Our Ph.D. graduates consistently secure tenure-track faculty placements, as well as other rewarding positions within universities, museums, archives, and beyond. The Director of Graduate Placement works closely with every student, organizing workshops, reviewing applications, sending out dossiers, and hosting mock interviews and expos on key topics.
Rachael Young | Dissertation Title: "Less Violent But No Less Visible: Criminalization and Community Murals in Brixton and Belfast, 1970–1989" Advisor: Robert Savage Position: Postdoctoral Fellow and Program Coordinator, Irish Studies Program, Boston College |
Mia Michael | Dissertation Title: "Caring for the Commonwealth: Domestic Work and Worker Organizing in Boston, Massachusetts, 1960–2015" Advisor: Marilynn Johnson Position: Assistant Professor of History and Labor Studies, Wayne State University |
Elizabeth Pingree | Dissertation Title: "The Footloose Labor System: Work and Migration in the Pacific Northwest, 1850–1940" Advisor: Heather Cox Richardson Position: Adjunct Instructor, Olympic College |
Whitney Abernathy Barnes | Dissertation Title: “Remaking Religion: Islam, Empire, Race, and the Secularization of French Christianity 1830–1920" Advisor: Devin Pendas Position: History Teacher, Veritas Scholars Academy, Texas |
Kelly Lyons
| Dissertation Title: "The Reinvention of Tradition: The Nationalist Network and the Making of the American Citizen, 1920–1955" Advisor: Marilynn Johnson Position: Qualitative Insight Analyst, WEVO |
Michael Bailey | Dissertation Title: "The First Irish Diaspora and the Bourbon Reforms: Imperial Translation, Political Economy, and Empire in the Atlantic World, 1713–1804" Advisor: Owen Stanwood Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College |
Eric Grube | Dissertation Title: "'An Intra-National Borderland: Regional Conflicts and Affinities Across the Austro-Bavarian Border, 1918–1955" Advisor: Devin Pendas Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College |
Lindsay Paturalski | Dissertation Title: "'To Bring Them under Control': Vaccination and Medical Authority in England, India, and Jamaica, c. 1800–1910" Advisor: Penelope Ismay Position: Program Manager, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame |
Hammond David Sessions | Dissertation Title: "Man, Machines, and Modernity: Inventing ‘Industrial Society’ in French Sociology, 1930–1981" Advisor: Julian Bourg Position: Freelance Writer and Editor |
Colin McConarty | Dissertation Title: "'A Final Solution of the Negro Question': Reconciliation, the New Navy, and the End of Reconstruction in America" Advisor: Heather Cox Richardson Position: Teacher, Selma City Schools |
Fumi Inoue | Dissertation Title: "The Politics of Extraterritoriality in Post-Occupation Japan and U.S.-Occupied Okinawa, 1952–1972" Advisor: Franziska Seraphim Position: Assistant Professor, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo |
Katherine Carper | Dissertation Title: "The Migration Business, 1824–1876" Advisor: Heather Cox Richardson Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College |
Michael R. McLean | Dissertation Title: "Democracy through Empire: Dakota Territory, 1861–1889" Advisor: Heather Cox Richardson |
Daniel W. T. Hood
| Dissertation Title: "The Fire Problem: Social Responsibility for Fire in the British Empire, 1817–1919" Advisor: Penelope Ismay Position: History Teacher, North Cross School |
Clayton Trutor | Dissertation Title: "'Major League City'": Atlanta, Professional Sports, and the Making of a Sunbelt Metropolis, 1961–1976" Advisor: Marilynn Johnson Position: Instructor, Norwich University |
Joanna Kelly | Dissertation Title: "Evangelical Television and the Politicizing of the Evangelical Message, 1950–1994" Advisor: James O'Toole Position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Boston College |
Matthew Delveaux | Dissertation Title: "Transregional Slave Networks of the Northern Arc, 700–900 C.E." Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, Princeton University |
John Morton | Dissertation Title: "Making Nations: The Northeastern Borderlands in an Age of Revolution, 1760–1820" Advisor: Owen Stanwood Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Saint Joseph's University |
Alexander Noonan | Dissertation Title: "Anarchist Terrorism and American National Security, 1881–1903" Advisor: Seth Jacobs Position: Senior Historian, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency |
Peter Berard | Dissertation Title: "Managing Revolution: Cold War Counterinsurgency and Liberal Governance" Advisor: Seth Jacobs Position: Program and Training Manager, Scholarly Strategy Network |
Michael Franczak | Dissertation Title: "Free Markets, Human Rights, and Global Power: American Foreign Policy in the North-South Dialogue, 1971–1982" Advisors: James Cronin and Seth Jacobs Position: Research Fellow, International Peace Institute, and Visiting Fellow in Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania. |
Craig Gallagher | Dissertation Title: "Covenants and Commerce: Scottish Networks and the Making of the British Atlantic World" Advisor: Owen Stanwood Position: Assistant Professor, New England College |
Felix Jiménez Botta | Dissertation Title: "Embracing Human Rights: Grassroots Solidarity Activism and Foreign Policy in Seventies West Germany" Advisor: Devin Pendas Position: Associate Professor, Miyazaki International College, Japan |
Adam Rathge | Dissertation Title: "Cannabis Cures: American Medicine, Mexican Marijuana, and the Origins of the War on Weed, 1840–1937" Advisor: Martin Summers Position: Director, Enrollment Management Strategic Operations and Projects, University of Dayton |
Carolyn Twomey | Dissertation Title: "Living Water, Living Stone: The History and Material Culture of Baptism in Early Medieval England, c. 600–c. 1200" Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
Allison Vander Broek | Dissertation Title: "Rallying the Right-to-Lifers: Grassroots Religion and Politics in the Building of a Broad-Based Right-to-Life Movement, 1960-1984" Advisor: James O'Toole Position: Senior Academic Advisor, Tufts University |
Peter Cajka | Dissertation Title: "The Rights of Conscience: The Rise of Tradition in America's Age of Fracture, 1940-1990" Advisor: James O'Toole Position: Assistant Teaching Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Notre Dame |
James Clifton | Dissertation Title: "A Nuclear Family: Britain, America, and NATO Rearmament during the Late Cold War" Advisor: James Cronin |
Elise Franklin | Dissertation Title: "A Slow End to Empire: Social Aid Associations, Family Migration, and Decolonization in France and Algeria, 1954-1981" Advisor: Julian Bourg Position: Assistant Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette |
Janet Kay | Dissertation Title: "Old, New, Borrowed, and Buried: Burial Practices in Fifth-Century Britain, 350-550 CE" Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: Associate Research Scholar and Lecturer, Princeton University |
Amy Limoncelli | Dissertation Title: "Great Britain and International Administration: Finding a New Role at the United Nations, 1941-1975" Advisor: James Cronin |
Christopher Staysniak | Dissertation Title: “‘The volunteer who seeks to help others also helps himself’: Religion, Class, and the Development of Youth Volunteer Service in the United States, 1934-1973" Advisor: James O'Toole |
Andrea Wenz
| Dissertation Title: "Bernardino Ochino of Siena: The Composition of the Italian Reformation at Home and Abroad" Advisors: Virginia Reinburg and Sarah Ross Position: Assistant Professor, Oakland University |
Rachel Ball-Phillips | Dissertation Title: "Film and the Shaping of Marathi Regionalism, 1932-1960" Advisor: Prasannan Parthasarathi Position: History Teacher, Grand Prairie ISD and Adjunct Professor, Southern Methodist University |
Mimi Cowan | Dissertation Title: "Immigrants, Nativists, and the Making of Chicago, 1842–1893" Advisor: Kevin Kenny |
Regan Eby | Dissertation Title: "Aristocratic Sociability and Monastic Patronage in Eleventh- and Early-Twelfth Century Brittany" Advisor: Robin Fleming |
Shannon Faye Monaghan | Dissertation Title: "Relighting the Lamps: Population Politics and the Development of Democracy in the New Europe, 1918–1926" Advisors: Devin Pendas and James Cronin Position: Preceptor, Harvard College Writing Program |
Christopher Riedel | Dissertation Title: "Monastic Reform & Lay Religion in Æthelwold's Winchester" Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: Assistant Professor, Albion College |
Jesse Tumblin | Dissertation Title: "The Widening Gyre: Security, Sovereignty, and the Making of Modern Statehood in the British Empire, 1898-1931" Advisor: James Cronin Position: Assistant Professor, U.S. Naval War College |
Natalia King Rasmussen | Dissertation Title: “Friends of Freedom, Allies of Peace: African Americans, the Civil Rights Movement, and East Germany, 1949-1989” Advisor: Devin Pendas |
Seth Meehan | Dissertation Title: "Denominating a People: Congregational Laity, Church Disestablishment, and the Struggles of Denominationalism in Massachusetts, 1780-1865" Advisor: James O'Toole Position: Assistant Director of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College |
Casey Beaumier, S.J. | Dissertation Title: "For Richer, For Poorer: Jesuit Secondary Education in America and the Challenge of Elitism" Advisor: James O'Toole Position: Director, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College |
David Crane | Dissertation Title: "Dark Earth to Domesday: Towns in Anglo-Saxon England" Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: Assistant Dean of Credit Programs, Salem State University |
Jared Hardesty | Dissertation Title: "Slavery, Freedom, and Dependence in Pre-Revolutionary Boston" Advisor: Cynthia Lyerly Position: Professor (with tenure), Western Washington University |
Anna Kolchinsky | Dissertation Title: "Tuberculosis as Disease and Politics In Germany, 1871-1961" Advisors: James Cronin and Devin Pendas |
Jonathan Kuiken | Dissertation Title: “Empires of Energy: Britain, British Petroleum, Shell and the remaking of the international oil industry, 1957-1979” Advisor: James Cronin Position: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Wilkes University |
Gráinne McEvoy | Dissertation Title: "Justice and Order: American Catholic Social Thought and the Immigration Question in the Restriction Era, 1917-1965" Advisor: Kevin Kenny Position: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Trinity College Dublin |
Peter Moloney | Dissertation Title: "From Common Market to European Union: A New Model State?" Advisor: James Cronin |
Aniruddha Bose | Dissertation Title: "The Port of Calcutta (1860-1910): State Power, Technology, and Labor" Advisor: Prasannan Parthasarathi Position: Assistant Professor (tenure track), St. Francis University |
Ian Delahanty | Dissertation Title: "Immigrants in a Time of Civil War: The Irish, Slavery, and the Union, 1845-1865" Advisor: Kevin Kenny Position: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Springfield College |
Katherine Hubler | Dissertation Title: "Man's Duty to Woman: Men and the First Wave of German Feminism, 1865-1919" Advisors: Paul Breines and Devin Pendas Position: Instructor, Linn-Benton Community College |
Austin Mason | Dissertation Title: “Listening to the Early Medieval Dead: Religious Practices in Eastern Britain, 400–900 CE” Advisor: Robin Fleming Position: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota |
Darren McDonald | Dissertation Title: "Crisis of Faith: Jimmy Carter, Religion, and the Making of U.S.-Middle East Foreign Policy" Advisor: Seth Jacobs Position: Interdepartmental Project Manager at Executive Office of Health and Human Services, State of Rhode Island |
Ted Miller | Dissertation: "Mavericks of the Metroplex: Dallas Republicans, the Southern Strategy, and the American Right, 1952-1964" Advisor: Lynn Lyerly Position: Assistant Teaching Professor, Northeastern University |
John Spiers | Dissertation Title: "Managing Growth: Suburbanization and Environmental Protection in Metropolitan Washington Since 1970" Advisor: Marilynn Johnson Position: Faculty Service Manager, Brigham and Women's Hospital |
Hidetaka Hirota | Dissertation Title: "Nativism, Citizenship and the Deportation of Paupers in Massachusetts, 1837-1883" Advisor: Kevin Kenny Position: Associate Professor, UC Berkeley |
David McCowin | Dissertation Title: "'For Faith and for Freedom': American Catholic Manhood and the Holy Name Society in Boston, 1870-1960" Advisor: James O'Toole |
Megan Myers | Dissertation Title: "Moving Terrorists from the Streets to a Diamond-Shaped Table: The International History of the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1969-1999" Advisor: James Cronin Position: Permanent Instructor, Howard Community College |
Laura Baines-Walsh | Dissertation Title: "Adapting to Dixie: The Southernization of Nineteenth Century Lutherans in the North Carolina Piedmont" Advisor: Cynthia Lyerly Position: History Teacher, Newton Country Day School |
Llana Barber | Dissertation Title: "Latino Migration and the New Global Cities: Transnationalism, Race, and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000" Advisors: Marilynn Johnson; Davarian Baldwin Position: Assistant Professor, SUNY Old Westbury (tenure track) |
Jill Bender | Dissertation Title: "Fears of 1857: The British Empire in the Wake of the Indian Rebellion" Advisor: Prasannan Parthasarathi Position: Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina Greensboro (tenure track) |
Amanda Bidnall | Dissertation Title: “‘The Birth Pangs of a New Nation:’ West Indian Artists in London, 1945-1965” Advisor: Peter Weiler Position: Instructor, Simon Fraser University |
Christina Brophy | Dissertation Title: "Keening Community: Mná Caointe, Women, Death, and Power in Ireland" Advisor: Kevin O'Neill Position: Instructor, Triton College |
John Dennehy | Dissertation Title: "James Sullivan and the Birth of Massachusetts Republicanism" Advisor: Alan Rogers |
Meaghan Dwyer-Ryan | Dissertation Title: "Ethnic Patriotism: Boston's Irish and Jewish Communities, 1880-1929" Advisor: Kevin Kenny Position: Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina Aiken (tenure track) |
Gregory Walsh | Dissertation Title: "Splintered Loyalties: The Revolutionary War in Essex County, New Jersey" Advisor: Alan Rogers |
Alexander Bloom | Chair and Professor of History, Wheaton College |
William Chase | Chair and Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh |
Michael B. Friedland | History Teacher, Seattle Urban Academy |
Arch Getty | Professor, University of California at Los Angeles |
Richard Immerman | Chair and Professor of History, Temple University |
Violet Johnson | Chair and Professor of History, Agnes Scott College |
| Published: The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950 | |
Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook | Professor of Practical Theology and Religious Education, Claremont School of Theology |
Mark O’Connor | Director, Honors Program, Boston College |
James O’Toole | Professor, Boston College |
Susan Vorderer | Associate Professor & Chair of History Department, Merrimack College |
Alongside our success in helping Ph.D. students secure tenure-track positions, we are enthusiastic about helping interested students explore and gain other rewarding forms of employment within historical societies, museums, archives, research foundations, university administration, secondary education, and beyond.
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