The Michigan State University History Department takes pride in our record of helping graduates obtain excellent positions inside and outside of the academy. Over the past decade, we have had one of the best records of academic and non-academic placement of any history department in the Big Ten.
Our recent placements include:
2025
- Gloria Ashaolu, UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA
- Ryan Carty, Assistant Professor, Department of History, North Carolina State University
- Marissa Knaak, Fixed Term Faculty, Michigan State University
- Bernard Moore, SNSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for African Studies, University of Basel (Switzerland)
- Dani Willcutt, Training Specialist, OMEKA
2024
- Erica Holt, Fixed Term Faculty, Michigan State University
- Dawson McCall, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Loyola University New Orleans
- McKayla Sluga, Academic Advisor, University of Michigan
2023
- Jen Andrella, Mellon Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Knox College
- Lyudmila Austin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University
- Katie Carline, Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University
- Akil Cornelius, Visiting Assistant Professor, African Studies, Kalamazoo College
- Ajamu Dillahunt-Holloway, Assistant Professor, Department of History, North Carolina State University
- Abdoulie Jabang, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Texas Christian University
- Eric Kesse, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Clark University
- Jon Vsetecka, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
2022
- Heather Brothers, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Michigan State University
- Patrick Buck, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Miami University
- John Doyle-Raso, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Michigan State University
- Kathryn Lankford, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Michigan State University
- Jody Marshall, Visiting Professor, Department of History, Middlebury College
- Christopher Shell, Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Ramya Swayamprakash, Assistant Professor, Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Grand Valley State University
- Liao Zhang, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Valparaiso University
2021
- James Blackwell, Adjunct Faculty, Winston Salem State University
- Joseph Bradshaw, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Augusta University
- Sue Carter, Priest, Christ Church Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Robin Crigler, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Dickinson College
- Ryan Huey, Assistant Teacher, The U School (Ann Arbor, MI)
- Sarah Jacobson, Visiting Lecturer, University of Tennessee
- Anh Le, Assistant Professor, Department of History, St. Norbert College
- Aaron Luedtke, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Syracuse University
- Russell Stevenson, Deputy Director at U.S. Military Academy of the Academic Research Division
2020
- David Bennett, Lecture, Department if History, Kennesaw State University
- Jorge Felipe Gonzalez, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at San Antonio
- Dave Glovsky, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Boston University
- Alyssa Lopez, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Providence College
2019
- Eddie Bonilla, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Boston College
- Emily Elliot, Associate Director of Research and Publications, H-Net
- Shelby Pumphrey, Postdoctoral fellow in African American History, Vassar College
- Liz Timbs, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in sub-Saharan African History, North Carolina State University
- Brian Van Wyck, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland in Baltimore County
2017
- Alex Galarza, Digital Scholarship Librarian, University of Delaware
- Jacob Jurss, NASNTI Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota, Morris
- Helen Kaibara, Assistant Professor, Department of History and Foreign Languages, Jacksonville State University
- James Porter, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of History, Uppsala University
- David Walton, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
2016
- Anita Anthony-VanOrsdal, Adjunct Professor, Midwestern Women Sociopolitical, Grand Valley State University
- Eric Constant, Development Director, John Ball Zoo, Grand Valley State University
- Jewell Debnam, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Geography, and Museum Studies, Morgan State University
- Ella Fratantuono, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Jennifer Gonzalez, Visiting Professor, Grand Valley State University
- Christine Neejer, Pre-Health Academic Advisor, University of Michigan
- Caleb Owen, Assistant Professor, Truman State University
- Matthew Park, Faculty in History, Bard High School Early College, Newark
- Doug Priest, Digital Managing Editor, Townsquare Media, Albany NY
- John Somerville, Lecturer, College of Arts, Sciences, & Letters, University of Michigan-Dearborn
2015
- Benjamin Brühwiler, Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of Basel
- Decius Chipande, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, The University of Zambia
- Joseph Davey, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Houston-Downtown
- Jennifer Eaglin, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ohio State University
- Christina Hermann, Adjunct Associate Professor, Lansing Community College
- Amanda Lewis-Nang’ea, Assistant Professor in History, The State University of New York at Geneseo
- Nora Salas, Assistant Professor of History, Grand Valley State University
- Ashely Sanders, Vice Chair and a core faculty member in the Digital Humanities program, UCLA
- Devlin Scofield, Assistant Professor, Northwest Missouri State University