Industrial history comes alive when you've actually managed factories and supply chains. Alan connects economic and labor movements — from unionization battles to globalization shifts — to his firsthand experience in industrial management, giving students a concrete lens for understanding how histor...

Physics training builds a specific habit that pays off in history: identifying the forces acting on a system and predicting what happens next. Maxwell applies that same causal reasoning to historical analysis, teaching students to trace how political pressures, economic conditions, and ideological s...

Jane treats history as an exercise in building arguments from evidence, not memorizing dates. Her ecology background gives her an unusual lens for topics like westward expansion, industrialization, and environmental policy — connecting human decisions to their larger consequences in ways that make t...

Linguistics training reshapes how you read historical texts — Alyssa instinctively analyzes how language, translation, and cultural context shaped the documents that historians treat as evidence. Her research across both the Linguistics and Japanese departments at the University of Vermont means she...

Kevin's engineering training might seem far from history, but chemical and environmental engineering demands the same skill history courses test: reading dense material, extracting the key argument, and explaining how one event led to another. He applies that structured thinking to essay organizatio...

Treating history as a set of arguments rather than a list of dates makes the material stick and the essays stronger. Maria's experience advising students on college applications and academic writing translates directly into teaching how to build evidence-based historical claims. She emphasizes sourc...

I am an interdisciplinary educator with an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a B.A. from Dartmouth College. My background is primarily in integrated arts learning and museum education and I specialize in visual arts, history and art history, and object-based learning. In all su...

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I am a recent graduate from a masters program in biostatistics at Columbia University. I received my Bachelor of Arts in biological sciences, with a focus in neurobiology at Northwestern University. In August, I will be starting a doctoral program in biostatistics at NYU. I was a teaching assistant ...

I am a graduate of Wesleyan University, where I received my Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with High Honors. With eight years of experience working in education, I've tutored students in math, science, history, and English, as well as helped students prepare for standardized tests. I've guided adults...

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I am a junior Mechanical Engineering major at Yale, and I hope to become a Naval Aviator after college. I am also a varsity sailor, and enjoy playing music with friends when I can get some free time. I have been tutoring my fellow students throughout my entire academic career, and I would best descr...

I am a graduate of Washington University in St Louis, where I received my Bachelor of Arts in History with minors in Humanities and Anthropology. Since graduation, I have worked as a tutor, teacher, and director of tutors at a charter public middle school in Boston. During this time I also received ...

I'm Solange - a recent graduate from Harvard where I studied Sociology & Women's Studies. I've been tutoring for eight years now, and have worked with a wide range of ages and in a wide range of subjects. Some of my specialties are college prep/test taking II worked in the admissions office on campu...

I am a rising sophomore at Harvard College and am about to declare as a Mechanical Engineering concentrator, working towards a Bachelor of Science degree. I've always enjoyed sharing my knowledge with my peers and those around me and have done so in both formal and informal settings. I've been a tut...