After months of reviewing submissions, our Editorial Board is excited to announce the selected works and authors for our Summer 2023 Issue, which are the following:
Rachel Blatt, Yale College, "Julian or Judaism: In Betrayal or Support of Paganism?"
Aoife Hufford, College of William and Mary, "Whom the Wicked in Scorn Call Quakers"
Zoe McGuirk, Dartmouth College, "Choiceless Choices: Attack on Autonomy"
About the Writers
Rachel Blatt, Yale College ’23
Originally from Washington D.C., Rachel Blatt graduated in May from Yale College, where she studied history and classics. She particularly enjoys learning about religions of antiquity like ancient Judaism and Roman religion. She will be starting law school this Fall at Stanford Law School. In her free time, she loves to hike and explore new restaurants.
Emilie Lucia Bowerman, Dartmouth College ’23
Emilie Lucia Bowerman ’23 is a recent graduate of Dartmouth College. Born and raised in Baltimore County, Maryland, Emilie designed her own Special Interdisciplinary major in Medieval Studies (ca. 300 – ca. 1500 CE). She also participated in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship and the 2022-2023 History Honors Program. Her honors thesis, entitled The Cult of the Cross in the Hispanic Rite, fourth to eighth centuries, received High Honors from the History Department and won the Peter J. Reichard 1966 Memorial Research Award. After graduating in June of 2023, Emilie intends to enter a graduate program in late antique and medieval history, and to continue her research into the religious and cultural life of the Mediterranean world. In addition to historical research, Emilie enjoys reading, hiking, cycling, and visiting museums.
Jessica Chiriboga, Dartmouth College ’24
Jessica Chiriboga ’24 is a senior at Dartmouth College studying history and government. Jessica is Dartmouth’s Student Body President and President of the non-partisan Dartmouth Political Union. As a Stamps Scholar, she is preparing a senior thesis on the history of the San Gabriel Mountains. Jessica has worked as a New Hampshire Supreme Court intern and was a founding podcaster for the Spotify/Apple award-winning history podcast UnTextbooked. She enjoys backpacking, constitutional law, and environmental history.
Aoife Hufford, College of William and Mary ’23
Aoife Hufford ’23 from Old Lyme, CT, is a senior at the College of William & Mary. A double major in history and religious studies, she is interested in the social and religious history of the United States with an emphasis on Early America and marginalized voices. Her senior research projects focused on Quaker activism in North America through gender in the 17th century and abolition in the 18th. She has previously published a piece on freemen and litigation in antebellum Virginia and interned with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. She plans on pursuing graduate study on Early American religion.
Rocio Ibanez Torres, Dartmouth College ’23
Rocio Ibanez Torres ’23 is a first generation graduate of Dartmouth College, double majoring in government and Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Born and raised in East Los Angeles, California, her French-Mexican heritage has influenced much of her academic work including research on inequities surrounding medical and educational treatment of Latino communities across the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, coursework on human rights violations in Latin America, and investigative work surrounding power, politics, and gender in Latin America and the Caribbean. She is also passionate about education advocacy, working for programs such as Upward Bound, aiming to support future generations of first generation and low-income students in entering post-secondary institutions.
Zoe McGuirk, Dartmouth College ’25
Zoe McGuirk ’25 is a junior at Dartmouth College originally from the New Hampshire seacoast. Zoe is pursuing a major in History modified with Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and a minor in Government. Following political and electoral work in high school, Zoe developed a deep interest in the intersection of politics and history. She intends to pursue law school after completing her undergraduate studies at Dartmouth, specifically pursuing public interest law focused on gender equity. Zoe's primary area of interest concerns law related to reproductive health access, rights, and equity, informed by our nation's tumultuous reproductive rights history.
Congratulations to our writers and to everyone who submitted!