Alice Hauser

Biography

Alice Nell Chandran Hauser, from Kennebunk, Maine, is a senior attending Wake Forest University on a cost of attendance Stamps Scholarship. Alice is majoring in Philosophy and Piano Performance and minoring in History. Her thesis research applies John Rawls’s distinction between the formal and fair values of rights to the racial disparities that exist within the U.S. legal system. At Oxford, Hauser plans to pursue a Master of Studies in Musicology and a Master of Science in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, with the ultimate goal of promoting justice for populations in need. As a tutor and Executive Board Member of Wake Forest’s Student Association for the Advancement of Refugees, Hauser has worked to help those who have crossed international borders find safety in the Winston-Salem community. Alice received a Richter Scholarship for independent research and traveled to Germany, Austria, and Switzerland during the summer of her junior year to study composer and pianist Johannes Brahms. She also received the Christian Cappelluti Memorial Scholarship, awarded for outstanding musical merit and promise and the David W. Hadley Prize for Historical Writing. She is the Captain of the Wake Forest University Ultimate Frisbee Team. Hauser’s interests outside of the classroom have focused on the law, including internships at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington D.C., Lawyers Without Borders, the Forsyth County Family Justice Center, and other legal organizations. In her spare time, Alice enjoys cooking, bodysurfing, and long walks in the sunshine with her poodle, Sandhya.