Placement
The University of Chicago is justly called the teacher of teachers,
because of the number of Chicago graduates who go on to teach and conduct
research at colleges and universities in the United States and abroad.
Together with the support you will receive from your dissertation director
during your academic job search, there are several services to help
you find an appointment as a professional historian and teacher.
- Job Announcements
- Workshops and Mock Interviews
- Career Advising and Placement Services
- The Credentials File
- Recent Academic Appointments
Job Announcements
Contact the Placement Committee’s student coordinator (position to be filled in Autumn 2007), to receive e-mails of job and workshop announcements. You can also subscribe yourself to this list at: https://listhost.uchicago.edu/mailman/listinfo/historyjobs.
Paper copies of job announcements received by the department (adjunct openings, postdoctoral fellowships, and tenure-track appointments) are kept in binders in Room 225 of the Social Sciences Building. The Chronicle of Higher Education Career Network is available on-line, or you can browse the paper copy in the History office, SSRB 330. In Room 225, we maintain a few books to aid in the academic job search. Also, a good, annotated bibliography of reference books related to job hunting is available through the Career Advising and Placement Service Office (CAPS).
Workshops and Mock Interviews
In late spring or early autumn, History’s Teaching, Fellowships,
and Placement Committee offers a workshop on the academic job search
for students who are currently on the job market or anticipate being
on the market in a year’s time. The workshop covers such issues
as elements of an application and a dossier; tenure-track versus postdoctoral
positions; making the short list; interviewing; and campus visits.
In late November or early December, students who will be interviewing
at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting or other
conferences can participate in Mock Interviews with members of the History
Department faculty. Contact the Placement Committee’s student coordinator (position to be filled in Autumn 2007) to schedule an interview.
After the American Historical Association's January convention, the committee meets to discuss on-campus job talks with students who interviewed at AHA.
Throughout the year, the History Graduate Student Association offers bi-monthly professionalization workshops on issues important to historians, such as teaching, publishing, etc... you may benefit from presenting your on-campus job talk at a social sciences graduate workshop.
Career Advising and Placement Services
CAPS offers autumn quarter
workshops, sample cover letters, curricula vitæ, and resumes to
download, and a list of useful publications for graduate students seeking
both academic and non-academic positions. You can also make an appointment
with a CAPS counselor who specializes in career opportunities outside
academia for master’s and doctoral degree students in the social
sciences. An extensive career library and reference librarian is also
available at CAPS office. CAPS is located in Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E.
59th Street, or telephone the office at 773/702-7040.
The Dossier
The University of Chicago has contracted with Interfolio,
Inc. to maintain credentials files, sometimes known as the dossier,
for students seeking jobs or fellowships. A confidential credentials
file allows each of your recommenders to write one letter which is stored
and may be used repeatedly for any period of time. You may also elect
to keep copies of transcripts, teaching evaluations, or sample syllabi
in your file. You select which materials in the file to send with each
fellowship or job application. Letters and other materials can be updated
as you progress through your graduate studies. You can consult with
your dissertation director or placement committee for advice on preparing
the dossier.
Recent Academic Appointments
Eighty percent of History students who graduated in the past six years have accepted academic positions (postdoctoral fellowships, visiting appointments, or tenure-track faculty); fourteen percent of our graduates work outside academia, and six percent of graduates are actively seeking a position.
Below are academic placements for students who received their doctoral degrees in the past six years:
| 2007 | |||
| Field | Name | Position | University |
| Britain | Brent Sirota | Asst Prof (t-t) | North Carolina State University |
| Britain | Abigail Swingen | Asst Prof (t-t) | Auburn University |
| Caribbean | Elizabeth Cooper | Asst Prof (t-t) | Florida International University |
| Early Modern Europe | Daniel Riches | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Alabama |
| EA-China | Viren Murthy | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Ottawa |
| EA-Japan | Tanya Maus | Asst Prof (t-t) | Wittenberg University |
| EA-Korea | Albert Park | Asst Prof (t-t) | Claremont McKenna College |
| International | Jingbin Wang | Asst Prof (t-t) | Elizabeth City State University, North Carolina |
| Latin America | José Angel Hernández | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
| Latin America | Jaime Pensado | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Notre Dame |
| Middle East | Ibrahim (Kaya) Sahin | Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow | Northwestern University |
| Modern Europe | Joshua Arthurs | Postdoctoral Fellow | George Mason University |
| Modern Europe | Naomi Davidson | Postdoctoral Fellow | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
| Modern Europe | Elizabeth Heath | Harper Fellow/ Collegiate Asst Prof | University of Chicago |
| Modern Europe | Sean Forner | Asst Prof (t-t) | Michigan State University |
| Russia | Edward Cohn | Visiting Asst Prof | Grinnell College |
| United States, pre-1900 |
Moira Hinderer | Postdoctoral Fellow | Johns Hopkins University |
United States, |
Tracy Steffes | Asst Prof (t-t) | Brown University, Education Department |
| United States, pre-1900 |
Kyle Volk | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Montana-Missoula |
| United States, 1900-pres | Lisa Andersen | Asst Prof (t-t) | The Julliard School |
| United States, 1900-pres | Kornel Chang | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Connecticut |
| United States, 1900-pres | Allyson Hobbs | Asst Prof (t-t) | Stanford University |
| United States, 1900-pres | Michael Wakeford | Asst Prof (t-t) | North Carolina School of the Arts |
| 2006 | |||
| Field | Name | Position | University |
| Ancient | Cameron Hawkins | Visiting Assistant Professor | University of Chicago |
| Britain | Kathrin Levitan | Asst Prof (t-t) | College of William and Mary |
| Caribbean & Atlantic World | Jason McGraw | Asst Prof (t-t) | Indiana University-Bloomington |
| EA-Japan | Patti Kameya | Asst Prof (t-t) | Kent State University |
| EA-Japan | Robert Stolz | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Tennessee-Knoxville |
| International | Hsiaopong (Philip) Liu | Asst Prof (t-t) | Nanyang University (Singapore) |
| Latin America | Timothy James | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of South Carolina, Beaufort |
| Middle East | Noor-Aiman Khan | Asst Prof (t-t) | Colgate University |
| Modern Europe | Karrin Hanshew | Asst Prof (t-t) | Michigan State University |
| Modern Europe | Douglas Kanter | Asst Prof (t-t) | Florida Atlantic University |
| Modern Europe | Brian LaPierre | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Southern Mississippi |
| Modern Europe | Tania Maync | Visiting Asst Prof | Kalamazoo College |
| Russia | Christian Raffensperger | Visiting Asst Prof | Wittenberg University |
| South Asia | Nikhil Rao | Asst Prof (t-t) | Wellesley College |
| United States, 1900- pres | Robert Buerglener | Instructional Associate | DePaul University |
| United States, 1900- pres | Quincy Mills | Asst Prof (t-t) | Vassar College |
| United States, 1900- pres | Michael Stamm | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities |
| United States, 1900- pres | Ellen Wu | Asst Prof (t-t) | Indiana Univesity-Bloomington |
| 2005 | |||
| Field | Name | Position | University |
| Britain | Fredrik Albritton Jonsson | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Chicago |
| Byzantine | Ruma Niyogi-Salhi | Asst Prof (t-t) | St. Xavier University |
| Early Modern Europe | Ryan Frace | Asst Prof (t-t) | Wellesley College |
| International | James I. Miller, Jr. | Visiting Assistant Professor | Florida International University |
| Latin America | R. Jovita Baber | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Latin America | Everard Meade | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of California, San Diego |
| Latin America | Paul Ross | Visiting Asst Prof | New School |
| Latin America | Reuben Zahler | Visiting Asst Prof | Clark Honors College, University of Oregon |
| Medieval | Glenn Kumhera | Visiting Asst Prof | Middlebury College |
| Medieval | Sara Ritchey | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Louisiana |
| Modern Europe | Anna Holian | Asst Prof (t-t) | Arizona State University |
| United States, 1900-pres | Heather Barrow | Visiting Prof | Indiana University Northwest, Gary |
| United States, 1900-pres | Aaron Shapiro | Historian | U.S. Forest Service |
| Joint United States/Law | Joanna Grisinger | Asst Prof (t-t) | Clemson University | 2004 |
| Field | Name | Position | University |
| EA-China | Mike Shi-Chi Lan | Asst Prof (t-t) | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| EA-Japan | Katsuya Hirano | Asst Prof (t-t) | Cornell University |
| EA-Korea | Chong-myong Im | Research Prof (t-t) | Korean University |
| Latin America | Luis Barrón | Asst Prof (t-t) | Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica, México |
| Latin America | Michelle Molina | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of California, Irvine |
| Latin America | Ana Serna Rodriguez | Asst Prof (t-t) | Instituto Mora, México |
| Modern Europe | Derek Hastings | Asst Prof (t-t) | Oakland University, Michigan |
| Modern Europe | Dana Simmons | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of California, Riverside |
| Russia | Mark Edele | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Western Australia |
| United States | Cathleen Cahill | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of New Mexico |
| United States | Daniel Greene | Historian | U.S. Holocaust Museum |
| United States | Gretchen Long | Asst Prof (t-t) | Williams College |
| 2003 | |||
| Field | Name | Position | University |
| Africa | Benjamin Talton | Asst Prof (t-t) | Hofstra University |
| Britain | Lisa Diller | Asst Prof (t-t) | Southern Adventist University |
| EA-China | Tong Lam | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Toronto, Mississauga |
| EA-Japan | Sharon Hayashi | Asst Prof (t-t) | York University, Toronto |
| EA-Japan | Sho Konishi | University Lecturer (t-t) | St. Antony's College, University of Oxford |
| Early Modern Europe | Thomas Mauro | Dept Chair/ Librarian | TASIS American School, Switzerland |
| Modern Europe | I. Dorothee Brantz | Asst Prof (t-t) | Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin |
| Russian | Jonathan Bone | Asst Prof (t-t) | William Paterson University |
| Russian | Steven Harris | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Mary Washington |
| South Asia | Rochona Majumdar | Asst Prof (t-t) | South Asian Languages, University of Chicago |
| South Asia | Andrew Sartori | Asst Prof (t-t) | New York University |
| US pre 1900 | Douglas Bradburn | Asst Prof (t-t) | SUNY Binghamton |
| US pre 1900 | Jane Calvert | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Kentucky |
| US 1900-pres | Ajay Mehrotra | Assoc Prof (t-t) | University of Indiana |
| US pre 1900 | Margaret Rensenbrink | Asst Prof (t-t) | Marshall University |
| 2002 | |||
| Field | Name | Position | University |
| Ancient | Chad Fauber | Lecturer | Purdue University |
| EA-Japan | Richard Reitan | Asst Prof (t-t) | Franklin and Marshall College |
| EA-Korea | Michael Shin | Asst Prof (t-t) | Cornell University |
| Hist of Science | Ku-ming Chang | Asst Res Fellow (t-t) | Academica Sinica, Taiwan |
| Hist of Science | Tracy Teslow | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Cincinnati |
| Latin America | María Elena Martínez Lopez | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Southern California |
| Medieval | Anthony Perron | Asst Prof (t-t) | Loyola Marymount University |
| Mideast/Islam | Stefan Winter | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Québec |
| Mideast/Islam | Hayrettin Yücesoy | Asst Prof (t-t) | St. Louis University |
| Mod Euro-Intel | Katharine Hamerton | Asst Prof (t-t) | Columbia College |
| Modern Europe | David Ellis | Asst Prof (t-t) | Augustana College |
| US pre 1900 | A. Sandoval-Strausz | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of New Mexico |
| US pre 1900 | Mark Wilson | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of North Carolina Charlotte |
| US pre 1900 | Nicholas Yablon | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Iowa |
| US 1900- pres | Rebecca Roiphe | Asst Prof (t-t) | New York Law School |
| 2001 | |||
| Field | Name | Position | University |
| Africa/Modern Europe | Sara Pugach | Asst Prof (t-t) | California State University, Los Angeles |
| Byzantine | Todd Hickey | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of California Berkeley |
| EA-Korea | Namhee Lee | Asst Prof (t-t) | UCLA |
| Intellectual | Christine Haynes | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of North Carolina Charlotte |
| Latin America | Deborah Cohen | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Missouri, St. Louis |
| Latin America | Robert Curley | Asst Prof (t-t) | Universidad de Guadalajara |
| Latin America | Thomas Passananti | Asst Prof (t-t) | San Diego State University |
| Medieval | Paul Robinson | Asst Prof (t-t) | Concordia Seminary |
| Mideast/Islam | Marc Baer | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of California, Irvine |
| Mideast/Islam | Michael Provence | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of California, San Diego |
| Mideast/Islam | Mark Stein | Asst Prof (t-t) | Muhlenberg College |
| Mideast/Islam | Renée Worringer | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Queensland |
| Mod Euro-Intel | Ihor Junyk | Asst Prof (t-t) | Trent University |
| Mod Euro-Intel | Barbara Naddeo | Asst Prof (t-t) | City University of New York |
| Russia | Kiril Tomoff | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of California Riverside |
| South Asia | Mithi Mukherjee | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Colorado Boulder |
| US pre 1900 | Mark Schmeller | Postdoctoral Fellow | Harvard University |
| US pre 1900 | Jeffrey Webb | Assoc Prof (t-t) | Huntington College |
| US 1900-pres | David Churchill | Asst Prof (t-t) | University of Manitoba |
| US 1900-pres | Deborah Skok | Asst Prof (t-t) | Hendrix College |