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Check out our interviews with some of our alumni to learn more about their path during and after graduation!
Samantha Frost graduated summa cum laude from Framingham State University in December 2021 with a BA in history and minors in anthropology and museum studies. Her undergraduate honors thesis, “‘Not all the Gems that Sparkle in the Mine, C…
Laurel Schlegel is a Public History M.A. student at Northeastern University. She graduated from the University of Denver in 2021 with a bachelor’s in history and minors in Spanish and critical race and ethnic studies. Her research interests include o…
Adam Tomasi is a second-year PhD student specializing in the trans-Atlantic Left in the twentieth century, with a special focus on the underground press and intellectual history. He is also interested in public history and digital history, pursuing p…
Feruza Aripova is a PhD Candidate in World History at Northeastern University and a Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Currently, Feruza is a Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute at Colu…
Molly Nebiolo came to Northeastern with a BA in history and biology for a doctoral program that would allow her to conduct research encompassing spatial history and notions of place in the early modern world. Molly chose Northeastern’s PhD in W…
Aaron Peterka graduated from Wichita State University in Wichita, KS, with a Bachelor’s of Arts in History, followed by a Master’s of Arts in 2016. He is currently developing a dissertation prospectus that centers upon a transnational comparison of r…
Ayah Aboelela is a World History Ph.D. student at Northeastern University. She researches the Hajj in the late Ottoman period through the eyes of Muslim travel writers who journeyed through Egypt, Palestine, and the Hijaz. Her work explores patterns …
Erin graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2017, earning a BA in History with a minor in Classical Civilizations and memberships in Phi Alpha Theta and Tau Beta Sigma. Her fieldwork has focused on archival management and collectio…
Zobeida Chaffee-Valdes is earning a masters degree Public History and Digital Humanities at Northeastern University. Having earned a BA in History from Carleton College in 2019 with concentrations in Archaeology and Medieval Studies, Zobeida is inter…
Anna Halgash is from Corning, New York. She graduated magna cum laude from The College of Wooster and double-majored in English and History. For Anna’s Fall 2019 semester, she studied abroad at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland. Her junior and…
Tom spent the last three and a half years serving as an Armor Officer in the United States Army, based out of Fort Hood, TX. Prior to commissioning he attended Clark University in Worcester, MA where he graduated Cum Laude in 2017, with a B.A in Amer…
Originally from Austin, Texas, Alyssa Machajewski graduated from Trinity University in 2021 with a BA in Anthropology. Alyssa interned with the Massachusetts Historical Society transcribing John Quincy Adams’ diary and writing blog posts. Alyss…
Luke Pilkington is an International student from the UK. Having graduated from the University of Exeter with a BA (Hons) in Business Studies and an MSc in Human Resource Management, Luke has spent the past 5 years working within international student…
Morgan Richards graduated from Boston University in 2019 with a BA in the History of Art and Architecture and a minor in French. Since graduation, she has worked in both contemporary art gallery and advisory settings with a focus on archival work and…
I graduated Roger Williams in 2021 with a double major in history and secondary education. I am from Tewksbury, Massachusetts. My research interests are in Eastern History (China, Japan, Mongol history) since I did a thesis paper my senior year on Ge…
Catarina graduated with honors from Texas A&M University in December of 2020 with a BA in History and minors in French and Museum Studies. As an undergraduate, Catarina interned with the National Museum of American History, Gettysburg National Mi…
Joe Cataliotti is an M.A. student in World History at Northeastern University. He earned a B.A. in History and Political Science from the same institution with a senior capstone project studying US far-right movements in the 1930s and 2010s. His rese…
Cassandra earned her B.A. in History from Keene State College in 2016 and M.A. in History from Northeastern University in 2020. During her undergraduate career, she focused on US History and Twentieth Century Studies. In 2018, Cassandra entered North…
Ben Federlin graduated from Brandeis University in 2014, where he double majored in History and Classical Studies. While at Brandeis, Ben interned for several years at the Classical Studies Artifact Research Collection, researching and cataloging obj…
Allyson Koehler graduated from Northeastern University in 2021, where she majored in history with a minor in French. She is enrolled in the PlusOne Program for Public History at Northeastern. Her senior capstone entitled, “Peace in the 21st Century: …
Debra Lavelle is a doctoral candidate in Northeastern University’s World History Department. She focuses on women and witchcraft in America and is working on a dissertation entitled “A Desirable Calamity: Magic, the Body, and Transgressive Women in t…
Paul graduated from Roanoke College in 2020 after majoring in History and Religious Studies and completing a concentration in public history. During the Spring of 2019, he studied abroad in Perugia, Italy and worked with a number of museums through o…
Lynda Mitchell graduated cum laude from Northeastern University in 2021 with a B.A. in International Affairs with minors in Music Industry, Marketing, and History. She completed a capstone entitled “Musical Diplomacy a Useful Category of Soft P…
Hunter Moyler graduated from the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, in May 2019. He double-majored in English literature and Journalism, with minors in Creative Writing and Latin American, Latino, and Iberian Studies (Spanish). During his …
Liam Moore graduated from Roger Williams University in 2020 with a B.A. in History along with minors in French and Latin. He graduated cum laude and completed a thesis entitled, “Pádraig Pearse: The Ghost of a Martyr.” He is interested in…
Clare Nelson graduated from St. Olaf College in 2019 with a BA in History. Throughout her time at St. Olaf College and since graduating, she has been involved with several historical institutions working as a costumed interpreter, in archives, and de…
After serving in the military for five years, Ben Paronich attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he graduated with a BS in Biochemistry. After receiving his BS, Ben immediately went on to pursue a BA in History from the University o…
Jack Gronau is a P.h.D Candidate at Northeastern University. His dissertation, “French Women but not Citizens: Colonial Emigration, Imperial Prostitution, and the Colonial Press of French Feminists, 1897-1962,” explores how French feminists participa…
Dan Squizzero is a doctoral candidate in World History at Northeastern University. His dissertation, “The Great War for Emancipation: Italian Women’s Transnational Activism, 1900-1923,” traces the development of the Italian women’s moveme…
Will Whitworth is a PhD candidate whose dissertation explores international reactions to social movements and domestic unrest in Cold War West Germany. The dissertation asks how dissenting voices from the streets affected high policy decision-making …
Transitioning from a Public History student to Associate Director in only a few weeks, this is one husky alumni we are proud to call our own. Mahala Nyberg, a 2020 graduate of the public history program, moved from Boston to Brownington, Vermont to s…
Luke Scalone is a historian of modern France and the French colonial empire in North Africa. More specifically, his research looks at the forging of a “Vichy Tunisia.” His work examines the relationship of the French colonial administration with var…
Megan shares stories of the past with individuals online, just like we do! Although she was in the history department classrooms for Northeastern University’s Public History Master’s Program only a few months ago, Megan Barney is already out in the f…
In the year since she completed Northeastern’s Public History M.A. program, Katie Woods has been uncovering little known stories and sharing her influential experiences with current history students. Currently, Katie is researching the connections be…
Dave DeCamp graduated from Davidson College in 2012 with a Bachelor of Arts in History. He enrolled at Northeastern in Fall 2012 as a master’s student in World History and was accepted to the Northeastern PhD program starting in the Fall semest…
