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
Perrone, Nickolas: Adjunct Professor, Solano College, Santa Rosa Junior college, Mills College
Richardson, Laurel: Adjunct Professor, Ohlone College; STEM Center Coordinator, American River College
- 2018
Casey, Matthew: Clinical Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Online Programs School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University
Cortes, Katharine: Associate Director, The History Project, UC Davis
Dries, Mark: Assistant Professor, Southeastern Louisiana University
Judge, Rajbir Singh: Assistant Professor, California State University, Long Beach
Lin, Zoe Shan: Assistant Professor, Ithaca College
Tavolacci, Laura: Assistant Professor in Department of Historical Sciences, Universidad de Chile, Santiago
- 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;
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
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