Oliver Garland is in his senior year at Longwood University, in Farmville Virginia. Oliver is greatly inspired by his professors, and is a member of Longwood’s Judicial Board, which hears student infractions of the code of conduct. This has taught him a great deal about working with others, and how organizations and committees function.

As a History and Political Science major, Oliver hopes to study European diplomatic and political history at the doctoral level, and enter academia as a professor of history. Says Oliver, “I look forward to becoming a historian, contributing to the field through my own research, and communicating those ideas to my future students through the classroom.”