Onward and Upward

Hire a humanist


Are you interested in supporting the career of a graduate student in the Division of the Humanities? You can do so by:

Hosting an externship, which pairs a current master’s or PhD student with an alumnus of the division for two to three days of on-the-job mentoring;

Hiring a graduate student for a summer or permanent position through Chicago Career Connection, an online resource of the University’s Career Advancement office;

Speaking about your career path to current students through on-campus career programs.

Alumni have hosted externs at TimeOut Chicago, the Block Museum of Art, Cook County Circuit Court, Morningstar Inc., the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and other venues. To get involved, please contact Audrey Carie at 773.834.2502 or acarie@uchicago.edu.

Did we miss you on this year's list of job placements?  Please send an update to the Humanities Dean of Students Office at humdos@uchicago.edu.

GRADUATE STUDENT PLACEMENTS | 2012–13

PhD Program

Art History

  • Sun-ah Choi, Postdoctoral Scholar, Columbia University
  • Yinxing Liu, Postdoctoral Scholar, Yale University
  • Catherine Stuer, Assistant Professor, Denison University

Cinema and Media Studies

  • Nathan Holmes, Adjunct Professor, Loyola University Chicago
  • Colin Williamson, Visiting Scholar/Postdoctoral Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Classics

  • Teresa Danze, Adjunct Visiting Professor, University of Dallas
  • Paul Keen, Visiting Professor, Valparaiso University

Comparative Literature

  • Michael Baltasi, Director, Arley D. Cathey Learning Center and College Core Tutor Program, University of Chicago
  • Beppi Chiuppani, Freelance Writer, Padua, Italy
  • Donald Fette, Faculty Associate, Arizona State University
  • Marta Napiorkowska, Upper School English Teacher, St. Mark's School of Texas, Dallas
  • Johanna Semler, Consultant, Capgemini Consulting
  • Dustin Simpson, Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Humanities, Reed College

East Asian Languages and Civilizations

  • Jonathan Glade, Terasaki Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Jae-Yon Lee, Visiting Lecture in Korean, Washington University in St. Louis
  • John Person, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Adam Schwartz, Visiting Assistant Professor, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
  • Kathryn Tanaka, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science/Osaka University
  • Yi Wang, Postdoctoral Scholar/Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley/State University of New York at Binghampton

English

  • Melissa Barton, Curator, American Literature and Drama, Beinecke Library, Yale University
  • John Harvard, Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Binghampton
  • Megan Heffernan, Assistant Professor, DePaul University

Germanic Studies

  • Martin Baeumel, Postdoctoral Fellow, Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Linguistics

  • Thomas Grano, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Maryland

Music

  • Mary Caldwell, Visiting Assistant Professor, Williams College
  • Majel Connery, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
  • Jonathan De Souza, Assistant Professor of Music Theory, University of Western Ontario
  • Andrew Greenwood, Visiting Assistant Professor, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University
  • Mariusz Kozak, Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

  • Aaron Butts, Lecturer in Semitics, Yale University
  • Eve Krakowski, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
  • Lyall Armstrong, Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut
  • Rana Mikati, Arabic Lecturer, University of Oregon

Philosophy

  • Stina Backstrom, Kone Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Åbo Academy University, Finland
  • Rachel Goodman, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Philosophy of Mind, University of Leeds, England
  • Aidan Gray, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Lisa Hicks, Lecturer, Structured Liberal Education Program, Stanford University
  • Thomas Lockhart, Assistant Professor, Auburn University
  • Josef Lubenow, Lecturer, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
  • Colin Patrick, Visiting Assistant Professor, Pacific University
  • Charles Small, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Romance Languages and Literatures

  • James Fortney, Lecturer, University of Southern California
  • Maggie Fritz-Morkin, Visiting Assistant Professor, Sewanne: The University of the South
  • Sylvie Goutas, Visiting Assistant Professor, French, Dominican University

Slavic Languages and Literatures

  • Petia Alexieva, Lead Instructor, Intensive Intermediate Russian, Middlebury College
  • Katherine Reischl, Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico
  • Anna Szawara, Visiting Lecturer, Polish, University of Illinois at Chicago

South Asian Languages and Civilizations

  • Arnab Dey, Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Binghampton
  • Roy Fischel, Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
  • Eric Huntington, Korff Postdoctoral Fellow in South Asian Art, Washington University in St. Louis
Master's Program

Middle Eastern Studies

  • Chastity Lovely, Education Pioneers Graduate Fellow, Uplift Education Charter Schools
  • Emily Silkaitis, Program Manager, Kilts Center for Marketing, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Visual Arts

  • Anthony Adcock, Instructor, American Academy of Art
  • Nicholas Bastis, Lecturer/Post-MFA Fellow/Preparator, Renaissance Society amd Intern, University of Chicago
  • Margaret Crowley, Lecturer/Post-MFA Fellow, University of Chicago
  • Anais Daly, Lecturer/Post-MFA Fellow, University of Chicago
  • Marco Ferrari, Lecturer/Post-MFA Fellow and Artist in Residence, University of Chicago and Franklin College
  • Katherine Harvath, Lecturer/Post-MFA Fellow, University of Chicago
  • Danielle Rosen, Lecturer/Post-MFA Fellow, University of Chicago
  • Paul Somers, Lecturer/Post-MFA Fellow and Adjuct Professor, University of Chicago and College of Lake County