Hunter College congratulates Phill M. Campbell ’25, for earning a coveted Beinecke Scholarship worth $35,000 in support of his graduate education.
Awarded by the Sperry Fund, the Beinecke Scholarships provide students of “exceptional promise” funds for graduate study in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Campbell is Hunter’s second Beinecke winner in two years and the seventh since the program’s inception in 1975. Each year, the Sperry Fund chooses 15 Beinecke Scholars from nominations fielded by 91 partner institutions.
“I thank the Sperry Fund for this generous award and my mentors for all the opportunities to which they have guided me,” Campbell said.
An artist, photojournalist, poet, activist, and historian of African American culture, Campbell has been working his way through Hunter as a photographer for the Co-op City Times. The Media and Journalism major spent the summer of 2023 as an exchange student at Stanford University, where his project focused on the history of the 135th Street Library, a center of the Harlem Renaissance, and its place in the Black radical tradition. He plans to get a PhD in American Studies.
Hunter’s Office of Prestigious Scholarships and Fellowships has a stellar record of accomplishment in preparing students for competitive scholarships and fellowships. In recent years, the college has produced two Rhodes, two Marshall, six Schwarzman, five Luce, seven Goldwater, and 39 Fulbright Scholars among many other prestigious awardees.
