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.
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.
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.
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.
Judy
Judy pursued her bachelor’s degree in History of Science at Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She subsequently earned her master of science degree in History of Science, Medicine and Technology from the University of Oxford.
Jesi
Jesi received her BA in Humanities from Yale University, and her MA and PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently serves as the Director of Undergraduate Research at the University of Washington Bothell.
Kyra
Kyra is currently pursuing an LLM in International Law at SOAS, University of London as a Marshall Scholar. She graduated from Stanford University with a BA in History, Phi Beta Kappa with honors, and a minor in Human Rights.
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.
Zain
Zain holds a PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from Yale Law School. She has held academic positions at Berkeley, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania, and is a barred attorney in Pennsylvania.
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.
Erica S.
Erica attended Stanford University, where she majored in International Relations and double minored in Economics and Modern Languages (French and Arabic). As a Marshall Scholar, she completed an MA in Middle Eastern Studies at SOAS University of London and an MA in Conflict Resolution at King’s College London.
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.
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.
Shae
Shae holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Chicago and an MA in History from Harvard University. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of History at Harvard University.
Jamie M.
Jamie is a PhD Candidate in the History of Science at Harvard University. She also holds an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a BA in Communications from the University of Portland.
Caroline Be.
Caroline attended Yale College where she majored in History of Science and Medicine. She graduated with Latin Honors, Distinction in her major, and a 3.92 GPA. She was awarded the Heinrich von Staden Cup for her contribution to the social and intellectual conscience of the college.
Benny S.
Benny received a BA in East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. After graduation, he was awarded a Fulbright to study at Yunnan University before completing his PhD in Social Anthropology and Critical Media Practice at Harvard University.
Hannah L.
Hannah earned her BA from Yale University, where her undergrad poetry thesis won her Yale’s Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship. Hannah got her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2015 and is currently an English PhD candidate at the University of Virginia.
Alexandra F.
Alexandra holds a BA in Social Studies Education from Miami University and Master of Arts degrees in History from Miami University and University of Reading (UK), where she was a 2019/2020 Fulbright Scholar. She also holds a Master of Arts degree in History of Science from Harvard University, where she is pursuing a PhD in African American Studies.
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.
Kendall G.
Kendall is a doctoral candidate in Politics at the University of Oxford with a specialization in political theory. Before moving to the United Kingdom as a Marshall Scholar, Kendall attended Tulane University, where she graduated summa cum laude in two degrees – a BA in Political Science and a BSM in Legal Studies in Business.
Chris B.
Chris received his AB from Princeton, where he studied History and American Studies. After earning his Ed.M. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, he’s been teaching in Boston for the past decade.
Kiran
Kiran holds a PhD from the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She also holds a Master’s in Latin American Studies from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Political Science from Barnard College.
Courtney P.
A recent JD and MSW graduate from the University of Michigan, Courtney currently teaches at the University of Michigan Law School in a human trafficking problem-solving and social innovation lab. She received her BA in Sociology and Religious Studies from Grinnell College with Phi Beta Kappa honors.
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.
Akhil
Akhil holds a BA and MA in Political Science from Yale University. He is currently pursuing his MS in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. Following his time in Oxford, he will begin studying for his JD at Yale Law School.
James W.
James is currently a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow, where he is writing a dissertation on a Venetian painter from the late 16th century named Palma il Giovane. He holds an MA in Art History (NYU), an MA in Art Business (University of Manchester), and a BA in Art History (Vassar).
Michael O.
Michael holds a BA in Mathematics and American Studies at Wesleyan University, and a PhD in American Studies at Harvard University. His studies focus on 19th century US history and the history of the life sciences.
Max Sh.
Max holds a PhD in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies from Columbia, an MA in Near Eastern Studies from NYU, and a BA in Philosophy from Vassar. An experienced classroom teacher, he currently teaches World History at Poly Prep Country Day School.
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.
Liz P.
Liz has been a professor at Harvard College (English) and Bates College (Theater and Dance). She holds a PhD and MA in English from Harvard University and a BA in English and Dramatic Art from UNC (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
Sean B.
Sean graduated from Yale University with a degree in American Studies. After teaching in Oklahoma City at Odyssey Leadership Academy, he went on to earn his MFA in Poetry at Boston University.
Smriti K.
Smriti is currently a PhD Candidate at Harvard studying Buddhist philosophy of mind and epistemology. While pursuing her PhD, she has consistently scored above divisional average on overall instructor quality and has earned several Certificates of Distinction in Teaching.
Sarge
John has been a professional writer, editor, and teacher for almost 40 years, working with everyone from students to corporate executives to help them get their good ideas down on paper in a clear and comprehensible way. He has taught at St. Luke’s School in New Canaan, CT., and at Moses Brown School, in Providence, RI.
Udodiri
Udodiri is a PhD Candidate in History of Science at Harvard University; she previously earned a BA in the same field at Harvard College. Her honors thesis on the biomedicalization of Civil Rights Protest in the 1960s and 1970s received the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize.
Kellen H.
Kellen holds a BA from Princeton in History & African American Studies, and a PhD from Columbia in History. She was a Predoctoral Fellow at UPenn’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and is now working on her Postdoctoral Fellowship at Penn State University.
Matthew G.
Matthew holds an AB in Government from Harvard and a PhD in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He's a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan.
Trinh T.
Trinh holds a BA in Political Science from Yale and an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford. She is an incoming JD candidate at Yale Law School.
Jonathan L.
Jonathan holds a PhD in History from the University of California, Berkeley. He previously completed an MA in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and a BA in History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Seth S.
Seth earned his BA from the University of Michigan, where his senior thesis on Brazilian welfare politics won the Sahlins Award for best thesis in the Social Sciences. After working as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, he began his PhD in Political Science at Harvard 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.
Grey A.
Grey received his BA in English from Reed College, and his MA in French and his PhD in History from Yale. His dissertation, published in French in 2018 and under contract in English with Verso Books, examines the military coup that returned General Charles de Gaulle to power.
Charlie T.
Charlie earned a BA in Political and Social Thought and English from UVA. Next, he earned his master's degrees in English and in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He is now a PhD candidate in English Literature at Harvard.
Bill K.
Bill is the bestselling author of seven books. His undergrad degree is from the University of Chicago and his doctorate from Johns Hopkins. History and biography are his fields, but he's helped improve both student and adult writing for twenty years across a wide range of subjects.
Julia R.
Julia graduated summa cum laude from Wellesley College with a BA in Philosophy and Comparative Lit, and earned an MA in Theological Studies from Harvard. She is now a Religion PhD candidate at Harvard and a historian.
Debbie
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.
Alex
Alex earned her BA in History from Brown University, and her MA in Science and Technology Studies from Oxford University, where she was a Baker Scholar. Currently, she is a Master's student at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts.
Daniel
Daniel is a PhD candidate in Chinese History at UC Berkeley. He holds a BA in English & French literature and Chinese language (University of Texas), a JD (Yale Law), and an MA in Sinology (University of London).
Drew
Drew holds a BA in Philosophy from the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University (summa cum laude) and a PhD in Philosophy from Boston College, where he is currently a fellow at the Lonergan Institute.
Scott
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.
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.
Ivy
Ivy graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts and BAs in Comparative Literature, Anthropology, and French from Cornell University. She's presently a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Harvard.
Morgan
Morgan holds Masters' degrees in Maritime Archaeology (University of Southampton) and European History (University College London). She is a member of the Oceangate Titanic Expedition scientific team.
Ellen
Ellen majored in English at Williams College and received her PhD in English from Duke University. She teaches American Literature in the History & Literature department at Harvard University.
Stefan
Stefan majored in Public Policy and Urban Studies at Stanford University. He earned his Master's in Public Policy at Harvard University, and is a PhD student in Urban Planning at Columbia University.
Nicholas
Nicholas is a PhD candidate in the Department of African & African American Studies at Harvard University, where his work focuses on urban slavery, the built environment, and colonial New Orleans.
Quinn
Quinn works at Columbia University as the Director of South Asian Studies MA program and as a Lecturer in the Religion Department. He received his doctoral degree from Columbia University’s Religion Department.
Musa
Musa earned her PhD from Columbia University in Early Modern English Drama. She has taught at Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis, where she was an Assistant Professor of English.
Gabby
Gabby received a PhD in Government from Harvard University, where she won two Bok Center Awards for Excellence in Teaching. She earned her BA in Political Science and Spanish from Indiana University.
Betty
Betty earned her BA in History and Science from Harvard, and holds an MA in History from the Universiy of Chicago, and a PhD in History from Yale. She has been teaching at Phillips Exeter Academy for almost a decade.
Meghan
Meghan an MPhil student in Islamic Art and Archaelogy at Oxford. She holds an MA in Buddhist Art (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London) and a BA in Art History and International Affairs (George Washington).
Julia
Julia attended St. John's College in Annapolis, MD where she fell in love with classical languages. She is currently a Linguistics PhD student at Harvard, focusing on the phonology and verbal morphology of ancient Greek.
Amanda
Amanda is the Religion Department chair of a private school in the Boston area. She holds a BA in Religious Studies (University of Michigan) and an EdM in Mind, Brain, and Education (Harvard Graduate School of Education).
Laura
Laura is a History PhD student and Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, and a JD student at Yale Law. She holds an MPhil in British and European History from Oxford, and a BA in History from Duke.
Keating
Keating earned his BA in Classics (Columbia), as well as his MA and PhD in Classical Philology (Harvard). He is a nine-time winner of Harvard's Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.
Ross
Ross is an MD/PhD at Harvard and UPenn. They received an MSc in Medical Anthropology (Durham University), and a BA in Middle Eastern Studies with a minor in Chemistry (UPenn), summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kapa.
Kristen
Kristen lives in Cambridge and teaches writing at Harvard. She earned her PhD in English in 2021 from Princeton University.
Mariam
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.
Sarah
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.
Janet
Janet holds a BA in Art History and English (Wellesley), an MA in Art History (Glasgow) and an MA in Management (Harvard). She is now the Senior Assistant Registrar at the Harvard Art Museums within Collections Management.
Pete
Pete is a History PhD student at Harvard. He earned his undergrad degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he double-majored in History & Political Science.
Rhea
Rhea is currently a Rhodes Scholar working on an MPhil in Islamic Art and Archaeology At Oxford. She earned her BA in Archaeology and Middle East Studies at Brown, and was the recipient of the E.J.A. Arnold Archaeological Fellowship.
Martin
Martin graduated with a BA in Government from Harvard. After teaching American History at a charter school in NYC, he was a Scholarly Fellow of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and earned his MST in History at Oxford.
Madeleine
Madeleine holds a BA in Social Studies (Harvard) and a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (U Chicago). She is currently writing a book about Ottomanism in nineteenth-century political thought.
Sara Deniz
Sara is a poet, educator, and scholar. She holds a BA in English (Wesleyan) and an MFA in Poetry (Iowa Writers' Workshop). She is currently working on her PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Kannan
Kannan holds a BA in the History of Science (University of Chicago, Phi Beta Kappa) and an MFA in Fiction (Iowa Writers' Workshop). His stories have been published in the LA Times, the LA Review of Books, and Racquet.
Ash
Ash earned a BA in Social Studies (Harvard), an MPhil in Intellectual History and Political Thought (University of Cambridge), and a JD (Yale). He is currently a PhD candidate in Political Science at Columbia University.
Evander
Evander is a Residential Tutor at Harvard. He holds a PhD in American Studies (Harvard) and a BA in Art History and English (Vassar). Previously, he worked at the New Bedford Whaling Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
John
John earned his BA in Literature from Harvard (magna cum laude), and his PhD in Philosophy from Princeton. After teaching at several major universities in the US and abroad, John is now pursuing his MSW at Simmons University.
Shelby
Shelby holds a Master's in American Studies (Oxford) and an MFA in Fiction (UC Irvine). His stories have been published in places such as Vice News and GOOD Magazine, primarily about climate change and the environment.
Logan
Logan is an MD/PhD at Harvard. Prior to med school, she spent two years in affordable construction through AmeriCorps, and earned her BA in Child Development at Duke (Truman Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa).
Amelia
Amelia is an Italian Studies PhD at Harvard. Her dissertation focuses on the philosophy of the singing voice in the Italian Renaissance. She holds a BA in Italian and History from Middlebury College (summa cum laude).
Benjamin
Benjamin graduated summa cum laude from the NYU Gallatin School. He taught English at his alma mater, Phillips Academy Andover where he coached cross country and served on the advisory board for the Brace Center for Gender Studies.
Andrew
Andrew is earning his MA in Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University on a Fulbright Scholarship. He earned his BA in History from Columbia University (cum laude), where he received the Natalie Shawn Fellowship.
Parker
Parker is a PhD student in Anthropology at Harvard. Prior to graduate school, he attended Bard College for Anthropology and Literature, and was then a Fulbright-Garca Robles Scholar in Mexico.
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.
Claire
Claire holds a BA in English Literature (Brown) and an MFA in Painting (New York Academy of Art). Since 2016, she has been teaching high school English Literature at BASIS Independent in Brooklyn.
Eliza
Eliza majored in English and won several awards for her academic work at Bard College. She is now a PhD candidate in English at Harvard, where she studies nineteenth-century literature and the history of the novel.
Claire
Claire graduated with a BA in History and minor in Mathematics from Barnard College, where she won the the Ellen Davis Goldwater prize for excellence in History. Currently, she is a Graduate Writing Fellow at Barnard.
Brent
Brent graduated from NYU with a BA in Literature and Music, and was awarded the Dean's Grant for Creative Writing. His music has appeared in shows such as Gossip Girl and Skins, and he is currently at work on his first novel.
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.
Chris
Chris received his PhD in English from Harvard. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an AB from Princeton. He currently teaches at a K-12 school in Connecticut.
Meg
Megan is a PhD candidate in the History of Science at Harvard, where she has worked with more than 200 students. Before graduate school, Megan received her BA in English from Amherst College.
Katherine
Katherine holds a BA in Classics (Harvard), an MA in Classical Art & Archaeology (University of London), and an MD/PhD in Ancienty History (Harvard). She is a diagnostic radiology resident and postdoc fellow at Harvard.
Sonya
Sonya is a joint JD-History PhD at Yale Law and Stanford. Prior to law school, she earned a BA in History (Washington University in St. Louis) and worked at a consulting firm in DC and at the Int'l Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva.
Jackie
Jackie is an MD student at NYU School of Medicine. She earned her BA in Neuroscience and English and was the managing editor of her college newspaper at the University of Miami (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
Tova
Tova attended the University of Chicago and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Anthropology. She recently completed her MPhil in Archaeology (with Merit) at the University of Cambridge.
Richard
Richard graduated from Princeton with a BA in Chemistry, and then spent two years at Oxford, where he earned an MBA and an MS in Global Health as a Rhodes Scholar. He is currently pursuing his MD at Harvard Medical School.
Paul
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.