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