Recent Ph.D.s and Placements
Alumni: To update your placement information, please contact David Smiley, Graduate Studies Coordinator, at dsmiley@nd.edu.
Summer 2020
Andrea Castonguay
Dissertation: "Have you a clear Authority?" Dynasties, da'was, and the rise of Islamic States in Medieval Morocco
Placement: Assistant Professor of Ancient History, Western New England University, Springfield MA
Ashley Foster
Dissertation: Scotland’s Age of Reckoning: British Union and Enlightenment on a Covenanted People
Spring 2020
Eve Wolynes
Dissertation: Migrant Mentalities: Reconstructing the Community Identity and World of Venetian Merchants in the Late Medieval Mediterranean
Philip Byers
Dissertation: How Firm the Foundation: The Lilly Endowment and American Christianity, 1937-1989
Placement: Mellon 5+1 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame
Carla Villanueva
Dissertation: The Politics of Repressive Education Reform: The Institutional Relationship between the Secretaría de Educación Pública and Escuelas Normales Rurales in Mexico During the Cold War
Anna Vincenzi
Dissertation: Imagining an Age of Revolution? Interpretations of the American Revolution in the Italian States, 1765-1799
Placement: Assistant Professor in Modern European History, Hillsdale College
John Nelson
Dissertation: The Geography to Command a Continent: Native Peoples, Europeans, and the Chicago Portage
Placement: Assistant Professor in Early American History, Texas Tech University
Nicholas Bonneau
Dissertation: Unspeakable Loss: New England's Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemics, 1735-1775
Placement: Full-Time Lecturer in the History of Science and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Consulting Scholar, Mütter Research Institute, College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Fall 2019
Jillian Plummer
Dissertation: Saving Latin America: Catholic Sisters, Communism, and Liberation theology, 1946-1985
Placement: Assistant Lecturer of Catholic Studies, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield CT
Natalie Sargent
Dissertation: Peculiar Positions of Power: Laywomen as "Good Americans" and "Good Catholics," 1854-1907
Placement: Academic Advancement Director for Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame
Summer 2019
Suzanna Krivulskaya
Dissertation: Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism, 1832-1988
Placement: Assistant Professor of History, California State University San Marcos
Danae Jacobson
Dissertation: Spiritual Geographies: How Nuns Changed the U.S. West
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Colby College, Waterville ME
Taras Karaulshchikov
Dissertation: A History of Georgian Scientific Intelligentsia: The Case of the Nikoladze Family 1860-1981
Christopher Flanagan
Dissertation: Empire Remade: Refining Empire in the American Revolution, 1774-1795
Placement: Postdoctoral Scholarship, University of Notre Dame (5+1, 2019-2020)
Dylan LaBlanc
Dissertation: The Empire in Chains: British ‘Government Men’ in the Atlantic Slave Trade
Placement: Postdoctoral Scholarship, University of Notre Dame (5+1, 2019-2020)
Andrew Mach
Dissertation: Claiming America: Irish Catholic Memory and the Nation, 1865-1925
Placement: Academic Advisor, Newnan Academic Advising Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Spring 2019
Jonathan Riddle
Dissertation: Prospering Body and Soul: Health Reform, Religion, and Capitalism in Antebellum America
Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of History, Wheaton College, Wheaton IL
Heather Stanfiel
Dissertation: Imperial Heritage: Empire and Commemoration in Pre-Independence Ireland
Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame
Aurelio Valarezo-Dueñas
Dissertation: Para el bien universal y quietud de esta república y provincia: Political Culture, Representation and Policy Making in Seventeenth-Century Northern Andes
Fall 2018
Elizabeth Baker
Dissertation: 'More Romance than Reality': Mary Carpenter, 'Native Gentlemen,' and Female Education Reform in India
Placement: Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Notre Dame (5+1, 2018-2019); Assistant Professor of Modern European History, Grove City College, Grove City PA
Jessica Fisher
Dissertation: The Rise and Fall of the Ribbonmen: Ribbonism in Ireland and Abroad, c. 1810-1858
Garrett Fontenot
Dissertation: Voluntarism and Imperial Supremacy: Politics and the Military Establishment in the Expansion of the British Empire in French North America, 1760-1775
Placement: Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Notre Dame (5+1, 2018-2019); Senior Program Coordinator, Honors Program, Tulane University, New Orleans LA
Yin Liu
Dissertation: Teaching the Secunda Lex: Deuteronomy and Church Reform at Lyon in the Age of Charlemagne
John Shanley
Dissertation: Catholic Freedom, Protestant Slavery? Reconsidering Anti-Catholicism in Maryland, 1688-1776
Placement: Assistant Director, Center for Research and Fellowships, Villanova University
Kathryn Vidrine
Dissertation: Belief in Power: Building a National Church of Ireland, 1660-1689
Placement: Assistant Program Director, Office of Grants and Fellowships, University of Notre Dame
Summer 2018
Maria Cecilia Ulrickson
Dissertation: 'Esclavos que fueron' in Santo Domingo, 1768-1844
Placement: Assistant Professor, Department of History and Geography, Morgan State University, Maryland
Spring 2018
Jairo Campuzano Hoyos
Dissertation: The Quest for Material Progress in Global Perspective: Colombia 1840s-1900s
Placement: Profesor de carrera académica, Eafit University, Medellin, Colombia
Bethany Montagano
Dissertation: Sites of Slavery: Gender, Race and Tourism in the Construction of America's Slavery Memory
Placement: Associate Curator, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
Felicia Moralez
Dissertation: From Immigrants to Citizens: Mexicans and Settlement Houses in Gary, Indiana, 1919-1965
David Morris
Dissertation: Apocalypse Now or Later: The Manuscript Tradition of the Super Prophetas (Super Essaiam) of Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore
Placement: Classics and Research and Information Services Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James Strasburg
Dissertation: God's Marshall Plan: American Protestantism and the Democratization of Germany, 1910-1963
Placement: Assistant Professor of History, Hillsdale College, Michigan
Alexander Wimberly
Dissertation: Present Witness: The Confession of 1967 and the Travails of Presbyterians in American Society