Shegufta Huma

A University of Kansas student has been named a Rhodes Scholar to study refugees and forced migration, as well as public policy, at the University of Oxford in England.

The Rhodes Trust announced 32 U.S. recipients of the 2017 awards Sunday.

Shegufta Huma

The Trust said in a release that Shegufta A. Huma, from Bel Aire, is a senior majoring in political science. The Trust says Huma came to the U.S. from Bangladesh, speaks several languages and “is particularly dedicated to working toward justice for Muslim immigrants.”

Huma’s involvement at KU has included Student Senate, the Women of Color Collective, the Muslim Student Association and Margaret Amini Scholarship Hall, the Journal-World has reported. She also was selected for the University Scholars Program in 2015 and, in spring 2016, interned in Washington, D.C., with the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

The 2017 Rhodes scholars-elect were chosen from nearly 900 applicants. The scholarships cover expenses for two or three years of study at Oxford, beginning next October.