Law

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: "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: "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:  Nothing between You and the Set but Space: A Cultural History of the Zenith Space Commander Remote Control

What Now: Counsel, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

I always knew I wanted to be a lawyer, and the training I got as a Hist &...

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...

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: 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: A War in Their Heart: The Pieds-Noir Rhetorical Construction of Identity After the Algerian War

What Now: Third-year law school student at Harvard Law School

I started college knowing that I wanted to go to law school. In my search for a...

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: 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: 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: 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...