Amira Abujbara '17, an English major and environmental studies minor, is a Doha-based journalist who teamed up with native Hawaiian filmmaker Ciara Lacy for a documentary that shines a light on the ongoing challenges facing the tight-knit rural community of Iliamna, Alaska.
Read Out of Alaska in the Spring/Summer 2019 issue of Haverford Magazine.
In a scene from the documentary "We Are Still Here", Amira Abujbara '17 helps out with salmon fishing in the remote village in Alaska where her mother was raised.
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For Matthew Ridley '19, a summer internship at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is another notch in his belt of archival experience. Funded by the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, the history major is working in the museum’s conservation department through August.
Photo: Patrick Montero. "Summer Centered" is a series exploring our students' Center-funded summer work.
Classical languages major Paul Brucia Breitenfeld ’19 authored a senior thesis that explored cultural allusions in a second-century North African Latin novel as a way of understanding the reach and oppression of the Roman empire.
"What They Learned" is a blog series exploring the thesis work of recent graduates.
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