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We are a cooperative of thinkers––physicists, historians, computer scientists, economists, literary critics, lawyers, linguists, biologists, poets, mathematicians, and so many more--who provide exceptional one-on-one tutoring and academic support to our students.
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Tarek
Tarek is pursuing his PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, where he has received the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching from the Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning four times.
Anjali
Anjali holds a BA in Classical Languages and Literatures from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She currently works in Private Equity in London.
Michael M.
Michael holds a PhD and MA in Chemistry from Harvard, and a dual-degree BS in Chemistry and Biology from the University of Maryland. He has over ten years of experience teaching and tutoring chemistry and introductory biology.
Ash N.
Ash received his MA in Economics from Columbia University. He graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering and Econometrics from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (summa cum laude, Tau Beta Pi).
Deirdre D.
Deirdre holds a BA in Classical Language (Holy Cross), MA in Classical Languages (Villanova), and MA in Differentiated Instruction (Concordia). She has been teaching Latin and ancient Greek for over 20 years.
Adrienne
Adrienne received her English PhD from Harvard University, her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and her BA from Princeton University. She is a nonfiction writer and poet, and teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton University.
Scott L.
Scott majored in Classics and Spanish at Bates College, where he wrote two theses. After working in several Special Collections libraries, he is completed a PhD in Romance Languages at UPenn.
Debbie S.
Debbie is currently a PhD candidate in Classical Studies at Columbia University. She holds a BA in Classics from College of the Holy Cross and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
Brandon H.
Brandon currently teaches at Georgetown University. He holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Princeton, a JD from Georgetown University, and an MA and BA in Latin American Studies from UT at Austin.
Connor M.
Connor is a PhD Candidate in Religion at Columbia University; his dissertation focuses on the relationship between religion, science, and technology in contemporary America. He also holds an MPhil and MA in Religion from Columbia, an a BA in Religion from Vassar College.
Isaac Jf.
Isaac is a doctoral student at Yale University in the Departments of African-American Studies and American Studies. His research interests include black studies, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and sound studies. Previously, Isaac earned his BA from Columbia University in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, graduating cum laude.
Alex S.
Alex holds a PhD in English Literature and an MA in English from Rutgers. Previously, he graduated from Rice University with a BA in English, magna cum laude. He is now an assistant teaching professor in the English Department at Rutgers.
Zachary L.
Zachary attended Wesleyan University, where he received a BA with honors from the College of Social Studies. He then received his PhD in Ancient Judaism from New York University, where his thesis focused on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Frances
Frances holds a PhD from Harvard in the History of Art and Architecture and a BA in Art History from Bard College. Her research focused on imperial and late Roman memorial art and the “afterlives” of these types of objects.
Maryam
Maryam graduated summa cum laude with a BA in History and a Minor in Arabic from Princeton. After her Master’s in Early Modern European History at Oxford, she went on to pursue her PhD in in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. She is now an Assistant Professor of History at Wesleyan University, where she teaches the history of the Middle East.
James F.
James holds a PhD in History from the University of St Andrews, an MPhil in History from the University of Cambridge, and an MPhil in Classics from Trinity College. He is the co-founder of the Institute for the Study of International Expositions.
Cecilia Y.
Cecilia graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2021 with a starred first-class degree in Classics, scoring the year’s highest mark on the Latin and Greek textual criticism exam and graduating third in her class. After obtaining her MPhil in Latin literature the following year, she won a scholarship to study at Harvard for as a Herchel-Smith fellow, an opportunity she used to study American history and English literature.
Giuseppe
Giuseppe received both his MA and PhD in Classical Archaeology from the University of Texas at Austin (2016 and 2019) and his BA in Classics from Columbia University (2009). He won the Jean Willard Tatlock Prize in Latin Proficiency and the Douglas Gardner Caverly Prize in Classics for best undergraduate thesis, as well as several awards and honors during his graduate education.
Emilio
Emilio holds an M1 and M2 in Lettres Classiques, an M1 in Classical Philology, and a BA in French. Latin, and Greek Literature from the Université de la Sorbonne.
Jackie
Jackie graduated from Yale with a double major in History and Classical Civilizations. In November 2023, Jackie was selected as a Rhodes Scholar to pursue a graduate degree in the History of Art and Visual Culture at Oxford University.
Thomas R.
Thomas holds a BA in Classical Mediterranean Archaeology from Dartmouth College (magna cum laude) and an MA in Classics with a focus in Greek Archaeology from UT Austin. After earning his MA, he lived in Greece for a year as a member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Michael W.
Michael earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago, where he double-majored in history and political science and graduated summa cum laude. He is a PhD Candidate in History at Yale University, where he is researching migration and labor in the early English Empire.
Viviana
At Harvard College, Viviana majored in Classics and minored in Integrative Biology, graduating with highest honors in Classics and cum laude overall. She is now pursuing a Master’s degree in Greek and Latin Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford through Harvard’s Arthur Deloraine Corey Fellowship.
Farhad
Farhad graduated from the University of Texas, finishing pre-med and with four majors: biology, history, Middle Eastern studies, and Persian. He next attended the University of Chicago for his MA in Middle Eastern Studies and Harvard University for his PhD in History and Middle Eastern studies.
Isabella
Isabella earned a Bachelor's degree in Classics from the University of Edinburgh. In January 2025, Isabella completed her Master's degree in Classics at New York University, with a 3.95 GPA. She is currently preparing her PhD applications, where she hopes to research Greek Tragedy, intersected with Greek Sculpture and contemporary Literary Theory.
Daphne
Daphne earned her BA in 2019 from Yale University, where she double-majored in Classics and the History of Art. She has since gone on to be awarded a PhD in Classics from the University of Cambridge, working as a senior team member for two archaeological excavations in Greece.
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