Olivia Austin is majoring in history and art history. She has earned the Rutgers Academic Excellence Award in 2013 and is a Harvey Schwarz Scholarship recipient. She is a member of the National Society for Leadership and Success, the National Society of Collegiate Scholars and Rutgers Performing Dance Company. She works in Digital Production in the Zimmerli Art Museum and as a history tutor for student athletes at Rutgers. Olivia is in Phi Alpha Theta, the History Honors Society, and she is an intern at the East Jersey Olde Towne Village. Furthermore, Olivia will be a FIGS instructor in the fall, teaching the course “Exploring History.” Olivia plans to pursue a PhD in history, and incredibly excited to start the Lloyd C. Gardener Fellowship. She spent the summer of 2014 studying art history in Rome!
