Princeton University senior Uma Fox received the Class of 1939 Princeton Scholar Award, presented each year to the undergraduate who, at the end of junior year, has achieved the highest academic standing for all preceding college work at the University.
Fox is a history major who is also pursuing a minor in journalism and in South Asian studies. Fox is a member of Yeh College.
Her senior thesis, advised by Divya Cherian (History) will focus on the transnational human rights implications of Indian counterterrorism prosecutions and national security policy in the 1980s and ’90s. She received the Department of History’s Lawrence Stone and Shelby Cullom Davis Prize in 2023.
This summer, Fox continued her senior thesis research in India and the United Kingdom. She also conducted research on post-war accountability and human rights issues in Colombo, Sri Lanka, as a Streicker International Fellow, and on constitutional rights litigation in New Delhi, India, heard in front of the Supreme Court of India.
Fox has previously interned at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section as part of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA)’s 2024 cohort of the Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative. She has also held internships in the office of U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland in Washington, D.C., and with the National Forum for Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia.
On campus, Fox is co-editor-in-chief of the Princeton Historical Review, a research assistant and senior international policy associate with the Liechtenstein Institute on Self Determination, and a U-Councilor of the Undergraduate Student Government, where she previously served as treasurer. She served as a research assistant with SPIA’s Bridging Divides Initiative. Fox is also a member of the Princeton International Relations Council.
