PhD Career Outcomes
- 2023-2024: 2 Graduates
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position Julie Kantor Reality in the Eye of the Beholder: The Political Storytelling of the Docudrama Cary Cordova Adjunct Professor (Queen's College) Kyle (Coyote) Shook Ahab's Leg: A Disability History of Yankee Whaling Alex Beasley Education Programs Coordinator (Bullock Texas State History Museum) - 2022-2023: 3 Graduates
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position Judson Barber Geographies of Confinement: America's Carceral Bulwark, 1973-2022 Shirley Thompson Managing Director (Continental Realty Advisors) José Centeno-Melendez Placemaking in a City of Nations: Latino Community Formation in Washington, D.C., 1820s-1970s Cary Cordova Oral Historian (Smithsonian Insitution at National Museum of American History) Katherine (Kate) Grover Amplified Activists: Feminist Responses to the Modern American Music Industry Janet Davis and Cary Cordova Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Washington and Lee University) - 2021-2022: 6 Graduates
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position Anneleise Azua Taking Medicine: Environment, Identity, and the Materiality of Curanderismo Cary Cordova and Nicol Guidotti-Hernandez Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies (University of Houston) Assistant Professor (University of Virginia) Nicholas (Nick) Bloom Scripting the Unthinkable: Black Revolt and Democratic Vistas in US Political Imagination, 1770-1865 Shirley Thompson Lecturer on History and Literature (Harvard University) Zoya Brumberg From Gold Mountain to Tinseltown: Asian Eclectic Architecture and the Construction of Immigrant Identities in 20th-Century California Janet Davis Lecturer, Department of American Studies (University of Texas at Austin) Freelance Editor/ Writer (Detroit) Leah Butterfield Women Astray: Mobility, Confinement, and Self-Fulfillment in Twenty-First Century U.S. Memoir Lauren Gutterman and Lisa Moore Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Composition (The University of Bahamas - North) Andrea (Andi) Remoquillo Liminal (Be)Longings: The Making of Filipina American History in Mid Century Chicago Eric Tang Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in American Studies (Wellesley College) Lecturer on History and Literature (Harvard University) Gaila Sims Imprimatur of the State: Interpretation of Slavery at American State History Museums Shirley Thompson Curator of African American History (Fredericksburg Area Museum) - 2020-2021: 4 Graduates
Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position Ana Fernandez De Alba Scales of Seeing: Art, Los Angeles, PST:LA/LA Cary Cordova and Lauren Gutierrez Faculty (CalArts School of Film/Video) Amanda Gray Pathworks of Care: Threads of Labor, Love, and Support Sewn from the Margins Cary Cordova George E. Burch Postdoctoral Fellow, National Museum of American History, Div. of Medicine & Science (Smithsonian Institution) Postdoctoral Fellow (Wheaton College) Caroline Johnson Clouds Like Glass: The Deterrence and Determination of U.S. Women Airline Transport Pilots, 1973-2001 Lauren Gutterman and Steven Hoelscher Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow (American Philosophical Society) Historian in Public History and Education at the Naval History and Heritage Command Anna Lyon An Egg Donor's Tale: The Need for Reproductive Justice in the U.S. Oocyte Donation Industry Lauren Gutterman and Simone Browne Writing Teacher (The Nueva School) - Accordion 5Panel 5. Add body text in this space.