# Academia & Education ## expand\_more [### Erin Aoyama ](/people/erin-aoyama)Class of 2015, America Ph.D. student in American Studies, Brown University **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... ![Erin Aoyama](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/aoyama.jpg?itok=RE4ByGp_) [### Angus Burgin ](/people/alumni/angus-burgin)Class of 2002, Britain and America Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University **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... ![screen_shot_2016-08-05_at_8.00.33_am.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/screen_shot_2016-08-05_at_8.00.33_am.png?itok=un1-Ed3c) [### Naomi Coquillon ](/people/naomi-coquillon)Class of 2002, America Chief, Informal Learning & Experience Design, Library of Congress **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... ![naomi_coquillon_02_photo.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/naomi_coquillon_02_photo.jpg?itok=nNZewPJ1) [### Christine DeLucia ](/people/christine-delucia)Class of 2006, America Assistant Professor of History, Williams College **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... ![Christine DeLucia](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/christinedeluciaheadshot1_0.jpg?itok=s5CBhADn) [### Julia Fine ](/people/julia-fine)Class of 2019, European Studies Ph.D. student in History at Stanford University **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... ![Julia Fine](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/julia_fine.png?itok=IcrCkGZ4) [### Anna Kendrick ](/people/anna-kendrick)Class of 2009, Modern Europe Clinical Assistant Professor of Literature and Director of Global Awards, NYU Shanghai **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... ![Anna Kendrick](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/kendrick.jpg?itok=zUHvsE9t) [### Mo Kim ](/people/mo-kim)Class of 2018, Modern World 10th Grade English Teacher / Course Team Facilitator, Leadership Public Schools **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... ![Mo Kim](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/mo_headshot_1.png?itok=saFRz04J) [### Roxani Krystalli ](/people/roxanne-krystalli)Class of 2008, Germany Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of St Andrews **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... ![Krystalli](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/krystalli_2021.jpg?itok=BIxjP4qj) [### Spencer Lee Lenfield ](/people/spencer-lee-lenfield)Class of 2012, Modern Europe Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University **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... ![Spencer Lee Lenfield](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/lee-lenfield_spencer.jpg?itok=8KkxDwEz) [### Renée Ragin Randall ](/people/renee-michelle-ragin)Class of 2010, Postcolonial Studies Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies, University of Michigan **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... ![Renee Randall](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/randall_headshot.jpg?itok=CfaHURJf) [### Leah Reis-Dennis ](/people/leah-reis-dennis)Class of 2013, America Producer, Poetry in America & Co-Founder, Verse Video Education **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... ![Leah Reis-Dennis](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/1a42ce71-e590-475e-bb48-78cdae6ec6b2.jpg?itok=TTX8dOQa) [### Maia Silber ](/people/maia-silber-0)Class of 2017, American Studies Ph.D. student in History, Princeton University **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... ![Maia Silber](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/silber_photo_0.jpg?itok=xZKUGiWu) [### Kia Turner ](/people/kia-turner-0)Class of 2016, American Studies Doctoral Student, Stanford Graduate School of Education **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... ![Kia Turner](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/khs_profile_picture.jpg?itok=ekcsiuEm) [### Emma Winsor Wood ](/people/emma-winsor-wood)Class of 2012, Modern Europe Poet, essayist, and editor **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... ![Emma Winsor Wood](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/img_2904.jpeg?itok=knycdHEy) [### Magdalene Zier ](/people/magdalene-zier)Class of 2016, American Studies History PhD Candidate at Stanford University **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... ![Magdelene Zier](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-11/IMG_5334.jpeg?itok=ejY7K8UZ)