Medicine

Grace Chen

Class of 2015, America
Medical Student, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Thesis Title: Ambiguous Authenticity and Culinary Connection: Joyce Chen's Chinese Cuisine in Cambridge, Massachussetts, 1949-1982

What Now: Medical Student, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Hist & Lit provided me with an intellectual community within which...

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Matthew Growdon

Class of 2007, Modern Europe
Geriatrician and Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Thesis Title: Ford Madox Ford and the Wartime Mind

What Now: Geriatrician and Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

What Next: Improving the quality and safety of prescribing for older adults with cognitive impairment and...

Matthew Growdon

Olivia Herrington

Class of 2018, Modern World
Medical Student, Yale School of Medicine

Thesis Title: A Literary Education: Tanzanian Adolescence and HIV/AIDS through Steve Reynolds’s Orodha

What Now: Yale School of Medicine student, Class of 2022

What Next: Becoming a physician

I knew going into college that I wanted to study the humanities...

Olivia Herrington

Amrapali Maitra

Class of 2010, Postcolonial Studies
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine, Stanford University

Thesis Title: Madness as a Language and a Language for Madness: Readings of Indian Literature

What Now: Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine at Stanford University

When I began my studies in the Postcolonial field of History & Literature, I hoped for a...

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Orlee Marini-Rapoport

Class of 2023, American Studies
Research Technician in the Center for Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital

Thesis Title: “Have the Husband Press the Plunger of the Syringe”: Donor Insemination and the Production of Normalcy in the Early Cold War United States

What Now: Research Technician in the Center for Immunology & Inflammatory Diseases, Massachusetts...

Orlee Marini-Rapoport

Ofole Mgbako

Class of 2008, Africa and America
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Population Health, NYU Langone Health

Thesis Title: "My Blackness is the Beauty of This Land": African-American Culture and the Creation of the Black World in South Africa's Black Consciousness Movement (1969-1978)

What Now: Assistant Professor of Medicine and Population Health, Division of...

Ofole Mgbako

Lucia Millham

Class of 2016, Modern Europe
Internal Medicine Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Thesis Title: Language and Legacy: British Nurses and Wartime Trauma on the Frontlines of World War I

What Now: Internal Medicine Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital

As I made my way through the literature, the history, and the historiography of Modern...

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Molly Zeme

Class of 2020, Modern World
Program/Project Manager at Brighter Beginnings Family Health Clinic

Thesis Title: Recognition and Voice in the Postcolonial Feminist Sphere: Warsan Shire on Womanhood and Historical Trauma

What Now: Program/Project Manager at Brighter Beginnings Family Health Clinic

What Next: Medical school and then a specialty fellowship...

Molly Zeme