

Sarah LeHan

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WinterOn Campus
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SummerHome
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FallOn Campus
Favorite Class: Anthropology 8, The Rise and Fall of Prehistoric CivilizationsAfter years of focusing on the modern age, I am thrilled to learn about time periods and places missing from my mental map. I am also loving the fun facts (did you know Dholavira, a city in the Indus Valley civilization, had flush toilets in 2000 BC?).
WinterLondon, England
Interning at a London academic publishing house specialized in history and international relations -- I found it through another Dartmouth student who had previously interned there!

Lodge Sweet Lodge
First built in 1933 to service skiers on Mount Moosilauke (who knew the mountain hosted America’s first modern downhill race?), the Lodge has serviced the Dartmouth and Upper Valley communities for more than eighty-five years.

Dartmouth French Study Abroads: The Basics
A Francophile since toddlerhood, last spring I was thrilled to study abroad in France.

My Top Three Favorite Diners (and a club to visit more)
While I am far from a connoisseur, I wanted to share three favorites.

Best House on Campus
The Sustainable Living Center, a Living Learning Community devoted to environmental and social responsibility, is a white clapboard hall with campus’s best smells.

Breakfast Time
Without entering the scientific debate, let’s just say that college students, famously late risers, are less than celebrated for their breakfast consumption.

Like history? Don't like history? Read about this class.
This summer I took one of my favorite classes to date: a history seminar called Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration in US History.

Professor *Rocks* Dartmouth's World
Professor Monahan, early modern trade extraordinaire, is an expert on Russian history. She’s also an expert climber. This summer in HIST 54, my friend Rachel and I (along with our eleven other classmates) heard about her exploits in both.

“I’m late, I’m late,” I confessed to my dinner dates
Time management, never my strong suit, is perhaps my principal obstacle at Dartmouth. There are so many people to meet, activities to do, and adventures to be had—not to mention books to read and papers to write!
- No. 1
Editorial Board Meetings
I. B. Tauris, the academic publishing house where I interned this winter, invited me to the biweekly meetings where editors and executives gathered to pitch new books. From my hours of observation, I gleaned significant insight into how the company was run. I also learned about what they valued in a proposal. As an aspiring writer, I found it invaluable to see what editors and executives sought in prospective projects.
And then, of course, there were the proposals themselves, packet after packet pitching books with titles like Contraception in Postwar British Society, Family Life in Soviet Lithuania, Hidden Cameras of the Holocaust, and Manhattan: A Literary Guide for Travelers. From Soviet soccer and Argentinian politics, to eighteenth-century London landlords and ancient Timbuktu, the topics were far more interesting (at least to me) than sales charts and pie graphs!
- No. 2
Instagram Posts
One post, about WWI soldiers and suffragettes, I wrote for the 100th anniversary of British women winning the vote. Another post, about a politician who lowered food prices, I photographed in a local grocery’s bread aisle. Quick and creative, Instagram became my favorite marketing task.
- No. 3
Metadata (aka podcasts)
I name this task in my top five not because copying and pasting ISBNs was particularly fascinating (although I did enjoy sneak peeks at book summaries) but because it provided the perfect complement to podcasts. From NPR’s Code Switch and Hidden Brain to BBC 4’s In Our Time and Nordic Food Lab’s, well, Nordic Food Lab, I learned about brain science, sociology, current events, food history…and an industry that I might someday like to join! While I’m glad metadata was just one of my many assignments, it was, as my co-worker put it, a “meditative” way to spend Friday afternoons.






Climbing Amidst Cacti: a winter break beginner trip
Known as the DMC, the mountaineering club offers instruction, recreation, and community to novice and experienced climbers. Its Mount Lemmon trip is an annual week in Coronado National Forest...