University of Maine
Hilary Warner-Evans, of West Bath, has been named the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine. Warner-Evans will receive a bachelor’s degree at UMaine’s 214th Commencement on May 14.
Warner-Evans is an honors student majoring in anthropology, with minors in English, folklore and Maine studies. Her academic honors include the Maine Studies Research and Creativity Award and a University of Maine Humanities Center grant.
As a George J. Mitchell Peace Scholar, Warner-Evans studied abroad in Cork, Ireland in 2015. Also that year, she attended a Library of Congress Field School for Cultural Documentation at Utah State University.
At UMaine, she has collaborated on research at the Maine Folklife Center, and in the School of Marine Sciences and the School of Biology and Ecology.
This fall, she will pursue a master’s degree in folklore at Indiana University.
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