Placements
Summer 2026
Name |
Dissertation Title |
Placement |
| Sarah Pollnow | A "New Era" in Liberia-U.S. Relations? Liberianization and its Limits in the Tubman Years | 5+1 Postdoctoral Fellow, ND Press, University of Notre Dame |
Fall 2025
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Eduardo Dawson | Exiles in this World: Studies in the Catholicism of Blacks in Cartagena and Lima in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries | Lecturer, Department of History, Fairfield University, Fairfield CT |
| Lauren Jean | "Gnúis charthonach gan chailg n-aor": Social Capital, Honor, and Gender in the Late Medieval Mág Uidhir Lordship of Fir Manach, c.1300-1650 |
Summer 2025
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Thomas Meyers | The Rational and the Revealed: Mersenne, His Circle, and the Advent of Scientific Knowledge | Graduate Career Consultant, Meruelo Family Center for Career Development, University of Notre Dame |
| Susan Naramore | Country Folk in the City: The Mugello, the Medici’s Ascension, and Development of Tuscan Identity | Notre Dame 5+1 postdoctoral fellow |
| Jacob Swisher | Precious Things: A Planetary History of an American Borderland | Notre Dame 5+1 postdoctoral fellow |
Spring 2025
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Catherine Perl | Patronage, Historiography, and the Politics of Religion in Muslim and Christian Iberia, c. 1030-1150 | Visiting Assistant Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles CA |
| Samuel Roberts | "A Miserable Quilt of Confused Erudition”: The De perenni philosophia of Agostino Steuco | Visiting Scholar, Valor Education, Austin TX |
| Hannah Stevenson | "Fire is Hot, and Women Give Birth": Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon on Women, Gender, and Sex | Notre Dame 5+1 postdoctoral fellow |
Summer 2024
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Hüsamettin Şimşir | Mechanisms of Ottoman Conquest and Expansion in the Balkan Peninsula/Greece in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries | Postdoctoral fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece |
| Grace Song | Representing U.S.-Korea Relations, 1871-1923 | Academic Advisor, Office of Undergraduate Studies, University of Notre Dame |
Spring 2024
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Chester David Carlson | The Transformation of the Slave Trade in Virginia, 1770-1830 | |
| Melissa Coles | Dirt, Water, and the Search for Healing: The Contested Histories of Indigenous-Catholic Holy Sites in the North American West, 1810-2022 | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame |
| Sarah Crane | Between Genocide and Justice: Postwar Trials and the Construction of the Holocaust, 1945-1998 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Judaic Studies, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH |
| Lauren Hamblen | Missionary-Citizenship: Neighbor, Nation, and Globe in American Protestant Childhood from the Great War to the Cold War | |
| Heather Lane | Policing America: Patrolling the Streets and Controlling the Public, 1832-1916 | |
| Julie Mullican | Thank You for Your Kindness: Conservatorships and the Transformation of Legal Disability in Cook County, 1905-1945 | Lecturer, Department of History, Texas State University, Round Rock TX |
| Hannah Peckham | American Outposts: Rethinking U.S. Higher Education Abroad, 1908-1972 | Pre-Award Program Manager, Notre Dame Research, University of Notre Dame |
| Khan Shairani | Reviving Muslim Knowledge Traditions: Shāh Walī Allāh Dihlawī and 18th century Transnational Knowledge Networks, 1703-1762 | Peace Corps volunteer, Indonesia |
| Erica Snader | Patronage, Reform, and Prayer: Female Religious Communities in Late Medieval and Early Modern Munich | Registration and Curriculum Assistant, School of Information, University of Michigan |
| Edward Trofimov | Priests, Confessors, and Flock in the Middle Byzantine Period (8th-12th centuries): Social Regulation and Daily Life in the Mirror of Provincial Penitentials and Apocalyptic Sermons | Postdoctoral fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece |
Summer 2023
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Anthony Gaspar | “Prey of All Nations”: Diplomacy and Empire During the Reign of Michael VIII Palaiologos (1259–1282) | Lecturer, Department of History, Baylor University, Waco TX |
| Jorge Puma Crespo | “The Only Correct Line”: A Transnational History of French Maoism in Catholic Mexico During the Late Sixties | Assistant Professor of History, Hope College, Holland MI |
| Ana Sánchez Ramírez | Violentology: Expert Knowledge and Government Peacebuilding in Late 20th Century Colombia | Docente de Cátedra, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia |
| Emily Smith | Sanctifying Pregnancy: Motherhood and American Catholicism, 1930–1981 | Lecturer, Department of History, University of Georgia, Athens GA |
| Tomás Valle | Socratic Learning in Lutheran Germany: Philosophy, Religion, and Politics in the Life of Johannes Caselius (1533–1613) | Assistant Professor, Benedictine College, Atchison KS |
Spring 2023
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Janice Gunther Martin | Unburdening the Beasts: The Equine Doctors of Early Modern Castile | |
| Noe Pliego Campos | Crises, Rights, and Futurity: Youth in 1980s Mexico City | Assistant Professor of History, Wabash College, Crawfordsville IN |
| Istvan Szepesi | Unspoken Accommodations: A Century of Religious Coexistence in Catholic Cologne, 1517–1617 | Postdoctoral fellow, Institute for European History, Mainz, Germany |
Summer 2022
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Susanna De Stradis | Making Democracy Safe for Religion: The Catholic Argument for the “Nation Under God” (1939–1965) | Assistant Professor of History, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State MS |
| Ian Van Dyke | Evangelical Multiculturalism in the Age of Fracture: U.S. Missionaries and Evangelicals’ Search for Diversity and Social Justice, 1974–2010 | Visiting Professor of History, Grand Valley State University, Allendale MI |
| James P. Breen | Fighting the Roman Corporation: How the American Protective Association Combined Anti-Catholicism and Antimonopolism in Gilded Age America | Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ripon College, Ripon WI |
Spring 2022
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Jessica Brockmole | Pink Cars and Pocketbooks: How American Women Bought Their Way into the Driver’s Seat | Independent Writer |
| Raymond Drause | “In Word and Deed”: Exiled Siberian Decembrists as Servants of the Russian Empire, 1826–1860 | Visiting Researcher, Karelian Institute, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland |
Fall 2021
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Esteban Alfaro Salas | Making Portuguese Colonial Governance: Slavery, Forced Labor, and Racial Ideology in the Interior from Benguela, 1760-1860 | Lecturer (equivalent to assistant professor) in African History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London |
| Anna Holdorf | A Harvest for Heaven and Earth: Agricultural Missionaries and the Religious Roots of U.S. International Development in Latin America | Rating Veterans Service Representative, U.S. Veterans Benefits Administration, Milwaukee WI |
| Nelia McCaw | Unlikely Dissenters: Origins and Development of the Ukrainian Human Rights Movement from Khrushchev to Gorbachev |
Summer 2021
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Anna Fett | Peace Education for the World: People-to-People Programs, American Youth, & U.S. Power, 1939-1961 | Assistant Professor of Peace Studies and Black Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia MO |
| Sejoo Kim | American Postcolony: Imperial Citizenship and the Rise of Garment Metropolis in the Pacific, 1944-1999 | Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Studies Education, Gyeongin National University of Education, Incheon, South Korea |
Spring 2021
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Nicholas Roberts | A Sea of Wealth: Sayyid Saʿid bin Sultan, His Omani Empire, and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace | Law Clerk, Law Offices of David P. Sheldon, Washington, DC |
Fall 2020
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Bry Martin | Court Dusk, Country Dawn: The Ideological Formation of the First Earl of Shaftesbury | Attorney at law, Dover-Foxcroft ME |
| Chris Temple | Fostering Elite Science at an American Catholic University: The Rise of a Research Culture at the University of Notre Dame, 1842-1967 | Academic Support Program Director, Center for University Advising, University of Notre Dame |
Summer 2020
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Andrea Castonguay | “Have You a Clear Authority?” Dynasties, Da’was, and the Rise of Islamic States in Medieval Morocco | Assistant Professor of Ancient History, Western New England University, Springfield MA |
| Ashley Foster | Scotland’s Age of Reckoning: British Union and Enlightenment on a Covenanted People | Program Manager, Honors College Dean's Office, University of Alabama, Birmingham AL |
Spring 2020
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Eve Wolynes | Migrant Mentalities: Reconstructing the Community Identity and World of Venetian Merchants in the Late Medieval Mediterranean | Special Collections Curator, Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS |
| Philip Byers | How Firm the Foundation: The Lilly Endowment and American Christianity, 1937-1989 | Halbrook Chair of Civic Engagement, Taylor University, Upland IN |
| Carla Villanueva | 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 | Director, Higher Education Department, UAW (United Auto Workers) |
| Anna Vincenzi | Imagining an Age of Revolution? Interpretations of the American Revolution in the Italian States, 1765-1799 | Assistant Professor in Modern European History, Hillsdale College |
| John Nelson | The Geography to Command a Continent: Native Peoples, Europeans, and the Chicago Portage | Assistant Professor in Early American History, Texas Tech University |
| Nicholas Bonneau | Unspeakable Loss: New England's Invisible Throat Distemper Epidemics, 1735-1775 | Instructor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore MD |
Fall 2019
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Jillian Plummer | Saving Latin America: Catholic Sisters, Communism, and Liberation theology, 1946-1985 | Assistant Professor of Catholic Studies, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield CT |
| Natalie Sargent | Peculiar Positions of Power: Laywomen as "Good Americans" and "Good Catholics," 1854-1907 | Faculty Award Program Director, Provost Office, University of Notre Dame |
Summer 2019
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Suzanna Krivulskaya | Disgraced: How Sex Scandals Transformed American Protestantism, 1832-1988 | Assistant Professor of History, California State University San Marcos |
| Danae Jacobson | Spiritual Geographies: How Nuns Changed the U.S. West | Assistant Professor of History, Colby College, Waterville ME |
| Taras Karaulshchikov | A History of Georgian Scientific Intelligentsia: The Case of the Nikoladze Family 1860-1981 | |
| Chris Flanagan | Empire Remade: Refining Empire in the American Revolution, 1774-1795 | Research Facilitator, Faculty of Humanities Administration, University of Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Dylan LeBlanc | The Empire in Chains: British ‘Government Men’ in the Atlantic Slave Trade | Social Studies teacher, The Portage School, South Bend IN |
| Andrew Mach | Claiming America: Irish Catholic Memory and the Nation, 1865-1925 | Associate Director for Advising Operations, Newnan Academic Advising Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
Spring 2019
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Jonathan Riddle | Prospering Body and Soul: Health Reform, Religion, and Capitalism in Antebellum America | Assistant Professor of History, Seaver College, Pepperdine University, Malibu CA |
| Heather Stanfiel | Imperial Heritage: Empire and Commemoration in Pre-Independence Ireland | |
| Aurelio Valarezo-Dueñas | Para el bien universal y quietud de esta república y provincia: Political Culture, Representation and Policy Making in Seventeenth-Century Northern Andes | Councillor, Consejo de Aseguramiento de la Calidad de la Educación Superior, Quito, Eduador |
Fall 2018
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Elizabeth Baker | “More Romance than Reality”: Mary Carpenter, 'Native Gentlemen,' and Female Education Reform in India | Assistant Professor of Modern European History, Grove City College, Grove City PA |
| Jessica Fisher | The Rise and Fall of the Ribbonmen: Ribbonism in Ireland and Abroad, c. 1810-1858 | |
| Garrett Fontenot | Voluntarism and Imperial Supremacy: Politics and the Military Establishment in the Expansion of the British Empire in French North America, 1760-1775 | Director of Scholarship Programs, Clemson University Honors College, Clemson SC |
| Yin Liu | Teaching the Secunda Lex: Deuteronomy and Church Reform at Lyon in the Age of Charlemagne | Associate Professor, School of History, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China |
| John Shanley | Catholic Freedom, Protestant Slavery? Reconsidering Anti-Catholicism in Maryland, 1688-1776 | |
| Kathryn Vidrine | Belief in Power: Building a National Church of Ireland, 1660-1689 | Assistant Director of Doctoral Studies, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame |
Summer 2018
Name |
Dissertation title |
Placement |
| Maria Cecilia Ulrickson | “Esclavos que fueron” in Santo Domingo, 1768-1844 | Assistant Professor of American Church History, Catholic University of America, Washington DC |
| Jairo Campuzano Hoyos | The Quest for Material Progress in Global Perspective: Colombia 1840s-1900s | Profesor Titular, Eafit University, Medellin, Colombia |
| Bethany Montagano | Sites of Slavery: Gender, Race and Tourism in the Construction of America's Slavery Memory | Director of University of Southern California Museums, Los Angeles CA |
| Felicia Moralez | From Immigrants to Citizens: Mexicans and Settlement Houses in Gary, Indiana, 1919-1965 | |
| David Morris | Apocalypse Now or Later: The Manuscript Tradition of the Super Prophetas (Super Essaiam) of Pseudo-Joachim of Fiore | Director of the Souvay Memorial Library at Kenrick Glennon Seminary, St. Louis MO |
| James Strasburg | God's Marshall Plan: American Protestantism and the Democratization of Germany, 1910-1963 | Associate Professor of History, Hillsdale College MI |
| Alexander Wimberly | Present Witness: The Confession of 1967 and the Travails of Presbyterians in American Society |
Leader of the Corrymeela Community (Northern Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organization), Belfast, Northern Ireland
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