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Thesis Title: "The Whole City Whispers Mutiny": Cook Tours and British Imperial Memory, 1873-1913

What Now: Co-Founder and Head of Product at PlacePass.com

What Next: I’m focused on building PlacePass into a successful travel company!

I’ve always been...

Thesis Title: Face Value: Six Decades of Baseball Cards tell the Story of America and Major League Baseball

What Now: Head of Product at Goldcast

What Next: Helping increase access to capital for women and diverse founders in tech

My time in Hist & Lit...

Thesis Title: Picturing Progress: Reimagining Black Identity and Racial Futurity Through the Politicized Aesthetics of the British Black Arts Movement

What Now: Business Strategy and Data Analytics Analyst at LinkedIn in San Francisco

What Next: 3-4 years...

Thesis Title: The I-Hotel in Social Movement and Collective Memory

What Now: Compliance Specialist at Jane Street

History & Literature gave me an opportunity to explore and understand things that are important to me: Asian American identity, the politics of...

Thesis Title: Ritual as Intimacy in the Short Stories of Andre Dubus

What Now: Managing Partner, First In (venture capital firm)

Since I graduated in 2003, the History & Literature concentration has informed my professional path at every step because Hist &...

Thesis Title: "In Search of ‘The City of All Faiths": Post-9/11 Culture Wars, Historical Reclamation, and Hybrid Heroism in The 99 and The Zein Series

What Now: I'm currently a Founder in Residence within Area 120, Google's incubator for experimental...

Thesis Title: Traditional Typography in the Service of Modern Typology: Textual Materialism and the Modernist Print Innovations of the Kelmscott and Hogarth Presses

What Now: Analyst at The Type Founders

I came to Hist & Lit drawn to the ways books, ideas...

Thesis Title: Violent Visions: Slaves, Sugar, and the 1811 German Coast Uprising

What Now: Partner, Verdad Advisers

What Next: Continuing to grow my business and working on writing projects in addition.

I spent my final two years in History & Literature...

Thesis Title: The Politics of Couture: High Fashion as a Tool of Resistance and Renewal in France, 1940-1947

What Now: Project Leader, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

What Next: Heading to Stanford Business School to pursue my MBA

During my time in History &...

Thesis Title: “At Least We Have Our Name”: Free People of Color and the Struggle to Survive in Antebellum Louisiana and Mississippi

What Now: Associate Consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco, CA

What Next: Heading back to Harvard to pursue an MBA at...