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Haverford Heritage: Four Questions for Anna Bradley ’24
Bradley is a varsity field hockey captain, a leader of Haverford’s Play With Pride Club, and a dedicated volunteer.
Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Visits Haverford for Second Annual Campus Read
Taylor’s book explores the history and contributions of the radical Black feminist Combahee River Collective.
Where They’re Headed: Lili May Muntean ’23
Muntean majored in psychology and minored in visual studies. She now pursues a J.D. at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
COOL CLASSES: “What Does Ancient Rome Taste Like”
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Robert Santucci delves into Roman eating and explores humanity’s relationship with its food.
Haverford Heritage: Five Questions for Lina Martinez Hernandez
Assistant Professor of Spanish Lina Martinez Hernandez draws on her Latin American and queer identities to inform her teaching and connect with students.
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What They Learned
A series exploring the thesis work of recent graduates. View More
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Aurelio Mollo ’17
The chemistry major drew from chemical and biological techniques in his thesis research to devise a faster route to a new antibiotic.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Kyu Chang ’17
The computer science major and statistics minor helps shed light on “dark” reactions.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Diana Schoder ’17
The economics major and environmental studies minor combined her academic interests in a thesis exploring the illegal ivory trade.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Jane Shen ’17
The English major applied theories of biopower to Aphra Behn’s 17th century novel Oroonoko.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Caleb Eckert ’17
For his thesis, the anthropology major and environmental studies minor pondered the pivotal role of water in the lives of those in his hometown.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Ching Li ’17
The physics major produced theoretical calculations for his thesis to chart possible results of particle collisions.
Where They’re Headed
A blog series detailing the post-Haverford plans of our recent graduates. View More
Where They’re Headed: Madison Arnold-Scerbo ’18
The history major and museum studies minor is off to Portland, Ore., as a Quaker Voluntary Service fellow for Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Where They’re Headed: Natalia Amaral Marrero ’18
The biology major and fine arts minor will attend Purdue University’s College of Veterinary Medicine this fall.
Where They’re Headed: Taylor Levine ’18
The psychology major and neuroscience minor is applying her academic passions to professional work at the Depression & Clinical Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Where They’re Headed: Alex Belfi ’18
The Haverford biology major started her full-time job as a genetics researcher for the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine just two days after graduation.
Where They’re Headed: Patrick O’Shea ’18
A former sportswriter for The Bi-Co News and member of the Haverford baseball team, the English major landed an internship with the Tampa Bay Rays’ minor league affiliate, the Hudson Valley Renegades.
Where They’re Headed: Caroline Steliotes ’18
The math and linguistics double major with an educational studies concentration will continue her academic journey at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and pursue her dream of becoming a math teacher.
Cool Classes
A series highlighting interesting, unusual, and unique courses that enrich the Haverford College experience. View More
COOL CLASSES: “Oral History and Activism”
This Peace, Justice, and Human Rights course explores the ethics, politics, and practice of oral history as an activist research methodology, and is focused on the theory, practice, and ethics of documenting oral histories.
COOL CLASSES: “Stress and Coping”
This psychology seminar examines the theory and research of stress and coping processes and their links with disease and mental health, and includes an experiential learning component in which students learn stress-management techniques.
COOL CLASSES: “The End of the World as We Know It”
This class in the Department of Religion on early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature explores the social functions of apocalyptic and ask why this form has been so persistent and influential.
COOL CLASSES: “Bodies of Injustice: Health, Illness, and Healing in Contexts of Inequality”
For students returning from internship experiences who wish to deepen their understanding of social justice and healthcare, this course integrates experiential learning with readings on cultural conceptions of health, structural determinants of health, and addressing health inequalities in the United States and other countries.
COOL CLASSES: “Artists Under Policing Gaze of the State: Politics, History, and Performance”
This course, which is crosslisted in both comparative literature and peace, justice, and human rights, investigates what permanent surveillance meant and means historically and today for society at large and for individual artists living under its pressure.
COOL CLASSES: “Human Rights in Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania, and in National and Global Contexts”
This course considers human rights theory and civil society action as they relate to students’ recent Center for Peace and Global Citizenship-sponsored summer internship experiences to interrogate the relationship between social issues and policy structures.
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