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Founded by Harvard PhDs in 2005, we provide students with the best history tutoring available anywhere.

Meet everyone

Founded by Harvard PhDs in 2005, we provide students with the best history tutoring available anywhere.

Terry

Terry holds a BA in English and French (Amherst), and an MPhil in European Literature & Culture (University of Cambridge). He holds a PhD in French Language and Literature from NYU and currently teaches at Vassar.

Emma Zc.

Emma holds a PhD in French Literature from Harvard University. Previously, she earned her BA and BM, summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Her doctoral dissertation examined the representation of music as a tool of social critique in the modern French novel.

Jimmy

Jimmy is a PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy at Harvard. He holds a JD (Harvard) and BA in English and Social Studies (Harvard). Currently, he is a Lecturer on Law at UCLA Law and a pro bono attorney.

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.

Ezra

After Ezra graduated from Harvard with a BA in Social Studies, he received the Trustman Traveling Fellowship and went to Peru to study the Chinese diaspora. He is now the Artist-in-Residence at the Signet Society at Harvard.

Paul C.

A graduate of Vassar College and Wits University in Johannesburg, Paul completed his PhD in African Studies and Anthropology at Harvard University in 2024. He is a Fulbright-Hayes Program alumni.

Anna S.

Anna holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literature (Harvard), an MA in Slavic Languages and Literature (MA), a BA in History and Philology (Russian State University) and a BA in Fine Arts (Pushkin State Museum Art College).

Amulya M.

Amulya is an Anthropology PhD candidate at Harvard University. She earned her Bachelor's in Anthropology from University of Chicago, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

Sofia E.

Sofia majored in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard. After graduation, she was awarded the Harvard Traveling Fellowship to conduct research in Amsterdam. She holds a Master's in Social Work from Smith College.

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.

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.

Parker

Parker is a writer, filmmaker, and PhD Candidate in Anthropology and Critical Media Practice at Harvard University. He has earned several grants and fellowships, including the Fulbright García-Robles Scholarship, Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship, and the Harvard Film Study Center Fellowship.

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.

Julia Cr.

She completed a PhD at Harvard, specializing in Japanese Buddhism (and Buddhist art). Her academic path continued with prestigious postdoctoral fellowships at Yale and Stanford, where she crafted and taught intimate seminar courses for undergraduate and graduate students, presented at international conferences, and published. In addition to her teaching, Julia has served as an editor for university professors and bilingual publications, peer-reviewed scholarly articles in the US and Asia, and authored several peer-reviewed articles.

Rhea S.

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.

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.

Ross

Ross is an MD/PhD at Harvard and UPenn. He 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 Kappa.

Meghan M.

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).

Gabrielle M.

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.

Ellen S.

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.

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.

Jim P.

Jim holds a BA in History & Theology from the University of St. Andrews and an MPhil in Theology from the University of Oxford. He's currently a JD Candidate at Harvard Law School, after scoring a perfect 180 on the LSAT.

Daniel Fr

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).

Naama

Naama holds a BA in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations from Harvard (magna cum laude), an MPhil from Oxford in Oriental Studies and an MFA in Acting from DePaul. She has over three decades of tutoring experience.

Alex S .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Udodiri

Udodiri holds a PhD in History of Science at Harvard University; she previously earned a BA in the same field at Harvard College. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Max S.

Max has a BA in French from Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in French Literature from New York University, where he also taught undergraduate language courses. He currently teaches French at St. Andrew's School.

Michae 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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rozalyn

Rozalyn is pursuing a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Previously, she worked in philanthropy at The Ford Family Foundation in community economic development and in finance as a loan officer. She holds an Honors Bachelor of Science in Environmental Economics and Policy and an Honors Bachelor of Arts in International 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mauni

Mauni holds a BA in War Studies from King’s College London and a JD from Yale Law School. He is a law clerk to a federal judge; previously, he was a litigation associate specializing in antitrust and constitutional law.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ian M.

Ian is a third-year student at Yale Law School. He previously graduated from Stanford University, where he studied Philosophy, History, and South Asian Studies. He graduated with Distinction, Honors in the Program in Ethics in Society, membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and received the Stanford Alumni Association’s Award of Excellence.

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.

Kyra

Kyra is currently pursuing an MPhil in Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. She previously earned her LLM in International Law at SOAS, University of London (Marshall Scholarship) and her BA in History at Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa).

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.

Aaron A.

Aaron attend Harvard for undergrad, where he studied biology and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. After Harvard, Aaron moved from one Cambridge to another, studying for a Master's in the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge as a Harvard-Cambridge Fellow. Aaron is now pursuing an MD at Stanford University as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar.

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.

Henry L.

Henry is an MPhil Candidate in Latin American Studies at the University of Oxford. Previously, he earned his BA in Spanish and History at Yale.

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.

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.

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.

Sam S.

Sam is a PhD Candidate in Religions in North America at Columbia University. He holds an STM from Yale Divinity School, an MA in Religion from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Religious Studies from the University of Missouri.

Laura M.

Laura graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with BA degrees in History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies. She is currently a JD candidate at Harvard Law School.

Anna H.

Anna is an Associate Professor of English at Boston University. She holds a PhD in English from Harvard and a BA in English from Yale.

Philip

Philip graduated summa cum laude from the University of Portland with a degree in English. He next earned a PhD in English at Northwestern University.

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.

Geneva

Geneva received her BA in Anthropology and History from Columbia University. She is currently a PhD candidate in History at Princeton and a JD candidate at Yale Law School.

Alexander B.

Alexander is a JD Candidate at Columbia University. He holds a PhD in the History of Art and Archaeology from NYU and a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from UC Berkeley.

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.

Nathaniel

Nathaniel earned a quadruple major in Biology, History, Political Science, and Applied Quantitative Science at Arizona State University as a Flinn Scholar, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. He next earned his MS in Biological Sciences before pursuing his MPhil in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar.

Jeremy E.

Jeremy holds a BA in History from Grinnell College, an MA in Urban Planning from UCLA, and an MA in Urban Planning from the Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po). He is now working as a freelance consultant in urban development and as a journalist covering European politics.

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.

Jenne

Jenne completed a double major in history and mathematics, a senior thesis in European intellectual history, and a PhD dissertation at Princeton in the history of mathematics.

Rivka

Rivka is a JD Candidate at Harvard Law School. She previously graduated from Washington University in St. Louis (magna cum laude) with a double major in History and Arabic and a minor in Legal Studies.

Beck B.

Beck is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at Yale University. They previously received their BA in History and English from Amherst College and their JD from The University of Chicago Law School.

Anna B.

Anna is a PhD Candidate in History at Harvard University. She previously spent a year in Poland on a Fulbright US Student grant, working on her research and observing how higher education works in Central Europe. She also holds a BA in Government from Wesleyan University.

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.

Marierose

Marie-Rose is a Rhodes Scholar pursuing her MPhil in Modern European History at the University of Oxford. She previously earned her BA in History at Princeton University, where she graduated magna cum laude.

Nick K.

Nick holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Brown University. He previously earned his BA in English and French at Haverford College. He has taught several courses at Brown and other colleges in Rhode Island, covering the disciplines of Comparative Literature, Academic Writing, French and Italian Language, Literary Studies, and History.

Ians

Ian holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from the University of Iowa and BA degrees in History and Italian Studies from Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude and was the recipient of the Italian Studies Concentration Prize.

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.

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.

Skylarbree

Skylar holds a BA in English and History & Literature from Harvard College. She graduated with a 3.9 GPA and wrote a creative thesis – a half-hour pilot for a magical realism animated series entitled Blackgirljuju – that won the Lee Patrick Award for Drama, awarded annually to the student who shows the most promise in the dramatic arts.

Lola

Lola holds a BA in History and Visual Art from Brown University. She is currently working in Kyoto as a Fulbright Fellow, where she is continuing her research on contemporary Japanese history.

Jonah G.

Jonah graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude with a BA in Art History from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Currently, he is a PhD student in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, where he studies the intersection of theater history and the history of science between 1500 and 1800.

Sophia H.

Sophia graduated summa cum laude from the University of Richmond with a degree in Leadership Studies. As a Jepson Scholar, she is currently completing an MSc in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation.

Caleb

Caleb graduated with honors and distinction from Stanford University with a degree in American Studies. He is currently a law student at Harvard Law School.

Navid

Navid earned a BA in Anthropology with a minor in History from the University of Chicago as a QuestBridge Scholar and Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. They are now pursuing an MA in French Studies at New York University with a full tuition scholarship.

Madison Ha.

Maddie recently graduated cum laude from Yale University, where she majored in English, minored in Human Rights through a program at Yale Law School. Currently, she is a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where she studies journalism and how the industry has historically reported on conflicts between Israel and Palestine

Simon

Simon received his JD from Yale Law School and his BA in History and German studies from Brown University. Between law school and college, Simon worked as a magazine editor in New York, in public-policy research at Princeton University, and at a climate-science organization.

Sam

Sam graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Grinnell College with a BA in History with Honors, and he was selected as the Charles Payne Scholar in History during his final year. He went on to get his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana.

Monica

Monica holds a BA in History from Harvard College. Currently, she is an Instructional Content Developer at Harvard University (her old stomping grounds!), crafting narrative-driven courses for online platforms including EdX and HarvardX.

Tes

Tes graduated from the College of William and Mary with a BA in Literary and Cultural studies and then followed her passion for Irish traditional music to Ireland, where she earned an MA in Ethnomusicology from the University of Limerick. After cofounding the Blue Ridge Irish Music School, a nonprofit in Charlottesville, Virginia, she returned to school and received her doctorate in Music from New York University in 2010.

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.

Avantika

Avantika graduated from Columbia University with a double major in English and Art History. After pursuing an MSt in Medieval Studies at the University of Oxford, Avantika received her doctorate in Art History from Harvard University in 2024.

Michelle S.

Michelle graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College with a degree in Comparative Literature. She was named a Rufus Choate Scholar for top 5% of GPAs, a James O. Freedman Presidential Scholar, and a Gamma Sigma Alpha Honor Society member. She also received the Phi Beta Kappa Sophomore Prize for being within the top 20 highest GPAs at Dartmouth.

Alexis

graduated with Special Honors and Phi Beta Kappa from the City University of New York, Hunter College. There, she double majored in Political Science and Human Rights (winning the 2020 Best Capstone Paper) and double minored in Asian American Studies and Chinese Language and Literature. Alexis recently completed her Masters’ Degree in Development Studies with a Distinction on her Dissertation at SOAS, University of London.

Adin

Adin graduated from Yale with honors and distinction in the English major, earning multiple prestigious writing awards, including the John Hubbard Curtis essay prize and the university-wide Rockwell Field essay prize. He is currently enrolled in the CUNY School of Labor's graduate studies program.

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.

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.

Becca B.

Becca graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in Government and Romance Languages & Literatures. She received a Harvard post-graduate fellowship and is now living in Turkey, where she works for an NGO that serves refugee youth along the Turkish-Syrian border.

Andrewr

Andrew earned a BA in English and a BA in History from Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude. He has conducted historical and literary research at Harvard and Brown.

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.

Sophiek

Sophie graduated cum laude from Yale University, where she majored in American Studies. She is an alum of Yale's year-long Grand Strategy program and a former Yale Law School Arthur Liman Fellow. Currently, she is completing a Master's program in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Oxford as a Rotary Global Scholar.

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.

Isaac E.

Isaac graduated from UC Berkeley with highest honors in Geography and American Studies. He is now an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa nonfiction writing program.

Jake S.

Jake majored in Classics at Swarthmore and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He also minored in Education and earned a Pennsylvania Teaching Certification. After completing a fully funded PhD in History at the University of Cambridge, Jake is now a visiting Fellow in the Harvard History Department.

Josh A.

Joshua received his BA from Washington University in St. Louis in Political Science and American Cultural Studies (summa cum laude), before starting graduate school at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He recently completed his JD at Yale Law School. Currently, Joshua is PhD Candidate in History and African-American Studies at Yale.

Jess Z.

Jess graduated from Wesleyan University with high honors in Government before receiving her Master's in History at Brown. She attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School on a full tuition merit scholarship, and graduated cum laude.

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.

Jai

Jai is an incoming MD candidate at Harvard Medical School in the Harvard-MIT Health, Sciences, and Technology program. He graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in History of Science and a concurrent MA in Chemistry.
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