Doctoral Outcomes

Each year, Loyola bestows PhD degrees on candidates who go on to enter a variety of career fields in the academic departments, public history avenues, among many other fields.  From 2000 through present, 99 students received Loyola doctoral degrees in History. Of the 99 recipients, 28 currently hold tenure-track appointments, 33 others hold full-time teaching or administrative appointments in educational institutions, and 36 others hold full-time positions in public history or cultural institutions or in a variety of employment settings.

	2024
	Lucas Bensley Dissertation: "Daring Dames and Dirty Deeds": Burlesque and Censorship Politics in Chicago, 1850-1970 Director: Timothy Gilfoyle
	2023
	Emily Arledge Visiting Assistant Professor of History, St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA  Dissertation: Enshrining Memory: The Production of an American Catholic Past Director: Patricia Mooney-Melvin
	Cate LiaBraaten 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
	Katie Macica Postdoctoral Fellow in Public History, Department of History, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR Dissertation: Environments of War: The Pacific Northwest and the Waging of World War II Advisor: Patricia Mooney-Melvin
	2022
	Matthew Amyx Adjunct Instructor, History Department and Arrupe College, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL Dissertation: "Detrimental Influences”: The Home Owners Loan Corporation and Racial Residential Segregation in Chicago Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle
	Nathan Ellstrand Postdoctoral DPAA (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency) Research Partner Fellow, History Department, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA Dissertation: Reclaiming the Patria: Sinarquismo in the United States, 1937-1946 Advisor: Benjamin Johnson
	Sean Jacobson Assistant Professor of Public History and American Indian History, University of North Alabama, Florence, AL Dissertation: A Past Not Present: Memory, Christianity, and Indian Removal Mission Sites in the Great Lakes and the South Advisor: Theodore Karamanski
	Ella Wagner Historian/Archivist, Federal Transit Administration, Washington, DC  Dissertation: “The Saloon is their Palace”: Race and Politics in the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1920 Advisor: Michelle Nickerson
	2021
	Jenny Clay Visiting Assistant Professor of History, North Park University, Chicago, IL Dissertation:“Peace Bodies: Women, Encampments, and the Struggle against Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War” Advisor: Michelle Nickerson
	Kelly Schmidt Reparative Public Historian and Lecturer, Special Collections Management Research Associate, The WASHU and Slavery Project, Wahington 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
	Nicole Perez Accreditation Services Associate, Higher Learning Commission, Chicago, IL Dissertation: 'The Audacity to Dream': Black Suburbanization in Metropolitan Detroit, 1920-90 Advisor: Michelle Nickerson
	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

	2018
	Nathan Jérémie-Brink The L. Russell Feakes Assistant Professor of the History of Global Christianity, New Brunswick Theological Seminary,  New Brunswick, NJ Dissertation: “Gratuitous Distribution”: Distributing African American Antislavery Texts, 1773-1845 Advisor: Kyle Roberts

	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
	Amy Oberlin Senior Associate of Investigations and Disputes, Kroll Associates, Inc., New York, NY Dissertation: "Love and Loyal Actions: Ritual Affect and Royal Authority, 1688-1760" Advisor: Robert Bucholz
	Noah Phelps Director of Information Management, Sigma Chi Foundation, Evanston, IL Dissertation: "Transport for Early Modern London: London's Transportation Environment and the Experience of Movement, 1500–1800" Advisor: Robert Bucholz
	O. Eliot Pope Upper School History Teacher, Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, IL Dissertation: "Forgotten Soldiers from a Forgotten War: Oral History Testimonies of African American Korean War Veterans" Advisor: Christopher Manning
	Chris Ramsey Team Manager, Hudson Legal, New York, NY Dissertation: "Forgetting How to Hate: The Evolution of White Responses to Racial Integration in Chicago, 1946-1987" Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle
	Marisol Rivera Assistant Professor of History/Political Science, Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL Dissertation: "Survival Under Oppression: The Puerto Rican and Allied Struggle for Representation in Chicago, 1950-1983" Advisor: Christopher Manning
	Gregory Ruth Social Studies Department Co-Chair, Asia Pacific International School, Seoul, South Korea Dissertation: "Pancho Gonzales' Racket: Citizenship and Celebrity in the Creation of Modern Tennis" Advisor: Timothy Gilfoyle
	Amelia Serafine Instructor (Tenure Track), History, San Antonio College, Alamo Colleges, San Antonio, TX Dissertation: "Let's Get Together and Chew the FAT: Women, Size, and Community in Modern America" Advisor: Michelle Nickerson

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