Austin Justice (BA,'20, history) is an assistant editor for the Papers of Abraham Lincoln at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum and an archives assistant for Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project.
Mary Schiavone (BA,'18, history and English; MS, '23, Library and Information Science), is a Student Success and Engagement Librarian at Beloit College.
Anne Sweeney (BA,'15, history), a social studies and English teacher at Oswego High School.
Hailey Baumstein (BA,'17, history; MA,'22, education policy, organization, & leadership), is a social studies teacher at Homewood-Flossmoor High School.
Ljubica Basica (BA,'18, history and political science; MBA,'23), is a project manager at Google with Mandiant Cybersecurity Consulting.
Thomas Dowling (BA,'18, history and political science) is the co-founder and former CEO of TaxProper, a property tax software start-up acquired by Opendoor in 2022. Dowling is currently the director of TaxProper under Opendoor.
Adam Beaty (BA, '21, History) is an MSLIS student at the School of Information Sciences. He recently created a digital collection called Queer Nightlife in Champaign-Urbana, IL: 1973 – 2000.
Alexander Rushing (BA, '24, History) is a Visiting Scientific Specialist in Historic Mining & Geology at the Illinois State Geological Survey.
Russell Wigginton (PhD, '01, History) is the president of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.
Charles J. Shields (BA, English, '75; MA, History, '79) is the author of 20 nonfiction books for young readers, and biographies of Harper Lee, John Williams, Kurt Vonnegut, and Lorraine Hansberry. He recently retired after a successful 25 year career as a writer where he combined his interest in literature with the research skills he gained as a historian.