Our PhD students have moved on to successful careers in academia, the public humanities, and in the public domain.
Our graduates teach at top universities across the country, including the University of California System, University of Colorado, University of Indiana, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Northwestern, Notre Dame, University of Texas-Austin, Texas A&M, Williams College, and the University of Wisconsin.
Our graduates work in the public humanities, in roles such as State Historian, State Public Historian and Curator, and State Curator.
Our graduates work in the public domain in roles as diverse as freelance writer, editor, academic advisors, and elected office.
Graduates
Abreu, Christina Denise - Associate Professor, Northern Illinois University
Ackermann, Marsha – Former Lecturer I, History & Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University
Ananat, Ryan Snyder - Writer and Independent Scholar, Self Employed
Ardizzone, Heidi – Associate Professor of American Studies St. Louis University
Aune, Stefan - Elihu Rose Scholar of Modern Military History/ Assitant Professor of History/ Faculty Fellow, New York University
Avivi, Yamil - 2023-2024 Pennsylvania State University Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Latina/o/e/x History
Aziz, Maryam - Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
Barba, Lloyd - Assistant Professor of Religion, Amherst College
Barrera, Sergio - 2022-23 Carlos E. Castañeda Fellow, University of Texas at Austin
Bass, Chris Kae - Veteran Student Advisor/ School Certifying Official, Drake University
Bass, Christine – Program Director, Women in Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Retired)
Belt, Rabia Shahin - Associate Professor of Law, Stanford University
Bernabe, Jan Christian - Gallery Director and Founder, FLXST Contemporary
Blanton, Matthew - History and Social Science Teacher, Milton Academy
Bolton, Sony (Jason) - Associate Professor of Spanish and English; Faculty Equity and Inclusion Officer; Chair of Latinx and Latin American Studies, Amherst College
Brent, Elizabeth – Freelance Writer
Brick, Howard – Professor, Louis Evans Chair in U.S. History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Brooks Tatum, Shanesha R F - Founding Vice President and CEO, Creative Research Solutions
Campbell, Casidy - Postdoctoral Fellow in Black Studies, Northwestern University
Cardenas, Maritza Elena - Associate Professor of English and Director of Global Studies, University of Arizona
Carr, Jesse - Mellon Project Coordinator, University of Michigan
Casillas, Dolores Ines - Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies; Director of the Chicano Studies Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chaar-Lopez, Ivan - Assistant Professor, University of Texas - Austin
Chang, Jason - Upper School History Teacher, BlendEd Consortium
Chávez, John – Professor of History, Southern Methodist University
Ching, Paul – Therapist, Turning Leaf Therapy
Chung, Brian - Assistant Professor, California State University- Fullerton
Cialdella, Joseph Stanhope - Assistant Director of Experinetial Learning, University of Michigan
Cornelius, Tyler - Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Colorado College
Cui, Shu-Qin – Associate Professor of Asian Studies, Bowdoin College
Daligga, Catherine - Community Support Specialist, Daily Kos
De La Vega Hurtado, M. – Executive Director, International Film Seminar, NYC
Dillard, Angela – Professor Residential College, DAAS, History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Dolgon, Corey – Professor of Sociology and Director of Community Based Learning, Stonehill College.
Dupuis, Reshela – Education Advocate, Office of Hawaiian Affair
Elhadi, Belquis - Academic Advisor, Mizzou Honors College
Erman, Samuel Thomas Corcoran - Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Farber, Paul - Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Public Art and Space, Stuart Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania
Felber, Garrett A - Visiting Fellow, Yale University
Finley, Chris - Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Finn, Margot - Lecturer II, University of Michigan
Foley, Neil – Professor of History, American Studies and the Center for Mexican American Studies and Associate Dean, University of Texas at Austin
Fujita Rony, Thomas – Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, California State University - Fullerton
García-Peña, Lorgia - Professor; Director, Program in Latino Studies, Princeton Unversity
Garland, Libby - Professor, City University of New York
Garzonio, Dominic - Operations & Communications Specialist, Public Media Company
Gaudet, Joseph - English Teacher, Holderness School
Gentry, Charles - Lecturer, University of Texas- San Antonio
Genser, Wallace - Senior Associate Director for Fellowships, University of Pennsylvania
Gordon, Anna Pegler - Adjunct Professor, Michigan State University
Gothie, Sarah Conrad - Research Associate, L.M Montgomnery Insititue at the University of Prince Edward Island
Gould, Sarah - Executive Director, Mexican American Civil Rights Institute
Green, David B., Jr.- Assistant Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, California State University, Los Angeles
Hardin, Tayana - Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies, University of Denver
Harmon, Elizabeth - Virtual Museum Program Manager, Smithsonian American Women's History Museum
Harris, Lisa - F. Wallace and Janet Jeffries Collegiate Professor of Reproductive Health, and Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan Medical School
Hass, Kristin – Professor of American Culture, University of Michigan
Hill, Robert S - Assistant Professor of History, Concordia University
Howell, Sarah F - Associate Professor of History; Director of the Center for Arab American Studies, University of Michigan - Dearborn
Hymson, Laura - Principal, Bard College
Johnson, Colin – Associate Professor of Gender Studies, Adjunct Associate Professor in American Studies, History, and Human Biology, Indiana University — Bloomington
Jolly, Jallicia - Assistant Professor of American Studies and Black Studies, Amherst College
Julyk, David Peter - Chief Compliance Officer, RadMD
Jurado, Kathy - ELL Family Liasion, Avondale School District
Kamil, Meryem - Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies, University of California - Irvine
Kelderman, Frank - Assistant Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, University of Louisville
Kimmel, Shawn David - Founder and Managing Director, Community-driven Policy Consulting
Kim-Rajal, Patricia – Professor, Chicano and Latino Studies; Department Chair, Sonoma State University
Klein Hernandez, Kris - Assistant Professor of History, Connecticut College
Kusnerz, Peggy – Librarian, University of Michigan (retired), Associate Editor, History of Photography, panoramic photographer
Kustritz, Anne M - Assistant Professor, Utrecht University
Kwak, Jennifer - Instructor, University of Hawaii - Manoa
Lebeau, Patrick – Professor of Writing & Rhetoric and American Indian Studies, Michigan State University
Lee, Joo - Lecturer, Department of American Culture, University of Michigan
Lee, Peggy - Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
Lee, Sharon – Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii - Manoa
Lennard, Katherine - Abbott Lowell Cummings Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University
Lessens, Kelly - School Board Member,Anchorage School Board
Lieberman, Robbie – Professor of History, Southern Illinois University — Carbondale
Lloyd, Brian – Associate Professor of History, University of California — Riverside
Lieu, Nhi – Independent Scholar, Self Employed
Lira, Natalie - Associate Chair & Associate Professor, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
Lloyd, Brian - Associate Professor of History, University of California - Riverside
Low, John – Associate Professor, Department of American Studies; Director, Newark Earthworks Center, Ohio State University-Newark
Macedo Pool, Maria Teresa - Department Chair, Sociology and Women's Studies; Faculty Senate, Human Arts & Social Sciences Representative, Cabrillo Community College
Macfarlane, Lisa – Sr. Vice Provost Academic Affairs, University of New Hampshire
Macgillivray, Emily Jane - Assistant Professor of Native American Studies, Northland College
Macias, Anthony – Professor, Ethnic Studies, University of California — Riverside
MacKenzie, Annah Elizabeth - Editor & Content Strategist, Self Employed
Maeda, Daryl – Professor, Dean and Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education, University of Colorado — Boulder
Majaj, Lisa - Writer, Editor, Researcher, Lecturer
Majewski, Karen - Owner, Tekla Vintage
Mann, Katrina – Instructor, Truckee Meadows Community College
Marchevsky, Alejandra – Department Chair, Department of Women's Gender & Sexuality Studies; Liberal Studies Faculty, California State University — Los Angeles
Masur, Kate – Professor of History; Board of Visitors Professor, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern University
May-Curry, Michelle - Academic Advisor, University of Missouri-Columbia
Metzl, Jonathan – Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Medicine, Director, Program in Med, Health and Society, Professor of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University
Millan, Isabel A - Assistant Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Oregon
Miller, Rachel - Assistant Professor of History, Klara K, Hansberger Endowed Professor, The College of Idaho
Mitchell, William – Public Historian and Curator, New Haven, CT
Molldrem, Stephen - Assistant Professor, Department of Preventitive Medicine and Population Health (PMPH) and the Institute of Bioethics and Health Humanities (IBHH)
Moon, Jennifer – Administrative Director, Dean's Office, Weill Cornell Medicine
Morales, Cheli – Assistant Professor of Practice, Social Work, Portland State University
Morales, E. Zack - Program Director, Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program, Wayne State University
Morales, Orquidea - Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
Moreau, Joseph Robert - Teacher of History, Abraham Joshua Heschel School
Moses, Janee - Assistant Professor, The City College of New York
Na, Emily - Curatorial Research Assistant at the Carnegie Museum of Art
Nation, Richard – Professor and Chair of History & Philosophy, Eastern Michigan University
Nitta (Sato), Marie - Assistant Professor, Musashi University
Noel, Hannah Kathryn - Associate Professor, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Ofori-Mensa, Afia - Director, Equitable Postgraduate Academic Opportunity, Princeton University
Olson, Alexander Igor - Director of Graduate Studies; Associate Professor, Western Kentucky University
Pagni, Charlotte Fay - Professor of Sociology, Eastern Michigan University
Paris, Leslie – Associate Professor of History, University of British Columbia-Vancouver
Pas, Justine Magdalena - Professor of English, Lindenwood University
Pasfield, Veronica Ann - Principal Brand Creative & Founding Editor, Territory Media
Pascual, Michael - Program Coordinator, Duke University
Peacock, Jennifer Lynn - James B. Duke Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Davidson College
Pegler-Gordon, Anna – Associate Professor, James Madison College, Michigan State University
Peterson, Rachel – Associate Professor, Integrative Religious, and Intercultural Studies Department, Grand Valley State University
Pittenger, Mark – Associate Professor of History, University of Colorado — Boulder
Pool, Maria Teresa Macedo – Instructor of Sociology, Cabrillo Community College, Santa Cruz, CA
Porter, Eric – Professor of American Studies, University of California - Santa Cruz
Poyourow, Rebecca - Assistant Dean for Advising, University of Pennsylvania
Pratt, Anastasia – Associate Professor, SUNY Empire State College
Quinn, Rachel Afi - Associate Professor Comparative Cultural Studies and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, University of Houston
Rabinowitz, Paula – Professor of English, University of Minnesota
Rael-Galvez, Estevan – Executive Director and Project Investigator, Native Bound Unbound- Archive of the Indigenous Slavery
Ramirez, Pablo – Associate Professor of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph
Reid, Cavar - Managing Directors of High School and College Programs, Thrive Scholars
Rigelhaupt, Jess Meyer - Associate Professor, University of Mary Washington
Rodriguez Barrera, Juan - Assistant Professor, Illinois Wesleyan University
Rogers, Mark – Chair, Division of Humanities; Professor of Communication, Walsh University, Ohio
Rua, Merida – Professor of Latina and Latino Studies, Northwestern University
Rubeck, Tracie – Owner, Beatrice Cottage Bakery
Salman, Cengiz - Postdoctoral Researcher and Co-managing editor of American Quarterly at University of Notre Dame
Sailiata, Kirisitina Gail - Assistant Professor of American Studies, Macalester College
Saranillio, Dean – Associate Professor, University of Hawaii-Manoa
Scott, Ellen - Associate Professor, University of California- Los Angeles
Shavelson, Susanne – Assistant Director, Institute for Informal Jewish Education, Brandeis University
Shomali, Mejdulene - Associate Professor, University of Maryland - Baltimore
Stiffler, Matthew - Lecturer, University of Michigan; Director, Center for Arab Narratives
Stiverson, Hanah - Extremism Researcher, Human Rights First
Sung, Wendy - Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Syrett, Nick – Professor; Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Kansas
Teves, Stephanie - Associate Professor, University of Oregon
Textor, Alex – Writer and Editor, Self Employed
Theoharis, Jeanne – Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York
Tilton, Jennifer – Associate Professor of Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Redlands
Truong, Vivian - Assistant Professor of History, Swarthmore College
Umphrey, Martha – Bertrand H. Snell 1894 Professor in American Government in Department of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College
Valentin, Wilson - Assistant Professor of Public Humanities and American Studies, The New School
Vargas, George – Associate Professor of Communications and Theatre Arts, Texas A&M
Vargas, Zaneta – Curator, California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives
Vargas, Zaragosa – Kenan Eminent Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Vazquez, Luis - Instructor, University of Michigan
Vecchiola, Carla – Lecturer IV in History, Direcotr, Hub for Teaching & Learning Resources, University of Michigan- Dearborn
Vigil, Kiara - Associate Professor of American Studies; Dean of New Students, Amherst College
VonBokel, Aimee - Research & Communications, Lone Star Legal Aid
Walker, Alyssa - Coordinator, CT Valley Girls' Youth Lacross League
Wang, Grace – Assistant Professor of American Studies, State University of New York
Wang, Lee Ann Shih-Ching - Assistant Professor, University of California - Los Angeles
Wendorff, Laura – Professor, English Department, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
Wheaton, Deidre Lyniece - Associate Professor of Disciplinary Studies; Interim Director of the School of Lifelong Learning, Jackson State University
Whiteduck, Mallory - Assistant Professor of Political Science, Vassar College
Whiteley, Kathleen - Assistant Professor, University of California - Davis
Winand, Angela – Program Administrator, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian
Winkler, Barbara Scott – Professor and Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies, Southern Oregon University
Wisniewski, Stephen Charles - Independent Consultant
Wittmann, Matthew – Curator of Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Wong, K. Scott – James Phinney Baxter III – Professor of History and Public Affairs Williams College
Worsley, Shawan Wade – Founder and Executive Director, Culture Ally
Wu, Cynthia – Professor, Gender Studies and Asian American Studies; Faculty Affiliate, American Studies, Indiana University- Bloomington
Wu, William – Freelance writer
Zeller, Ariella – Internal Communications Manager, NICE
Zimmerman, Enid – Professor Emeritus, Indiana University Bloomington