Recent Graduates

Thesis Title: “Make America Fit Again”: SUPERMAN #170 and the Rise of Youth Fitness Culture in Cold War America, 1953-1964

What Now: VP of Development, Tricky Knot

In so many ways, I owe the Hist & Lit department for helping me realize the vast...

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...

Thesis Title: "It Was the Wild Wild West Out There": Queer Utopia and The Frontier at Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, 1977-1996 

What Now: Sound Mixer / Sound Designer - Co-owner, Wild Shape Sound

In addition to my written thesis, I created a 20...

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...

Thesis Title: Traditional Typography in the Service of Modern Typology: Textual Materialism and the Modernist Print Innovations of the Kelmscott and Hogarth Presses

What Now: Analyst at The Type Founders

I came to Hist & Lit drawn to the ways books, ideas...

Thesis Title: The Politics of Couture: High Fashion as a Tool of Resistance and Renewal in France, 1940-1947

What Now: Project Leader, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

What Next: Heading to Stanford Business School to pursue my MBA

During my time in History &...

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: The Tragedy of Ted Kaczynski: Globalization, Disillusionment, and the Rise of the Far Right

What Now: Submarine Officer, US Navy

Perhaps more so than other Hist Lit students, my studies in the department are almost wholly unrelated to my daily...

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...