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Social Stuides Peer Concentration Counselors, 2008-2009
Jessica Azani '09 (jvazani@fas)
House: Lowell
Academic Interests: Education, Public Policy, Law and Individual Rights
Extracurricular Activities: The Radcliffe Choral Society, IOP Citizenship Tutoring Program, and Harvard Model Congress
Career Goals: I am currently hoping to work in education policy or education law. As far as my post-graduation plans, I am considering teaching for a few years or working in education consulting before going on to either law school or public policy school.
Favorite Courses: Government 1368: The Politics of American Education, Social Studies 10, Psychology 1504: Positive Psychology, Moral Reasoning 54: If There Is No God, All Is Permitted, Psychology 15: Social Psychology, Historical Study A-12: International Conflict and Cooperation
Trevor Bakker '10 (tjbakker@fas)
House: Kirkland
Academic Interests: development economics, human rights, international law, international relations, social theory
Extracurricular Activities: Harvard College Human Rights Advocates, Harvard Darfur Action Group, Small Claims Advisory Service (PBHA), research for Prof. Jacqueline Bhabha
Career Goals: improving human welfare through academia, government, law, and/or NGO work
Favorite Courses: Human Rights in Peace and War (Fresh Seminar 46p), International Courts (Gov 2123), Political Economy of Africa (Gov 1197), Social Studies 10
Amy Beeson '10 (ambeeson@fas)
House: Kirkland
Academic Interests: the politics of international development, global health and poverty, social theory, Latin America , foreign policy, philosophy of religion, music, the human brain and body
Extracurricular Activities: Institute of Politics, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Harvard Ballet Company, Harvard Aviation Club, Admissions Office Tours
Career Goals: Entirely uncertain… possibly flying doctor?
Favorite Courses: Social Studies 10, Government 1540: “The American Presidency”, Music 1b: “Western Music from Beethoven to the Present”, Government 20: “Introduction to Comparative Politics”, Freshman Seminar 21o: “The Neurophysiology of Visual Perception”
Claire Guehenno '09 (guehenno@fas)
House: Adams
Academic Interests: The European Union, International Relations, French history, Religion and Secularism in France and Turkey , the Classics
Extracurricular Activities: Harvard Crimson; I also love to dance and to travel
Career Goals: Completely undecided but some possibilities beings considered are law, journalism, and politics
Favorite Courses: Social Studies 10: Introduction to Social Studies, History 1468: the Histories of France and United States Compared, History 1085: The Roman Empire from Augustus to Constantine, Social Studies 98: Why Americans Love God and Europeans Don't
Rashmi Jasrasaria ‘10
House: Kirkland
Academic Interests: International health policy, global health delivery and distribution, cultural attitudes toward medicine, the intersection of science and social science, philosophy and evolution, language, religious philosophy, human rights, international development, history of science/social thought, cultural development
Extracurricular Activities: singing (The Radcliffe Pitches, Harvard Radcliffe Collegium Musicum), dancing (South Asian Dance Company, SAA Ghungroo), health-related/premed stuff (Community Health Representative, Lab Research at Mass General Hospital on Intestinal Cell Differentiation), volunteering (Harvard Program for International Education- teach high school students once a week, Support for International Change- HIV/AIDS education in Tanzania this summer)
Career Goals: Become a doctor and perhaps later involve myself in health-delivery on a larger level (NGO work, policy work); Work in a developing country.
Favorite Courses: Social Studies 10a and 10b: Introduction to Social Theory; Social Analysis 80: World Poverty and Human Rights; History of Science 100: Knowing the World; Life Sciences 1a: An Integrated Introduction to Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and Cell Biology; Lost Languages and Decipherment (Freshman Seminar)
Favorite Courses: Social Studies 10: Introduction to Social Studies, History 1468: the Histories of France and United States Compared, History 1085: The Roman Empire from Augustus to Constantine
Ridhi Kashyap '10 (rkashyap@fas)
House: Quincy
Academic Interests: social theory, human rights, moral and political philosophy, feminist philosophy and gender, multiculturalism and cultural politics, nationalism and the nation-state, south Asian history and society.
Extracurricular Activities: Harvard College Women's Center Intern, Radcliffe Union of Students, Harvard Program for International Education, Human rights-related activities, research assistant work.
Career Goals: academia, human rights law and advocacy, non-profit work, education...or something related.
Favorite Courses: Freshman Seminar: Human Rights in Peace and War, Social Studies 10, Anthro 1627: Comparative Secularism, Phil 171: Political Philosophy, Music 1b, Urdu 105r.
Elsa Kim '08-'09 (elsakim@fas)
House: Mather
Academic Interests: The purpose of an undergraduate education, American history and theory, social theory, existentialism, the arts, media and the Internet.
Extracurricular Activities: Writing for Crimson Arts, Peer Advising Fellow, Expressions Dance Company, video editing
Career Goals: A journalist or editor, and maybe a music video director on the side...
Favorite Courses: Social Studies 10, History 1661 (Social Thought in Modern America), English 168x (Cultures and Countercultures of the 1960s), Humanities 11 (Self, Serenity and Vulnerability).
Heidi Kim '09 (heidikim@fas)
House: Lowell !
Academic Interests: Global health, human rights, individual and group identity, religion and politics
Extracurricular Activities: Harvard Global Health and AIDS Coalition, Lowell House Committee, Christian Impact, Peer Advising Fellow, Student Advisory Board, Freshman Outdoor Program, Committee to Review to the Undergraduate Council, IM Crew
Career Goals: Very unclear path in public service- more specifically, in global health
Favorite Courses: Social Studies 10 (especially in hindsight), Literature and Arts B-51- "First Nights: Five Performance Premieres", Expos 20- "Race in the Americas", Sociology 190- "Life and Death in the USA: Medicine and Disease in a Social Context", Government 1235- "Genocide", English 166x- "The Postcolonial Classic", Social Studies 98jw- "Citizenship Rights in Theory and Practice”
Hyunjin Kim '10 (hyunjin@fas)
House: Eliot
Academic Interests: ethics in international affairs, international development, human rights, humanitarian policy and conflict, social theory, 19th and 20th century literature, postmodernism, languages
Extracurricular Activities: varsity sailing team, Harvard International Relations Council, chamber music, research assistant for the Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Career goals: dancing. singing. traveling. reading. saving the world.
Favorite Courses: Social Studies 10, English 168d (Post-war American and British Fiction), Moral Reasoning 28 (Ethics and International Affairs), French 70b (Representations of Change from the Romantics to the Present), Gov 1732 (The Origins of Modern Wars)
Laura Moore '09 (lamoore@fas)
House: Leverett
Academic Interests: Communitarian Theory, Political Theory, Social Theory, Race Theory, African and African American Studies, 19th and 20th Century Literature. Using all of this to figure out how the individual negotiates his identity and grapples to find meaning in a meaningless world.
Extracurricular Activities: The Harvard Crimson
Career Goals: Very much up in the air. Considering teaching/academia, journalism, or public policy and research.
Favorite Courses: Social Studies 10, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (Sociology 60), Modernity (Social Studies 98jd), Social Structure and Culture in the Study of Race (AfAm 211), Postwar American and British Fiction (English 168d)
Joanna Naples-Mitchell '10 (joannanm@fas)
House: Kirkland
Academic Interests: Human rights, international relations, history, transitional justice, war crimes and crimes against humanity, conflict studies, social theory, social movements, development, ethics
Extracurricular Activities: Harvard Darfur Action Group, Harvard College Democrats, Harvard College Human Rights Advocates, Harvard Crimson (Editorial Board), Harvard Square Homeless Shelter
Career Goals: Law, politics, journalism
Favorite Courses: Social Studies 10: Introduction to Social Studies, Government 1740: International Law, Government 1751: Human Rights, Anthropology 1635: Human Rights and Social Justice, History 1676: Social Movements in the United States from Populism to the New Right, Spanish 30: Temas de actualidad
Paul G. Nauert '09 ( nauert@fas )
House: Dudley Co-op
Academic Interests: Intellectual history, politics, globalization issues, French postcolonial literature, China and Chinese language, social theory
Extracurricular Activities: First-Year Urban Program, anti-war activism, community service
Career Goals: Uncertain
Favorite Courses: History 1661 (Social Thought in Modern America), Social Studies 10, French 42, Practicing Democracy (Social Studies Junior Tutorial)
Frances Tompkins '09 (ftompkin@fas)
House: Kirkland
Academic Interests: Education and human development, social theory, psychology, the ability of non-profits to serve families and communities in a variety of ways
Extracurricular Activities: A wide range of PBHA-related endeavors, spending time with amazing people, walking without a specific destination (weather permitting)
Career Goals: Something (or many things) education-related.
Favorite Courses: Psychology of Leadership - Cognitive Development, Education, and the Brain - Political Philosophy and Human Rights - Social Studies 10 - PBHA (a.k.a. "the best course at Harvard")
Weiqi Zhang '10 (wzhang@fas)
House: Mather
Academic Interests: Political science and philosophy, East Asian language and civilization, Social network analysis
Extracurricular Activities: Harvard Ballroom Dance Team, Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Harvard International Review, Harvard Square homeless shelter, meditation, ping pong
Career Goals: not a doctor
Favorite Courses: Social Studies 10a : Introduction to Social Studies; Government 1060 : Ancient and Medieval Political Philosophy; Literature and Arts B-23 : The Japanese Woodblock Print; Government 90gs : Civil Society in Asia
Leo Zimmermann '09 (lpzimmer@fas)
House: Currier
Academic Interests: Evolution, psychology, philosophy, postmodernism, cyborgs, extraterrestrials, experimental fiction
Extracurricular Activity: Paranoia/Games
Career Goal: Live life
Favorite courses: On Theory, Kafka, Nietzsche, Linguistic Pragmatics and Cultural Analysis in Anthropology, Social Studies 10 and 98s.