Media & Journalism

Thesis Title: Mirror to a City: A Reinterpretation of George Balanchine's "Abstract" Ballet Agon as a Reflection of 1950s New York City

What Now: I am now the Vice President of CNN's Washington and Special Events Programming. I oversee all shows produced...

What Now: Politics reporter at NBC News

When I first arrived at Harvard, I had no idea the History & Literature department even existed — much less that I would end up concentrating in it. I spent my first two years pre-med and a Government concentrator...

What Now: Metro correspondent for The New York Times

What Next: Hopefully many more long nights in a newsroom, any newsroom.

I knew I wanted to be a journalist before I ever decided to concentrate in History & Literature. Now, I can’t imagine my career...

Thesis Title: A Joke by Any Other Name: Hoax as a Social Protest (Three Case Studies)

What Now: National Correspondent, The New York Times

Three years of History & Literature trained me to explain the nuances of postmodern theory and American culture...

Thesis Title: "A Magazine of High Character": Failure, Foresight, and the Literary Project of Edgar Allan Poe

What Now: Writer

I knew from the beginning that I wanted to concentrate in History & Literature. I wanted to be able to read and write with abandon...

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...

Thesis Title: New York, New York: Writing, Saving, and Selling the City, 1967-1977

What Now: Senior Editor at The Atlantic

What Next: As long as it exists, I have no plans to leave magazine journalism!

Being able to choose research topics and craft my own...