Position: Medical Doctor
Field: Medicine
Graduated: 2004
The transition from history to medicine has highlighted for me the knowledge of people and cultures that I gained during my undergraduate study. As I travel and meet people inside and outside of the...
Position: Student
Field: Medicine
Thesis Title: “Coffee and Capital in Sao Paulo, 1850-1900” Awarded the Hoopes Prize
Graduated: 2010
I began my journey as a History concentrator in my sophomore year, taking just one class on early-modern Brazil. I had been...
Position: Student
Field: Law
Thesis Title: “Testing Suffrage: Literacy and the Right to Vote in New York State, 1915-1975” Awarded the Hoopes Prize
Graduated: 2008
Concentrating in History was one of my best decisions at Harvard College. The History...
Position: Attorney
Field: Law
Thesis Title: “Diaries Fore and Aft: Gender and Social Interactions Aboard the Whaling Ship Nauticon, 1848-1853”
Graduated: 2006
The skills and experiences I gained as a History concentrator prepared me well for a career in the...
Position: U.S. District Judge
Field: Law
Graduated: 1983
During my undergraduate years I had in the back of my mind that I wanted to later attend law school – despite having no real understanding of what law school or the practice of law would be like. I did...
Position: Law Student; Former consultant at McKinsey and Company
Field: Law
Thesis Title: “History for a Changed World? Geoffrey Barraclough, the Campaign for University History, and the English Historical Profession in the Mid-Twentieth Century” Awarded...
Position: Associate at Robinson Bradshaw
Field: Law
Thesis Title: “Ecclesiastical Empowerment and Church-Crown Conflict in Henry III’s England.”
Graduated: 1993
I arrived at Harvard in 1989, knowing that I wanted to be a History major (or “concentrator,” as I...
Position: Attorney
Field: Law
Thesis Title: “Strategically Marrying Christ: The Function of Abbesses in Merovingian Politics, 525-725 AD”
Graduated: 2008
I graduated from Harvard College in 2008, where I concentrated in History and received a citation in...
Position: Reporter
Field: Journalism & Consulting
Graduated: 2007
My day-to-day work as a print journalist frequently takes unexpected turns. On any given day, I might find myself reading grainy, decades-old court papers preserved on microfilm, researching...
Position: Reporter and Editor for Reuters
Field: Journalism & Media
Thesis Title: “Walter Weyl and the Progressive Mind: The Promise and Problems of the New Democracy”
Graduated: 2009
It's hard to imagine there would have been a better place for me in college...