After Macalester

The study of history in all its variations provides valuable background for a wide range of careers, including education, law, business and international service. See what some graduates who majored in History are doing now:

• Russell Fillmore-Brady ’18 received a Fulbright fellowship to teach English in Germany.
• Samantha Aamot ’17 (Bloomington, Minn.) works for Northern Bedrock Historic Preservation Corps in Duluth, Minn.
• Sara Ludewig, ’17, is pursuing a dual Master’s degree in Library Science and History at the University of Maryland, College Park.
• Patrick Eickman ’17 is in Marquette University’s Masters program in Medieval History.
• Tyler O’Brien, ’16, is pursuing a Master’s degree in Community Development and Planning at Clark University.
• Trey Muraoka ‘16 is pursuing a Masters degree in Latin at the University of Minnesota, and is an assistant football coach at Macalester.
• Will Theriac ’16 is a project manager at Epic Systems in Madison, Wisconsin.
• Elena Friedman ’16 is a research assistant at the Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research located at the University of Minnesota.
• Angela Clem ’15 is studying history at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Alison Gerber ’15 is a junior coach with College Possible in Chicago.
• Natalie Heneghan ’15 is a program assistant with Preservation Alliance in St. Paul.
• Paul Schubring ’15 is pursuing a master’s of divinity degree at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
• Jordanne Miranda Stokes ’15 joined the Disney College Program at Walt Disney World.
• Allison Vandenberg-Daves ’15 works with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Hood River, Ore.
• Emma Stout ’15 is a religious education program assistant with First Universalist Church in Minneapolis.
• Jingyuan Qian ’14 is pursuing a master’s degree in public policy at Georgetown University.
• Stacey Murrell ’13, is currently pursuing a PhD in History at Brown University, after having been employed as executive assistant to the president at Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a project in progress.
• Elizabeth Allen ’13 is studying for her MA in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
• Nic Lechault ’13, is teaching American history in the Mounds View School System, and earning a teaching degree at Hamline University.
• Laura Moulton ’13 is a AmeriCorps VISTA Children’s Program Coordinator at Comunidades Latinas Unidas En Servicio.
• Maya Lindberg ’12 will be working as a writer/associate editor for the SPLC’s Teaching Tolerance program with the Southern Poverty Law Center.
• Doris Zhao ’12 is in the Master of Arts program in Art History at Columbia University.
• Katherine Donaldson ’12 is pursuing a master’s in library and information science at the University of Washington.
• Slavisa Mijatovic ’12 is pursuing a master’s in geography at York University in Toronto.
• Cori Simon ’12 is pursuing a graduate degree in gender and women’s U.S. history at the University of Wisconsin.
• Dustin Studelska ’12, is pursuing a PhD in the History of Technology at the University of Minnesota in the program of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.
• Naomi Sussman ’12, is pursuing a PhD in Latin American History at Yale University.
• David Bliss ‘11 earned a master’s degree in history at the University of New Mexico.
• Jeff Yamashita ‘11 is in the PhD program in ethnic studies at the University of California-Berkeley and has been awarded a Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, the top university-wide fellowship.
• Bassam Khawaja ’11 earned a JD at Columbia University Law School, and is an attorney and fellow in the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch in New York.
• Emily Schorr Lesnick ’11 is pursuing a career in comedy in New York City.
• Hillary Sorin ’11 after completing a master’s in social work program at the University of Pennsylvania, is Director of Development of The Chester Fund at the Chester Charter School for the Arts.
• Maggie Jacoby ’11  works for the St. Paul Public Schools Foundation running a middle school tutoring program.
• Jemma Brown ’11 is an associate producer of video and social media at The Moth Radio Hour, a live storytelling program.
• Rachel Boyle ’10 attends Loyola University studying public history.
• Alex Davies ’10 taught English in France and is now writing for Discovery.com.
• Wes Alcenat ’10 earned a PhD in history at Columbia University.
• Amy Ledig ’10 is a JD Candidate at Case Western Reserve School of Law.
• Molly Brookfield ’09 is a PhD student in History and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She earned a master’s degree in the Cultural Heritage Studies Program at University College London and worked at The Wiener Library.
• Kaitlyn Sheridan ‘09 is studying American history at Oxford University in England.
• Anne Reeder ‘09 completed a master’s degree in public health nutrition at the Colorado School of Public Health. She currently works in a county public health department and a jail and plans to work in the area of maternal-child health.

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  Tsione Wolde-Michael ‘08 is now the Jefferson Fellow in the Division of Political and Military History at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, after having worked on the creation of exhibits for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Macalester Today story about her work .

• Hillary Mohaupt ‘08 earned a master’s in museum studies at the University of Delaware.
• Anne Cullen ’07 is program assistant for exhibitions at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
• Evan Mohl ’07 is a reporter for Major League Baseball in Boston, Mass.
• Matthew Malecha ’07 is pursuing a PhD  at Texas A&M University, in Urban & Regional Science, studying the ways community plans and policies affect vulnerability and resilience to natural hazards (like flooding) at the neighborhood scale.
• Martinus (Dirk) Langeveld ’06 started a blog on political scandals called The Downfall Dictionary, which is at https://downfalldictionary.blogspot.com.
• Cassandra Berman ‘06 is a PhD Student in History at Brandeis University.
• James Coplin ’06 is pursuing a PhD in Chinese history at the University of Minnesota on a full fellowship.
• Dhruva Jaishankar ’05 having earned an MA in security studies at Georgetown University, is now a Fellow for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution India.
• Roland McKay ’05 went to Syria on a Fulbright scholarship and is currently a consular officer with the U.S. Consulate General in Istanbul, Turkey.
• Emily Potter ’04 is working at the Brooklyn Historical Society. She completed a Masters in Museum Studies at NYU and says, “I have found that museums are a great place for history-majors!”
• Emily Skidmore ’04 received her PhD in history from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at Texas Tech University
• Danielle Maestretti ’04 is an Associate Consultant at bepress.
• Anthony Todd ’04 received a PhD at the University of Chicago, studying late 19th century U.S. history with a focus on gender and law.
• Emily Weaver ’03 is a philanthropy and nonprofit consultant after serving as deputy director of cooperative projects at Beijing Normal University’s One Foundation Philanthropy Research Institute.
• Federico Helfgott ’03 attended the University of Michigan’s PhD program in anthropology and history.
• Ariel Jacobs ’02 was a Corps member for Teach for America in the Bronx, New York and is now teaching US history in a public high school in Manhattan.
• Jennie (Snyder) Hill ’02 is the executive director of the court-appointed special advocates of the South Plains in Lubbock, Texas.
• Karlos Hill ’02 is a Professor of History specializing in African American History, Lynching, and Anti-Lynching Protest, at Texas Tech University.
• Shana Redmond ’02 received her PhD in African American and American Studies from Yale University and is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Southern California.
• Seth Lind ’01 is a filmmaker and public radio producer. He is currently production manager for the National Public Radio show “This American Life.”
• Harmony O’Rourke ’01 received her PhD in African History from Harvard University in 2009 and is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges in Southern California.