Celeste Marcus is a rising senior majoring in intellectual history in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her primary academic focus has been the secular enlightenment period, though she has also studied the Haskalah, the relationship between Jewish and Western thought and art history. She is writing her senior thesis on the intellectual origins and leadership of Britain’s first Jewish newspaper The Voice of Jacob (1941-1948). Celeste served as editor in chief of an intercollegiate philosophical publication called Or throughout her freshman and sophomore year, and she now serves as an editor for Penn’s Jewish studies journal Kedma. This semester Celeste wrote an article about the contemporary American intellectual ecosystem for The American Interest which has since been cited in 8 academic papers and 3 books. This summer Celeste will continue to do research for her thesis will working for David Brooks on a forthcoming book and on an initiative he has just launched with the Aspen Institute. She will also be working for Deborah Kenny, CEO of Harlem Village Academies, on a book project. She intends to spend as much of her free time as possible at the National Gallery.