History Department

Career Placement 

We're pleased to share news about milestones that alumni of the Department of History have attained. Employers throughout the world have hired our graduate students, within academia and in numerous other professional fields.

• 2024

• Celik, Mehmet: Assistant Professor of History, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

  Dissertation Title: "Land, Labor, and Class Making in the Seventeenth Century Ottoman Empire"

  Cisternas, Priscilla: Assistant Professor, Diego Portales University (Chile)

  Dissertation Title: "Quinoa, the Seed of this Land. Andean Indigenous Foods and Colonial Society in the Peruvian Viceroyalty, 1535-1785"

  Illhan, Zehra: Dissertation Title: “Obedient Domestic Wives or Autonomous Social Actors? Constructions of Womanhood In Late Medieval and Early Modern Ottoman Religious Discourses, Literary Texts, And Manuscript Illustrations”       

  Renteria, Alejandro: Dissertation Title: "Native Devotions and the Paradox of Popular Religion in New Spain, 1522-1656"

  Thomas, Joshua: Dissertation Title: "The Waters will Spread: Reclamation and Flood Control in the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1920"

• 2023

• Bandeali, Sadaf Kabiruddin: Program Manager, Information Management & Data Science, University of Washington 

  Dissertation Title: "An Eternal Child? Turned Ally: Princely Minors and the Paternalistic British Raj at work in Hyderabad (1857-1884)"

  Errazzouki, Samia: Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities, Stanford University

  Dissertation Title: "Sultans of Sugar: The Rise and Fall of Morocco's Sa'dian Dynasty (1541-1631)"

  Garcia, Nicholas Alan: Associate Faculty (History), College of the Redwoods

  Dissertation Title: "Imperialist Missionaries: English Colonizers and the Assault on Indigenous New England"

  Haggerty, Michael: Assistant Professor of History at Spartanburg Methodist College

  Dissertation Title: "Bars to Freedom: Incarceration, Emancipation, and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century New York"

• 2022

• Aguilar, Julio: Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University

  Dissertation: "A Thirsty Colonization: Water and Environmental Transformation in the Silver City of Potosí, 1545-1760"

  Brown, Dmitri: Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley 

  Dissertation: "Tewa Pueblos at the Dawn of Atomic Modernity"

  Clark, Seth: Instructor, Dept of U.S. and African American History, American River College 

  Dissertation: "Laboring in the Dark: the Lives and Work of Blind Slaves in the South 1800-1880"

  Farnia, Nina: Assistant Professor, School of Law, State University of New York Albany

  Dissertation: "Imperialism in the Making of U.S. Law, 1940-2008"

  Lara, Genesis: Assistant Professor, UC Irvine 

  Dissertation: "Dissertation: "Revolutionary Dominicanidad: The Dominican Republic and the Caribbean Radical Imaginary"

  Luna-Victoria Indacochea, Lucia: Lecturer, Human Rights program, UC Davis. 

  Dissertation: "Urban Battleground: Survival in Lima during the Peruvian Internal Armed Conflict"

  Silver, Stephen: Senior Investigator at Brown Rudnick LLP.

  Dissertation: "Invoking a 'War Without Hate': The Second World War in North Africa as a Total War in Experience and Memory"

• 2021

• Alexander, Carrie: Postdoctoral Scholar, Ethics and Socioeconomics Research Cluster for the USDA-NIFA/NSF AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems, University of California, Davis

  Dissertation: "Buying Time: Negotiating Boundaries of Delay in Property, Taxation, and Crime in California, 1850-1860"

  Gallagher, Sean: Postdoctoral Fellow, David Center for the American Revolution; Assistant Professor, Colorado Mesa University

  Dissertation: "Slaves of the Revolution: Enslaved Public Labor in the War for Independence"

  Hernandez, Viridiana: Assistant Professor, University of Iowa

  Dissertation: "Guacamole Ecosystems: Agriculture, Migration, and Deforestation in Twentieth-Century Mexico"

  Jenne, Jeremiah: Proprietor, Beijing by Foot

  Dissertation: "Bleeding Hearts: Religion, Violence, and the Tianjin Riots of 1870"

  Leigh, Devin: Lecturer, University of San Francisco

  Dissertation: "The Origins of an Archive: Enslavers and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Production in an Age of Abolition"

  Peinado, Melanie: Research Coordinator, American Historical Association

  Dissertation: "'The Sexual Problem': Men, Reproduction, and Eugenics in Modern Chile, 1900-1940"

  Sacmali, Habib: Assistant Professor of History, Marmara University, Turkey

  Dissertation: "Sunni-Shiite Political Relations in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century and Early Modern Ottoman Universal Caliphate"

• 2020

• Alvala Dyer, Gerardo: Postdoctoral Researcher, UNAM's Historical Research Institute

  Dissertation: "City of Progress, City of Poverty: The History of Alemanismo's Visual Propaganda in the Picture Press (1946-1952)"

  Aroni, Renzo: Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, NYU

  Dissertation: "Huamanquiquia: Indigenous Peasant Resistance against the Shining Path in Peru"

  Chieh, Jia Lin

  Dissertation: "Becoming the Legitimate Government of China: The Impacts of Transnational Politics on Chinese American Status in the U.S., 1937?1980

  Hodges, Lillian: Lecturer, Department of History, Chapman University 

  Dissertation: "An Unequal Epidemic: Prejudice, Distrust and the HIV/AIDS Crisis in the Black Community in New Orleans"

  Johnson, Cameron: Teacher, C2 Education

  Dissertation: "Mariátegui's Cosmopolitan Metropolis: Urban Transformation and Intellectual Culture in Lima, Peru, 1910-1930"

  Jarquin, Griselda: Assistant Professor, Nevada State College

• 2019

• Blake, Jessica: Assistant Professor, Austin Peay State University

  Dissertation: "A Taste for Africa: Imperial Fantasy and Clothes Commerce in Revolutionary New Orleans"

  Cox, Stephen: Youth Tutor, International Rescue Committee

  Dissertation: "Mihna and Mission in the Muslim Brotherhood"

  Mortimer, Loren Michael: ACLA Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow; Visiting Assistant Professor, Eastern Oregon University

  Dissertation: "Kaniatarowanenneh Crossings: Indigenous Power and Presence in the St. Lawrence River Watershed, 1534-1842"

  Naim, Hakeem: Visiting Assistant Professor, Western Washington University

  Dissertation: Collateral Modernity: State Formation and Islam Afghanistan and the Ottoman Empire, 1839-1919

  Perrone, Nickolas: Adjunct Professor, Solano College, Santa Rosa Junior college, Mills College

  Dissertation: Hemlock Democracy: Nature and Capitalism in the Leather Industry, 1800-1860

  Richardson, Laurel: Adjunct Professor, Ohlone College; STEM Center Coordinator, American River College

  Dissertation: Low Country Loyalists, Caribbean Societies, and a Reconstructed British Empire

• 2018

• Casey, Matthew: Clinical Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Online Programs School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University

  Dissertation: The Religion Question: How Christians Shaped Society during Peru's Long Cold War

  Cortes, Katharine: Associate Director, The History Project, UC Davis

  Dissertation: Imagining a Space to Play: Progressives and the Creation of Parks and Playgrounds in Philadelphia, 1880-1929

  Dries, Mark: Assistant Professor, Southeastern Louisiana University

  Dissertation: Mercurial Colonialism: Indigenous Andeans and Spanish Power in Colonial Huancavelica, Peru

  Judge, Rajbir Singh: Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach

  Dissertation: Prophetic Sovereign: Contested Visions of Duleep Singh

  Lin, Zoe Shan: Assistant Professor, Colby College

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  Tavolacci, Laura: Assistant Professor in Department of Historical Sciences, Universidad de Chile, Santiago

  Dissertation: Agriculture as Redemption: Baptist Missionaries, Bengali Elites, and the Agri-Horticultural "Improvement" of India, 1793-1840

• 2017

• Chervinsky, Lindsay: Instructor, The George Washington University School of Media and Public Affairs

  Gallman, Nancy: Assistant Professor, Lewis & Clark

  Johnson, Diana: Assistant Professor, CSU San Bernadino

  Mikecz, Jeremy: Research Data Science Specialist, Dartmouth University Library

  Ordaz, Jessica: Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder

  Palma, Patricia: Assistant Professor, Universidad de Tarapaca, Arica

  San Martin, William: Assistant Teaching Professor, Global History, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA)

• 2016

• Alyagon, Elad: Postdoctoral Fellow, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  Amin, Neel: Assistant Professor, James Madison University

  Medel Toro, Juan Carlos: Associate Professor, Diego Portales University, Chile

  Reeves, Rachel: Participant Engagement and Outreach Coordinator, FUTURE Program, UC Davis

  Reeder, Tyson: Assistant Professor, History, BYU

• 2015

• Balloffet, Lily: Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz

  Fowler, Jessica: Assistant Professor, Western Montana State College

  Harris, Steve: Lecturer, San Francisco State University

  Hopkins, Bethany: Senior Career Advisor, Internship and Career Center, University of California, Davis

  Mendoza, Mary: Assistant Professor of History, Penn State University

  Ragas, Jose: Assistant Professor, Instituto de Historia, Universidad Católica de Chile

  Richardson, Nicole: Assistant Professor of East Asian History, University of South Carolina, Upstate

  Scavo, Jordan: Energy Analyst, California Energy Commission

  Stenner, David: Assistant Professor, Christopher Newport University

• 2014

• Cannon, Mae: Senior Director of Advocacy and Outreach, World Vision United States

  Collins, Michael: Lecturer, University of California, Davis

  Hogue, Susan: Part Time Faculty, California State University, Sacramento

  Lauhon, Jordan: Lecturer, University of California, Davis

  Lee, Jacob: Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University

  Montanez-Sanabria, Elizabeth: Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage 

• 2013

• Castro, Cristian: Assistant Professor, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile

  Chaney, Rachel: Home School Instructor, Self-Employed

  Hohn, Peter: Adjunct Instructor, Portland Community College

  Kerr, Andrew: Instructor of English and Community Development, World Education, Thailand

  Petlack, Karin L.: Blogger, Self-Employed

  Powell, Miles: Assistant Professor of Environmental History, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  Wigmore, Gregory: Sproul Research Fellow; Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley; Santa Clara University

  Winfield, Lia: Research and Exhibit Development, Hill Aerospace Museum, Utah

• 2012

• Anderson, Chad: Visiting Assistant Professor, Hartwick College

  Benes, Jakub: Lecturer, School of Slavonic & East European Studies, University College London

  Brueck, Greg: Lecturer, California State University, East Bay

  Carpenter, Nate: Visiting Assistant Professor, Lafayette College

  Hewitt, Jessie: Assistant Professor, Marymount University

  Ly, Aliou: Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State University

  Reinhardt, Bob: Assistant Professor, Boise State University

  Ritacca, Elisabeth: Assistant Professor Citrus College

  Tague, Joanna: Assistant Professor, Denison University

  Wu, Yulian: Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

• 2011

• Brooks, Shelley: Academic Coordinator, California Social-Science History Project, University of California, Davis

  Clune, Lori: Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Fresno State University

  Cote, Stephen: Park Ranger, National Park Service 

  Covart, Elizabeth: Independent Researcher, Self-Employed

  Denning, Andrew: Assistant Professor, University of Kansas

  Hickman, David: Adjunct Faculty, Yuba College

  Jallow, Baba: Assistant Professor, La Salle University

  Kelly, Chau: Associate Professor, University of North Florida, Jacksonville

  Mehl, Eva: Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Wilmington

  Sabol-Spezio, Teresa: Tobis Fellow, University of California, Irvine

• 2010

• Basile McDaniel: Marie, Assistant Professor, Southern Connecticut State University

  Clune, Lori: Professor, California State University, Fresno

  Filippello, Marcus: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

  McGowan, James: Instructor, Napa Valley College

  Orr, Timothy: Adjunct Professor, Sacramento City College

  Yan, Wang: Assistant Professor, Huadong Normal University, Shanghai

• 2009

• Agocs, Andreas: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of the Pacific

  Chester, Robert: Visiting Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley

  Corbally, John: Assistant Professor, Diablo Valley College

  Hiatt, Willie: Assistant Professor, Long Island University

  Kehew, Julia: Adjunct Professor, Sacramento City College

  Lacson, Paul: Assistant Professor, Grinnell College

  Paul, Eric: Organizer, Professional Staff Congress - City University of New York

  Reid, Joshua: Associate Professor, University of Washington

  Schraeder, Lia: Assistant Professor of History, George Gwinnett College

  Sundermann, Elizabeth: Lecturer, University of Washington, Tacoma

• 2008

• Fischer, Ryan: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, River Falls

  Hagood, Jonathan: Associate Professor, Hope College

  Moore, Louis: Associate Professor, Grand Valley State University

  Newman, Brooke: Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

  Slutsky, Beth: Academic Coordinator Social-Science History Project, University of California, Davis

  Stevens, Jennifer: Principal and President of Stevens Historical Research Associates

  Whittaker, Jacob: Adjunct Faculty, Sacramento City College

• 2007

• Bulthuis, Kyle: Assistant Professor, Utah State University

  Behnken, Brian: Associate Professor, Iowa State University

  Chopra, Ruma: Associate Professor, San Jose State University

  Cooper, Robert: Assistant Professor, Corning Community College

  Fountain, Steve: Clinical Assistant Professor, Washington State University, Vancouver

  Jorae, Wendy: Lecturer, San Jose State University

  Li, Guotong: Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach

  Osborn, Matthew: Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, Kansas City

  Rouse, Wendy: Lecturer, San Jose State University

  Sherry, Dana: Lecturer, St. Mary's College

  Smithers, Gregory: Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

  Turning, Patricia: Assistant Professor, Albright College

  Weis, Robbie: Assistant Professor, University of Northern Colorado

  Whipple, Pablo: Assistant Professor, Catholic University, Santiago, Chile

• 2006

• Fitzgerald, Monica: Assistant Professor, St. Mary's College

  Gallo, Marcus: Assistant Professor, John Carroll University, Ohio

  Garone, Philip: Associate Professor, California State University, Stanislaus

  Gormley, Melissa: Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

  Hieta, Eric: Independent Researcher and Editor, Self-Employed

  Hutton, Shennan: Lecturer, University of California, Davis

  Miller, Kenneth: Associate Professor, Washington College

  Miltenberger, Scott: Senior Historian, JRP Historical Consulting

  Robles, Claudio: Associate Professor, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile

• 2005

• Carey, Mark: Associate Dean and Associate Professor, Clark Honors College, University of Oregon

  Dym, Warren: Adjunct Junior Fellow, American Security Project

  Rodriguez, Chris: Faculty Member, Shasta College

• 2004

• Barber, David: Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Martin

  Bueno, Christina: Associate Professor, Northeastern Illinois University

  Chamberland, Celeste: Associate Professor, Roosevelt University

  Clouse, Michele: Associate Professor, Ohio University

  Farrell, John: Lecturer, California State University, Fresno

  Meloy, Michael: Historian, Asilomar State Beach, California Department of Parks and Recreation

  Newman, Jason: Professor, Cosumnes River College

  Purcell, Fernando: Associate Professor, Catholic University in Santiago

  Tanghetti, Rosamaria: Professor and Department Chair, Sacramento City College

• 2003

• Fields, Sherry: Lecturer, California State University, Sacramento

  Gabriel, Elun: Associate Professor and Department Chair, St. Lawrence University

  Habal, Estella: Emeritus Faculty, San Jose State University

  Pingree, Mark: George A. Miller Scholars Coordinator, Office of the President, University of California

  Reissburg, Ron: Assistant Professor, Rabbinic Literature University of Judaism

  Rushforth, Brett: Associate Professor, College of William and Mary

• 2002

• Don, Patricia: Associate Professor, San Jose State University

  Ford, Bridget: Associate Professor, California State University, East Bay

  Koehler, Ellen: Director of Music and Liturgy, Epiclesis Church

• 2001

• Del Testa, David: Associate Professor, Bucknell University

  DuVal, Kathleen: Professor, University of North Carolina

  Lu, Weijing: Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego

  Marshall, Nicholas: Associate Professor and Department Chair, Marist College, New York

  Quinn, Erika: Assistant Professor, Eureka College

  Strickland, John: Rector, St. Katherine Orthodox Church, Washington

  Sturman, Rachel: Associate Professor, Bowdoin College

• 2000

• Allen Pang, Heather: Instructor, Castilleja School, Palo Alto

  Alvah, Donna: Associate Professor and Margaret Vilas Chair of US History, St. Lawrence University

  Barkey, Cheryl: Professor, Cabrillo College

  Lemoine, Florence: Adjunct Professor, Sacramento City College

  Reed, Loretta: Lecturer, California State University, Sacramento

  Skuban, William: Professor and Department Chair, California State University, Fresno

• 1999

• Barrera, Antonio: Associate Professor, Colgate University

  Graybill, Stuart: Professor, Sacramento City College

  Logan, John: Associate Professor and Chair, Labor and Employment Studies, San Francisco State University

  McMahon, Daniel: Professor, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

  Patterson, Amy: Public Health Analyst, Indian Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

  Rockman, Seth: Associate Professor, Brown University

  Sjovold, Carl: Professor and Interim Division Dean, Behavioral and Social Science Division, Sacramento City College

  Trivedi, Lisa: Associate Professor, Hamilton College

• 1998

• Foote, David: Associate Professor, University of St. Thomas

  Kline, Wendy: Dema G. Seelye Professor, Purdue University

  Hendricks, David: Professor, Evergreen Valley College

  Richards, Marc: Deceased, Western Washington University

• 1997

• Cocks, Catherine: Acquisitions Editor, University of Iowa Press

  Mandell, Nikki: Professor, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater

  Payne, Lynda: Sirridge Missouri Endowed Professor in Medical Humanities and Bioethics, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Kansas City

  Rose, James: Adjunct Faculty, Sacramento City College

  Segal, Louis: Adjunct Professor, University of San Francisco

  Selwyn, Jennifer: Lecturer, California State University, Sacramento

  Vaught, David: Professor and Department Head, Texas A&M University

  Vogt, Timothy: Instructor, The Dorris Eaton School, Walnut Creek

  Wood, Andrew: Stanley Rutland Professor of American History, University of Tulsa

• 1996

• Cheng, Yu-Yin: Associate Professor, Marymount Manhattan College

  Hamm, Theodore: Associate Professor and Chair, Journalism and New Media Studies, St. Joseph's College, New York

  Jacobs, Margaret: Chancellor's Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

  Janacek, Bruce: Associate Professor, North Central College, Illinois

  Kolnick, Jeffrey: Professor and Department Chair, Southwest Minnesota State University

  To, Wing-Kai: Professor, Coordinator of Asian Studies, Bridgewater State University

• 1995

• Alvah, Donna: Associate Professor, St. Lawrence University

  Unofficial Ambassadors: American Military Families Overseas and Cold War Foreign Relations, 1945-19 65

  Brooks, James: Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara

  Captives and Cousins: Violence, Kinship and Commu nity in the New Mexico Borderlands, 1680-1880

  Cairns, Kathleen: Lecturer, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

  Working in Fire: Culture and Feminism in American Front-Page Journalism, 1920-1945

  Wang, Zheng: Associate Professor, University of Michigan

• 1993

   

• Bulthuis, Kyle, Assistant Professor, Utah State University;

  Dissertation: Four Steeples over the City Streets: Trinity Episcopal, St. Philip's Episcopal, John Street Methodist, and African Methodist Episcopal Zion Churches in New York City, 1760-1840

  Ip, Hung-Yok: Associate Professor, Oregon State University

  Dissertation More Than Ideological Beings: Communist Intellectuals' Self-Images and Perception of the Peasantry

  Olmsted, Kathy, Professor, University of California, Davis

  Padgett, Chris: Professor, American River College

• 1992

• Lai, Chi Kong: Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland

  Leonard, Kevin: Chair and Professor, Western Washington University

  Nystrom, David: President and Senior Vice President, Biola University