Undergraduate Alumni
Having produced students with degrees in history for decades, and with a current population of over 1,000 majors, the undergraduate alumni of the History Department are legion. They have gone on to innumerable different types of careers. Many have taught history or social studies in K-12 classrooms, others have gone to graduate school in history, and still others have used their history education to work in areas of applied history. Others have used the information and skills from their Arizona State University history education to enter law or other professional schools, or to pursue other careers in which an ability to communicate effectively, read critically, and think historically have been useful. In the last several years we have begun to expand our activities during Homecoming Week, attempting to reach out to our alumni, and we will continue to expand these efforts in the future. As part of this, we encourage you to drop us a line and let us know what you are doing. As we receive more information from you, we will create a space on this web site to communicate that to other alumni.
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MA and PhD Alumni
The Department's MA program began in 1960 and its PhD program began in 1968, but the department produced relatively few MA students before 1980, and the increase in doctoral graduates occurred roughly a decade later. To this stage the communication from graduate alumni has been personal, but the department intends to expand and extend those ties. We encourage you to communicate with your advisers, the Graduate Director, and/or the Program Coordinator of the Graduate Program with news of your employment, publications, public presentations, and other activities. In the near future we plan to create an online form for this purpose, but in the interim we encourage you to send such news to Suzanne Rios, Program Coordinator, Graduate Program, at suzanne.rios@asu.edu or by mail at the department's adress.
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Public History Alumni News
To enable Public History alumni to maintain contact with the program and with their friends from the program, we're introducing a new Public History alumni database and invite your participation. We also want you to be able to find other graduates and see their expertise. We want to encourage new networks! We think you will appreciate being able to link to one another easily. We also want to be able to tell prospective students and employers about your collective accomplishments. In addition, the university often asks us for up-to-date information about alumni.
To collect this information we have created an alumni template accessible through these links:
Some of this information will be displayed publicly on the website, e.g., where people are working and their e-mail address and website link. The balance of the information will remain private and available only for internal reporting. What will be listed on the website will help people network, explore opportunities, and learn about the program.
Three local alumni will assist in planning and implementation: Kathleen Howard (Historical Perspectives, Inc., Scottsdale), Catherine May (SRP), and Laura Stone (State Library and Archives). We'd like to develop an annual local event from this work and invite alumni to come together for a once-a-year reception, meet a visiting public historian, and become acquainted with the students currently in the program.
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Graduate Student Placement
Our Ph.D. graduates have recently received tenure-track academic appointments and promotions at various institutions including the College of William and Mary; University of Nebraska; University of Montana; Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis; University of Oklahoma; the Pennsylvania State University; University of Alaska—Anchorage; Mesa Community College; Bethel College; University of Southern Mississippi; Grand Valley State University; Creighton University; and Coe College. Two have received Woodrow Wilson postdoctoral fellowships, at Smith College and the University of Virginia.
Our Public History and Scholarly Publishing graduates have recently accepted positions at the Adams Papers, the American Political Science Association, California State University—Monterey Bay, the Getty Museum, Harvard Business School Press, the Lyndon B. Johnson and Ronald Reagan Presidential Libraries, MIT Press, the National Archives, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the University of California Press, Oxford University Press, and State Historical Preservation Offices. Within the state, our graduates include the Director of the Arizona History and Archives Division, the Assistant Director of Arizona State Parks, the Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer, the Phoenix City Archaeologist, and staff members at the Arizona Humanities Council, Arizona Historical Society, and local museums.
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