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...
Thesis Title: Corn Nationalism: Exhibiting Mythologies of "America’s Crop"
What Now: J.D. Candidate at Tulane University Law School; Legal Intern at the United States District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
What Next: Corporate law in New York City...
Thesis Title: Curating Citizens: Educating through Visual Culture at the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893
What Now: Justice Fellow, The Equal Justice Initiative
One of my favorite aspects of Hist & Lit was being able to think critically about the way...
Thesis Title: A Multi_Viral Multitude: The Evolving Politics of Solidarity in the Music of Calle 13
What Now: Associate at Cooley LLP
Follow Me: @valeriampelet (Twitter); LinkedIn
I arrived at Harvard after briefly parting ways with my hometown of San Juan...
Thesis Title: "Sin entregar la lengua": Censorship and the Construction of Narrative in the Caso Padilla
What Now: Associate, WilmerHale
In Hist & Lit, I learned to research, analyze, write, and defend. It turns out those are foundational skills for...
Thesis Title: Pursuing a Second Odyssey: A Study in Homeric Renegotiation by Modern Greek Poets
What Now: Public Programming and Outreach Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks
What Next: J.D. Candidate at University of Pennsylvania Law School
Anyone close to me during my...
Thesis Title: "We Ask No Favors": The Founding of Deeds in Black Abolitionist Thought
What Now: Student at Harvard Law School
Hist & Lit sticks with you. I’ll often find myself thinking, “man, that would make a great Hist & Lit paper!” The thought is...
Thesis Title: A Reluctant Representative: Feminism and Dictatorship in the Films of María Luisa Bemberg
What Now: Forrester Fellow at Tulane University Law School
Follow Me: LinkedIn, @JessicaTueller (Twitter)
I arrived at Harvard with these goals: to be...
Thesis Title: “Walled In”: Race, Motherhood, and Labor in Ann Petry’s The Street
What Now: Director, Worker Justice Project, The Legal Aid Society
As an attorney at The Legal Aid Society, I help low-income people with arrest and conviction records fight...
Thesis Title: The Explosion of the New Created by the Rite of Spring
What Now: Protection Officer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
I am now a refugee lawyer for the United Nations. At the moment I specialize in U.S. refugee law, working in...