Tiffany Nguyen ’16 Studies in West Philly
Haverford’s Quaker Consortium allows students like Nguyen to take classes at the University of Pennsylvania.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Raymond DeLuca ’14
Raymond DeLuca originally planned to write his senior thesis about a failed anarchist uprising against the Soviet government. But after researching an English version of the group’s daily newspaper, he discovered that a group of Russian émigrés in Prague had done the translating and dissemination of the paper, and he was moved instead to write “Refugees, Immigrants and Émigrés: A Reinterpretation of the Russian ‘Émigré’ Community in Prague, 1919-1939.”
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Alexandra Wolkoff ’14
Sociology major Alexandra Wolkoff started taking classes in the dance department at Bryn Mawr College during her freshman year and was so transformed by the experience that she sought to use her senior capstone project to study why.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Abigail Flynn ’14
Abigail Flynn’s senior thesis examined the Supreme Court’s influence on state legislative action on the death penalty.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Neilay Shah ’14
Neilay Shah’s history senior thesis, “The Luce-Celler Act of 1946: White Nationalism, Indian Nationalism, and the Cosmopolitan Elite,” focused on different implications of the law, which provided a quota of 100 Filipinos and 100 Indians to immigrate into the United States each year.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Bruce Leto ’14
Pianist Bruce Leto took attendees on “The Grand Tour of Italy” at his thesis performance.
WHAT THEY LEARNED: Matt Johnson ’14
Chemistry major Matt Johnson investigated the mechanisms by which some species of bacteria naturally produce pharmaceutically useful compounds, such as antibiotics, for his senior thesis.
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The Club Life @ Haverford
A series exploring the many varied student clubs on campus.
What They Learned
A series exploring the thesis work of recent graduates.
Where They’re Headed
A blog series detailing the post-Haverford plans of our recent graduates.