Duke Alumnus William Lieber Wins Rhodes Scholarship

Will Lieber is dedicated to advancing jail reform and bettering reentry packages and techniques for these beforehand incarcerated. 

Growing up in Springfield, Ill., a fifth technology Illinoisan in a household who farms, Will Lieber noticed first-hand how the carceral system touches each nook of American life. A Nakayama Public Service Scholar and Phi Beta Kappa inductee, Lieber graduated in May 2025 with a B.A. in Program II: Health & Incarceration — a course of research on the intersection of the medical sciences, ethics, schooling, and legal and restorative justice.

Lieber has co-led packages in prisons all through North Carolina centered on schooling. Through Bass Connections, Lieber collaborated with the Duke Hospital and the Durham Sheriff’s Office to look at insurance coverage amongst rearrested sufferers. As a switch pupil from Illinois Wesleyan University, Lieber served because the Project Transfer Program Director via Duke’s Office of New Student and Family Programs. Lieber is the co-author of six publications. He presently works for Schneider Construction Company as he pursues a job on the state of Illinois.

Through the Rhodes Scholarship, Will Lieber will pursue the Master of Science in Education and the Master of Science in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Oxford.

The Rhodes Scholarship supplies for 2 years of graduate research on the University of Oxford. To obtain assist in making use of for a Rhodes Scholarship, potential candidates ought to contact the Nationally Competitive Scholarships advisors within the Office of University Scholars and Fellows.

A whole checklist of this 12 months’s recipients is on the Rhodes Scholarship website.