# Law ## expand\_more [### Melissa Ader ](/people/melissa-ader)Class of 2009, America Director, Worker Justice Project, The Legal Aid Society **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... ![Melissa Ader](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-10/Ader%20Headshot.jpg?itok=CW-Ei9bA) [### Lucyanna Burke ](/people/lucyanna-burke)Class of 2016, Latin American Studies Associate, WilmerHale **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... ![Lucyanna Burke](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/l_burke_1.jpg?itok=lhJj0xcy) [### Josiah Corbus ](/people/josiah-corbus)Class of 2018, American Studies Student, Harvard Law School **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... ![Josiah Corbus](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/josiah_corbus_hl_bio.jpeg?itok=HgsALVqS) [### Vanessa Dube ](/people/vanessa-dube)Class of 2010, America Counsel, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence **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 &... ![vanessa_dube_10_photo_1_0_0.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/vanessa_dube_10_photo_1_0_0.jpg?itok=oesQWJRS) [### Alice Farmer ](/people/alice-farmer)Class of 2000, Modern Europe Protection Officer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees **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... ![alice_farmer_headshot_1.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/alice_farmer_headshot_1.jpg?itok=y45kajCH) [### Valeria M. Pelet del Toro ](/people/valeria-m-pelet-del-toro)Class of 2015, Latin America Associate, Cooley LLP **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... ![Valeria Pelet](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/img-0001.jpg?itok=Rz-QokIF) [### Alexandra Summa ](/people/alexandra-summa)Class of 2020, American Studies J.D. Candidate at Tulane University Law School **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... ![Alexandra Summa](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/aes_1.jpg?itok=60CXrTAV) [### Caroline Trusty ](/people/caroline-trusty)Class of 2014, Modern Europe Law Student, Harvard Law School **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... ![screen_shot_2016-08-05_at_9.07.31_am.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/screen_shot_2016-08-05_at_9.07.31_am.png?itok=qAzQ30hN) [### Jessica Tueller ](/people/jessica-tueller)Class of 2018, Latin American Studies Robina Fellow, Inter-American Commission on Human Rights **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... ![Jessica Tueller](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/screenshot_2023-07-03_at_3.07.48_pm.png?itok=z6HInYrM) [### Alexandra Walsh ](/people/alexandra-walsh)Class of 2018, European Studies Public Programming and Outreach Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks **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... ![Alexandra Walsh](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/_jba0020.jpg?itok=LQWOn9No) [### Katie Wu ](/people/katie-wu)Class of 2017, American Studies Justice Fellow, The Equal Justice Initiative **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... ![Katie Wu](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/histlit/files/katie_wu.jpg?itok=JecvUI0v) [### 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)