Alumni News

JOHN WINTERS, who received his M.A. in History from Mason in 2013, will receive his Ph.D. from the City University of New York (Graduate Center) in June 2020.

Kailea Swartz, who will graduate in May 2020 with a history B.A., has earned admission—and full tuition scholarships—to three different law schools: Temple University, Villanova University, and Rutgers University.

Katie Hemphill (BA, History & English, 2006; MA, History, 2008) is currently an assistant professor of history at the University of Arizona. Her book, Bawdy City: Commercial Sex and Regulation in Baltimore, 1790-1915, is forthcoming in hardcover in February 2020 from Cambridge University Press. The Kindle version is available now. We checked in with Prof. Hemphill to learn more about her teaching and research.