Allison Marsh, '98

After graduating in 1998 with a double major in engineering and history, I spent a year traipsing across Europe on a Watson Fellowship researching a travel guidebook for engineers.  (If you are planning a trip and want to escape the castles, cathedrals, and art museums, drop me an email.)
I then returned to the states and spent several miserable years working for an ignominious consulting firm.  When I began using Travelocity to plan trips to Timbuktu, I knew I needed to change the direction of my life.

I am now in graduate school at Johns Hopkins in the Department of History of Science and Technology. Combining my undergraduate double major and my Watson project, my dissertation focuses on the history of industrial tourism.  I also just finished working on the Smithsonian's exhibit, America on the Move, a redesign of the transportation hall at the National Museum of American History.

On the weekends, I have been systematically gutting and rebuilding my house.  (My E-90 project has come in handy -- rewiring everything.)  And my faithful dog, Emmeline, has been helping (or more likely hindering) me every step of the way.