Our PhD graduates go on to do amazing things. From tenure-track positions in research universities to teaching in the secondary education system, working in communications to public service, our alumni have found positions where the expertise and skills of a history PhD are invaluable.
Placements and Accomplishments of Recent Graduates
2022
Xin Yu
Visiting Assistant Professor in History of China
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Nan-Hsu Chen
Hou Family Post-Doctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, Boston, MA
2021
Mary Andino
Managing Editor
Feast Magazine, St. Louis, MO
Dissertation: "The Pursuit of Holiness in Early Modern Southern Italy"
2020
Adwoa Opong
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Chapman University, Irvine, CA
Dissertation: "All That Is Meant By Citizenship: Women, Social Work and Development in Ghana, 1945-1970s"
Brandon Wilson
Postdoctoral Fellowship
University of Kentucky, Louisville, KY
Dissertation: "Safekeeping: Slavery, Capitalism, and the Carceral State in Washington, D.C., 1830-1863"
2019
Taylor Desloge
Visiting Assistant Professor
Connecticut College, New London, CT
Dissertation: "The Tortured Pre-History of Urban Blight: African American St. Louis and the Politics of Public Health, 1877-1940"
Boyi Chen
Associate Professor of History
Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Dissertation: "Beyond the Land Sea: Diasporic South Fujianese in Hội An, Batavia, and Manila, 1550-1850"
Gilbert Chen
Assistant Professor of History
Towson University, Towson, MD
Dissertation: "Living in This World: A Social History of Buddhist Monks and Nuns in the Nineteenth-Century Western China"
Waseem Bin-Kasim
Assistant Professor of History
Elon University, Elon, NC
Dissertation: "Sanitary Segregation: Cleansing Accra and Nairobi, 1908-1963"
Joohee Suh
Assistant Professor of History
Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH
Dissertation: "The Afterlife of Corpses: A Social History of Unburied Bodies in Qing China (1644-1911)"
Weicong Duan
Multi-year postdoc that will convert into associate professorship
Nankai University, Nankai, China
Dissertation: "Ming China As a Gunpower Empire: Military Technology, Politics, and Fiscal Administration, 1350-1620"
Luca Foti
Scirocco Wine Imports, Founder
Pleasant Hill, IA
Dissertation: “Heretical Communes: The Struggle for Authority in the Fourteenth-Century Papal Territories”
Sarah Siegel
Director of Strategic Research and Data Analysis
Colorado Education Association, Denver, CO
Dissertation: “By the People Most Affected” : Model Cities, Citizen Control, and the Broken Promises of Urban Renewal
2018
Tiffany Player
Assistant Professor of History
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL
with a joint appointment in the Global Scholars/Study Abroad program
Dissertation: ““What Are We Going to Do For Ourselves?:” African American Women and the Politics of Slavery from the Antebellum Era to the Great Depression"
2017
Lisa Lillie
Assistant Professor of History
Director, Department of History
Co-Director, Pre-Law Program
Co-Director, Women and Gender Studies
Maryville University, St. Louis, MO
with a joint appointment in the Global Scholars/Study Abroad program
Dissertation: "Empire, Community, Nation: the English Merchants of Livorno, Italy and the Sociability of Commerce in Early Modernity"
Amanda L. Scott
Assistant Professor of History
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
Dissertation: "The Basque Seroras: Local Religion, Gender, and Power in Northern Iberia, 1550-1800"
2016
Jacob Labendz
Clayman Assistant Professor of Judaic and Holocaust Studies
Director of the Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies
Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
Dissertation: "Re-Negotiating Czechoslovakia: The State and the Jews in Communist Central Europe. The Czech Lands, 1945-1990"
Dale Kretz
Assistant Professor of African American History
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Dissertation: "State of Health: African-American Laboring Health and the Politics of Reparations in the Age of Emancipation, 1830-1900"
Bianca Lopez
W. R. Nicholson Endowed Assistant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Dissertation: “The Lands of the Virgin: Sacred Economies and Local Identities in the March of Ancona, 1348-1453”
2015
Sara T. Jay
Lecturer in Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Dissertation “Falafel, Raï, and Bijoux: Cultural Exchange and the Formation of a Transnational Algerian Jewish Community, 1950-1970”
James Palmer
Assistant Professor of History
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Dissertation: "Gold, Grain and Grace: Piety and Community in Late Medieval Rome"
Muey Saeteurn
Assistant Professor of History
Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
Dissertation: "Cultivating Their Own in Kenya: A Social History of Maragoli Farmers and Development, 1955-1978"
En Li
Assistant Professor of History
Drake University, Des Moines, IA
Dissertation: “Betting on Empire: A Socio-Cultural History of Gambling in Late-Qing China”
2014
Jane F. Green
Marketing and Public Relations Manager
American Historical Association,Washington, D.C.
Dissertation: "The Boundaries of Youth: Labor, Maturity, and Coming of Age in Early Nineteenth-Century New England, 1790-1850"
Nathaniel Green
Assistant Professor of History
Northern Virginia Community College - Annandale Campus, Annandale, VA
Dissertation: “‘The Man of the People’: National Politics and the Origins of the Presidential Republic, 1787-1807”
Scott Morris
Chair, Department of History and Advisor to the Honor Council
The Montgomery Academy, Montgomery, AL
Dissertation: "Southern Enlightenment: Reform and Progress in Jefferson's Virginia"
2013
Rajbir Purewal Hazelwood
Head of Student Outcomes, Student Success, King's College London
London, Greater London, United Kingdom
Dissertation: "A Diasporic Politics of Belonging: Punjabis in Postwar Britain"
Beverly Tsacoyianis
Assistant Professor of History
University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Dissertation: "Making Healthy Minds and Bodies in Syria, 1903-1961"
Michelle Repice
Assistant Director, Graduate Career Development
Lecturer in American Culture Studies
Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Dissertation: "A Mobile Makeover: The Limits of American Automotive Freedom, 1918-1939"
2012
Daniel Scallet
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA
Dissertation: "An Inglorious War: The Second Seminole War, the Ad Hoc Origins of American Imperialism and the Silence of Slavery"
2011
Tanya L. Roth
Upper School Humanities Teacher
Mary Institute and Country Day School (MICDS), St. Louis, MO
Dissertation: “Battling for Equality: Sexual Integration in the US Military, 1945-1978”
John Aerni-Flessner
Associate Professor of History
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Dissertation: “‘If We Govern Ourselves, Whose Son Is to Govern Us?’: Youth, Independence and the 1960s in Lesotho”
Amber Aragon-Yoshida
Volkswagen Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship in Germany (2011-2012)
Dissertation: "Lustmord and Loving the Other: A History of Sexual Murder in Modern Germany and Austria (1873-1932)"
2010
Kevin Butterfield
Executive Director
George Washington Presidential Library, Mount Vernon, VA
Dissertation: “Unbound by Law: Association and Autonomy in the Early American Republic”
Alberto Sahagun
Visiting Assistant Professor of History
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Dissertation: “The Birth of Liberalism: The Making of Liberal Political Thought in Spain, France and England, 1808-1823”
Janek Wasserman
Assistant Professor of History
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Dissertation: “Black Vienna, Red Vienna: The Struggle for Intellectual and Political Hegemony in Interwar Vienna, 1918-1938”
2009
Keona Ervin
Associate Professor of History
University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, MO
Dissertation: “A Decent Living Out of Our Work: Black Women’s Labor Activism in St. Louis, 1929-45”
Michael Markus
Assistant Professor of History
Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL
Dissertation: “Political Passions: Local Parties and National Politics in Leeds, 1832-1867”
David Winder
Associate Professor of History
Principia College, Elsah, IL
Dissertation: “The First Ulster Crisis, 1886”
2008
Mohammad Masad
Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Member
Zayed University - Dubai
Dissertation: “The Medieval Islamic Apocalyptic Tradition: Divination, Prophecy and the End of Time in the 13th Century Eastern Mediterranean”
David Pennington
Assistant Professor of History, Politics and International Relations
Webster University, St. Louis, MO
Dissertation: “Women in the Market Place: Gender, Commerce and Social Relations in Early Modern English Towns”
2007
Benjamin Cawthra
Associate Professor of History
California State University - Fullerton, Fullerton, CA
Dissertation: “Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography, Race and the Image of Jazz, 1936-1965”