# Meet Our Students ## expand\_more ### Andrew Aoyama '21 **Field worksheet:** [**Journey and Exile in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Mediterranean**](/file_url/1381) **Sophomore Essay topic:** Cold War rhetoric and the 1953 Iranian coup **Junior Essay topic:** Constructions of Arab masculinity at Abu Graihb **Senior Thesis Title:** Family Matters: Spinning the Story of Tunisia's Transnational Jihadists ![Andrew Aoyama](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2024-12/_mg_6604_21.jpg?itok=gKQE1Bcg) ### Diana Myers '21 **Field worksheet:** [**Medieval World**](/file_url/1375) **Sophomore essay topic:** St. Ethelberga and the celebration of virgin martyr feast days **Junior essay topic:** Catholic liturgy and the Maternity of St. Anne **Senior thesis title:** Mater Matris Domini: Holy Motherhood and the Cult of St. Anne ![Diana Myers](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/histlit/files/myers1.jpg?itok=8KdiphXy) ### Ciara Hervás '21 **Field Worksheet:** [**European Studies: France and Germany**](/file_url/1374) **Sophomore essay topic:** Gender and sexuality in 19th-century French psychiatric photography **Junior essay topic:** Magnus Hirschfield, sexological photographs, and Claude Cahun's surrealist photography **Senior thesis title:** Seeing Beyond the Binary: The Photographic Construction of Queer Identity in Interwar Paris and Berlin ![Ciara Hervas](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/histlit/files/hervas.jpg?itok=Wh2_ZNU5) ### Ruben Reyes '19 **Field Worksheet:** [**Ethnic Studies: Race and Cultural Citizenship in the United States**](/file_url/978) **Sophomore Essay Topic:** The 1932 La Matanza Massacre and Salvadoran Indigeneity **Junior Essay Topic:** Constructing Salvadoran-Americanness in Javier Zamora's *Unaccompanied* **Senior Thesis Title:** "Please / No American Mierdas": Shattering Silences, Salvadoran (In)Visibilities, and Imagined Nation in Javier Zamora’s *Unaccompanied* ![Ruben Reyes](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/histlit/files/ruben_reyes_pathway.png?itok=WLgh-h51) ### Jamie Paterno Ostmann '21 **Field worksheet:** [**Early Modern World**](/file_url/1398) **Sophomore essay topic:** Sea monsters, maps, and curiosity in the early modern period **Junior essay topic:** Magic and the supernatural in Shakespeare's plays **Senior thesis title:** Scenes of Smoke and Scarlet: Cochineal and Tobacco in the Early Modern English Theater ![Jamie Paterno Ostmann](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/histlit/files/ostmann_photo_hl_website.jpg?itok=hJgCno2W) ### Genevieve Hu '20 **Field worksheet:** [**Modern World: US and China: Transnational Relationships**](/file_url/1428) **Sophomore essay topic**: Rose Greenfield and British missionaries in India **Junior essay topic:** Food and the Chinese American diaspora **Senior thesis title:** Made in the USA: The Cultural Production of China's First Lady, Soog Mei Ling, in 1943 ![Genevieve Hu](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/histlit/files/31901879_10213411928427494_1265769708724944896_n.jpg?itok=RD6ZqljV) ### Sally Chen '19 **Field Worksheet:** [**Ethnic Studies: Asian American Studies**](/file_url/1044) **Sophomore Essay Topic:** The Politics of Race and Gender in California Women's Suffrage **Junior Essay Topic:** The Boston Chinatown Public Libtary **Senior Thesis Title:** "Take Root": Community Formation at the San Francisco Chinatown Branch Public Library ![Sally Chen](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/histlit/files/sally_chen_pathway.png?itok=CUo7-Z-4) ### Gussie Roc '17 **Field worksheet:** [**American Studies**](/file_url/866) **Sophomore essay topic:** The nomadic "refugee" in contemporary hip hop **Junior essay topic:** NeoSoul and nostalgia in India Arie and Lauryn Hill **Senior thesis title:** "With Every Tear Comes Redemption": Heartbreak as a Form of Protest in Blues, Beyoncé, and #BlackLives Matter ![Gussie Roc](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/histlit/files/gussie_roc_pathways.jpg?itok=hYo6tlTX) ### Esteban Arellano '21 **Field worksheet:** [**American Studies**](/file_url/1400) **Sophomore essay topic:** Self-Fashioning in *Paris is Burning* **Junior essay topic:** Homonormative Haunting in *The Inheritance* **Senior thesis title:** Dancing in the Dark: The Burden of Liveness at G.G.'s Barnum Room ![arellano photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/histlit/files/esteban_arellano_photo_hl_website.jpeg?itok=1wo05kHz) ### Eileen Macron '17 **Field worksheet:** [**European Studies: Great Britain**](/file_url/869) **Sophomore essay topic:** British family law and Walter Payne’s *The Cruelty Man* **Junior essay topic:** Parent-child relationships and Great Britain’s WWII evacuation scheme **Senior thesis title:** Anna Freud and the Hampstead War Nurseries, 1941-1946: A Study on Displacement, Loss, and Reconciliation ![Eileen Macron](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/histlit/files/macron_photo.jpg?itok=vK8bdJgM) ### Minnie Jang '18 **Field Worksheet:** [**Latin American Studies: Global Health**](/file_url/952) **Sophomore essay topic:** The U.S. public health campaign during the Panama Canal’s construction **Junior essay topic:** The Bolivian film *Yawar Malku* and the Peace Corps in 1960s Bolivia **Senior thesis title:** Tracing Trauma: Discourses and Narratives of Experience in Post-Conflict Peru ![Minnie Jang](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/histlit/files/jang.png?itok=znuaLTjA) ### Caleb Shelburne '18 **Field Worksheet:** [**Modern World: French-Ottoman Encounters**](/file_url/954) **Sophomore Essay Topic:** 17th-century French literary depictions of Ottoman nobility **Junior Essay Topic:** Enslavement and French Romanticism in a 19th-century travelogue **Senior Thesis Title:** "Murmurs on the Orient Express: Ottoman Tracks in European Railway History ![Caleb Shelburne](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/histlit/files/shelburne.png?itok=KRd31i0f) ### Abby Westover '17 **Field worksheet:** [**Medieval World**](/file_url/872) **Junior essay topic:** The symbolic importance of female hair in Medieval French romance **Senior thesis title:** Hair and Female Agency in the European Middle Ages ![Abby Westover](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/histlit/files/westover_17_photo.jpg?itok=rICuP-t5) ### Talia Rothstein '17 **Field worksheet:** [**Latin American Studies: Mexico**](/file_url/870) **Sophomore essay topic:** Juan Rulfo’s *Es que somos muy pobres* and post-Revolutionary Mexico **Junior essay topic:** Nationalism and representations of the Mexican working class at the Cananea mine **Senior thesis title:** *La Mulata* and the Nation: Narratives of Fear and Desire in Post-Revolutionary Mexico ![Talia Rotstein](/sites/g/files/omnuum4926/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/histlit/files/rothstein.jpg?itok=nasdKzrx)