Alumni Profiles
Spotlight stories on alumni who are leading, innovating, and making a difference.
No More [Lovin’ That] Dirty Water
Enjoying the Boston Harbor’s Renaissance This Summer
by Nell Porter-Brown
“Feelings Ought to Be Investigated”
Deidre Lynch on the cult of Jane Austen and the complexities of loving literature
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
The Lawyer Librettist
In the “final phase” of her life, Cerise Lim Jacobs builds herself an oeuvre.
by Sophia Nguyen
The Happy Misanthrope
A playwright making those overlooked by history into lore
by Olivia Schwob
Reports from the “New America”
Latino-American journalist Julio Ricardo Varela
by Nell Porter-Brown
Matthew Wittmann
Cultural historian Matthew Wittmann makes a home at Harvard's performing-arts library.
by Sophia Nguyen
John Adams at Harvard
What he learned and what he made of it
by Richard Alan Ryerson
Alan Seeger
Brief live of a premonitory poet: 1888-1916
by Dick Friedman
“Math Kids” Facilitator
A private San Francisco middle school and high school nurture a passion for numbers.
by Violet Baron
George Bucknam Dorr
Brief life of a persistent conservationist: 1853-1944
by Steven Pavlos Holmes
Private Eye
Boston-based private investigator Sarah Alcorn is “a bit of an oddball in this business.”
by Nell Porter-Brown