Meet the Editors
Co-Editor in ChiefDarby Creegan '26 (she/her)
is a senior from South Lake Tahoe, California studying History, English Literature, and Classics. She is involved with the Classics Journal and researches historical policy on-campus. Additionally, she enjoys sewing (or perusing) vintage fashion, listening (and singing along) to Chappell Roan songs, and giggling with her friends.
Co-Editor in ChiefLizzie Culp '26 (she/her)
is a senior from Tivoli, New York studying History, Theater, and Environmental Studies. She is a soprano in the Swarthmore Chorus and Garnet Singers, helps lead Drama Board, and takes part in many theater productions on campus. In her free time, she enjoys thrifting with friends, playing soccer, and rewatching Gilmore Girls.
Co-Editor in ChiefMelanie Zelle '26 (she/her)
is a senior from St. Paul, Minnesota studying history. She is also an editor for and a regular contributor to the Swarthmore Phoenix. In her free time, you may catch her reading poetry, listening to folk music, and sleeping in.
EditorOlivia Bruns '29 (she/her)
is a freshman from Elma, Iowa studying History, English Literature, and Education. She is involved with the Swarthmore Mock Trial team playing the roles of attorney and witness. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, baking, writing short stories, writing poetry, and maladaptive daydreaming while listening to indie and folk music.
EditorVictor Chin '28 (he/him)
is a sophomore grappling with a sudden longing for his home of North Carolina, a passionate lifelong love-hate affair that has accumulated, as of late, into some place between sweet tea and theorizing how to revive the Bauhaus school. He is a prospective art history major with a prospective minor in interpretation theory.
EditorElijah Dillow '27 (he/him)
is a junior from Shepherdstown, West Virginia studying History and Engineering. Outside of the Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal he is involved in ASCE, Youth for Innocence, Psi Phi, and Rugby. In his free time he enjoys reading and sleeping in.
EditorJing Jing Gopinath '26 (any pronounsis senior from New Delhi, India. Other than writing and translating, they are (supposedly) part of the motherpuckers. They love F1 and cars that go fast. Go Williams!)
EditorAlma Greenfield '29 (she/heris a freshman from the Bronx, NY, and is a prospective history/political science major. In her free time, she hosts the WSRN show Time and Propinquity, ushers for the College, writes for the Phoenix, and collects more books than she could ever hope to read.)
EditorCharlotte Hall '28 (she/her)
is a sophomore from Santa Clara, California double majoring in history and engineering. Along with the history journal, she is involved in fencing and debate. In her free time, she enjoys watching sports (especially baseball and hockey), sewing, and baking.
EditorRafael Karpowitz '27 (he/him)
is a junior who grew up in Hudson, NY and St. Paul, Minnesota and recently moved to Philadelphia. He is an honors history major and French minor. Aside from editing history essays, he spends his time playing piano, talking politics, and managing the cognitive dissonance of being an avid fan of both the Mets and the Eagles.
EditorSam Marco '26 (he/him)
is a senior from Centreville, Virginia studying Economics and History. He is a Student Academic Mentor (SAM) on campus stationed in Parrish West, as well as a passionate fan of University of Virginia athletics. In his free time, he enjoys golf, basketball, pickleball, and puzzle games.
EditorSawyer Paul '26 (he/him)
is a senior from Westport, Connecticut majoring in Political Science with minors in History and Film & Media Studies. At Swarthmore, he is a defenseman on the Swarthmore men’s lacrosse team and is a representative on the NCAA Division III Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. In his free time, he enjoys trying new viral restaurants, listening to house music, watching sports, and traveling.
EditorSorrel Ricou '28 (they/them)
is a sophomore from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania studying History and Environmental Studies. They are involved with the Swatdoulas club and many ephemeral passion projects. When they are not reading, they can be found exclaiming excitedly about trees and insects around campus, crafting with friends, or attempting to play accordion.
EditorMarco Roberts '26 (he/him)
is a senior studying History and Arabic who lives in Seattle, Washington but grew up in Beijing, China for most of his life. Outside of class, he is either jamming on the piano, singing or listening to nineteenth century Italian opera or Ziad Rahbani (RIP, 1956–2025), traveling, going on midnight walks, or making/drinking chai with friends.
EditorOwen Steele '29 (he/him)
is a freshman from Columbus, Georgia planning to study Classics. He is a part of the Swarthmore Quiz Bowl team. In his free time, he enjoys reading science fiction, doing crosswords, and talking about Star Wars at length to anyone who will tolerate it.
EditorZephyr Weinreich '28 (he/him)
is a sophomore from Brooklyn, New York. He’s studying comparative literature and history with a focus on the relationship between cultural and sociopolitical development. In his free time, he plays guitar, writes for the campus newspaper and arts magazine, and watches old movies and basketball.
EditorShutong Wu '26 (he/him)
is a senior from Lanzhou, China, and he’s an honors history major and a sociology-anthropology minor. He used to do a lot of ice hockey as part of the Motherpuckers, but now he’s focusing on grad school applications. He is also working on his honors thesis about Chinese traditional medicine.