Ryan Adelsheim is a doctoral candidate in Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism at the School of Drama. Their research focuses on contemporary queer and trans performance and the archive. Ryan is the associate editor for Theater Magazine and has served as a conference dramaturg for the New Harmony Project and on pieces including their co-adaptation of Sarah Waters’ AFFINITY, among others. Before coming to Yale, Ryan freelanced as a new play dramaturg and editor and produced for theater companies including Steppenwolf, Baltimore Center Stage, 2nd Story, and Victory Gardens Theater. Ryan received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2013 and is thrilled to work with academic and creative writers in the humanities at all stages of their work!

Anjali is a third year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. Her research focuses on developing noninvasive wearable sensors for understanding and monitoring human motion patterns in everyday settings. Before coming to Yale, she completed her B.S. in biomedical engineering with a minor in materials science and engineering at Boston University. Anjali has experience writing scientific manuscripts and fellowship applications and is a NSF GRFP fellow.  She looks forward to helping students at any stage in their academic writing.

Shubi is a 3rd year PhD student in English. Her research focuses on novels about environmental illness in the postcolonial tropics. She received an MA in Postcolonial Studies from SOAS, University of London and a BA from Williams College. She is enthusiastic about working with other students on their writing goals, and welcomes them to consult with her at any stage of their writing process,  from brainstorming ideas to editing final drafts.

Kate is a 5th year PhD Candidate in the History Department. Her research focuses on the arms trade and gun clubs in the British and American Empires. She holds a BA in History from University College London and an MPhil in History from the University of Cambridge. Kate has experience giving feedback on a wide range of writing projects and particularly enjoys offering folks a place to share their early-stage work in a low-stakes environment.

Ruthie is a 2nd year PhD student in English and African American Studies. A graduate fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration (RITM), Ruthie studies histories of Black print culture, with a focus on Black feminist literature, archival practice and book history. Prior to starting graduate school, they worked in the editorial department at Beacon Press. With experience supporting writing projects for both academic and public audiences,  Ruthie is eager to collaborate with students toward a wide range of goals. They are especially excited to support interdisciplinary work and creative writing projects.

Nicole is a fourth year PhD candidate in the Music Department and a consultant for the Yale Digital Humanities Lab. Her research aims to understand how artificial intelligence technologies influence contemporary music making, music listening, and music scholarship. Before starting at Yale, Nicole earned an M.A. in Music Theory from CUNY Queens College and a B.A. in Music from Stony Brook University. She looks forward to supporting fellow students on all types of writing projects, especially those that engage interdisciplinary topics.

Shefali Das is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in African American Studies and Film + Media Studies. Her research focuses on state funded military propaganda film, state funded art, and collective memory and consciousness. She holds a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in African American Studies and Political Economy. Shefali loves the writing process, and always looks forward to editing hers and her friends’ work, in any capacity – from op-eds to academic research, creative writing to poetry, the process of writing is something that she is deeply passionate about. She is so excited to work together, and really looks forward to reading your work!

Breeanna is a fifth-year doctoral student in the History of Science and Medicine Program. She received her A.B. in History and African and African American Studies from Harvard College and earned her teacher licensure from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2015. Her doctoral research emphasizes the role of ancestral spirits in histories of regional pharmacopeia and bioprospecting by recognizing them as active and independent political agents in the cross-cultural negotiations of health, healing, and illness in the Western Indian Ocean. Her methodologies include ethnography, archival research, oral history, and ethnobotany, and she works across the disciplines of anthropology, history, and science and technology studies. She is eager to work with writers at all stages in their academic writing, with a special interest in grant and fellowship applications.

Alana Felton is a 5th-year PhD student in Slavic Languages and Literatures. Her research focuses on contemporary Belarusian technologically mediated protest art and culture. Alana has extensive experience advising students writing fellowship application essays and has worked for the Yale Fellowships office for several years. She also enjoys reading and discussing dissertation chapters and academic articles, but is happy to provide feedback on any kind of writing! Alana previously worked as an Acquisitions Editor and copy editor at Academic Studies Press, an independent academic press and is passionate about helping young academics publish. During the 2024–25 academic year, she will be in Europe on a Fulbright Schuman Scholarship, working on her dissertation. Prior to coming to Yale, Alana was a Fulbright ETA in Viciebsk, Belarus in 2018–19 after getting her BA in Slavic Studies from Brown University in 2018.

Manuel is a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Yale School of the Environment. His research is focused on secondary forest regeneration in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.  He has an undergraduate degree in Ecological Restoration and Forestry from Texas A&M University and a master’s degree in plant biology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Manuel has experience in academic writing such as grant writing and scientific publications and he enjoys helping people develop their applications for graduate programs and grants. 

Elizabeth Keto is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the History of Art. Her research focuses on the art and material culture of the Reconstruction era in the United States South. Elizabeth graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College (2018) with a degree in History of Art and Architecture. She was the recipient of a 2018 Marshall Scholarship, and she holds master’s degrees in the history of art and in curating from The Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She looks forward to working with students on all types of writing projects in the humanities, as well as fellowship applications.

Jennifer is a 4th year Ph.D. student in the School of the Environment and Center for Industrial Ecology. Her research focuses on utilizing life cycle assessment to characterize carbon removal strategies, primarily enhanced weathering. Before coming to Yale, Jennifer received her B.A. at Rice University in Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and worked as a Baccalaureate Fellow at the Science and Technology Policy Institute in Washington, D.C.. She has experience in academic and non-academic writing and communication, and looks forward to working with fellow graduate students on a variety of writing projects. Jennifer is also a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and would be happy to help others with their applications!

Eva is a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in History. Her research explores colonial British America and the wider early modern Atlantic World, with a focus on political economy. She is also interested in the integration of network analysis, spatial analysis, and other digital methodologies in humanities projects. Eva received her B.A. in History from Yale College in 2017. Before returning to New Haven for graduate studies, she worked as an education policy researcher and freelance editor. She looks forward to supporting humanities and social science students at any stage in the writing process.

Jacqueline Ly is a 7th year PhD candidate in the History department. Her research focuses on eighteenth-century Belize. She holds a M.A./M.Sc. in International/World History from Columbia University and the London School of Economics and a B.A. from New York University. She enjoys talking and commiserating about writing at all stages of the process, but she particularly likes to work with writers on brainstorming. Jacqueline has experience working with writers on artist statements, diversity statements, dissertation chapters, and dissertation abstracts.

Anne is a doctoral candidate in the Political Science department with a focus on political theory. Her research examines contestation over identity, political ideology, and American values through the lens of 20th century U.S. educational discourse and policy. She holds an M.Phil. in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. in Philosophy from the Gallatin School at NYU.

Jacob Morrow-Spitzer is a fifth-year PhD candidate in the Department of History, and is also an affiliate of Yale’s Jewish Studies Program. His research focuses on the intersection between modern Jewish history, American race, and political history. He received his B.A. in History and Jewish Studies from Tulane University, and worked as a peer tutor at the Tulane Academic Success Center throughout his undergraduate years. Before starting at Yale, he worked in the non-profit and public-facing research world. Jacob has experience editing personal statements, journal articles, conference talks, fellowship applications, book reviews, public-facing scholarship, encyclopedia entries, and many, many course papers.

Kevin is a 4th year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering. His research focuses on transport phenomena in ultrahigh pressure reverse osmosis, an emerging desalination technology for brine management applications. He holds an M.S. in Environmental Engineering at Yale University, along with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a B.A. in English at Case Western Reserve University. He is an National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recipient and has previously worked as a science writer and editor for the CWRU Observer. Kevin has written for both academic and public audiences, and is eager to help writers in the sciences develop their ideas.

Naila is a PhD cadidate in Religious Studies, with a specialization in ancient Judaism and Late Antiquity. Her research centers on the intersection of historiography, exegesis and ancient language politics during the Hellenistic and early Roman periods. She is interested in competing conceptions of primeval language, ancient idenity construction, and the transmission and reception of ideas and texts beyond antiquity. She also seeks to bring the field of biblical and early Jewish studies in conversation with late antiquity and early Islam. She received her MA in ancient Judaism from Yale Divinity School and her BA in Near Eastern History from the University of Connecticut. She has experience working with various genres and is excited to assist students with any writing projects at any stage for academic or general audiences in the Humanities and social sciences.

Chetana is a fourth year student in the Political Science department. She is broadly interested in state formation processes, gender and sexuality politics and political violence. Her research project looks at various states’ gender ideologies and their association with enforced hierarchies of different sexual relations (e.g. marriage, relations involving “sex workers”, same-sex relations, etc.). Her work draws insights from various disciplines, ranging from anthropology to economics. Outside of research, she enjoys reading contemporary fiction and watching mindless TV shows. As a Fellow, she is excited to work with graduates on their writing projects, and help them discover their writing styles.

Sydney is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Chemistry. Her work focuses on label-free imaging techniques such as vibrational microscopy with an aim to understand how cells adapt their metabolism and proteins to stress and disease. She holds a B.A. in Chemistry from Middlebury College and spent two years as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health after graduation. Sydney excels in writing scientific papers and grants, and she enjoys assisting students in finding their writing voice in the sciences. Outside of academics, she is an avid hiker and U.S. National Park enthusiast, having explored 26 parks so far.

Alan Mendoza Sosa is a 2nd Year PhD Student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. His research interests are on Mexican and Latin American literary, film, and cultural studies; queer studies, postcolonial and decolonial theory, Latinx literature, translation, and poetry. He holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown University and a Master’s from The University of Cambridge. He has 5+ years of experience as writing fellow for high-school, college, graduate, and professional students, and is passionate about empowering diverse individuals to become confident and effective writers.  Alan is able to give feedback on essays written in Spanish.

Sofia is a 6th year Ph.D. candidate in the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program. She is currently investigating the molecular mechanisms of Batten Disease, a devastating form of pediatric neurodegeneration. Before beginning her studies at Yale, Sofia earned a BSc in Biology from Haverford College and worked at NASA on the BioSentinel Mission. Sofia enjoys working with students on scientific manuscripts, fellowship applications, and personal statements. She is as passionate about reading good fiction as she is about writing for the sciences.

Minh is a fifth-year doctoral candidate in American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a Graduate Certificate in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. Their research examines everyday material cultures of discard, decay, and decomposition amidst the ongoing aftermaths of U.S. empire and war. They hold bachelor’s degrees in English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Yale University. Across consultations, workshops, and peer-review groups, Minh enjoys  learning with and from colleagues in the humanities, working with them on whatever piece of writing at whatever stage of the process.