Career Tracker
| NAME | DEGREE | FIRST JOB OUT OF PROGRAM | CURRENT POSITION |
DISSERTATION/THESIS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lauren Klaffke | Ph.D. History of Medicine, 2021 | "Medicated by the Corporate Soul: Public Relations, Storytelling, and Philanthropy in the Pharmaceutical Industry, 1912-1980" | ||
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William Vogel |
Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2021 | "The Mighty Microbe Can Go to War:" Scientists, Secrecy and American Biological Weapons Research, 1941-1969" | ||
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David Korostyshevsky |
Ph.D. History of Medicine, 2021 | Lecturer, Colorado State University | Lecturer, Colorado State University | "Governing Habitual Drunkards: Guardianship, Life Insurance, and the Medico-Legal History of Compulsive Drinking in Nineteenth-Century America" |
| Anna Amramina | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2021 | Fellowship, the Smithsonian Institute | Fellowship, The Smithsonian Institute | "A Common Language of the Earth: American-Soviet Scientific Collaborations during the Cold War" |
| Macey Flood | Ph.D. History of Medicine, 2021 | Visiting Scholar, The University of Texas Medical Branch | Visiting Scholar, The University of Texas Medical Branch | "Simple Medicines: Land, Health, and Power in the 19th-century Ojibwe Western Great Lakes" |
| Patrick Graham | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 2021 | Ph.D. Student at University of Chicago | ||
| Kele Cable | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2021 | "Making Evolution Visible, Controllable, and Useful: A History of Early Experimental Evolution" | ||
| Cameron Lazaroff-Puck | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2021 | "What Theories Are Made Of: How Industry and Culture Shaped Maxwell's Theories of Electromagnetism" | ||
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Bonnie Gidzak |
Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2020 |
"Atomic Science Education for the American Public, 1945-1949" |
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| Dustin Studelska | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2020 | "Forgetting the Hand: Wedgwood, Sèvres, and the Industrial Fate of Skill" | ||
| Reba Luiken | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2019 | Coordinator of Informal Interpretation, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum | Executive Director, Allen Centennial Garden, University of Wisconsin-Madison | "Chicago’s Botanic Garden: A Garden in a Community" |
| Shawn Foster | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2019 | Retired | "Transfer of the Western Medical Profession to China - Riding with Missions and Dismissing Native Medicine, 1807-1937: Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Changsha" | |
| John Heydinger | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2019 | Postdoctoral Associate, College of Biological Sciences (UMN) | Postdoctoral Associate, College of Biological Sciences (UMN) | "Humans, Livestock and Lions in Northwest Namibia" |
| Alexander Greff | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 2019 | |||
| Adam Fix | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2019 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Program in HSTM (Univ. of Minn.) | Global Writer, Transportation & Electronics Group, 3M | "Sensible Mathematics: The Science of Music in the Age of the Baroque" |
| Samuel Froiland | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 2019 | Graduate student at University of Illinois | ||
| Kate Jirik | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2019 | "American Institutions for the Feeble-Minded, 1876-1916" | ||
| Nicholas Lewis | Ph. D. History of Science and Technology, 2019 | Post-Doctoral Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratories | Historian, National Security Research Center | "Safety in Numbers: Creating and Contesting the Los Alamos Approach to Supercomputing, 1942-1980" |
| Emmie Miller | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2019 | Program Administrator, Program in HSTM, Univ. of Minn. | Program Administrator, Program in HSTM, Univ. of Minn. | "Empire of Ice: Arctic Natural History and British Visions of the North, 1500-1800" |
| Jessica Nickrand | Ph.D. History of Medicine, 2019 | Interim Assistant Director for Research, John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology and Values | Program Manager, Policy and Practice Programming, American Academy of Neurology | "The Detroit Medical Center: Race and Renewal in the Motor City" |
| Quincy Washa | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 2019 | U.S. Military Forces | U.S. Military Forces | |
| Emily Beck | Ph.D. History of Medicine, 2018 | Assistant Curator, Wangensteen Historical Library (Univ. of Minn.) | Assistant Curator, Wangensteen Historical Library (Univ. of Minn.) |
"Communities of Healing: Domestic Medicine and Society in Early Modern Italy" |
| Jieun Shin | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2018 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution | Senior Professional, Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd. | "Displaying Cold War Technology and Science: The National Air and Space Museum, 1946-1976" |
| Kristina Cernekova | M.A. History of Medicine, 2017 | |||
| Margaret Berggren (Hofius) | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 2016 | |||
| Robert Bulander, M.D. | Ph.D. History of Medicine, 2015 | Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota | "The Rude Unhinging: A Study in Shock" | |
| Jonathan Clemens | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2015 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Program in HSTM, University of Minnesota | Instructional Design Coordinator, The Learning House | "Defining Play: Producers, Mediators, and Users in the History of Video Arcade Games, 1971-1985" |
| Xuan Geng | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2015 | "Serving China through Agricultural Science: American-Trained Chinese Scholars and “Scientific Nationalism” in Decentralized China (1911-1945)" | ||
| Barbara Reiterer Louis | Ph.D. in History of Science and Technology, 2015 |
Data Analyst & Curriculum Developer, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Vienna |
Program Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Vienna | |
| Baojie Song | M.A. in History of Science and Technology, 2014 | |||
| Margaret Charleroy | Ph.D. History of Medicine, 2013 | Population Center, University of Minnesota | Research Fellow, University of Warwick Centre for History of Medicine |
"Penitentiary Practice: Healthcare and Medicine in Minnesota State Prison, 1855-1930" |
| Joseph Martin | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2013 | Visiting Assistant Professor, Colby College | Assistant Professor, University of Durham | |
| Bryony Rogers | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 2013 | |||
| Aimee Slaughter | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2013 | Publications Outreach Manager, Los Alamos History Museum | Museum Educator, Los Alamos History Museum | "Radium Therapy in America, 1898-1939" |
| Frazier Benya | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2012 | Program Officer, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | Senior Program Officer, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
"Biomedicine Confronts Society: Congressional Hearings and the Development of Bioethics, 1960-1975" |
| Sara Cammeresi | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 2012 | Self-employed, educator | ||
| Cara Kinzelman | Ph.D. History of Medicine, 2012 | Health Policy Researcher, American College of Nurse-Midwives | "A Certain Kind of Girl: Social Workers and the Creation of the Pathological Unwed Mother, 1918-1940" | |
| Christine Manganaro | Ph.D. History of Medicine, 2012 | Assistant Professor, Maryland Institute College of Art | Associate Dean of Liberal Arts in Undergraduate Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art | "Assimilating Hawai’i: Racial Research in a Colonial “Laboratory,” 1919-1939" |
| Rita Murphy | M.A. History of Medicine, 2012 | Received an MPH | Project Manager of the Breast Oncology Multidisciplinary Disease Group at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University | |
| Richard C. Parks | Ph.D. History of Medicine, 2012 | Brown University Mellon Post-Doc in the History of Medicine | Teaching Professor, History of Medicine, Michigan State University | "Hygiene, Regeneration, and Citizenship: Jews in the Tunisian Protectorate" |
| Vicki Pierre | M.A. History of Medicine, 2012 | |||
| Nathan Crowe | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2011 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Arizona State University | Associate Professor, University of North Carolina-Wilmington | "A 'Fantastical' Experiment: Motivations, Practice, and Conflict in the History of Nuclear Transplantation, 1925-1970" |
| Neal Holtan | Ph.D. History of Medicine, 2011 | Retired | "From Eugenics to Public Health Genetics in Mid-Twentieth Century Minnesota" | |
| Matt McGeachy | M.A. History of Medicine, 2011 | Administration, University of Toronto | Company Dramaturge, Factory Theatre | |
| Jacob Steere-Williams | Ph.D. History of Medicine, 2011 | Assistant Professor, College of Charleston | Associate Professor, College of Charleston | "The Perfect Food and the Filth Disease: Milk, Typhoid Fever, and the Science of State Medicine in Victorian Britain, 1850-1900" |
| Joline Zepcevski | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2011 | Lecturer, Minneapolis College of Art and Design | "Complexity and Verification: The History of Programming as Problem Solving" | |
| Adrian Fischer | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 2010 | Curator of Instruments, The Bakken Museum | ||
| Amy Fisher | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2010 | Adjunct Instructor | Associate Professor and Director of Science, Technology, and Society, University of Puget Sound | "An Arc Across Fields of Study: Electricity in Physics and Chemistry (1751-1807)" |
| Peter Kernahan, M.D. | Ph.D. History of Medicine, 2010 | Lecturer, University of Minnesota | "Franklin Martin and the Standardization of American Surgery, 1890-1940" | |
| Norrita Rech | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 2010 | |||
| Peter Schmidt | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2010 | Grossmont College in San Diego | Senior Lecturer, Arizona State University-Barret | |
| Joris Vandendriessche | M.A. History of Medicine, 2010 | Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) | ||
| Michael Ziomko | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 2010 | Vice President - Thompson & Associates | ||
| Suzanne Fischer | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2009 | Museum Director, Michigan History Center | "V.D. on Display: Sexuality, Masculinity and the Business of American Popular Anatomical Institutes, 1900-1930" | |
| Rachel Mason Dentinger | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2009 | Associate Instructor, University of Utah | ||
| Hyung Wook Park | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2009 | Lecturer, Durham University, UK | Associate Professor, Nanyang Technological University | "Redefining Old Age: Shaping Scientific Research on Aging, 1900-1950" |
| Gina Rumore | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2009 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota | Research Development Director, Institute for Social Research and Data Innovation, University of Minnesota | |
| Somaditya Banerjee | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 2007 | Assistant Professor, Austin Peay State University | ||
| Margot Iverson | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2007 | Assistant Professor, Humanities, Illinois Institute of Technology | "Blood Types: A History of Genetic Studies of Native Americans, 1919-1955" | |
| Nicholas Martin | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 2007 | |||
| Mary Anne Andrei | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2006 | Photographer and news writer | "Constructing Nature: Taxidermy and Museum Exhibition, 1794-1926" | |
| Ronald Frazzini | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2006 | Adjunct Instructor in the Graduate Liberal Studies, Metro State, St. Paul, MN | Retired | "The Development of Italian Informatics: Technology Development of Olivetti Calculating Machines in the Global Business Machine Market" |
| Susan Rensing | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2006 | Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh | Associate Professor, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Kansas State University | "Feminist Eugenics in America: From Free Love to Birth Control, 1880-1930" |
| Karen Ross | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2006 | Lecturer, Presbyterian College | Assistant Professor, Troy University | "Simon Flexner and the Development of American Virology" |
| Richard Swanson | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 2006 | |||
| Elisabeth van Meer | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2006 | Adjunct Professor, College of Charleston | "Engineering Beyond Politics? Professional Ideology, Scientific Management and the Evolution of Czechoslovakia, 1848-1948" | |
| Paul D. Brinkman | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2005 | Collection Technician I, NC Museum of Natural Sciences | Head, History of Science Research Lab and Curator of Special Collections, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences | "The Second American Jurassic Dinosaur Rush, 1895-1905" |
| Juliet Burba | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2005 | Exhibit Developer, Science Museum of Minnesota | Grants Developer, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota | “'Whence Came the Indians?' Developing a Science of Prehistory in America, 1880-1935" |
| Georgina M. Montgomery | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2005 | Adjunct professor, Seattle Pacific | Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning and Associate Professor, Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University | "Primates in the Real World: Place, Practice and the History of Primate Field Studies, 1924-1970" |
| James Satter | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 2005 | Manager of Public Operations, Science Museum of Minnesota | ||
| Olivia Walling | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2005 | Lecturer, University of California | WAC/WID Coordinator, University of Mississippi | "Nuclear Astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology, 1930-1960" |
| Tom Noerper | M.A. in History of Science and Technology, 2004 | |||
| Jay Aronson | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2004 | Postdoctoral Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University | Professor of Science, Technology, and Society; Director, Center for Human Rights Science, Carnegie Mellon University | "The introduction, contestation, and regulation of forensic DNA analysis in the American legal system (1984-1994)" |
| John Gustafson | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2004 | Instructor, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College | Part-time instructor at University of Minnesota-Duluth | "Wolfgang Pauli, 1900 to 1930: His early physics in Jungian perspective (Carl G. Jung)" |
| Paul Morf | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 2004 | |||
| Don Opitz | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2004 | Director, General College Math Center | Associate Professor, De Paul University | “Aristocrats and Professionals: Country-House Science in Late-Victorian Britain” |
| Ioanna Semendeferi | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2003 | Instructional and Research Associate Professor, University of Houston | "Exploiting uncertainty in radiation limits: Monticello dissenters, health physicists, and the civilian nuclear-power debate (Minnesota)" | |
| Kevin Francis | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2002 | Assistant Professor, Science Department, Mount Angel Seminar | Faculty and Director of Master of Environmental Studies Degree Program, Evergreen State College | "Debates over Pleistocene Extinction in the Twentieth Century" |
| Juan Ilerbaig | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2002 | Associate Director, Modern Literature and Culture Research Center, Ryerson University | "Pride in place: Fieldwork, geography, and American field zoology, 1850--1920" | |
| Karin Matchett | Ph.D History of Science and Technology, 2002 | Independent scholar, writer, editor, and researcher | "Plant Sciences Research and Agriculture in Mexico: Tensions and Collaboration Among Mexican and U.S. Scientists, 1935-1965" | |
| David Sepkoski | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2002 | Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College (History) | Thomas M. Siebel Chair in History of Science and Professor, Department of History, UIUC | "Numbers and Things: Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy" |
| Mary Thomas | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2001 | Lecturer and Administrator, University of Minnesota | "Science, military style: Fortifications, science, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers, 1802-1861 (Joseph Gilbert Totten, Jonathan Williams)" | |
| Kai-Henrik Barth | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2000 |
Science and Technology Analyst, Congressional Research Service |
Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Georgetown University in Qatar | "Detecting the Cold War: Seismology and nuclear weapons testing, 1945--1970" |
| Alberto Martinez | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 2000 | Research Fellow, Dibner Library of History of Science and Technology | Professor, University of Texas at Austin | "The neglected science of motion: The kinematic origins of relativity" |
| Tania Munz | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 2000 | Research Scholar, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science | Chief Program Officer, American Academy of Arts and Sciences | |
| Amy Foster | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 1999 | Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida | Associate Professor, University of Central Florida | |
| Mark Largent | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1999 | Associate Dean, Lyman Briggs College, Michigan State University | "The Social Applications of Biology: Vernon Lyman Kellogg and American Biology, 1890-1930" | |
| Michael Reidy | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1999 | Professor, Montana State University | "The Flux and Reflux of Science: The study of the tides and the organizations of early Victorian science" | |
| Efytchia Vayena | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1999 | Professor, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich | "The Pap Test and Cervical Cancer Screening in Post War United States, Britain & Greece" | |
| Erik M. Conway | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1998 | Historian, California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory | "Blind landings: The evolution of aircraft landing aids, 1918-1950" | |
| Diana Kenney | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 1998 | Editor, Minnesota Physician Publishing, Inc. | Associate Director of Communications, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole | |
| Hugh Macgregor Smith, M.D. | Ph.D. History of Medicine, 1998 | Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic | ||
| Rodrigo Fernos | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 1997 | PhD, University of Puerto Rico | Professor, University of Puerto Rico | "Nuestra telefónica": La nacionalización de la Puerto Rico Telephone Company (PRTC), 1974 (from University of Puerto Rico) |
| John P. Jackson, Jr. | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1997 | Assistant Professor, University of Colorado-Boulder | "The transformation of social science into modern authority in Brown v. Board of Education, 1945-1957" | |
| Stephen B. Johnson | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1997 | Associate Research Professor, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs | "Insuring the future: The development and diffusion of systems management in the American and European space programs" | |
| Christian C. Young | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1997 | Assistant professor of Science and Culture, Mount Angel Seminary | Program Manager, Urban Ecology Center Institute, and Professor of Biology, Alverno College | "The development of wildlife biology in America: Maintaining nature on the Kaibab Plateau" |
| Robert Ferguson | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1996 | NASA History Office | "Technology and cooperation in American aircraft manufacture during World War II" | |
| Shawn Rounds | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 1996 | Research Historian | State Archivist and Director of Library and Archives, Minnesota Historical Society | |
| Joe Cain | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1995 | Professor, University College of London | "Managing synthesis: Community infrastructure in the synthesis period of American evolutionary studies" | |
| Rene Burmeister | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 1994 | |||
| Brett Steele | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1994 | Associate Professor, Khalifa University | "The ballistics revolution: Military and scientific change from Robins to Napoleon" | |
| Natalie McIntire | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 1993 | Independent Consultant | ||
| Judy O'Neill | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1992 | "The evolution of interactive computing through time-sharing and networking" | ||
| Charles Atchley | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1991 | "The invention and discovery of the neutrino: Elusive reality and the nature of scientific acceptance." (Volumes I and II) | ||
| Paolo Palladino | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1991 | Professor, Lancaster University | "Entomology and ecology: The ecology of entomology. The 'insecticide crisis' and entomological research in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s: Political, institutional, and conceptual dimensions" | |
| Bruce Palmquist | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 1990 | Professor, Central Washington University | ||
| James Hall | M.A. History of Science and Technology, 1989 | |||
| Brian Nichelsen | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1988 | "Early jet engines and the transition from centrifugal to axial compressors: A case study in technological change" | ||
| Ho-Yin Tang | Ph.D. History of Medicine, 1988 | |||
| Karen E. Johnson | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1986 | Associate Professor, St. Lawrence University | "Maris Goeppert Mayer and the Development of the Nuclear Shell Model" | |
| Fred Fellows | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1985 | Freelance writer | "J. H. Van Vleck: The Early Life and Work of a mathematical Physicist (Correspondence Principle, Susceptibilities, Magnetism)" | |
| Nahum Kipnis | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1984 | "History of the Principle of Interference" (Optics) | ||
| Luis H. Toledo-Pereyra | Ph.D. History of Medicine, 1984 | Professor of Surgery and Adjunct in Medical Humanities, Michigan State University | ||
| Eda Fowlks Kranakis | Ph.D. History of Science and Technology, 1982 | Professor, University of Ottawa | "Technological Styles in America and France in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Case of the Suspension Bridge" | |
| Dale Cary Smith | Ph.D. History of Medicine, 1979 | Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences |