Loyola University Chicago

Department of History

Outcomes by Year

NOTE: We are working to create a comprehensive database for our alumni network. This is not a complete list. If you are an alumnus/alumna and notice missing or outdated information, please contact Tim Libaris at tlibari@luc.edu.

Select any of the drop-down boxes to view alumni outcomes from respective degree programs.

2023

Jenny Barry
Local History Librarian, Cook Memorial Public Library, Libertyville, IL
 
Liz Ferry
Guest Services Coordinator, Driehaus Museum, Chicago, IL
 
Alex Friedlen
Administrative Assistant, Sociology Department, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
 
Caroline Handley
Coordinator, Strategic Forecasting Committee, American Dental Association, Chicago, IL
 
Caroline Lauber
Consulting Associate, Partners for Sacred Places, Philadelphia, PA
 
Lauren Steinkoenig
Collections Technician, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL
 
Willow Tomkovicz
Special Collections Assistant, Library, University of Pennsylvania, East, Stroudsburg, PA

2022

Meghan Flannery
Collections Inventory Assistant, Grant funded Project, Minnesota Firefighters, Minneapolis, MN 
 
Kenleigh Howard
Archivist and Campaign/Major Gifts Assistant, North Shore Country Day School, Winnetka, IL
 
Madeleine Lawler
Education Coordinator, History Center of Olmsted County, Rochester, MN

2021

Scarlett Andes
Manager of Student and Faculty Services, Spertus Institute, Chicago, IL
 
Rachel Madden
Archivist, Underwriters Laboratories, Northbrook, IL
 
Ve'Amber Miller
Digital Content and Outreach Coordinator, Hopkins Retrospective Project, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
 
Miranda Ridener
Library Services Assistant, University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, Fond du Lac Campus, Fond Du Lac, WI
 
Lizzie Schmidt
Archivist, Goodhue County Historical Society, Red Wing, MN
 
Casey Terry
Manager, Engagement, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN

2020

Laurel Overstreet
Lead Curator of Special Exhibits, Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, WA
 
Austin Sundstrom
Park Guide, National Park Service, Vicksburg National Military Park, Vicksburg, MS
 
Alicia Zeimet
Program Coordinator for Adult Education Seminars, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL

2019

Anna Claspy
Architectural Historian, EBI Consulting, Chicago, IL
 
Alexandra Gradwohl
Program Director, Washington Maritime National Heritage Area, National Park Service
 
Bryan Morey
Assistant Collections Manager, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO
 
Angela Rothman
Architectural Historian, HNTB Corporation, Seattle, WA

2018

Kate Johnson
University Archivist, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
 
Marie Pellissier
PhD Student at William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
 
Stephen Petrie
Educator, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, WI
 
Karen Sieber
Humanities Officer, Minnesota Humanities Center, St. Paul, MN

2017

Megan Bordewyk
Digital Library Associate, South Dakota State Library, Pierre, SD
 
Ellen Bushong
Public Tours Coordinator and Project Assistant, Chicago Detours, Chicago, IL
 
Julia Lacher
Outreach Director, Chicago Film Archives, Chicago, IL
 
Nicole Stocker
Museum Educator, Lake County Forest Preserve District, Libertyville, IL

2016

Caroline Giannakopoulos
Project Archivist at Women and Leadership Archives, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL
 
Kyle Mathers
Museum Manager and Curator, Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), Chicago, IL; Consultant, Third Coast Creation, Chicago, IL
 
Margaret McClain
Budget Analyst, City of Madison, Madison, WI
 
Adam Widera
Automated Systems and Technical Services Librarian, Finger Lakes Community College, Canandaigua, NY

2015

Courtney Baxter
Early Childhood and Family Programs Manager, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, MO
 
Mollie Fullerton
Education Coordinator, National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, Albuquerque, NM
 
Siobhan Heraty
Curator of Collections, Des Plaines History Center, Des Plaines, IL
 
Jennifer Pederson
Education Coordinator, Museum of Casa Grande, Casa Grande, AZ
 
Cambray Sampson
Tour Guide, Michigan State Capitol, Lansing, MI

2014

Courtney Baxter
Manager, Early Childhood and Family Programs, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, MO
 
Luara Pearce
Senior Project Manager, BDO Digital, Demand Generation Group, Chicago, IL
 
Patrick Turco
Preparator of Collections, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

2013

Samantha Chmelik
Manager, Library and Information Services, Driehaus Museum, Chicago IL
Anne E. Cullen
Education Grants & Programs Associate, Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago, IL
 
Kristin Emery
Research and Academic Programs Manager, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
 
Laura Johns
Manager of Programs and Interpretive Services, Primrose Farm, St. Charles, IL
 
Rachel Lewis, PhD
Diversity Research Historian, National Park Service, Delaware & Leigh Heritage Corridor, National Park Service, Easton, PA
 
Administrative Assistant, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Cijuela, Spain

2012 

Melissa D’Lando
Grants Manager, International Documentary Association, Los Angeles, CA
 
Director of Library Museum, Pritzker Military Museum & Library, Chicago, IL
 
Siera Heavner Erazo
Curator of Collections, NASCAR Hall of Fame, Charlotte, NC
 
Rachel Ramirez
Director, Wilmette Historical Museum, Wilmette, IL
 
Kelsey Walsh
Manager, Department of Records Management & Archives at the American Medical Association, Chicago, IL

2011

Andrew Altepeter
Assistant Archivist and Records Manager, Motorola Corporation, Schaumburg, IL
 
Pamela (Kyle) Utsunomiya
Invoicing Specialist Marsh, USA and Public Historian Volunteer
 
Melinda Leonard
Media Archivist & Video Specialist at Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago, IL
 
Elyssa Northey
Archivist, Allied Vaughn, Minneapolis, MN; Curator of Collections, Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
 
Curator of Museum Collections, Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
 
Charles Wilkins
Associate Planner, Planning and Zoning Division, City of Aurora, Aurora, IL

2010 

Rochelle Caruthers
Director, African American History Initiative, Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, MO
 
Candice Jones
Collections Assistant, Chicago Cultural Alliance, Chicago, IL

2009

Emma Bonanomi
Director of Internal Communications, TNTP, Brooklyn, NY
 
Ashley Eckhardt
History PhD Program, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
 
Kathryn M. Hofherr
Policy Development Coordinator, Archdiocese of Chicago, Chicago, IL
 
Heather Kendall
Administrative Manager, Friends of Historic Second Church, Chicago, IL; Facilitator, Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL
 
Kat Latham
Director of Collections Management, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI
 
Laura McDowell Hopper
Social Media Manager and Staff Writer, Craft Industry Alliance, Wellesley, MA
 
Rebecca Redinger
History Fair Assistant, Chicago Metro History Education Center, Chicago, IL
 
Jonathan W. Sebastian
Site Manager, Fischer Farms Historic Site, Bensenville Park District, Bensenville, IL

2008

Heather Oswald
Manager of Public Services, Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA
 
Jennifer Witkov
Photo Archivist and Corporate Historian, MDRT, Park Ridge, IL

2007

Ryan Rutkowski
Supervisory Archivist, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD

2005

Michael Hollander
Strategic Initiatives Coordinator, Division of Enrollment Management, UW-Madison, MAdison, WI
 
Sarah Nau
Process and Systems Manager, Legal Records, Starbucks Coffee Company, Seattle, WA

2004

Patrick Cunningham, CISM, FAI
Associate Director, IT Policy Governance and Compliance, AbbVie, North Chicago, IL
 
Lori Osborne
Director, Frances Willard House Museum and Executive Director, Center for Women's History and Leadership, Evanston, IL; Director, Evanston Women's History Project, Evanston, IL

2003

Robert F. Doane
Curator, Naval War College Museum, Newport, RI
 
Lea Domingo
Library Manager, Hawaii State Public Library, Honolulu, HI
 
Senior Affiliated Scholar, Mercatus Center, George Mason University, Arlington, VA

2002

Bethany Fleming
Principal, Fleming Museum Consulting, Chicago IL
 
Susan Hanf
Heritage Communications Specialist, Rotary International, Chicago, IL
 
Kelley (Hayes) Szany
Vice President of Education and Exhibitions, Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL
 
Melanie (Wood) O'Brien
Program Manager, National NAGPRA, National Park Service, Washington, DC

2001

Christine Heidenrich
Managing Editor, BLH Technologies/Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD

2000

David Cholewiak Bennett
Associate Executive Director, UtmostU, Chicago, IL
 
Frank Lipo III
Executive Director, Oak Park River Forest Museum, Oak Park, IL

1999

Amy (Hartt) Soprych
Psychiatric Nurse, DuPage County Health Department, Wheaton, IL
 
Barry Sturm
Occupancy Specialist, Catholic Charities, Chicago, IL

1998

Brian F. Coffey
Historian, 1924 Building, Historical Research and Building Inventory, Cultural Resource Stewardship Division, National Park Service, Atlanta, GA
 
Ned Howard
Senior Marketing Project Manager, The Standard, Portland, OR
 
Ann Fuhrman
Research and Operations Coordinator, Oklahoma Higher Education Heritage Society, Oklahoma City, OK
 
Janice Slupski
(Deceased) former Historian, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Chesterton, IN

1997

Michelle Donahoe
Executive Director, DeKalb County History Center, Sycamore, IL; DeKalb County Historian, Sycamore, IL; Board of Directors, Illinois Association of Museums Chicago, IL
 
Catherine (Nich) Eliasik
Director, Gift and Record Services, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
 
Harry G. Klinkhamer
Historical Resources Manager, Venice Museum and Archive, Venice, FL
 
Ariel Orlov
Senior Director, Library and Learning Services, Adler University, Chicago, IL

1996

Amy T. Peterson, PhD
Vice President of Academics, Elevate K-12, Chicago, IL

1995

William Lebed
Freelance Historian

1994

Jeanie Child
Assistant Archivist, Room 1201, Circuit Court of Cook County, Chicago, IL
 
Christine Basque Malloy
Facilitator and Conflict Specialist, Omaha, NE

1993

Philip Costello
Archivist, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Chicago, IL
 
Catherine Dishman
Corporate Archivist, Marriott International, Bethesda, MD

1991

Rebecca (Strand) Johnson
Director, Center for Public History, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY

1990

Kent Haag
(Retired) Chicago Trolley and Double Decker Company, Chicago, IL
 
Joanne (Grossman) Murray
Director, The Legacy Center, Archives and Special Collections, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

1989

Joseph R. DeRose
(Retired) Historic Preservation Specialist, Division of Historic Preservation, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI

1988

Micaela Sullivan-Fowler
Distinguished Academic Librarian and Curator, History of Health Sciences Librarian, Ebling Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

1986

Donna Neary
Developer, NewComer Center for Newly Arrived Teens at Howard High School, Chattanooga, TN

2022

Karis Blaker
Program Coordinator, Winnetka Historical Society, Winnetka, IL

Melissa Newman
Senior Archives Technician, Search Inc., Great Lakes, IL

2021

Jennifer Duvall
Academic Librarian and Archivist, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Barron County, Eau Claire, WI
 
Tara (Cajacob) Hinkley
Archivist, Barack Obama Presidential Library, US National Archives
 
Erin Witt
Contract Processing Archivist, Knights of Columbus Supreme Council Archives, New Haven, CT

2020

Bianca Barcenas
Metadata Specialist, Obama Presidential Foundation, Chicago, IL

2019

Emily Muszynski
Youth Outreach Specialist, Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Arlington Heights, IL 

2017

Maddie McDermott
Collection Management Archivist, Jesuit Archives & Research Center, St. Louis, MO
 
Hannah Zuber
Senior Archivist, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL

2015

Grace Lehner
Director of Archives and Administration, Evanston History Center, Evanston, IL; Adjunct Librarian, Truman College, Chicago, IL

2014

PhD Student, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

2012

Archival Specialist, Vivian G. Harsh Afro-American History and Literature Collection, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL

2011 

Catherine Crosse
Public Services Librarian, Palos Heights Public Library, Palos Heights, IL 

2010

Amber Dushman
Teacher, Nevada Teachers of Tomorrow, Las Vegas, NV

2002

Laura Carroll
Archivist, Ohio County Public Library, Wheeling, WV

1996 

Amy Peterson
Vice President, Academic Strategy, Pearson

1995 

Susan Olsson
Patient Care Coordinator, Olsson Oral and Maxillofocial Surgeons, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

1991

Detective, Area 1 Violent Crimes, Chicago Police Department, Chicago, IL

2023

Assistant Professor of Public History, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville,TN
Dissertation: "Looking Forward, Looking Back: Depression-Era World’s Fairs, Imagined Pasts, and Hopeful Futures"
Advisor: Benjamin Johnson

2022

Sean Jacobson
Assistant Professor of Public History and American Indian History, Univeristy of North Alabama, Florence, AL
Dissertation: Hidden in Plain Sight: Challenges of Remembering Antebellum Indian Missions in the Great Lakes and the South
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski
 
Ella Wagner
Historian, Cultural Resources Office of Interpretation and Education, National Parks Service, Washington, D.C.
Dissertation: “The Saloon is their Palace”: Race and Politics in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1920
Advisor: Michelle Nickerson

2021

Kelly Schmidt
Postdoctoral Fellow in African and African American Studies, Washington University Slavery Project, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Dissertation: "We heard sometimes their earnest desire to be free in a free country": Enslaved People, Jesuit Masters, and Negotiations for Freedom on American Borderlands, 1823-1930
Advisors: Kyle Roberts and Theodore Karamanski
 

Sebastian Wuepper
Collections Consultant, DANK Haus German American Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Visiting Scholar, Loyola University Chicago, Department of Theology, Chicago, IL
Dissertation: Reams, Revolutionaries and Radicals - The German American Milieu in Chicago, 1847-1890
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

2020

Chelsea Denault
Michigan Digital Preservation Network Coordinator, Midwest Collaborative for Library Sciences, Lansing, MI
Dissertation: “An Environmental Sleight of Hand:" Trash, Activism, and Urban Finance in Detroit, 1970-1990
Advisor: Elliott Gorn
 
Ruby Oram
Assistant Professor of Practice in Local and Community History, Texas State University, San Marcos Campus, San Marcos, TX
Dissertation: Useful for Life: Women, Girls, and Vocational School Reform in Chicago, 1880-1930
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle
 
Hope Shannon
Marketing and Engagement Manager, American Historical Association, Washington, DC
Dissertation: Mobilizing the Past: Local History and Community Action in Modern Metropolitan Chicago
Advisor: Patricia Mooney-Melvin 

2019

Meagan McChesney
Curator, Winnetka Historical Society, Winnetka, IL; Contract Researcher at U.S. Life-Saving Service Heritage Association
Dissertation: Exhibiting Sovereignty: Tribal Museums in the Great Lakes Region, 1969-2010
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski
 
Joshua Wachuta
Freelance Public Historian and Web Designer
Dissertation: All and More That Was Owed: American Indians and Settler Capitalism on the Upper Mississippi, 1805-1890
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski 

2017

Rachel Boyle
Public Historian and Co-Founder, Omnia History
Board of Directors of the National Council on Public History (2020-2022)
Dissertation: "She Shot Him Dead: The Criminalization of Women and the Struggle over Social Order in Chicago, 1871-1919"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

2015

Dan Ott
Historian, National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, Western Division, National Park Service
Dissertation: "Producing a Past: Cyrus McCormick's Reaper from Heritage to History"
Advisor: Theodore Karamanski

2010

Angela Fritz
Administrator for the Division of Collections and State Archivist, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, WI
Dissertation: "Ten Cents a Dance: Taxi Dancers, A Living Wage, and the Sexual Politics of Women's Work, 1912-1952"
Advisor: Susan Hirsch

2006

Elizabeth Myers
Director of Special Collections, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Dissertation:"Burning Bras, Long Hairs, and Dashikis: Personal Politics in American Culture, 1960-75" 
Advisor: Lewis Erenberg

2005

Catherine Maybrey
Career Coach, Catherine Maybrey Coaching Services, Hamilton, Ontario
Dissertation: "From Onanism to Orgasm: Masturbation, Medicine and Gender in America, 1646-1960"
Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle

2004

Jerry L. Foust
Collection and Facilities Manager, Dumbarton House, Washington D.C