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  • From RCRA to Rescission: Federal Policy and Landfill Disparities in Houston-Galveston, 1968–2025

    / Environmental Studies

    Erin Jia ’27

    Memorial High School

    Texas, United States

  • Structural Lag: PFAS and the Architecture of Regulatory Delay in US Environmental Law

    / Public Policy

    Yiheng Wang ’27

    Princeton International School of Mathematics and Science

    New Jersey, United States

  • Beyond Effectivités: Judicial Pragmatism and Original Title in Pedra Branca

    / International Relations

    Soomin Lee ’26

    Hwa Chong International School

    Singapore

  • Manufacturing Trust: Online Review Manipulation and the Structural Limits of Consumer Protection

    / Law, Economics

    Jayden Huh ’27

    Choate Rosemary Hall

    Connecticut, United States

  • Collective Memory and the Politics of Democratization in Post-Authoritarian Taiwan

    / Political Sociology

    Yu-Jhou Chen ’27

    Kaohsiung American School

    Kaohsiung, Taiwan

  • Iliodor: The Other Mad Monk of Russia

    / Imperial Russian History

    Aryaman Lahoti ’26

    St Mark’s School of Texas

    Texas, United States

  • Staging Blackness: Power, Visibility, and Hierarchy in Italian Renaissance Art

    / Art History

    Bela Patel ’27

    The Winsor School

    Massachusetts, United States

  • Mirrors, Not Windows: Mediating the Ming Collapse and the Making of a Familiar Other

    / Comparative Literature

    Haiyi Zhou ’27

    Shenzhen Middle School

    Shenzhen, China

  • The Rhythm of Grief: Metrical Disruption as Embodied Poetics in Latin Elegy

    / Latin Literature

    Nathaniel Im ’27

    Portsmouth Abbey School

    Rhode Island, United States

  • Polemic and Syncretism: The Transformation of Mesopotamian Myth in Hebrew and Greek Antiquity

    / Classics

    Amanda Chang ’26

    Groton School

    Massachusetts, United States

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Summer Reading

A list chosen for both the intellect and the imagination—books that argue, provoke, and unsettle alongside books that simply delight.

Continuity of Thought

The Schola is a sustained forum for inquiry grounded in discipline and exchange. Reading original scholarship sharpens the standards a writer brings to their own work; contributing to it deepens how they engage the work of others. The work published here reflects independent analytical judgment—not what students are expected to produce, but what rigorous inquiry, pursued without shortcuts, actually yields.

Form of Thought

The Schola publishes original scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, guided less by disciplinary boundaries than by analytical clarity, conceptual development, and independent thought.