Featured Alumni

Lauren Ashley Bradford
MA - Columbia University, 2020
BA - Gettysburg College, 2018
PhD student in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University (Worcester, MA)

Ali Cain
MA - Columbia University, 2021
BA - SUNY Binghamton, 2016
Policy Officer, Delegation of the European Union to the U.S. (Washington, D.C.)

Ethan Cohen
MA - Columbia University, 2020
BA - Vassar College, 2016
PhD student in History at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA)

Ayana Dootalieva
MA - Columbia University, 2020
Law degree - Ghent University, 2018
Legal Researcher, Free University of Brussels (VUB) (Brussels, Belgium)

Faïz El Mamoune
MA - Columbia University, 2020
MA - University of Ottawa, 2019
BA - Concordia University, 2018
Junior Advisor, EU Delegation to the UN (New York, NY)

Max Ferrer
MA - Columbia University, 2021
BA - Bucknell University, 2017
PhD student in History, King's College London (London, UK)

Huiyi Gu
MA - Columbia University, 2021
BA - Brandeis University, 2019

Kristjan Gudmundsson
MA - Columbia University, 2020
MA - University of Iceland, 2018
BA - University of Iceland, 2016

Ruiqi Ji
MA - Columbia University, 2021
BA - Tufts University, 2019

Yuri Kazakov
MA - Columbia University, 2020
BA - CUNY Hunter College, 2018

John Melkon
MA - Columbia University, 2021
MIA - Texas A&M University, 2005
MBA - Texas A&M University, 2004
BA - Princeton University, 1990

William Naylor
MA - Columbia University, 2020
BA - Amherst College, 2017
Executive Search Consultant, Goldsmith & Co (New York, NY)

Claire Olmstead
MA - Columbia University, 2021
BA - University of California, Berkeley, 2018

Jade Quintero
MA - Columbia University, 2021
BA - University of California, Los Angeles, 2019

Floris Rijssenbeek
MA - Columbia University, 2021
MA - University of Utrecht, 2019
BA - University of Amsterdam, 2017

Kristofer Seibt
MA - Columbia University, 2021
BA - Providence College, 2011
Instructor, Department of History, United States Military Academy (West Point, NY)

Laura Sussman
MA - Columbia University, 2020
BA - Stanford University, 2019
Associate, Europe Practice, McLarty Associates (Brussels, Belgium)

Ruben Tjon-A-Meeuw
MA - Columbia University, 2021
BA - King's College London, 2019

Oleksandr Yusupov
MA - Columbia University, 2021
BA - King's College London, 2019

Andrew Carroll
MA - Columbia University, 2020
BS - US Air Force Academy, 2018 
First Lieutenant, US Air Force (Wichita Falls, TX)

Corey Cherrington
MA - Columbia University, 2019
BA - Brigham Young University, 2017
Master of Library and Information Science student, University of Washington (Seattle, WA)

Ben Diehl
MA - Columbia University, 2020
BA - SUNY College Geneseo, 2018
PhD student in History, CUNY Graduate Center (New York, NY)

Ian Donnellan
MA - Columbia University, 2020
BA - University of California, Davis, 2017
Research Fellow, Streit Council

Marc Dorpema
MA - Columbia University, 2019
MSc - London School of Economics, 2018
BA - University of London, 2017
PhD student in History, NYU (New York, NY)

Joseph Elmo
MA - Columbia University, 2020
BA - Florida Atlantic University, 2018
Executive Assistant, Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Washington, D.C.)

Emma Flaherty
MA - Columbia University, 2020
BA - Elon University, 2018
Business Risk and Control Associate, Wells Fargo (Davidson, NC)

Emily Healy
MA - Columbia University, 2020
BA - Harvard College, 2010

Arnor Gunnarsson
MA - Columbia University, 2019
BA - University of Iceland, 2018
Specialist for the National Security Council, Prime Minister's Office (Iceland)

Gabrielle Higgins
MA - Columbia University, 2019
BA - Elmira College, 2018
Crisis Intervention Counselor, Rise Domestic Violence Shelter & Advocacy (Binghamton, NY)

Anna Koolstra
MA - Columbia University, 2019
BSc - London School of Economics, 2016
Housing Policy Advisor, City of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Tuure-Eerik Niemi
MA - Columbia University, 2019
MA - College of Europe (Bruges), 2019
BA - Leiden University, 2019
Public Relations Officer, European Parliament (Helsinki, Finland)

Quinn Shepherd
MA - Columbia University, 2020
BA - Yale University, 2019
PhD student in History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC)

Edoardo Vaccari
MA - Columbia University, 2019
BA - University of Bologna, 2017
PhD student in History, London School of Economics (London, UK)

Charlotte Waldraff
MA - Columbia University, 2020
BA - University of Cambridge, 2015

Ben Walsh
MA - Columbia University, 2019
BA - University of Michigan Ann Arbor, 2018

Jie Zhu
MA - Columbia University, 2020
BA - University of Science and Technology Beijing, 2017

Mitul Arora
MA - Columbia University, 2019
BA - University of California, Berkeley, 2015
Associate Project Manager, CALSTART (Pasadena, CA)

Ryan Conley
MA - Columbia University, 2019
BSc - University of Maryland, 2005
Foreign Area Officer, US Army

Ahmet Goksun
MA - Columbia University, 2019
MBA - University of Pennsylvania 
MBA - Boğaziçi University
BA - Boğaziçi University

Marisa Henderson
MA - Columbia University, 2018
BA - Purdue University, 2014
Officer, US Social Security Administration

Angela Kun-Gazda
MA - Columbia University, 2018
BA - Hunter College, 2015
PhD student in History, CUNY (New York, NY)

Kevin Lavery
MA - Columbia University, 2018
BA - Gettysburg College, 2016
Program Manager, Eisenhower Institute, Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, PA)

Joseph Puchner
MA - Columbia University, 2019
BA - University of Dallas, 2017
PhD student in European History, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)

Tristan Sechrest
MA - Columbia University, 2019
BA - Yale University, 2015
English Language Manager, Supertext Germany (Berlin, Germany)

Robin Stark
MA - Columbia University, 2018
BA - The Citadel, 2005
MBA Candidate, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)

Tiffany Thompson
MA - Columbia University, 2018
BA - University of California, Irvine, 2016
PhD student in History, Boston College (Boston, MA)

Harry Whomersley
MA - Columbia University, 2018
BA - Cambridge University, 2012
Faculty Assistant, Columbia Law School (New York, NY) 

Brandy Allen
MA - Columbia University, 2018
BA - University of Virginia, 2016
Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs Specialist &
JD Candidate, Georgetown University Law Center (Washington, D.C.)

Melissa Bosem
MA - Columbia University, 2018
BA - University of Chicago, 2017
Investment Officer, Millennium (New York, NY) 

Daniel Castro
MA - Columbia University, 2018
BA - Rutgers University, 2016
Manager of Membership Operations, Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) (New York, NY)

Jerry Christodoulatos
MA - Columbia University, 2018
BA - Villanova University, 2015 
PhD student, History at UC San Diego (CA) 

Joseph Dammann
MA - Columbia University, 2018
BA - Union College Schenectady, 2012
Corporate Paralegal, The NHP Foundation (New York, NY)

Andrew Dornstadter
MA - Columbia University, 2017
MS - University of Missouri Rolla, 2009
BSc - US Military Academy West Point, 2004 
Major, US Army

Ryan Eavenson
MA - Columbia University, 2018
MA - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015
BA - Lafayette College, 2010 

Nicholas Fiore
MA - Columbia University, 2017
BA - Fordham University, 2013 

Meyer Horne
MA - Columbia University, 2018
BA - University of Chicago, 2017
JD candidate, Columbia Law School (New York, NY)

Jacob Palmer
BA - American University, 2014
MA - Columbia University, 2017
JD candidate, Boston University Law (Boston, MA) 

Sarah Roth
MA - Columbia University, 2018
BA - Columbia University, 2016
PhD student in History at London School of Economics and Political Science (London, UK)

Katie Shine
MA - Columbia University, 2018
BA - University of Delaware, 2013
PhD student in History, Fordham University (New York, NY)

Stephanie Sonkin
MA - Columbia University, 2018
BA - American University, 2014
Project Manager, International Activities for the American Chemical Society (Washington, D.C.)

Fan Cheng
BLA - University of Science and Technology Beijing, 2015
MA - Columbia University, 2017
Client Solutions Manager, GLG (New York, NY)

Elizabeth Kim
BA - University of Pennsylvania, 2015
MA - Columbia University, 2017
Associate, Macro Advisory Partners (New York, NY)

Alvaro Miranda
BA - Columbia University, 2015
MA - Columbia University, 2017

Renee Pappous
BA - University of California, Irvine, 2012
MA - Columbia University, 2016
Archivist, Reference, Rockefeller Archive Center (Sleepy Hollow, NY)

Alexandro Pedraza
BA - University of Texas at Austin, 2003
MA - Columbia University, 2016
Major, US Army, Foreign Area Officer at the George C. Marshall Center (Germany) 

Jackson Allison
BA - University of California-Berkeley, 2015
MA - Columbia University, 2016
PhD - University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2020
Assistant Professor of Economics at Saint Mary's College of California (Moraga, CA)

Farrah Madanay
BA - Rice University, 2013
MA - Columbia University, 2016
PhD student, Health Policy at Duke University (Durham, NC) 

Vinícius Bivar Marra Pereira
BA - Universidade de Brasilia, 2013
MA - Columbia University, 2016
PhD student, History at the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) 

Anne Schult
BA - The New School, 2012
MA - Columbia University, 2016
PhD student, Modern European History at New York University (New York, NY) 

Jarrett Moran
BA - Yale University
MA - Columbia University, 2014
PhD student, Modern European History at the Graduate Center, CUNY (New York, NY) 

Michael Peragine
BA - Stony Brook University, 2010
MA - Columbia University, 2015
Legal Data Analyst, Bloomberg LP (New York, NY)

Vanessa Johnston
BA - York University, Glendon College, 2007
MA - Columbia University, 2014
Video journalist, Reuters (Washington, D.C.)

Nicole Ann Kiviat
BA - Tufts University, 2012
MA - Columbia University, 2014
PhD student, Italian Studies at Columbia University (New York, NY)