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:
2023
Jen Andrella, Mellon Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Knox College
Akil Cornelius, Visiting Assistant Professor, African Studies, Kalamazoo College
Ajamu Dillahunt-Holloway, Assistant Professor, Department of History, North Carolina State University
Lyudmila Austin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies Harvard University
Jon Vsetecka, Postdoctoral Fellow, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
Katie Carline, Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Dalhousie University
Eric Kesse, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Clark University
Abdoulie Jabang, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Texas Christian University as Assistant Professor
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 at Christ Church Clermont-Ferrand in 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 – San Antonio
Dave Glovsky, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Boston University
Alyssa Lopez, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Providence College
2019
Shelby Pumphrey, Postdoctoral fellow in African American History at Vassar College
Emily Elliot, Associate Director of Research and Publications at H-Net
Brian Van Wyck, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Maryland in Baltimore County
Eddie Bonilla, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Boston College
Liz Timbs, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in sub-Saharan African History at North Carolina State University
2017
Alex Galarza, Digital Scholarship Librarian at the University of Delaware.
Jacob Jurss, NASNTI Post-Doctoral Fellow at the 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
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 at Townsquare Media, Albany NY
John Somerville, Lecturer, College of Arts, Sciences, & Letters, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Anita Anthony-VanOrsdal, Adjunct Professor, Midwestern Women Sociopolitical, Grand Valley State University
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
Nora Salas, Assistant Professor of History, Grand Valley State University
Amanda Lewis-Nang’ea, Assistant Professor in History, The State University of New York at Geneseo
Christina Hermann, Adjunct Associate Professor at Lansing Community College
Ashely Sanders, Vice Chair and a core faculty member in the Digital Humanities program at University of California Los Angeles
Devlin Scofield, Assistant Professor, Northwest Missouri State University
2014
Jennifer Marlow, Assistant Professor at Bethel University and Adjunct Professor at Gratz College
Nikki Magie, Assistant Professor of Social Science; Olivet College Archivist, Olivet College
Rebecca Koerselman, Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern College
Gabriel Henderson, Associate Historian, American Institute of Physics
Beth Dutridge-Corp, Fellowships Advisor, University of Michigan
Jesse Draper, Associate Director, Managing Editor of Networks H-Net
Laura Cuppone, Classroom Teacher at Montgomery County Public Schools
Kitty Lam, History and Social Studies Faculty, University Liggett School
2013
Micalee Sullivan, Academic Director, Mansfield Hall
Benjamin Sawyer, Lecturer, Middle Tennessee State University
Brandon Miller, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Second Language Advisor, Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences, Southern Methodist University
Ndubueze L. Mbah, Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo
Joshua Grace, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina