Below is a list of placement data for the last five years of PhD graduates.
2025-2026
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Chen, Xiao | Assistant Professor, History Department, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA |
| Huang, Jun | Post-doctoral researcher, Fudan University, Shanghai, China |
| Liu, Lingyan | Instructor in History, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
2024-2025
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Abosch, Elizabeth | Lecturer, Russian East European, and Eurasian Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL |
| Campbell, Brian | Associate Director, Graduate Career Community, Loyola University, Chicago, IL |
| Chen, Xiao | Assistant Professor, History Department, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA |
| Goodwin, Christopher | Assistant Instructional Professor, European History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL |
| Toups, Eric | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Indigenous & Early American History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| van der Velde | Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN |
| Yost, Franziska | Instructor, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX |
2023-2024
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Bell, Jacob | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX |
| Brennan, Margaret | First position: Associate Director of Humanities Without Walls, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; Current position: Event Manager, Center for Action and Contemplation, Albuquerque NM |
| Day, Thomas | Senior Product Manager, Enquizit, Inc., McClain, VA |
| Escanilla-Huerta, Silvia | Postdoc Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
| Lehman, David | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Westminster College, New Wilimington, PA |
| Mora, Juan | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
| Ortega, Carolina | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
| Tığlay, Pelin | Marie Curie Postdoc Fellowship in Athens, Greece |
2022-2023
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Correa, Marilia | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Baylor University, New Orleans, LA |
| Cowan, Felix | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada |
| Escobar, Raquel | Current position: Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; First position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC |
| Ettinger, Sean | Academic Program Coordinator, Department of Latina/Latino Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL |
| Ito, Koji | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Department of Foreign Studies, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan |
| Keniston, Billy | Assistant Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Allan Hancock College, Santa Maria, CA |
| Khan, Tariq | Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| Matsushita, Elizabeth | Visiting Assistant Professor, Reed College, Portland, OR |
| Osei, Cassandra | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Latin American History, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA |
| Ridgway, Morgan | Lecturer, History and Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
| Rouphail, Robert | Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA |
| Sell, Zachary | Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN |
| Toller-Clark, Ian | Analyst, Government Accountability Office, Washington, D.C. |
| Williams, Beth Ann | Current position: Senior Researcher for OneHope, Charlotte NC; First position: Visiting Assistant Professor, African History, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA |
| Wood III, Augustus | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Labor and Employer Relations, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL |
| Rezende Da Silva De Sant'Ana, Thais | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Houston, TX |
| Rogaar, Eva | Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
2021-2022
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Adamo, Elizabeth | Diverse Lerner Teacher, Richards Career Academy, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, IL |
| Allen, Ryan | Postdoc, History Department, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL |
| Campbell, Brian | Assistant Director, GRADTalk in the UChicagoGRAD Office, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| Duncan, Leanna | Faculty Engagement Specialist, Everspring, Inc., Chicago, IL |
| Freund-Carter, Heather | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Ghanoui, Saniya | Current position: Assistant Professor of History at the U of Texas El Paso; First position: Program Director for Our Bodies Ourselves Today, Center for Women's Health and Human Rights, Suffolk University, Boston, MA |
| Ito, Koji | Lecturer, Hagoromo University of International Studies, Sakai, Osaka, Japan |
| Jaimes, Marco | Lecturer, History Department, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL |
| Khan, Tariq | Postdoc, History Department, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL |
| Klopfenstein, Matthew | National Fellowships Coordinator, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC |
| Kosovych, Stefan | Historian, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, PA |
| Matsushita, Elizabeth | Visiting Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA |
| Mora, Juan | Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
| Ortega, Carolina | Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX |
| Peralta, Christine | Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, Asian American History, Amherst College, Amherst, MA |
| Rezende Da Silva, De Sant'Ana, Thais | Postdoctoral Fellow, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL |
| Takauchi, Yuki | Assistant Professor, American Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hirosaki University, Aomori, Japan |
| Thompson, Peter | Postdoc, Science History Institute in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA |
2020-2021
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Ehrenberger, Kristen | Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA |
| Escobar, Raquel | Public Engagement Manager for the Humanities Action Lab, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ |
| Hoffman, Brian | US History Teacher, Brunswick School, Greenwich, CT |
| Hughes, Debbie | Senior Academic Guide, Office of Undergraduate Education, Duke University, Durham, NC |
| Ingrassia, Brian | Associate Professor, West Texas A&M University, Canyon TX |
| Larson, Ethan | Case Writer, Tobin Project, Harvard University Institute of Politics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA |
| Levy, Joshua | Historian, History of Science and Technology, Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Washington, DC |
| Navalesi, Kent | Postdoctoral Scholar, Lewis Honors College - University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY |
| Sell, Zachary | Visiting Assistant Professor, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA |
| Williams, Beth Ann | Postdoc, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL |
| Wood III, Augustus | Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Labor and Employment Relations, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL |
| Wright, Peter | Visiting Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages and Literature, Univerity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL |
2019-2020
| Name | Institution |
|---|---|
| Brinks, Michael | Adjunct Faculty, Cornerstone University, Grand Rapids, MI |
| Clutario, Genevieve | Assistant Professor of American Studies, Wellesley, MA |
| Correa-Kuyumjian, Marilia | Postdoc, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| Crafts, Lydia | Assistant Professor, Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY |
| Eby, Beth | Postdoc, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX |
| Fraser, Erica | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Carelton University, Ottawa, ON |
| Godwin, Katherine | Secretary, College of Engineering - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| Holmes, Kwame | Scholar in Residence, Bard, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY |
| Jovanovic, Milos | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA |
| Harrison, Scott | Director of Liberal Studies and Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs, Boston Architectural College, Boston, MA |
| Howard, Ashley | Assistant Professor, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA |
| Jacobs, Annaliese | Archivist, The State Library and Archives Service at Libraries Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia |
| Mandru, Anca | Teaching Fellow, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK |
| Marquez, John | Current position: Assistant Professor of History, UC Riverside; First position: Advance Postdoc Fellowship, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA |
| Peralta, Christine | Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
| Pope-Obeda, Emily | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA |
| Praylow, Perzavia | Pastor of Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C. |
| Riebeling, Zachary | Assistant Research Professor, Southern Illinois, Edwardsville, IL |
| Rouphail, Robert | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA |
| Ruscitti Harshman, Deirdre | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, VA |
| Smart, Devin | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV |
| Tegegne, Habtamu | Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ |
| Tye, Nathan | Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Kearney, Kearney, NE |
| Yates, Brian | Associate Professor, St. Joseph University, Philadelphia, PA |