PhD in History

PhD in History

Laura is a historian of the modern American South, specializing in memory studies, public history, women's and gender studies, African American history, and digital humanities.

PhD in History

Chris has been a public historian first at Arlington Cemetery, later at the Library of Congress, and now at Smithsonian.

2021 Distinguished Alumni - Women and Gender Studies

Eric Gonzaba is an assistant professor of American studies at California State University, Fullerton where he teaches courses on the history of race and sexuality in America.

Trailblazing in space exploration

Jennifer Levasseur, PhD History ’14, is a curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Her collection responsibilities include the museum’s astronaut cameras, chronographs, and material focusing on the Space Shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station Program. Levasseur joined the Smithsonian in 2002 when few women were working in the space history community.

Townsend is director of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Washington office.