Spring 2026

  • Illuminating Thought

  • Compromise and Scientific Utility: The US Recruitment of Axis War Criminals During the Cold War

    / US History, Security Studies

    William Jackson Grace ’26

    The Hotchkiss School

    Connecticut, United States

  • The Silent Cipher War: Allied Intelligence and the Defeat of Japan’s Pacific Ambitions

    / War Studies

    Ryan Chiou ’26

    Palos Verdes Peninsula High School

    California, United States

  • The Rhythms of Resistance: Free Jazz and the Politics of Community During the Civil Rights Movement

    / Musicology, US History

    Sundar Pemmaraju ’26

    Hunter College High School

    New York, United States

  • Everyday Wonders, Unlikely Neighbors: Narrative Echoes in Gabriel García Márquez and Selma Lagerlöf

    / Comparative Literature

    Siri Iagnemma ’26

    Belmont High School

    Massachusetts, United States

  • Fragmented Histories: Installation Art and the Memory of Franco-Algerian Colonialism

    / Art History

    Elaine Zou ’27

    The Harker School

    California, United States

  • Art, Resistance, and the Post-Colony: Negotiating Identity and Temporality in India and Mexico

    / Cultural Studies, Art History

    Apal Jain ’26

    Neerja Modi School

    Jaipur, India

  • Punishment and Piety: Colonial Women’s Rights in the Shadow of Ancient Rome

    / Legal History, Women’s Studies

    Sophie de Lavandeyra ’26

    The Hewitt School

    New York, United States

  • Time, Space, and Discipline: The Gary Plan’s Hidden Curriculum, 1907–1920

    / Education History, Public Policy

    Benjamin Chan ’26

    Da Vinci Science

    California, United States

  • Sacred Eyes: Divine Surveillance and Moral Policing in Postcolonial India

    / Religious Studies

    Ansh Lalwani ’26

    Indus International School

    Pune, India

  • Uranium and Empire: The Afterlives of Nuclear Colonialism on the Navajo Nation

    / Indigenous Studies

    Hanzhi Zhu ’26

    The Overlake School

    Washington, United States

  • Divine Rivers, Human Societies: Ecological and Cultural Development Along the Nile and the Amazon

    / Environmental History

    Rohan Agrawal ’26

    Millburn High School

    New Jersey, United States

  • Fruit and Fracture: Vanilla and Land in Papantla, Mexico, 1830–1900

    / Latin American History, Economic History

    Andrew Li ’26

    Germantown Friends School

    Pennsylvania, United States

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Notable Essays

Selected from the 2024-2025 Collection

  • Understanding the Historical Significance of the GI Bill in Postwar America

    US History

    Rahul Madgavkar 

  • Liberté, Fraternité, Inégalité? The Validation of Grammatical Gender in the French Foreign Service

    Sociolinguistics

    Camilla Zabikhodjaeva 

  • The Decline of Ecclesiastical Authority in the Italian Healthcare System

    European History, Public Policy

    Giulia Scolari 

  • Community, Family, Nation: Confucian Exacerbation of Homophobia in Chinese Queer Literature

    Gender Studies, Literature, Philosophy

    Xiaoyao (Marcus) Lu 
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