Kashish Bastola, a Harvard Forest winter and spring 2023 intern, and co-creator of the Forest’s Manchage Manexit Trail, has been named a 2026 Marshall Scholar and also awarded Harvard’s Paton Prize in the Humanities, recognizing the senior showing greatest promise in the humanities or fine arts.
While in the UK for two years as a Marshall Scholar, Kashish will study global and imperial history.
In project work with Nia Holley, Tyler White, Clarisse Hart, and Shersingh Joseph Tumber-Dávila, Kashish has been a vibrant, creative, and soulful contributor to the Forest community. He reports, “Working with the Forest has set me on a path of studying histories of imperialism and colonialism with intentionality and a focus on visual/material culture and what museums say about memory.”
Kashish, the Forest is cheering you on!
Photo of Kashish (center) with Nia Holley and Tyler White, at Harvard Forest, by Ben Goulet-Scott.
