Isaac Heller grew up in Mishawaka, Indiana and graduated from Harvard with a joint concentration in Theatre, Dance, and Media and the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. They were elected to Phi Betta Kapa as a junior and he was a recipient of the Taliesin Prize. Their research interests are primarily focused on the ways in which practices such as zines, oral history, and performance can empower people in projects of self-expression and memory-making that defy conventional institutional logics. Building on this work, Isaac’s senior thesis combined performance with archival research to interrogate the ways in which libraries and archives care for and record queer history. Outside of his academic work, Isaac has also done set design for student theater projects at Harvard. He also loves public libraries and spending time browsing the science fiction and fantasy section. At Cambridge, they will be pursuing an MPhil in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies as the John Eliot Scholar at Jesus college.
