Karen Chee Class of 2017, American StudiesComedy writer/performer Thesis Title: The Ghostly Grotesque: The Revolutionary Satire and Intersectionality of H.T. Tsiang’s The Hanging on Union Square Read more about Karen Chee
Grace Chen Class of 2015, America FieldAffordable Care Act Navigator, Planned Parenthood Thesis Title: Ambiguous Authenticity and Culinary Connection: Joyce Chen's Chinese Cuisine in Cambridge, Massachussetts, 1949-1982 Read more about Grace Chen
Sam Greenberg Class of 2014, America FieldCo-founder, Y2Y Harvard SquareThesis Title: “Through No Fault of Their Own”: Responses to Homelessness and the Framework of the Deserving and Undeserving Poor in Harvard Read more about Sam Greenberg
John Griffin Class of 2016, American StudiesPolicy Associate with Democrats for Education Reform, MassachusettsThesis Title: Writing the Past and Shaping the Future: Historical Revision and Local Color Fiction in Post-Reconstruction Louisiana Read more about John Griffin
Madeline Holland Class of 2015, America FieldProject and Outreach Manager, Talent Beyond Boundaries Thesis Title: Stories for Asylum Read more about Madeline Holland
Caroline Hubbard Class of 2017, American StudiesBusiness Strategy and Data Analytics Analyst, LinkedIn Thesis Title: Picturing Progress: Reimagining Black Identity and Racial Futurity Through the Politicized Aesthetics of the British Black Arts Movement Read more about Caroline Hubbard
Mattie Kahn Class of 2015, America FieldNews writer, ELLE.com Thesis Title: "A Magazine of High Character": Failure, Foresight, and the Literary Project of Edgar Allan Poe Read more about Mattie Kahn
Anita Lo Class of 2016, American Studies (secondary in Ethnicity, Migration, Rights)Compliance Specialist, Jane Street Thesis Title: The I-Hotel in Social Movement and Collective Memory Read more about Anita Lo
Lucia Millham Class of 2016, Modern EuropeClinical Research Coordinator at the Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital Thesis Title: Language and Legacy: British Nurses and Wartime Trauma on the Frontlines of World War I Read more about Lucia Millham
Kevin O'Donnell Class of 2017, American StudiesTraining Director of the Ohio Student Association Thesis Title: A Free Future: The Movement for Black Self Determination on Edisto Island, 1859-1882Read more about Kevin O'Donnell
Valeria M. Pelet Class of 2015, Latin AmericaJ.D. Candidate, Yale Law School Thesis Title: A Multi_Viral Multitude: The Evolving Politics of Solidarity in the Music of Calle 13 Read more about Valeria M. Pelet
John Sakellariadis Class of 2016, America FieldResearch Assistant at the American Enterprise Institute Thesis Title: Waiting for Vietnam: Vietnam-era Canvas Graffiti and American Combat Morale in the pre-Tet Period Read more about John Sakellariadis
Caroline Trusty Class of 2014, Modern EuropeLaw Student, Harvard Law School Thesis Title: A War in Their Heart: The Pieds-Noir Rhetorical Construction of Identity After the Algerian War Read more about Caroline Trusty
Kia Turner Class of 2016, American StudiesLead English Teacher, Harlem Academy, and Ed. M '17, Harvard Graduate School of Education Thesis Title: Revolt! Rally! Revise! Reclaiming the Power of the Black Narrative in Activist Achievements Against Harvard Read more about Kia Turner
Amy Weiss-Meyer Class of 2015, America FieldAssistant Editor, The Atlantic Thesis Title: New York, New York: Writing, Saving, and Selling the City, 1967-1977 Read more about Amy Weiss-Meyer
Abby Westover Class of 2017, Medieval WorldHumanities Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks and Folger Shakespeare Library Thesis Title: Hair and Female Agency in the European Middle Ages Read more about Abby Westover
Cary Williams Class of 2016, American StudiesAssociate Consultant, Bain & CompanyThesis Title: “At Least We Have Our Name”: Free People of Color and the Struggle to Survive in Antebellum Louisiana and Mississippi Read more about Cary Williams
