Our History Department Alumni information can be found on four separate pages - Alumni News (this page), Alumni Volunteer Career Consultants, and Volunteer Graduate School Consultants, (we have also built a Graduate School Index), and History Department Alumni pages (for inspiration!). These pages are designed to be planning and networking tools for our current History majors to contact and/or to simply be inspired by History alumni. History Alumni Volunteers are available for advice, assistance, and encouragement to help you to plan your career and/or apply to graduate programs. Alumni, please send us your news and websites, and tell me if you want to be included on one or the other Volunteer pages, or both. - Thanks, Nikki, nlambert@carleton.edu

Carleton Alumni Index (additional Carleton History Alumni and friends!)

ALUMNI NEWS AND UPDATES

Kate Bourdow, Class of 2004. I'd be happy to talk to prospective or current history majors about applying to graduate school or conducting a job search. After Carleton, I received my Masters in Teaching at the University of VA. I now work as a career counselor at Virginia Wesleyan College (Norfolk, VA), helping history students, among other majors, decide on majors, find externships, internships, jobs and graduate school. I'm also working part-time towards an Education Specialist (Ed.S) degree in Higher Education at Old Dominion University, so I would also be happy to talk with students interested in graduate school for Higher Education.

Capehart, Jonathan. Class of 1990
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Political journalist. Joined the Washington Post editorial board in 2007. Prior to joining The Post, he was a member of the New York Daily News’ editorial board from 1993 to 2000. He then became National Affairs Columnist for Bloomberg News from 2000 to 2001, and left to work as a policy adviser to Michael Bloomberg in his successful campaign for Mayor of New York City. He returned to the Daily News as deputy editor of the editorial page from 2002 to 2005. Also a popular television news commentator, moderator, and interviewer.

Chambers, Sarah. Class of 1985
Chambers, Sarah - home page should be
Home page: http://www.hist.umn.edu/people/facExp.php?UID=chambers
University of Minnesota, Associate Professor of Latin American History.
Author of From Subjects to Citizens : Honor, Gender, and Politics in Arequipa, Peru 1780-1854.
Her research analyzes on the transition from colonialism to independent republics, with a particular focus on gender.

Cohen, Michael David. Class of 2002. (History / Mathematics)
I'm working on a Ph.D. at Harvard in American history, with emphases on the history of education, the nineteenth century, and women's/gender history. I would be happy to talk with Carleton students or alumni who are thinking about history graduate programs.

Davis, Jennifer. Class of 1996.
University of Oklahoma – Norman. Assistant Professor of European history. I completed a Ph.D at Penn State in 2004, and am revising my dissertation manuscript “Men of Taste: Gender and Authority in the French Culinary Trades, 1730-1830” for publication. I teach courses on the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, Nationalism and Ethnic Violence in Modern Europe, and women’s and gender history.

Dichtl, John. Executive director of the National Council on Public History (NCPH). I also recommend the NCPH website for career info. It's at www.ncph.org. Another great site is the Public History Resource Center at: http://www.publichistory.org/about_phrc/index.asp

Eisenberg, Ellen. Class of 1984. American Studies major.
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Willamette University, Chair, Department of History. Interests: Jewish community and ethnic relations in the American West. Author, Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey, 1882-1920 (Utopianism and Communitarianism), 1995.

French, Katherine (Kit). Class of 1984.
Associate Professor of Medieval History, SUNY, New Paltz. Interests: Medieval England, women's history, and social history. I've written: /People of the Parish: Community Life in a Medieval English Diocese /(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001); /The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion after the Black Death/ (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008-forthcoming in Dec.) and with Allyson Poska /Women and Gender in the Western Past/, 2 vol. (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).

Glade, Erin. Class of 1998
I completed the 2-year MA program in Middle Eastern Studies at University of Chicago in 2004, and am now in the History PhD program at University of Chicago, working toward a dissertation in Modern Middle Eastern History (Sept., 2007).

Gradick Murphy, Sarah. Class of 2002.
I completed the Master's in Elementary Education/Initial Licensure program at the University
of MN. I taught kindergarten for one year in Orono, MN, and have been teaching Grade 3 at Oak Grove Elementary in the Bloomington, MN public schools for the past three years. I would be happy to talk with current Carls or alums who are interested in getting into elementary education.

Hirtle, Peter B. Class of 1974.
Technology Strategist and Intellectual Property Officer, Cornell University Library, 215 Olin Library, Ithaca, NY 14853. He is also the Bibliographer for American and General European History. From 2002-2003, he served as President of the Society of American Archivists and continues to remain active in archival activities. From 2005-2007 he was a member of the Copyright Office's Section 108 Study Group.

Hoff, Derek. Class of 1994.
Assistant Professor of History, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. Currently revising his manuscript "Are We Too Many? The Population Debate and Policymaking in the Twentieth-Century United States." Specializes in modern American political, economic, and environmental history.

Hunt, Lynn. Class of 1967.
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UCLA, Professor and Eugen Weber Chair, Modern European History.
Early modern Europe, France, late modern Europe since 1789. She was recently elected to the American Philosophical Society, the country's oldest learned society founded by Benjamin Franklin and friends over 250 years ago. Author of Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France (1978); Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (1984); and The Family Romance of the French Revolution (1992), The New Cultural History (1989); with Joyce Appleby and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth about History (1994); with Jacques Revel, Histories: French Constructions of the Past (1995); and with Victoria Bonnell, Beyond the Cultural Turn (1999). Recently published, Inventing Human Rights (2007).

Huyck, Heather. Class of 1973.
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PhD American History, MA Cultural Anthropology, University of Minnesota. thirty-year career as a public historian bridges academically based history and place-based history, especially history as found in the National Park system (she has visited 293 of 388 parks). The former director of the Jamestown 400th Project, she is visiting associate professor at the College of William and Mary. Her specialties are women's history, colonial history, and cultural resource management.

Jamar, Steve. Class of 1975.

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JD, Hamline University School of Law, LLM in International and Comparative Law, Georgetown University Law Center. Professor, Howard University School of Law.

Johnson Lorenz-Meyer, Elizabeth. Class of 1992.
University of Minnesota Ph.D., 2006. M.A., History, University of Kansas, 1998. Nineteenth and early twentieth century U.S. history with an emphasis on immigration and gender history.

Keller, Shoshana. Class of 1986.
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Hamilton College, Clinton, New York. Associate Professor of History.
Interests: Russia and Central Asia. I teach Russian history and an assortment of courses on various parts of Eurasia, including the modern Middle East and Central Asia. I recently published an article in Slavic Review on education and the narrative of history in Uzbekistan, called “Story, Time and Dependent Nationhood in the Uzbek History Curriculum,” [Slavic Review Vol. 66, No. 2(Summer 2007): 257–277]. I am currently working on creating an internet-based "teaching resource tool" on Central Asian histories, sponsored by the Social Science Research Council. One of the other 3 principle investigators for this project is Adeeb Khalid.

Kim, Matthew. Class of 1999.
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After majoring in history (with a concentration in educational studies) at Carleton, I briefly pursued a career in investment banking through the Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Career Program (SEO) and worked as an analyst intern at Bank of America in New York City. However, during this time, I sensed God's call to full-time pastoral ministry and teaching. So, I went on to complete a Master of Divinity (MDiv 2002) at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton, MA. I then pursued a Master of Theology (MTh 2003) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D. 2006) at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in theology and ethics. Upon my return from Scotland in December 2005, I taught for a semester at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary as an adjunct professor, and I am currently the senior pastor of Logos Central Chapel in Denver, Colorado. In June 2007, my dissertation was published as Preaching to Second Generation Korean Americans: Towards a Possible Selves Contextual Homiletic (New York: Peter Lang). In January 2008, I will return to Gordon-Conwell to teach a one-week intensive course as the Sams Visiting Professor of Preaching on the topic of "Preaching in the Asian-American Context." Although I am not directly working in the field of history, my work as a pastor involves much historical exploration.

Deb Kleinman, Class of 1994.
Masters in Public Health from University of Michigan in '98 in health education & health behavior. Executive Director of the US Green Building Council - Colorado Chapter. This brings me back to my roots as a guru of Jamie's focusing on environmental history:) Our goal as an organization is to do no less than transform our built environment; my goal as the organization's leader is to grow a sustainable and innovative statewide organization that builds bridges between energy and design geeks, smart growth and land use planners, affordable housing activists, and so on. I'm also working on creating an internal culture that sustains our staff, volunteers, and members...wow, there's that third bottom line!

Ladner, Andrew, Class of 2007.

I recently started work in online advertising with Google in Ann Arbor, MI. As a Carleton alum and History major, I really think the job is a perfect fit for Carleton students in general and history majors in particular. Feel free to email me with any questions. I am available as a resource person for any students interested in advertising, Google, or both!

Lewis, Robert W. Class of 1998, rwittlewis@gmail.com
Visiting Assistant Professor, Grinnell College History Department, Grinnell, Iowa. Modern Europe, 2007. Fulbright Scholar 2003-04, in France. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007. Dissertation: "The Society of the Stadium: Urban Modernity, Sports Spectatorship and Mass Politics in France, 1893-1975."

Markwyn, Abby. Class of 1995.
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Assistant Professor of History, Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin. PhD, UW Madison, "Constructing an 'epitome of civilization': Local Politics and Visions of Progressive Era America at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition." 2006. At Carroll she teaches surveys of American history, women's history, western history, and Latin American history.

McWethy, Loren.
Willing to discuss information on internships/educational & overseas programs in the DC area. I would be willing to be a point of contact for current Latin American History majors. I would be happy to help out the History Department in this way. Please refer people my way.

McCrossen, Alexis. Class of 1989.
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Southern Methodist University, Associate Professor of History Specialist in American social and cultural history, with interests in religion, cities, and leisure. Her book "Holy Day, Holiday: The American Sunday" was published by Cornell University Press (2000) and she is now finishing a book for the University of Chicago Press titled "Marking Modern Times: Americans and Their Timepieces, 1850-1930" which has been supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Hagley Library and Museum.

Morgan, Michelle (Klein). PhD, American history, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007. My dissertation is entitled "A Model of Womanhood or Manhood: City Teachers in the Far West, 1890-1930." My research and teaching interests include education, labor, gender, and the West. I am now teaching at UW-Whitewater and serving as the Academic Director for "Building Informed Citizens," a professional education program for teachers in the Madison Metropolitan School District. The program is funded by a Teaching American History grant from the Department of Education.

Mullin, Ted. Class of 2006. Deceased 09/03/2006.
The Carleton community is deeply saddened by the loss of senior Ted Mullin, who died on Sunday, September 3, 2006, in his home town of Winnetka, Illinois. Ted entered Carleton with the Class of 2006, and had been battling synovial sarcoma since the summer of 2004. Despite his illness, he was on track to graduate in spring of 2007. Ted was deeply committed to his life at Carleton, as a history major and member of the men’s swim team. He was intense, generous, kind-hearted, a strong leader, had a deep sense of team spirit, and had an especially strong commitment to learning, analyzing, and understanding the depth and meaning of everything he learned. Ted co-captained two 'Relay for Life' teams while at Carleton, an event raising funds to support cancer research sponsored by the American Cancer Society. On-line Remembrances. Memorials can be sent to the Ted Mullin Memorial Fund, c/o History Department, Carleton College, One North College Street, Northfield, MN 55057, and to the Ted Mullin Cancer Research Fund, C/O University of Chicago Medical Center Development, 1170 East 58th Street Second Floor, Chicago IL 60637.

Polasky, Janet. Class of 1973.
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Professor of History and Women's Studies, University of New Hampshire, Professor of History, early and modern Europe. Author of the Democratic Socialism of Emile Vandervelde: Between Reform and Revolution, 1995, and Revolution in Brussels, 1787-1793. Fields of Research: Routes to the City, Roots in the Country: Reforming Urban Labor in Brussels and London; Revolution Without Borders: "Le Cri Universel" of the Eighteenth Century Atlantic World.

Ramaswamy, Aparna. Class of 1997 (IR and Poli Sci major, South Asian History concentrator) Artistic Director/Choreographer/Principal Dancer, has performed Bharatanatyam in the Twin Cities from a very young age, and has been studying under the guidance of Ms. Alarmel Valli, the world's leading exponent of the Pandanallur style of Bharatanatyam, since the age of eight. At the age of twelve, she was the first of Ms. Valli's students to perform an arangetram (two-hour debut recital) in India. Aparna has performed at prestigious venues nationally and internationally, both as a soloist and as Principal Dancer of Ragamala. She has been awarded several honors, including a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Dancers, a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Choreography, a Bush Fellowship for Choreography, an Arts and Religion in the Twin Cities grant, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, two Jerome Foundation Travel Study Grants, an Artist Exploration Fund Grant from Arts International (New York), the Lakshmi Vishwanathan Endowment Prize from Sri Krishna Gana Sabha (Chennai, India), and the Sage Award for Best Dancer (Minneapolis, Minnesota). Aparna's work is supported by the Jerome Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Dance Project, the Japan Foundation, and has been commissioned by Walker Art Center (Minneapolis). http://www.ragamala.net/

Randolph, John. Class of 1989.
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Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I specialize in the history of the early Russian Empire. At Illinois, I offer a number of different courses in Russian history, as well as seminars on research methods and intellectual history. Author of: The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism, Cornell University Press, Spring, 2007.

Robertson, Claire. Class of 1966.
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The Ohio State University. Professor of History and Women's Studies. Interests: African and Third World women, socioeconomic change, women and slavery in Africa and the Americas, Third World education and development, feminist theory and methodology, issues of representation of African women, colonialism and women, and marketing systems. Author or editor of six books and over forty articles dealing with women, class/gender relations, and slavery in Africa. Dr. Robertson is winner of the African Studies Association's 1985 Herskovits Book Award. In 1987-88, she held a Fulbright Fellowship to study Kenyan market women and the development of Nairobi area trade. Current research: reconstructing the history of Saint Lucia in the Caribbean.

Rosenberg, Clifford. Class of 1991.
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Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, The City College of New York. Social and political history of modern France.

Rubenstein, Jay. Class of 1989.
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Congratulations, Jay! 2007 MacArthur Fellowship Award
Associate Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Historian of the intellectual, cultural, and spiritual worlds of Europe in the Middle Ages, with areas of focus in the eleventh and twelfth centuries in England, France, and the Crusader settlements. He received an M.Phil. at the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley, both in medieval history. His research interests combine intellectual, cultural, religious, and military history, with his earliest publications focusing on the cultural impact of the Norman Conquest on Anglo-Saxon society, and his more recent work examining the much more extensive impact of the First Crusade (1096-1099) on the European world. In between he wrote a biography of the French monk Guibert of Nogent, who is most famous for having written the first true autobiography of the Middle Ages and whose other works draw together a variety of intellectual, psychological, theological, and historical ideas and phenomena. For all of these projects he has lived and worked extensively in Europe, particularly in Paris, Rome, Oxford, and London.

Matthew J. Sanders '97. J.D., Stanford University Law School, 2002. From 2002 to 2007, served as appellate attorney in Environment & Natural Resources Division of U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. From 2006 to 2007, taught legal research and writing at American University's Washington College of Law. From 2007 to present, serves as associate in environmental practice group at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP in San Francisco, California.

Stiles, T.J. Class of 1986.
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Writer and historian, living in San Francisco. His books include Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002). He is currently writing a biography of Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt, 1794-1877. He recently returned to Carleton and presented a History Department Herbert P. Lefler Lecture.

Swartzbaugh, Laura. Class of 1989. American Studies.
I have been teaching high school History and English at a small selective-admissions public high school in the western suburbs of Chicago, Proviso Math and Science Academy, since 2005.

Thorsheim, Peter. Class of 1991.
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Associate Professor of History. Specialist in modern Britain, environmental history, and the history of science, technology, and medicine. Author of Inventing Pollution: Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800 (2006).

Tikoff, Valentina. Class of 1987.
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DePaul University, Assistant Professor of history
Early modern Europe, Spain, The Atlantic World, History of Children and the Family, History of Poverty and Social Welfare.

Troyansky, David. Class of 1976.
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Professor and Chair, Department of History, Brooklyn College, New York.

Urban-Mead, Wendy. Class of 1984.
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M.A., University at Albany; Ph.D., Columbia University. Areas of interest include African history, with emphasis on southern Africa; European imperialism; history of Christianity in Africa; religion and gender. Taught secondary school social studies for five years in Red Hook and Arlington, New York, school districts. Member, American Historical Association, African Studies Association, Coordinating Council of Women Historians. Awards: German Academic Exchange Service Grant (1984 85), Richard Hofstadter Fellowship (1995 2000), Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Research Grant (1999). Editorial board, Le Fait Missionaire (Lausanne, Switzerland). Articles in Le Fait Missionaire, Women's History Review, and Women in African Colonial Histories (Indiana University Press, 2002).

von Glahn, Robert. Class of 2003
M.A. Ed., Teachers College, Columbia University; current a History Teacher, The Potomac School, McLean, Va.

Walden, Judy. Class of 1986
University of the Ozarks, History department. Since Spring of 2000, Judy has offered a History and Film series using mainstream films to show students that history can be fun and to encourage historical discussion and analysis outside the classroom. Research interest: public housing in Dublin, Ireland.

Warnicke, Marga. Class of 1997. MA in History with a Certificate in Museum Studies. University of Delaware in Museum Studies. I currently manage the GMAT/GRE/LSAT test preparation program at Arizona State University. On a daily basis, I help our students prepare for the graduate school admissions tests as well as help them navigate the graduate school admissions process. I would be happy to speak to Carleton students or alumni about the standardized tests, general graduate school admission issues or my own graduate school work. I am currently in the process of applying for admittance to a PhD program in Public Administration because I didn’t get enough of graduate school the first time around!

Webster, Adam. Class of 2000
I gave up the world of public relations and am now back in graduate school. I am in my 4th year at Brown University in the History Department, working on my dissertation research and aiming to finish up this PhD in the next few years. At the moment (10-01-2007), I am writing from Tübingen, Germany, in Baden-Wurttemberg, where I am on a DAAD fellowship at the local university. Specializes in German history since 1870, additional fields of interest are Germany since 1870, European cultural history since 1870 and British history since 1760. My dissertation itself deals with Germany´s experience in 1945 itself, a long-talked-about-but-irregularly-closely-studied thing.

Wolff, Derek. Class of 1992.
Although I was an Art History major at Carleton, I have recently completed my Ph.d. in History at the University of Chicago. I specialize in Asian history, specifically Japanese history. My dissertation was entitled "Notes from the Periphery: Satsuma Identities in Early Modern and Modern Japan." Postdoctoral fellowship, Harvard University's Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. I'd be happy to serve as a resource for current Carleton students or alumni who are engaged in or who are considering Asian Studies or Japanese Studies.