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  [### Grace Chen

 ](/people/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

 ](/people/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...



 

 

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   [### Olivia Herrington

 ](/people/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...



 

 

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   [### Amrapali Maitra

 ](/people/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

 ](/people/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 State**s**

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



 

 

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   [### Ofole Mgbako

 ](/people/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...



 

 

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   [### Lucia Millham

 ](/people/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

 ](/people/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...



 

 

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