eastern Shore. Thornton presented her work at a special program on campus on October 18th.

Thornton is double-majoring in Environmental Studies and History, and minoring in Biology. She is active in the Douglass Cater Society of Junior Fellows, the Student Environmental Alliance, and Habitat for Humanity. She is also a C.V. Starr student associate, a Center for the Environment and Society intern, and recipient of the Frederick Douglass Fellowship Spring '11. Thornton graduated from River Hill High School.

Founded in 1782 under the patronage of George Washington, Washington College is a private, independent college of liberal arts and sciences located in colonial Chestertown on Maryland's Eastern Shore.