Ph.D. student career outcomes
We invite you to explore the career paths of our doctoral graduates over the last decade. Our history dissertations are open-access and most are available to download via the Digital Commons.
| Class | Name | Dissertation | Job title | Employer | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Branden McEuen | A Program of Race Betterment: The Emergence and Evolution of Eugenic Ideas in Michigan (Advisor: Willliam T. Lynch) | |||
| 2021 | Elizabeth Chamberlain | Sisters of Social Justice: The Social Justice Activism of the Grand Rapids Dominican Sisters (Advisor: Elizabeth Faue) | Adjunct Professor | Aquinas College | Grand Rapids, MI |
| 2021 | Christine Cook | The Military Femnine Mystique: The Women's Army Corps' Evolution from a Separate and Unequal Corps to Gender Integration into the U.S. Army, 1948-1978 (Advisor: Liette Gidlow) | Professor of Strategic Studies, School of Strategic Landpower, Department of Distance Education | U.S. Army War College | Ann Arbor, MI |
| 2021 | Lillian Wilson | "Wonderful and Alarming Women": Establishing the Freer Gallery, circa 1920 (Advisor: Tracy Neumann) | Managing Director, Wayne State Humanities Clinic and Humanities Career Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow | Wayne State University | Detroit, MI |
| 2020 | Kevin Nichols | Frontier Freemasons: Masonic Networks Linking The Great Lakes To The Atlantic World, 1750-1820 (Advisor: Eric Ash) | Foreign intelligence officer and research specialist | U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command (TACOM) | Warren, MI |
| 2019 | Samuel Hogsette | Bobby L. Rush, Rise Of A Black Panther Politician: The Price Of Resistance In America (Advisor: Elizabeth Faue) | Professor | Houston Community College | Houston, TX |
| 2019 | Miriam Eve Mora | From Talking Softly To Carrying A Big Shtick: Jewish Masculinity In Twentieth-Century America (Advisor: John Bukowczyk) | Historian | Independent Scholar | New York, NY |
| 2019 | Joshua Morris | The Many Worlds Of American Communism (Advisor: Elizabeth Faue) | Visiting assistant professor | Grand Valley State University | Grand Rapids, MI |
| 2019 | Amanda Walter | "I've Always Had A Voice, Now I Want To Use It": The Working Women's Movement And Clerical Unionism In Higher Education (Advisor: Elizabeth Faue) | Lecturer | Towson University | Towson, MD |
| 2018 | Andrew Hnatow | Envisioning The City Of The Future: Responses To Deindustrialization, Segregation, And The Urban Crisis In Postwar Detroit, 1950-1970 (Advisor: Elizabeth Faue) | Editor, The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, College of Education | The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX |
| 2018 | Rev. Dr. Michael Varlamos | A Quest For Human Rights And Civil Rights: Archbishop Iakovos And The Greek Orthodox Church (Advisor: John Bukowczyk) | Senior priest | Assumption Greek Orthodox Church | St. Clair Shores, MI |
| 2017 | Joelle del Rose | 'The Luxurious Fancies Of Vice': Sexuality, Luxury, And Space In The Eighteenth-Century British Social Sphere (Advisor: Eric Ash) | |||
| 2017 | Lynda Litogot | Searching For Their Voice: Nineteenth-Century White Women's Strategies To Become A Force (Advisor: Marc Kruman) | Part-time faculty | Wayne State University | Detroit, MI |
| 2017 | Accumulating Risk: Environmental Justice And The History Of Capitalism In Detroit, 1880-2015 (Advisor: Elizabeth Faue) | Assistant professor | University of Houston | Houston, TX | |
| 2017 | Annmarie Wambeke | Republican Feminists And Feminist Republicans: The Search For The Sensible Center In Michigan-1968 To 1984 (Advisor: Liette Gidlow) | Attorney | Retired | Detroit, MI |
| 2015 | David P. Hopkins, Jr. | "A Lonely Wandering Refugee": Displaced Whites In The Trans-Mississippi West During The American Civil War, 1861-1868 (Advisor: Kidada Williams) | Associate professor of history, Henry Professor of History, department chair, dual credit liaison | Midland College | Midland, TX |
| 2015 | Tim Moran | "We Send Our News By Lightning . . .": The Information Explosion Of The Nineteenth Century And Adaptation In The Press, 1840-1892 (Advisor: Marc Kruman) | Senior lecturer, owner | Irvin D. Reid Honors College, Wayne State University Tim Moran--Writer LLC | Detroit, MI |
| 2015 | Frank Petersmark | London Calling: The London Corresponding Society And The Ascension Of Popular Politics (Advisor: Eric Ash) | Principal | Tabula Rasa Consulting | Detroit, MI |
| 2015 | Elizabeth Ryan | Transforming Motherhood: Single Parents' Liberation In The 1970s (Advisor: Elizabeth Faue) | History teacher | Cranbrook Upper School | Bloomfield Hills, MI |
| 2015 | Angella LaNette Smith | Economic Revolution From Within: Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt And The Emergence Of The National Industrial Recovery Act Of 1933 (Advisor: Elizabeth Faue) | Book processor | Ann Arbor Public Library | Ann Arbor, MI |
| 2015 | Maria S. Wendeln | Princess On The Margins: Toward A New Portrait Of Madame Élisabeth De France (Advisor: Janine Lanza) | Part-time faculty | Wayne State University | Detroit, MI |
| 2014 | David A. Collins | Absentee Soldier Voting In Civil War Law And Politics (Advisor: Marc Kruman) | President emeritus of the American Bar Foundation | Retired | Detroit, MI |
| 2014 | Beth Fowler | Deliver Me From The Days Of Old: Rock And Roll, Youth Culture, And The Civil Rights Movement (Advisor: Kidada Williams) | Senior lecturer | Irvin D. Reid Honors College, Wayne State University | Detroit, MI |
| 2014 | Merry Ellen Scofield | Assumptions Of Authority: Social Washington's Evolution From Republican Court To Self-Rule, 1801-1831 (Advisor: Marc Kruman) | Associate editor, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson | Princeton University | Princeton, NJ |
| 2013 | Amy French | The Power To Protect Themselves: Gender, Protective Labor Legislation, And Public Policy In Michigan, 1883-1913 (Advisor: Sandra VanBurkleo) | Professor | Delta College | Midland, MI |
| 2013 | John A. Moore | Interests And Ideas: Industrialization And The Making Of Early American Trade Policy, 1789-1860 (Advisor: Marc Kruman) | Professor and chair, finance and economics department | Walsh College | Troy, MI |
| 2013 | Goulin Yi | Reading The Tea Leaves: The Media And Sino-American Rapprochement, 1963-1972 (Advisor: Mel Small) | Visiting Professor | Providence College | Providence,RI |
| 2011 | Kathryn Beard | Higher than those of their race of less fortunate advantages: Race, ethnicity, and West Indian political leadership in Detroit's African American community, 1885-1940 (Advisor: John Bukowczyk) | |||
| 2011 | Mike Murphy | Detroit Blues Women (Advisor: John Bukowczyk) | Adjunct faculty | Various | New York, NY |