Graduate Placement
We are in the process of updating our alumni and placement records and will continue to add to these lists. Alumni: please send relevant information to Interim Director of Graduate Studies Perla Guerrero
2021
Molly Benitez, Assistant Professor, Portland State University (2021)
Tiffany Lethabo King, Associate Professor in the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Virginia (UVA) (2021)
Ashley Minner, Curator, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. (2021)
2020
Robert Choflet, Lecturer, Department of African American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park (2020)
Ashley Minner, Professor of the Practice and Folklorist, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2020)
Izetta Autumn Mobley, ACLS Emerging Voices Fellowship 2020 in Health and Humanities, University of Texas at Austin (2020)
2019
Bailey Kier, Coordinator of Administrative Services, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park (2019)
Mary Savig, Lloyd Herman Curator of Craft, Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum (2019)
Shane Walsh, Lecturer, Department of African American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park (2019)
Kevin Winstead, Colored Conventions Project Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation, Pennsylvania State University (2019)
2018
Bimbola Akinbola, Postdoctoral Fellow, Black Arts Initiative, Northwestern University (2018–20)
Tatiana Benjamin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean, City University of New York (2020); Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies, Miami University of Ohio (2018)
Tanesha Leathers Braxton, Academic Advisor, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland (2011)
Aaron Bryant, Museum Curator of Photography, Visual Culture, Social Justice and Contemporary History at Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (2018)
Michael Casiano, Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2019); Postdoctoral Fellow; Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University-New Brunswick (2018)
Tony Perry, Assistant Professor, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, University of Virginia (2018)
Kalima Young, Assistant Professor of Electronic Media and Film, Towson University (2019)
2017
Jason Ezell, Assistant Professor and Instruction and Research Coordinator, Monroe Library, Loyola University, New Orleans (2016)
Terrance Wooten, Assistant Professor, Black Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara (2019); Postdoctoral Fellow, Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara (2018); Mark Steinberg Weil Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis (2017)
2016
Aaron Allen, Assistant Professor, American Studies, Roger Williams University (2017)
Daniel Greene, Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park (2018); Postdoctoral Fellow, Microsoft Research (2016)
Cassandra Griff, Assistant Professor and Director, Ethnic Studies, Winona State University (2017)
Portia D. Hopkins, Social and Behavioral Sciences Division Chair and Honors American Studies Faculty, Lee College (2016)
Gabriel Peoples, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington (2018); Postdoctoral Fellow, Gender Studies, Indiana University (2016)
Heidi Anne Temple, Academic Head (2017) and Theatre Director and Teacher (2016), Northwood High School, Maryland
Maria Elena Vargas, Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies, Sacramento State University (2018); Lecturer, San Francisco State University (2016)
Jessica Kenyatta Walker, Assistant Professor, American Culture and African American and African Studies, University of Michigan (to begin fall 2020); Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow in American Culture, University of Michigan (2018); Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley (2017)
2015
Andrew Nelson, A.P U.S. History teacher, The Altamont School, Birmingham, Alabama
Maria Velazquez, Postdoctoral Fellow, Transnational Black Citizenship Project, The Ohio State University (2017); Postdoctoral Fellow, Africana Studies, Bucknell University (2015)
2014
Darius Bost, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies, University of Utah (2019) ;
Assistant Professor, Sexuality Studies, San Francisco State University
Kirsten Case, Research Associate and Director of the Potomac Gorge Project, National Park Service and Historic Preservation Program, University of Maryland
Douglas Ishii, Assistant Professor, English, University of Washington, Seattle (2020); Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
Shanna L. Smith, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Jackson State University (2016); Frederick Douglas Teaching Scholar, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (2015)
Kelly Lynn Trigger, Associate Vice President for Teaching and Learning, Frederick Community College
2013
Tiffany King, Assistant Professor, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Georgia State University
Elise White, Deputy Director, Midtown Community Court (New York)
2012
Krista Park, Geographer/Project Manager, U.S. Census Bureau
Manouchka Poinson, Lecturer, University of Maryland, Baltimore Country
Jason Nichols, Lecturer, African American Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
2011
Robert Hernandez, Assistant Professor, English, University of California, Riverside (2012); Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Texas, Austin (2011)
Amelia Wong, Assistant Professor, Museum Studies, George Washington University
Christine Muller, Dean, Saybrook College, Yale University
Justin Maher, Assistant Director of Admissions, Harvard University Graduate School of Education (2012); Postdoctoral Associate for Graduate Education Administration, University of Maryland, College Park (2011)
Henrike Lehnguth, Lecturer, University of Oldenberg
Robert Chester, Lecturer, American Studies Department, University of Maryland
2010
Patrick Grzanka, Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of Tennessee (2014); Honors Faculty Fellow, Barrett College, Arizona State University (2010)
Rebecca Krefting, Assistant Professor, American Studies, Skidmore College
Manon Perry, Assistant Professor, Public History, University of Amsterdam
Kristen Williams, Visiting Assistant Professor, American Studies, Miami University, Ohio
Savneet Talwar, Associate Professor, Art Therapy, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Jennifer Anne Stabler, Archeologist, Prince George’s County Planning Department
Dawn Marie Reynolds, Senior Instructional Designer, Management Concepts
Claudia Rector, Assistant Provost for Academic Affairs, George Mason University
Teresa Moyer, Archeologist, National Park Service
Erika Martin Seibert, Archeologist, National Register of Historic Places
Lisa Gill, Fulbright Fellowship, Universität Regensburg
Johonna Turner (McCants), Assistant Professor, Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, Eastern Mennonite University
2009
Wendy Thompson, Assistant Professor, African and African American Studies, Indiana State University (2013); Postdoctoral Fellowship, Africana Studies, Bowdoin College (2011); Postdoctoral Fellowship, History, University of Minnesota (2009)
Tamara Wilds Lawson, Director, Posse Foundation (DC)
Kristen Hodge, ACLS Public Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowship
Tyrone Stewart, Academic Advisor, University of Michigan
John Kille, Assistant Director, Lost Towns Project
Beth Graybill, Interim Women’s Center Director and Adjunct Faculty of Women and Gender Studies, Franklin and Marshall College
2008
Jennifer Nolan-Stinson, Assistant Professor, English, North Carolina State University
Nicole King, Assistant Professor, American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Heidi Nasstrom Evans, Lecturer, Art and Art History, George Mason University
Alice Sandosharaj, Faculty, English, Howard University
2007
John Patrick Daves, Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Park Tudor School
Michael Hummel, Lecturer, American Studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore Country
Jesse Scott, Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi
Barbara Shaw, Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies, Allegheny College
Kelly Quinn, Terra Foundation Project Manager for Online Scholarly and Educational Initiatives (2012); Assistant Professor, American Studies, Miami University, Ohio (2007)
L. Suzanne Gordon, Lecturer, American Studies, University of Maryland