PLACEMENT HISTORY FOR DOCTORAL PROGRAM

2011

Stephen C. Bruner
Dissertation: "Press and Parliament, Liberalism and Colonialism:  Italy's 1891 Livraghi Affair and the Waning of the Civilizing Mission"

Alexandra DeMonte Michaelides
Dissertation: "Redefining Sisterhood: The New Nuns, Laywomen and Catholic Feminist Activism, 1953-1994"

Kevin Kaufmann
Pre-Health, Pre-Law Advising, Loyola University Chicago
Dissertation: "Rigorous Honesty: A Cultural History of Alcoholics Anonymous, 1935-1960"

Dejan Kralj
Dissertation: "Transnational Nationalism & the Transformation of South Slavic Immigrant Identity in Chicago, 1890-1941"

Elizabeth Matelski
Lecturer at Local Universities
Dissertation: "The Color(s) of Perfection:  The Feminine Body, Beauty Ideals, and Identity in Postwar America, 1945-1970" 

Maria F. Reynolds
Staatsburgh State Historic Site
Dissertation: "Doing History in the Adirondacks:  Interpreting the Park, the People, and the Landscape"

Cord A. Scott
Lecturer, Loyola University Chicago
Dissertation: "Comics and Conflict: War and Patriotically Themed Comics in American Cultural History from World War II through Operation Iraqi Freedom"


2010

Angela Fritz
Grant Reviewer, IMLS Grant Programs
Dissertation: "Ten Cents a Dance: Taxi Dancers, A Living Wage, and the Sexual Politics of Women's Work, 1912-1952"

L. Jon Grogan
VP, Lead Sourcing Specialist, PNC Financial Group
Dissertation: "From Subject to Citizen:  Tarleton Bates and the Evolution of Republican Man on the Pennysylvania Frontier"

Elizabeth Hoffman Ransford
Dissertation: "Sacred Spaces, Public Places: The Intersection of Religion and Space in Three Chicago Communities, 1869-1932"

Jason R. Myers
Faculty/Staff Support Specialist & Operations Coordinator, Department of Mathematics, University of Denver
Dissertation: "'A Land Fit for Heroes'?: The Great War, Memory, Popular Culture, and Politics in Ireland Since 1914"

Adam D. Shprintzen
Project Coordinator/Editor George Washington Encyclopedia, George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate
Dissertation: "Abstention to Consumption: The Development of American Vegetarian Identity, 1817-1917"

2009

Rae M. Bielakowski
Freelance Writer/Editor
Dissertation: "You Are in the World: Catholic Campus Life at Loyola University Chicago, Mundelein College, and De Paul University, 1924-1950"

Jennifer R. Bridge
Curator, The Naper Settlement Museum
Dissertation: "Tourist Attractions, Souvenirs, and Civil War Memory in Chicago, 1861-1915"

Kirsten M. DeVries
Visiting Assistant Professor, Roanoke College
Dissertation: "Episcopal Identity in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 397-700"

Marc A. Dluger
Dissertation:  "A Regimental Community: The Men of the 82nd Illinois Infantry Before, During and After the American Civil War"

Alfonzo Greene, Jr.
Lecturer, Oakwood University
Dissertation: "[Black] Regional Conferences in the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) Compared with United Methodist [Black] Central Jurisdiction/Annual Conferences with White SDA Conferences, 1940-2001"

Troy Henderson
Michigan Iron Industry Museum
Dissertation: "Shanty-boys, Lumberjacks, and Loggers:  A Social and Cultural History of the Upper Great Lakes Woodsworkers"

Frances Howard Mitilineos
Instructor, Oakton Community College
Dissertation: "Christians and Jews in Thirteenth-Century England:  Confrontation and Cooperation 1189-1290"

2008

J. Derek Halvorson
President of Providence Christian College 
Dissertation: "Religio and Reformation:  Johannes Justus Lansperger, O. Cart. (1489/90-1539) and the Sixteenth-Century 'Religious' Question"

Mark Long
Lecturer, University of Central Florida
Dissertation: "Cultivating a New Order:  Reconstructing Florida's Postbellum Frontier"

Michael Nicholsen
Chair of  History and Social Sciences, Transformation Learning Corporation in Claysville
Adjunct Instructor, Community College of Allegheny County
Dissertation: "'Auld Sod' and New Turf:  Entertainment, Nationalism, and Identity in the Irish Traditional Music Community of Chicago, 1868-1999"

Angela Schlater
Owns the history consulting firm, Preserve
Dissertaton: "Flaming Youth: Gender in 1920s Hollywood"

Claudette Tolson
Assistant Professor of Online History (Tenure-Track), Georgia Perimeter College
Dissertation: "The Excluded and the Included: Chicago, White Supremacy and the Clubwomen's Movement, 1873-1915" 

Alan Zola
Instructor, College of DuPage
Dissertation: "Radbertus's Monasic Voice: Ideas about Monasticism at Nineth-Century Corbie"

2007

Patrick Jennings 
Assistant Professor/Deputy Director, Center for Oral History, United States Military Academy, West Point
Dissertation:  "Clio's Drumbeat:  Gathering and Using History in Wartime"

Cranston Knight
Instructor, Malcolm X College of Chicago
Board Member of the Chicago United Nations organization
Dissertation:  "When War was no longer unthinkable:  American Perception of and reaction to Japan prior to Pearl Harbor"

2006

Timothy N. Lacy
Visiting Assistant Professor, Manmouth College
Dissertation:  "Making a Democratic Culture:  The Great Books Idea, Mortimer J. Adler and Twentieth-Century America"

Elizabeth Myers
Director of the Women & Leadership Archives, Ann Ida Gannon Center, Loyola University Chicago
Dissertation:  "Burning Bras, Long Hairs & Dashikis:  The Personal Politics of American Culture, 1950-1975"

Jan Nash
Owns the history consulting firm, Tallgrass Historians L.C.
Dissertation:  "Hinterland or Heartland:  Survival of the Midwest Small Town, 1850-1990" 

Justin Pettegrew
Assistant Professor, Shorter College in Rome Georgia
Dissertation:  "Onward Christian Soldiers:  The Transformation of Religion, Masculinity, and Class in the Chicago YMCA, 1857-1933"

Jason Stacy
Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Dissertation:  "Containing Multitudes:  Walt Whitman's Three Personas in the New Market Economy"

Published as "Walt Whitman's Multitudes: Labor Reform and Persona in Whitman's Journalism and the First Leaves of Grass, 1840-1855" (New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2008).

2005

Constance Buckley
Lecturer, Loyola University Chicago
Dissertation:  "Searching for Fort Dearborn:  Perception, Commemoration and Celebration of an Urban Creation Memory"

David Groeninger
Instructor, Grayslake Community College
Dissertation:  "Imagining Chicago:  The Role of Newspaper Columnists in Creating a City of the Mind, 1890-1930"

John Leazer 
Visiting Assistant Professor, Carthage College
Dissertation:  "The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Scottish Herring Fishery:  The Effects of the 1707 Treaty of Union on the Scottish Economy and Early Modern Britain"

Catherine Maybrey
Education and Training Facilitator, Settlement and Integration Services Organization
Dissertation:  "From Onanism to Orgasm:  Masturbation, Medicine and Gender in America, 1646-1960"

Andrew Witt
Associate Professor, Edgewood College
Dissertation:  "Picking Up the Hammer': The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party with Emphasis on the Milwaukee Branch, 1966-1977"

Published as "The Black Panthers in the Midwest: The Community Programs and Services of the Black Panther Party in Milwaukee, 1966-1977" (New York: Routledge, 2007).

2004

Jerry L. Foust
Dissertation:  "Our Town, Their Town:  Community and Tourism South Haven, Michigan, 1830-1930"

Elizabeth Fraterrigo
Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago
Dissertation:  "Entertainment for Men:  Playboy, Masculinity and Postwar American Culture"

Published as "Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America" (Oxford Unversity, 2009).

Laura E. Milsk
Assistant Professor, Department of Historical Studies
Director, Museum Studies Program, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
Dissertation:  "Meet me at the Station:  The Culture and Aesthetics of Chicago's Railroad Terminals, 1871-1930"

Timothy B. Neary
Assistant Professor, Salve Regina University
Dissertation:  "Crossing Parochial Boundaries:  African-Americans and Interracial Catholic Social Action in Chicago, 1914-1954"

Scott A. Newman
Educational Testing Service
Dissertation:  "Boundless Pleasures:  Young Chicagoans, Commercial Amusements, and the Revitalization of Urban Life, 1900-1930"

Temple Tsenes
Adjunct Professor, Benedictine University
Dissertation:  "I am the Utterance of My Name:  Black Victorian Feminist Discourse and Intellectual Enterprise at the Columbian Exposition, 1893"

Published as "I Am the Utterance of My Name: Black Victorian Feminist Discourse and Intellectual Enterprise at the Columbian Exposition, 1893" (IUniverse, 2006)

2003

Rev. William T. Corcoran, Jr.
Chairman of the Associations of Chicago Priests and Faculty member at Quigley South High School
Dissertation:  "Imagining a Future:  The Reassertion of Irish Identity"

Matthew P. Szromba
Assistant Professor, Henderson State University
Dissertation:  "The Wicked Man shall not abide in my House:  The Courts of the Verge and the English Monarchy, 1660-1760"

Anne Michele Wingenter
Adjunct Professor, Loyola University Chicago, Rome Center
Dissertation:  "The Dead are passing:  The Association of Mothers and Widows of the 'Fallen' in Fascist Italy"

2002

Malachy R. McCarthy, O.S.B
Archvist, Claretian Missionaries Archives, Catholic Library Association
Dissertation:  "Which Christ Came to Chicago:  Catholic and Protestant Programs to Evangelize, Socialize and Americanize the Mexican Immigrant, 1900-1940"

2001

Lori Witt
Associate Professor, Central College of Iowa
Dissertation:  "More than a 'Slaving Wife': The Limits and Possibilities of Womanhood for Conservative Protestant College Women in the 1920's and 1930's"

2000

Jeffrey T. Brierton
Principal, Round Lake High School
Dissertation:  "War on Two Fronts Vietnam and the Heartland.  A Study of the Effect of the Vietnam War on an American Community 1965-1973"

Michael O'Malley
Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Norbert College
Dissertation:  "Local Relief during the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850:  The Case of County Mayo" 

PLACEMENT HISTORY FOR MASTERS PROGRAMS  

Graduates of the masters program have gone on to work in the fields of education as teachers at the high school and community college levels and as educational/historical consultants in private business and government.  Many have also gone on to pursue further study at the doctoral level.  Our graduates have been accepted for Ph.D. study at Northwestern University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ohio State University, and Boston College, among others , as well as, of course, Loyola University Chicago. 

Graduates of the masters program in public history have taken positions as curators, archivists, librarians and consultants at public and private organizations in Chicago and across the country.  These organizations include the Pritkzer Military Library, National Parks Service, the Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, the USS Constitution Museum, the Chicago Architecture Foundation, the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University, the Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library, the Archdioceses of Chicago and Seattle, the Winnetka Historical Society, the Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois, the Chicago Metro History Education Center, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities and the archives of the Washington University School of Medicine.