Graduate Alumni Directory

 NameAdvisor(s)Doctoral thesisDate of PhDInitial post-graduate positionSubsequent position
 Vicky ShenRaja Adal"Sweet Archipelagos: A Multispecies History of Sugar and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific” 2025Research Associate and Assistant Director, World History Center, University of Pittsburgh 
 Bryan ParadisLaura Lovett"Trees Against the Tide: Cherry Blossoms, Tourism, and Washington’s Potomac Park, 1909-1975.”2025Lecturer in History, University of North Carolina Wilmington 
 Manuel RoblesGeorge Andrews and Lara Putnam"Here We Are, Here We've Been, Here We'll Be!": Global Politics, the Mexican State, and the Afro-Mexican Struggle for Ethno-Racial Rights, 1990-20202024Assistant Professor of Latin American History, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville 
 Chelsey SmithLara PutnamA Generation Rising: Education for Freedpeople in Post-Abolition Jamaica, 1834-18722024Assistant Professor of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 
 Ana FumurescuGregor ThumNational in Difference: Primary Schooling, Citizen-Subjects, and Imperial Notions in Romanian-Administered Dobruja, 1878-19202023Legal writer, Fragomen 
 Yagiz YildizWilliam ChaseLeft Radical Internationalism, the Fracturing Second International, and Founding of the Third International, 1910-19202023Research fellow, HSE University St. Petersburg 
 Corey BrazileRobert RuckBefore and After Title IX: The Persistent Entanglement of Race and Gender in Women's Collegiate Sport, 1892-19922023Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh 
 Leonardo MorenoMarcus RedikerThe Rise and Fall of Cartagena de Indias: Maritime Economies, Labor, and Crisis in a Caribbean Port City (1578-1700)2022Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh 
 Matthew PlishkaLara Putnam & Molly WarshCycles of Crisis and Adaptation: A Multispecies Political Ecology of Late-Colonial Jamaica, 1870-19602022Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Amherst College 
 Jacob PomerantzMolly WarshBuilding the Bridge: Labor and Colonial Governance in Seventeenth-Century Bridgetown, Barbados2021Field examiner, National Relations Labor Board 
 Aura Jirau-ArroyoLara PutnamOur University: Nation, Diversity, and Student Protest in the University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, 1952-19812021Teaching Postdoctoral fellow, Albion CollegeAssistant Professor, Eastern Illinois University
 Artan HoxhaGregor ThumSugarland: Socialism and teh Transformation of the Albanian Countryside2020Researcher, Institute of History, Tirana, Albania 
 Yevan TerrienMarcus RedikerExiles and Fugitives: Labor, Mobility, and Power in French Colonial Louisiana, 1699-17692020Visiting Instructor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette 
 Johnathan WhiteLara Putnam and Laurence GlascoIt Was All a Dream...Pittsburgh's Musicians Local 471: Collective Memory and Alternate Truths2020Assistant Teaching Professor, Penn State Greater Allegheny 
 Jose Andres FernandezLara PutnamJamaica in the age of Development: Petitions, Small Farming, and Agricultural Planning, 1895-19722020Assistant Professor, University of Costa Rica 
 Bethany WadeLara Putnam/Reid AndrewsEnlightened Burial: Death and Science in the Spanish Caribbean, 1800-18702020Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers UniversityAssistant Professor, Sacred Heart University
 Adam BrodeGregor ThumPride of Place. Interethnic Relations and Urban Spaces in Riga, 1918-19392019Data Analyst and German-language Specialist, Financial Compliance Industry 
 Alexandra MountainRob RuckRough Ice: The Education and Labor of Young Male Ice Hockey Players in Canada, the United States, and Sweden, 1950-19802019Allan H. Selig Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin 
 Marcy LadsonEdward MullerWe Didn’t Start the Fire: Natural Gas Drilling in Pennsylvania Before the Marcellus Boom2019Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh 
 Jesse OlsavskyNiklas Frykman/
Marcus Rediker
"Fire and sword will affect more good:" Runaways, vigilance committees and the rise of revolutionary abolitionism, 1835-1860"2019Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University, Jiangsu Province, China 
 Dan HollandEdward MullerCommunities of Resistance:
How ordinary people developed creative
responses to marginalization
in Lyon and Pittsburgh, 1980-2010
2019Part-time Instructor, University of Pittsburgh 
 Mirelle LueckeHolger Hoock/ Marcus RedikerTopsail Alley: Labor Networks and Social Conflict on the New York Waterfront in the Age of Revolution2019Assistant Curator, Mystic Seaport Museum, ConnecticutSupervisory Curator, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
 Christopher EirksonRuth Mostern/
Evelyn Rawski
Ideas of Empire in Early Ming China: The Legacy of the Mongol Empire in Chinese Imperial Visions, 1368-15002018Visiting Assistant Professor, Franklin and Marshall CollegeAcademic Advisor, George Washington University
 Bennett SherryDiego Holstein/ Pat ManningCrossing Lines: How Transnational Advocacy & Refugee Migration Shaped the UNHCR in Turkey, 1960–19882018Visiting Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh 
 Jack BouchardMarcus RedikerTowards Terra Nova: The North Atlantic Fisheries and the Atlantic World, 1490-16002018Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DCAssistant Professor, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
 Stephanie MakinGregor ThumThe Catholic Conundrum: The Role of the German and American Catholic Communities in Creating the Cold War World, 1945-1955   2018ORISE Fellow, Europe-Mediterranean Directorate within the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), Washington, DCHistorian, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Indo-Pacific Directorate, Washington D.C.
 Nyri BakkalianWilliam ChaseThe Sparrow's Dream: The Meiji Revolution and Local Self-Assertion in Northern Japan2017Staff, Qualitative Data Analysis Program, University of Pittsburgh 
 Jonathan SherryWilliam ChaseStalinism on Trial: Spanish Republican Legality, the Soviet Union, and the Performance of Justice in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-19392017Visiting Professor,  University of MiamiAssistant Professor, Averett University
 Kelly UrbanReid Andrews/ Alejandro de la FuenteThe Sick Republic: Tuberculosis, Public Health, and Politics in Cuba, 1925-19652017Visiting Lecturer, University of PittsburghAssistant Professor, University of South Alabama
 Francisco Flórez-BolívarReid AndrewsEn sus propios términos: Negros y mulatos y sus luchas por la igualdad en Colombia, 1885-19472016Assistant Professor, University of Cartagena (Colombia) 
 Katherine ParkerSeymour Drescher/ Holger HoockContentious Waters: The Creation of Pacific Geographic Knowledge in Britain, 1669-17682016Hakluyt Society Research FellowshipResearch Officer, Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps Inc.
 Christopher MyersSeymour DrescherSteering The Seas of Reform: Education, Empirical Science, And Royal Naval Medicine, 1815-18602016Processing Brokerage Clerk, Vanguard 
 John GalanteReid AndrewsDistant Loyalties: World War I and the Italian South Atlantic2016
Assistant Teaching Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
 
 
 Titas ChakrobortyMarcus RedikerWork and Society in the East India Company Settlements in Bengal, 1650-17572016Post-doctoral Fellowship of Historical Studies, University of Texas-AustinAssistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University, Shanghai
 Jesse HorstReid Andrews/
Alejandro de la Fuente
Sleeping on the Ashes: Slum Clearance in Havana in an Age of Revolution 1930-652016Resident Director, Sarah Lawrence College in Havana (Cuba) 
 Oana Adelina StefanWilliam ChaseVacationing in the Cold War: Foreign Tourists to Socialist Romania and Franco’s Spain, 1960s-1970s2016Post-doctoral Fellow,
Central European University in Budapest
Research Associate, European University Institute, Florence, Italy
 Anthony ComegnaVan Beck HallThe Dupes of Hope Forever:" The Loco-Foco or Equal Rights Movement, 1820s-1870s2016Assistant Editor for Intellectual History,
Libertarianism.org and The Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.
Academics Programs Design Manager, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University
 Andrew BehrendtIrina LivezeanuTravelers of an Empire that Was: Tourism, Movie-Going, and the Formation of Post-Imperial Identities in Austria and Hungary, 1918-19442016Undergraduate advisor,
Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Assistant Teaching Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology
 Steven PittMarcus RedikerCity upon the Atlantic Tides: Merchants, Pirates, and the Seafaring Community of Boston2015Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Bonaventure UniversityAssistant Professor, St. Bonaventure University
 Madalina VeresPinar Emiraliogliu & Patrick ManningConstructing Imperial Spaces: Habsburg Cartography in the Age of Enlightenment2015Junior Fellow,
Central European University's Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest, Hungary
Postdoc, American Philosophical Society; currently Director of Corporate a& Foundation Relations, University of the Sciences, Philadelphia
 Ahmet IzmirliogluPat ManningClashes of Imperial Authority: Commercial Tribunals in the Ottoman Provinces and Istanbul, 1847-1880.2015

 

Visiting Scholar, University of Utah, Department of History

 

Lecturer, University of North Carolina Wilmington
 Victoria HarmsGregor ThumDestined or Doomed? Hungarian Dissidents and their Western Friends, 1973–19982015Post-doctoral Fellow at the Herder Institute in Marburg, GermanyDAAD Visiting Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins
 Katharine Phelps WalshBruce Venarde/
JenWaldron
Parturition and Print in Seventeenth-Century London2014Adjunct Professor, Wright State UniversityTeaching Consultant, Carnegie Mellon University
 Brian ShaevWilliam ChaseEstrangement and Reconciliation: French Socialists, German Social Democrats, and the Origins of European Integration, 1948-1957

 

2014

Post-doctoral Researcher, Centre for European Research at the University of Gothenburg, SwedenProfessor, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
 Suset Laboy PerezAlejandro de la FuenteMinor Problems: Juvenile Delinquents and the Construction of a Puerto Rican Subject, from 1880-19382014Public Relations/ Creative Consultant 
 Samantha LombWilliam ChaseSpeaking Out: Popular Dimensions of Stalinist Authoritarianism: the Discussion and Implementation of the 1936 Constitution2014Lecturer, Viatka State University, Kirov, RussiaAssistant Professor, Viatka State University, Kirov, Russia
 James HommesEvelyn RawskiVerbeck of Japan: Guido F. Verbeck as Pioneer Missionary, Oyatoi Gaikokujin, and ‘Foreign Hero2014Teacher, Trinity Christian School, Pittsburgh, PA 
 Lars PetersonReid AndrewsIn the Shadow of Batlle: Workers, State Officials, and the Creation of the Welfare State in Uruguay, 1900-19202014Assistant Director for Development, Brother’s Brother Foundation 
 Nicole BourbonnaisLara PutnamOut of the Boudoir and into the Banana Walk: Birth Control Campaigns and Reproductive Politics in the West Indies, 1930-19702013Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland 
 Alejandra BozaLara PutnamNegotiating Indigenous Autonomy: Politics, Land, and Religion in Tierradentro (Colombia), 1905-19502013Assistant Professor, Universidad de Costa Rica 
 Julien ComteLara PutnamSyphilis and Sex: Transatlantic Medicine and Public Health in Argentina and the  United States, 1880-19402013Academic Advisor, University of PittsburghBilingual Technical Product Analyst, HCL America (onsite at Google Pittsburgh)
 Laura GrantmyreMaurine GreenwaldConflicting Visions of Urban Renewal: Visual Representations of Urban Redevelopment in Pittsburgh's Hill District, 1943-19682013Adjunct Instructor, Point Park UniversityInstructor of Humanities and Social Sciences, St. Mary's School, Raleigh, NC
 Natalie Kimball Reid AndrewsAn Open Secret: The Hidden History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Highland Bolivia, 1952-20102013Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University

Associate Professor, College of Staten Island, City University of New York

 

 Kavin PaulrajLara PutnamJamaica Brasileira: The Politics of Reggae in São Luís, Brazil2013Musician 
 Alyssa RibeiroEdward MullerThe Battle for Harmony: Intergroup Relations Between Blacks and Latinos in Philadelphia, 1950s to 1980s2013Lecturer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Assistant Professor, Allegheny College

 

 Oliver BatemanPeter KarstenLaw, Society, and Judicial Politics: State Supreme Courts and the Pursuit of Educational Equity2012Assistant Professor, University of Texas at ArlingtonIndependent journalist
 Mathew CaseyAlejandro de la FuenteFrom Haiti to Cuba and Back: Haitians' Experiences of Migration, Labor, and Return, 1900-19402012Assistant, Associate Professor, University of Southern Mississippi 
 Roland ClarkIrina LivezeanuEuropean Fascists and Local Activists: Romania's Legion of the Archangel Michael2012Assistant Professor, Eastern Connecticut State UniversityLecturer, University of Liverpool, UK
 Jacob PollockPinar EmiraliogluThe Geographicall Compass: History, Authority and Utility in the English Voyage Account, 1660–17302012Senior Historian, Office of Treaty Settlements in Wellington, New Zealand 
 Oscar de la Torre CuevaReid AndrewsFreedom in Amazonia: The Black Peasantry of Pará, Brazil, 1850-19502011Assistant Professor, University of Central OklahomaAssistant, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
 Niklas FrykmanMarcus RedikerThe Wooden World Turned Upside Down: Naval Mutinies in the Age of Atlantic Revolution2010Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna CollegeAssistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
 Kenyon ZimmerRichard OestreicherThe Whole World is Our Country: Immigration and Anarchism in the United States, 1885-19402010Assistant, Associate Professor, University of Texas at Arlington 
 Sharika CrawfordReid AndrewsUnder the Colombian Flag: Nation-Building on San Andres and Providence Islands, 1887-1930 2009Assistant, Associate Professor, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 
 Tracey JaffeeReid AndrewsIn the Footsteps of Cristo Obrero: Chile's Young Catholic Workers Movement in the Shantytown, Factory, and Family, 1946-19732009Lecturer, University of Dayton 
 Eric Kimball Marcus RedikerAn Essential Link in a Vast Chain: New England and the West Indies, 1700-17752009Assistant Professor, Utah State UniversityAssociate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg
 Katherine SorrelsGregor Thum & Jonathan ScottAustrian Jews and the Idea of Europe: Reformulating Multi-nationalism as a Response to the Disintegration of the Harbsburg Empire, 1880-19392009Assistant Professor, University of Cincinnati (2009), Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati (2018) 
 Tania BosterJonathan ScottBetter to be Alone than in Ill Company: Jeremy Collier the Younger: Life and Works, 1650-17262008Program Coordinator at the Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationDirector, Student Leadership Programs; Assistant Director, the Bonner Center for Service & Learning; Oberlin College & Conservatory
 Clayton BrownEvelyn RawskiMaking the Majority: Defining Han Identity in Chinese Ethnology and Archaeology2008Assistant Professor, Rhodes College, Memphis, TNAssistant Professor of History, Utah State University
 William ConradVan Beck HallDevelopment in Extractive Communities: Ridgway and St. Marys, Pennsylvania, 1850-19142008Executive Director, Stackpole-Hall Foundation, St. Marys, PA 
 Craig MarinMarcus RedikerCoercion, Cooperation, and Conflict along the Charleston Waterfront, 1793-1785: Navigating the Social Waters of an Atlantic Port City2008University of Rhode Island, Feinstein College of Continuing Education, Providence, RIInstructor, Maritime Studies, Sea Education Association, Woods Hole, Mass.
 Ellen WalshAlejandro de la FuenteAdvancing the Kingdom: Missionaries and Americanization in Puerto Rico, 1898-1930s2008Assistant Professor, Gannon University, Erie, PAAssistant Professor, Governors State University in Illinois
 David GerlachIrina LivezeanuFor Nation and Gain: Economy, Ethnicity and Politics in the Czech Borderlands, 1945-19482007Assistant, Associate Professor of History, St. Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ 
 Joanne O'ConnellEdward MullerUnderstanding Stephen Collins Foster, His World and Music2007  
 Christopher Magra Marcus RedikerThe New England Cod Fishing Industry and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution2006Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge, CAAssociate Professor, University of Tennessee
 Curtis Miner Edward MullerLevel Playing Fields: The Democratization of Amateur Sport in Pennsylvania2006Senior Curator, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA 
 Tina Phillips Evelyn RawskiBuilding the Nation through Women’s Health: Biomedical Midwifery in the Early 20th Century China2006Assistant, Associate Professor, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA 
 Steven Schroeder Van Beck HallThe Elementary School of the Army: The Pennsylvania National Guard, 1877- 19172006Assistant Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pa. 
 Gregory WoodRichard OestreicherThe Problem of the Old Man: Manhood, Class, and Retirement in the U.S. 1910-19502006Penn State University, Erie, Pa.Assistant Professor, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, Md.
 John DonoghueMarcus RedikerRacial Republicanism in England, America, and the Imperial Atlantic, 1624- 16612005Assistant, Associate Professor, Loyola University, Chicago, Ill. 
 Scott Giltner Van Beck HallThe Art of Serving is With Them Innate: Hunting, Fishing, and Independence in the Post-Emancipation South, 1865-19202005Culver-Stockton College, Canton, Mo. 
 Andrew HaleyDonna GabacciaTurning the Tables: American Restaurant Culture and the Rise of the Middle Class, 1880-19202005Assistant, Associate Professor, American Cultural History, University of Southern Mississippi 
 Scott Hendrix Van Beck HallThe Spirit of the Corps: The British Army and the Pre-National Pan-european Military World and the Origins of the American martial culture, 1754-17832005Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, Ohio 
 Betsy Konefal Reid AndrewsMay All Rise Up: Highland Mobilization in Post-1954 Guatemala2005Assistant, Associate Professor, College of William and Mary 
 Susan Corbesero William ChaseThe Anniversaries of the October Revolution, 1918-1927: Politics and Imagery2004The Ellis School, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
 Gabriele Gottlieb Marcus RedikerTheater of Death: Capital Punishment in Early America, 1750-18002004Assistant, Associate Professor, Grand Valley State University, Michigan 
 Anthony NovoselWilliam Chase

Nikolai Bukharin: Alternative or Interregnum?

 

2004Senior Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh 
 Randy Scott Smith Marcus RedikerThe Liverpool Mercury: The Voice of Middle Class Reform 1811-18202004Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh 
 Michael SnowEdward MullerPittsburgh Politics and Social Activism Between 1960 and 19802004  
 Andrew Hall Richard SmethurstJapanese-Run Education and the Construction of a ‘Manchurian’ Identity in Manchukuo, 1931-19452003University of Northern Texas, Denton, Texas 
 Charles Hier William ChaseParty, Peasants and Power in a Russian District: Winning Peasant Support for Collectivization in Sychevka Raion, 1928-19312003Lecturer, University of PittsburghAssistant Lecturer, University of Akron
 Paul ClarkRichard Smethurst

The Kokugo Revolution: Ueda Kazutoshi, Language Reform and Language Education in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)

 

2002Assistant, Associate, Professor, West Texas A&M University, Canyon, Texas 
 David Doellinger Irina LivezeanuFrom Prayers to Protests: The Impact of Religious-based Dissent on the Emergence of Civil Society in Slovakia and the GDR2002Assistant, Associate Professor, Professor, Department of History,
West Oregon University, Monmouth, Ore.
 
 Michael Ervin Reid AndrewsThe Art of the Possible: Agronomists, Agrarian Reform and the Middle Politics of the Mexican Revolution, 1908-342002Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Wash.Foreign Service Officer, U.S. State Department
 Joan Mohr Edward MullerFrom Immigrant to Civilization: The Czechs of Allegheny City, 1873-19072002Independent Scholar 
 Jorge NallimReid AndrewsThe Crisis of Liberalism in Argentina: 1930-19462002Assistant Professor, Sarah Lawrence CollegeAssociate Professor, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
 Benjamin ReillySeymour Drescher

Interviewing the Opinions: Principle, Practicality, and Politics in the Trail of King Louis XVI

 

2002Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar, United Arab Emirates 
 Rosalina Rios Reid AndrewsMaking Citizens: Civil Society & Popular Mobilization in Zacatecas, Mexico, 1821-18532002Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico 
 Jennifer Ford Edward Muller

Landscape and Material Life in Southwestern Pennsylvania, 1798-1838

 

2001Interpretive Solutions, Inc., West Chester, Pa. 
 Leslie Hammond Fritz RingerThe British Progressive Contribution to the League of Nations Ideal2001Senior Lecturer, University of Pittsburgh 
 Robert Kirkland Peter Karsten

Observing Our Hermanos de Armas: U.S. Military Attaches in Guatemala, Cuba, and Bolivia, 1950-1964

 

2001Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, Calif.Commander of Army ROTC at USC; faculty member, Columbia College & USC
 Vadim Staklo William Chase

Harnessing Revolution: The Communist International in Central America, 1928-1935

 

2001Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn.Associate Professor, George Mason University; Project Manager, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT