Alumni

Nolan Wallace

My interest in Celtic history dates back to seeing the movie Braveheart, the story of William Wallace (no relation), a Scottish hero. Although not historically accurate, the movie sparked my...

Clarence Chen

Upon first reading Thomas Nagel’s “What Is It Like to be a Bat?,” I was struck by our limited understanding of consciousness. This triggered a curiosity about why our knowledge...

Connor Huard

My fascination with ancient history started first in elementary school with Rick Riordan’s mythology-based novels. From there it quickly escalated, moving from mythology to a love of all things Greco-Roman....

Katherine Buckman

Huddled into the library sofa, equal parts horrified and dismayed at the scene unfolding in my mind, my eight-year-old self clutched the biography of Malala Yousafzi. At the time, my...

Isaiah Glick

I have been interested in history and politics for as long as I can remember. I was driven to pursue historical research by the work of three authors: Robert K....

Hongying Wu

This paper examines 20th-century American artist Ben Shahn’s Jersey Homesteads Mural and the importance of his Jewish identity as reflected in this mural by comparing the finalized work with the...