Middle School History
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We are a cooperative of historians, professional writers, and life-long educators who provide exceptional one-on-one tutoring and academic support to our students.
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Colleen
Colleen earned a PhD and MA from Harvard University in History, an MA in Modern European History from St Andrews, and a BA in History and Art History from University of Notre Dame. Currently, she is a researcher at Johns Hopkins.
Paul W.
Paul holds a BA in History (Yale) and MA in Global Affairs (Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University). A recipient of the Fulbright and Schwarzman Fellowships, Paul is currently a Presidential Management Fellow in Washington DC.
Andrew So.
Andrew graduated from Columbia University cum laude, where he studied history and English. He then received a Fulbright Fellowship to study for an MA at Tel Aviv University, where he graduated summa cum laude with an MA in history.
Sarah Y.
Sarah graduated from Brown with a BA in History & International Relations. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Hong Kong and the University of Pennsylvania.
Mariam R.
Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator. Rahmani holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, as well as degrees from Princeton and Oxford. She currently serves on the faculty of Bennington College and is a postdoctoral Fellow with the American Council for Learned Societies in 2023-24.
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.
Alice Wa.
Alice studied English Literature at Wellesley College and graduated cum laude with honors. Currently, Alice is studying at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, specializing in Teaching and Curriculum. She's conducting her practicum at Arlington High School, where she teaches 9th grade English.
Helen G.
Helen graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University with a dual degree in International/Global Studies and French/Francophone Studies, as well as a minor in East Asian Studies. After working in Shanghai, China for 5 years, she returned to Massachusetts to pursue her Masters of Education in Human Development and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Andrew St.
Andrew received a BA from Columbia University, where he graduated magna cum laude and double majored in American Studies and English. After earning his MFA in Poetry at Brooklyn College, Andrew is now an adjunct lecturer at CUNY.
Hannah L.
Hannah earned her BA from Yale University, where her undergrad poetry thesis won her Yale’s Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship. Hannah earned her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and her PhD in English PhD from the University of Virginia.
Jesse
Jesse holds a BA in History from Columbia, where he was a Navab Fellow, Solomon & Seymour Fisher Civil Liberties Fellow, and Benjamin F. and Bernice Block Scholar. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Theatre Acting at Columbia.
Sarah H.
Sarah pursued her interest in the western European canon by studying the Great Books program at St. John’s College in Maryland. She then went on to receive her Master’s in Comparative Literature at Columbia, where she focused on the nineteenth-century European novel.
Sarah Ha.
Sarah graduated from Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design with a dual degree in Comparative Literature and Painting. After earning her MFA in Painting at Yale, she went on to teach first grade at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn.
Jim C.
Jim earned an MA from New York University and a PhD from the University of Michigan. He is on the faculty at Boston University and Tufts University, and he is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome.
Micaela
Micaela holds an EdD in Urban Leadership and Diversity Equity and Inclusion from Johns Hopkins, an MEd from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in English from Union College.
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.
Katherine J.
Katherine holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Virginia and a BA in Literary Arts from Brown University. She is a 2024-25 Fulbright Grant Awardee to France, where she will work at the intersection of text and textile, researching the history of silk manufacturing, learning to weave, and writing poems.
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.
Sophia Sc.
Sophia holds a BA in History from Northwestern University and an MS in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. She is now a PhD Candidate in History at Columbia University.
Jordyn
Jordyn graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a major in American History and minors in Political Science and Urban Education. After teaching English in Spain on a Fulbright for the 2022-2023 academic year, she began pursuing her EdM and instructional certification in social studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Max Ro.
Max attended the Hackley School for thirteen years before graduating cum laude from UChicago with degrees in history and philosophy. He currently works as a Research Fellow under Professor Jeff Manza in the Department of Sociology at NYU.
Christopher S.
Christopher majored in International Studies at Boston College, with a focus on Political Economy and Development Studies. Christopher also minored in French, and graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Currently, he is completing a Master's in Theological Studies at Harvard with a focus on Religion, Ethics, and Politics.
Alexv
Alex majored in History and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Barnard College, where she received the Jane Gould Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis, in addition to receiving honorable mention for Columbia University’s Women’s and Gender Studies Essay Award Contest. She next pursued a Master of Arts from Columbia University in Eastern European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. She is now pursuing a degree at Hunter College in the Adolescent Social Studies program.
Patrick D.
With 17 years of experience teaching various high school subjects in Brooklyn, NY, Patrick has seen it all. He holds a BA in Philosophy from NYU and an M.Ed from Long Island University.
Robert R.
Rob holds a BA in English and American Literature from Brown University, and a Master of Arts in Teaching English from Simmons College. In between, he earned an MBA (magna cum laude) from Babson College.
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