Academia & Education

Thesis Title: Separate and Unequal: The Impact of Jim Crow on Japanese American Internment and Postwar Identity

What Now: Ph.D. student in American Studies at Brown University

What Next: Right now, I'm preparing for my qualifying exams, after which I will...

Thesis Title: “Among All these Forces”: Fictions of a Changing Academy

What Now: Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Department of History

When the time came to select a concentration in the fall of 1999, I was uncertain about what career I wanted to pursue...

Thesis Title: The Changing Face of Black Conservatism, 1890-1930

What Now: Chief, Informal Learning & Experience Design, at the Library of Congress

I use the knowledge of history, skill in textual analysis, and practice in crafting thoughtful questions that...

Thesis Title: King Philip’s War in Landscape and Memory

What Now: Assistant Professor of History, Williams College

What Next: Writing my second book, on Northeastern Native communities before, during, and after the American Revolution and their...

Thesis Title: "Civilized Man Cannot Live Without Cooks": Food and Empire in Colonial India

What Now: Ph.D. student in History at Stanford University 

What Next: I’ll let you know in six more years! 

It sounds a little corny, but I still remember when I first...

Thesis Title: “On Guard with the Junipers”: Ewart Milne and Irish Literary Dissent in the Spanish Civil War

What Now: Clinical Assistant Professor of Literature and Director of Global Awards, New York University Shanghai

The transnational scope of a History...

Thesis Title: We the Girls: K-Pop, Girl Groups, and Korean Identity, 1997/2017

What Now: 10th Grade English Teacher / Course Team Facilitator, Leadership Public Schools

What Next: Mastering parallel parking

It was the end of sophomore spring and I was...

Thesis Topic: Representations of leadership in Weimar film and photography

What Now: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of St Andrews, Scotland

My undergraduate studies centered around understanding narratives of violence and injustice, as conveyed...

Thesis Title: Mrs. Dalloway and Virginia Woolf’s Conception of the Self

What Now: Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
I hope that I can share that your life path during college never need limit your life after, especially when...

Thesis Title: Picking up the Pieces: The Literary Re-Negotiation of History in the Post-Trujillo Dominican Republic

What Now: Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies, University of Michigan

What Next: I am currently working on...

Thesis Title: Lifting up the Lower East Side: Uptown Jewish Women, "Ghetto Girls," and the Effort to Redeem Jewish Female Delinquency in New York, 1900-1924

What Now: Producer of Poetry in America, Co-Founder of Verse Video Education

What Next: Producing...

Thesis title: River of Living Water: The Croton System and the Transformation of Westchester, 1841-1896

What Now: Ph.D. student in History at Princeton University

What Next: Braving the academic job market, I guess!

I've recently returned from Oxford...

Thesis Title: Revolt! Rally! Revise! Reclaiming the Power of the Black Narrative in Activist Achievements Against Harvard

What Now: Doctoral Student at the Stanford Graduate School of Education

Hist & Lit was one of the best decisions I made at Harvard. I...

Thesis Title: Fleeing the Poetic Convent: Elena Shvarts's Works and Days and Problems of Female Authorship in the Late-Soviet Literary Underground

What Now: I have my MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and I am PhD candidate in Literature at the...

Thesis Title: Staging the Wake: Black Women Playwrights and the Fight Against Lynching, 1916-1940

What Now: History PhD Candidate at Stanford University

I am very grateful to History & Literature for shaping where I am today. I loved the community that Hist...