Recent Ph.D.s and Placements
Alumni: To update your placement information, please contact Tiarra Lax-Walker, Graduate Studies Coordinator, at tlaxwalk@nd.edu.
Fall 2021
Esteban Alfaro Salas
Dissertation: Making Portuguese Colonial Governance: Slavery, Forced Labor, and Racial Ideology in the Interior from Benguela, 1760-1860
Placement: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven CT
Anna Holdorf
Dissertation: A Harvest for Heaven and Earth: Agricultural Missionaries and the Religious Roots of U.S. International Development in Latin America
Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame
Nelia Martsinkiv
Dissertation: Unlikely Dissenters: Origins and Development of the Ukrainian Human Rights Movement from Khrushchev to Gorbachev
Placement: Lecturer in History, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA (for 2022-23)
Summer 2021
Anna Fett
Dissertation: Peace Education for the World: People-to-People Programs, American Youth, & U.S. Power, 1939-1961
Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Colgate University, Hamilton NY (for 2021-22 and 2022-23)
Sejoo Kim
Dissertation: American Postcolony: Imperial Citizenship and the Rise of Garment Metropolis in the Pacific, 1944-1999
Placement: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Studies Education, Gyeongin National University of Education, Incheon, South Korea
Spring 2021
Nicholas Roberts
Dissertation: A Sea of Wealth: Sayyid Saʿid bin Sultan, His Omani Empire, and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace
Placement: Assistant Professor of Middle East and Islamic World History, Norwich University, Northfield VT
Fall 2020
Bry Martin
Dissertation: Court Dusk, Country Dawn: The Ideological Formation of the First Earl of Shaftesbury
Placement: Assistant Professor of Justice Studies, University of Maine at Augusta
Chris Temple
Dissertation: Fostering Elite Science at an American Catholic University: The Rise of a Research Culture at the University of Notre Dame, 1842-1967
Placement: Assistant Registrar, University of Notre Dame
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
Placement: Librarian, University of Dayton, Dayton OH
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 Professor 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 LeBlanc
Dissertation: The Empire in Chains: British ‘Government Men’ in the Atlantic Slave Trade
Placement: Social Science Teacher, La Lumiere School, LaPorte IN
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: Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Great Books, Humanities and Teacher Education Division, Seaver College, Pepperdine University, Malibu CA
Heather Stanfiel
Dissertation: Imperial Heritage: Empire and Commemoration in Pre-Independence Ireland
Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish 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: 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: Manager of Fellowships and Honorific Scholarships, Ogden Honors College, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA
Yin Liu
Dissertation: Teaching the Secunda Lex: Deuteronomy and Church Reform at Lyon in the Age of Charlemagne
Placement: Faculty Member, School of History, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
John Shanley
Dissertation: Catholic Freedom, Protestant Slavery? Reconsidering Anti-Catholicism in Maryland, 1688-1776
Kathryn Vidrine
Dissertation: Belief in Power: Building a National Church of Ireland, 1660-1689
Placement: Assistant Director of Doctoral Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame
Summer 2018
Maria Cecilia Ulrickson
Dissertation: 'Esclavos que fueron' in Santo Domingo, 1768-1844
Placement: Assistant Professor of American Church History, Catholic University of America, Washington DC
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: Director of University of Southern California Museums, Los Angeles CA
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: Director of the Souvay Memorial Library at Kenrick Glennon Seminary, St. Louis MO
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
Placement: Leader of the Corrymeela Community (Northern Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organization), Belfast, Northern Ireland