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Check out our interviews with some of our alumni to learn more about their path during and after graduation!
Victoria earned her B.A. in French and International Relations from the University of Rochester in 2021 and began the World History doctoral program at Northeastern University the following semester. Victoria’s research interests include the i…
Jeff is a PhD candidate in World History and holds an MA in education from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the history of technology as it relates to 20th century police reform in the United States and the world. His dissertat…
Liam MacLean graduated with a BA in Journalism from Boston University in 2018 and an MA in History from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2019. Liam’s previous research was focused on interrogating the British Left’s response to the Ruh…
Colleen is a PhD student in World History at Northeastern University, continuing after earning her MA from Northeastern in 2019. She completed her BA in History and Political Science from Union College in 2016. She has graduate certificates in Digita…
Hunter Moskowitz is a doctoral candidate in World History at Northeastern with a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. His dissertation focuses on the movement of labor and technology in the early 19th century textile indust…
Alicia is a doctoral student in World History at Northeastern University. She completed her M.A. in Public History at Northeastern in 2021. She has a B.A. in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University and a M.Arch. from the University of …
Emma graduated with a BA in Linguistics & English from Northeastern University in 2018. She did her undergraduate co-op in visitor services at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which sparked an interest in all that occurs behind the sc…
A native of Gleason, Tennessee, Edward graduated with a BS in history from Bethel University in McKenzie, Tennessee in the spring of 2023. His research interests cover a wide span, but he focuses specifically on the Protestant Reformation and the Col…
Danielle graduated from Niagara University with a BA in History. As an undergraduate, Danielle interned with the Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village and began work on digitizing the museum’s archived materials. Danielle was an active member of Nia…
I’m originally from New York and I did my undergrad in International Relations and Global Studies and History at Brandeis University. I ran a history and music show (two separate shows) for WBRS and was a member of my hometown’s historica…
In my undergraduate experience I completed a Co-op with the Commonwealth Museum, focusing on the history of the Massachusetts area. My focus was educating primary school students on this matter, giving them the fundamentals of historical thought and …
I am from Charlotte, NC and completed my undergraduate studies at Appalachian State University in History. My senior thesis focused on historical narratives in the popular television show American Horror Story. I decided to come to Northeastern to co…
Alicia is a graduate of Northeastern University with a BA in History, Culture, and Law. She is currently pursuing the MA in Public History. Alicia is interested in the intersections of the legal field and history, so she works as a paralegal while al…
Alexa graduated from Occidental College in 2024 with a BA in English and a minor in music. As an undergraduate, Alexa volunteered at Occidental’s Special Collections and Archives, where she handled rare books and 19th century artifacts. She also work…
Originally from Newport, Rhode Island, Grace Rooney graduated summa cum laude from Fordham University with a BA in History and Political Science in 2023. As an undergraduate, Grace worked as an intern at the Museum of Jewish Heritage- A Living Memori…
I am originally from Northern California but was raised overseas. I graduated from Smith College in 2021 with a BA in History and a minor in religion. During my time at Smith, I completed an independent study on comparative historical memory; analyzi…
Hattie Tauson graduated from Stonehill College with a BA in History, along with a double minor in Anthropology and Education Studies in 2024. As an undergraduate, Hattie was the President of the Stonehill College Historical Society which fostered a s…
Originally from Allen, Texas, Riley graduated from Texas Woman’s University with a BS in History and a minor in Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies in 2023. While an undergrad, she worked on campus as a research assistant at the Sue S. Bancroft …
Ryan (he/him) is a master’s student in the World History program with a background in progressive political activism and editorial work. Matters of social, economic, and climate justice are of great interest to him — as well as how historical actors…
Yuhan Dong graduated from the University of Connecticut with a BA in history. Coming from China as a international student, Yuhan develops his interest in history through encounters with the vast varieties of cultural history in different parst of Ch…
Andrew graduated from The Ohio State University in 2023 with a BA in History and minors in Film Studies and Spanish. As a Master’s student in the World History program, he plans to study United States Social and Political history. He hopes to incorpo…
Will Hodgkinson earned his BA in Politics with a Minor in History at Brandeis University and graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2021. He has worked as Project Manager at HarborSide Films, assisting with research and development of multiple historical docum…
Originally from Genoa, Illinois Cassidy graduated from St. Lawerence University with a BA in History and African studies and a minor in Education. During her undergrad she interned at both the National Museums of Kenya and the Library of Congress. At…
Sarah Shapiro graduated from the University of Vermont in the winter of 2022 with her BA as a double major in History and Political Science. From her studies at the University of Vermont, as well as her work experience interning with both local Vermo…
Shaolong Yin is a graduate student in World History at Northeastern University. His research focuses on migration history and historical geography, with a particular interest in Latin America. He is interested in how migration shapes debates over cit…
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 PhD Candidate in World History at Northeastern University. She researches the environmental history of Muslim pilgrimage in the Hijaz, Levant, and Egypt in the late Ottoman period, thinking about interactions between pilgrims, Bedo…
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…
