Alumni Profiles


Faith through Film

The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies

by Max J. Krupnick

Tuning In to Urban Noise

Erica Walker aims to put “tools and data into the hands of people who can use it.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

HAA Honors Alumni Clubs and SIGs

A celebration of significant alumni and shared interest groups

Henry Chapman Mercer

Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930  

by Nancy Freudenthal

The Low End Theory

Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship

by Jesse McCarthy

Prodigies’ Progress

Parents and superkids, then and now  

by Ann Hulbert

A Composed Response

Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland on finding his musical voice  

by Jennifer McFarl...

Sketch Artist

Comedian Colin Jost, from Shouts and Murmurs to Saturday Night Live

by Oset Babür

A Novel Take on Eternal Life

Dara Horn breathes life into classical Jewish sources.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

From Here to Timbuktu

A globe-trotting monk with the Benedictine “survival gene” seeks out treasured manuscripts.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Stories for Change

Nancy Churnin’s picture-book biographies for children span time and space.

by Sanya Sagar