Ph.D. Student Career Outcomes

One of the greatest strengths of our Ph.D. program is its high success rate in terms of career outcomes for our students.
This success rate is directly related to our program's design to support career diversity in the profession–for example, preparing students for digital history, public history and military history careers, rather than focusing only on post-secondary teaching careers.

Since our program's founding in 2000, our graduates have found a wide range of jobs in public history and academic institutions; tenure-line teaching positions in colleges, universities, and military academies; teaching positions in community colleges; and multi-year postdoctoral fellowship appointments. A list of the careers our graduates have secured can found below. 

Jonathan Barth (2014), Associate Professor of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University

Kirklin Bateman (2014), Chief Academic Officer, Expeditionary Warfare School, U.S. Marine Corps University

Gretchen Beasley (2018), Project Manager, Office of Digital Management, Technology Trends Group

Jacqueline Beatty (2016), Assistant Professor of History, York College of Pennsylvania

Lindsey Bestebreurtje (2017), Curatorial Assistant, National Museum of African American History and Culture

Jordan Bratt (2023), Digital Scholarship Strategist, Ball State University

Megan Brett (2022), Collections Processing and Digital Initiatives Manager, Thomas Jefferson Foundation

Erin Bush (2019), Associate Professor of History, University of North Georgia

Joshua Catalano (2019), Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Public History Program, Department of History and Geography, Clemson University

Sara Collini (2020), Postdoctoral Fellow in University History, Clemson University

Jessica Dauterive (2024), Project Manager, Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies

Susan Douglass (2016), Education Outreach Coordinator, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University

Rebecca Erbelding (2015), Curator, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

Royce Gildersleeve (2018), Assistant Professor of History, Northern Virginia Community College

Alyssa Fahringer (2022), Digital Scholarship Librarian, George Mason University

Lisa Francavilla (2018), Senior Managing Editor, Thomas Jefferson Papers

Eric Gonzaba (2019), Assistant Professor of American Studies, California State University-Fullerton

Misha Griffith (2017), Assistant Professor, Northern Virginia Community College

Anthony Guidone (2023), Assistant Professor of History, Radford University

Steven Harris-Scott (2016), Term Assistant Professor and Program Manager, INTO Program, George Mason University

Ben Hurwitz (2017), Assistant Professor, Prince George’s Community College

Anne Ladyem McDivitt (2018), Academic Technology Specialist, Stanford University

Caitlin McGeever (2024), Education Coordinator, Chester County History Center

David McKenzie (2021), Head of Exhibitions, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.

William Jordan Patty (2021), Archivist, National Archives and Records Administration, Presidential Libraries and Museums

Lynn Price Robbins (2018), Assistant Editor, Papers of Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Amanda Regan (2019), Assistant Professor of History and Geography, Clemson University

Ben Schneider (2019), Teaching and Research Fellow, U.S. Naval War College

Stephanie Seal Walters (2020), Digital Liaison in the Humanities, University of Southern Mississippi

Celeste Sharpe (2016), Academic Technologist for Instructional Technology, Carleton College

Nathan Sleeter (2017), Research Assistant Professor, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University

Greta Swain (2023), Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University

Jeri Wieringa (2019), Assistant Director, Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University