What do our history graduates do after leaving Truman? Here is a partial listing. Please send additions, corrections, and updates to marc@truman.edu.

Gabe Baker (May 2008) will enter the Ph.D. program in ancient history at the University of Iowa with a five year aid package.

Kristen Clements (May 2008) is going into the Peace Corps in Central Asia after her May graduation.

Adrien Keables (May 2008) will be working as a guide at Glacier National Park during the summer 2008, and then has an internship at Fort Sumter for 2008-2009.

Amanda Klaus (BA May 2008) has been admitted to Master's of Museum Studies Program of UMSL. She has actually been admitted to other programs, too, but this one is the one she wants--connected with St. Louis Art Museum, etc.

Thomas Lecaque (May 2008) will enter the MA program in English at Truman, teaching writing as a GTRA. He plans to pursue medieval studies (Old English, Old and Middle French, etc.), eventually in a Ph.D. program.

Keith Watson (May 2008) will be at Ellis Island during the summer of 2008.

Tim Gerhart (2007) is studying at the School of International Service at American University.

Travis Sewell (December 2007) is studying for an MA in United States History at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Dan DuBois (2007) has accepted admission into the University of Colorado’s PhD program. He has been awarded a $10,000 fellowship for his first year of study, and received a ‘virtual’ guarantee of full funding after the first year.

Ryan Lewis (2007) received a graduate assistantship/fellowship offer from the University of Maryland, School of Public Policy. His concentration is International Security and Economic policy with a focus on US/Middle Eastern affairs.

Adam Sundberg (2007) will begin to study environmental history at the University of Kansas in the fall of 2008. He will study Dutch colonial environmental history under Gregory Cushman. Donald Worster offered him a joint teaching assistantship/research assistantship.

Matthew Bausch (MA 2006, BS/BA 1996) is a Major in the US Army 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart GA.

Stephen C. Blake (2006) is a sixth-grade Social Studies teacher in the Fort Zumwalt school district in O'Fallon, MO, introducing students to the wonderful world of Geography.  He is close to finishing up his Masters degree in Education and plans to go on for his P.H.D. in the next few years.

David Kreidler (2006) worked at the Jesse James Farm in Kearney for several years prior to graduating from Truman and was a Truman Presidential Museum and Library Intern in 2005.  During the summer of 2004, he attended the Southeast Missouri Historical Preservation Field School.  He is currently working on his Masters in Museum Studies at the Cooperstown Graduate Program, in Cooperstown, New York and will graduate in 2009.

Greg Mueller (2006) will attend the University of San Francisco law school in the fall 2008.

Eric Paden (2006) who has been coaching swimming at TSU was admitted to MA History program at UMKC.

Will Tollerton (2006) is a temporary federal technician at the the Missouri Museum of Military History on the Ike Skelton national guard base outside Jefferson City, MO.

Becky Vice Showmaker (2006) in Fall 2007 began studies for the Ph.D. in History at the University of Missouri.

Veronica Ory (2005) is earning an M.A. in the Hagley Museum graduate studies program at University of Delaware. She received the Hagley graduate fellowship: tuition remission, a $12,200 stipend per year, free access to the Hagley Museum and Library and other museums in the area, money for travel, a half-time teaching assistanceship.

Alyssa Warrick (2005) worked with the National Park Service on Ellis Island between her junior and senior year at Truman, and in spring 2006 was working as a Park Guide at the Central High School National Historic Site in Little Rock, Arkansas. In August 2008, she will attend Mississippi State University with a GTA.

Greg Brenner (2004) has taught in inner-city Kansas City since 2004. He writes that last year he was the prom sponsor and co-sponsor of student council. For the effort he was voted as "Teacher of the Year." During the summer he attended the Presidential Academy, sponsored by Ashland University. It's a program for social studies that takes one social studies teacher from each state, sends them to Philadelphia, Gettysburg, and Wash. D.C. to see the sites, read great history books, and here lectures from historians who wrote them. He met and heard lectures from Bob Dole, Lamar Alexander, Gordon Lloyd (who put together teachingamericanhistory.org), Alan Guelzo (great Lincoln historian), David Hackett Fischer (Washington's Crossing), Juan Williams (Eyes on the Prize), and to top it off James MacPherson, who gave them a six-hour tour of Gettysburg. 

James Mark Leslie (2004) has entered the History Ph.D. program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has been awarded a multi-year fellowship. He is interested in religion in the early United States, circa 1780-1840. He gave a paper "Not Just Pawns in Their Game: Performance, Positioning, and Authority in Edenton, North Carolina's Churches, 1759-1831," at the North Carolina Graduate History Student Conference, February 25, 2006.

Andrew Blandford (May 2003) spent a couple years in Honduras with Peace Corps and then entered Harvard Law School.

Jeromy Cannon (2003) is in the Honors Program at Valparaiso Law School, which includes a three-year full scholarship, including an annual $5,000 stipend; a special writing and research program during the first year; a "Great Books in the Law" seminar in the second year; and individual work with faculty, lawyers, or judges in the third year. He recently wrote to me that studying History at Truman "has allowed me to develop as a writer and critical thinker through the small class size and faculty emphasis on clear and persuasive writing from a critical analysis of the issues. This preparation has been very valuable in law school because such clear, logical thinking and writing is an absolute must. Also, the availability of faculty to talk to students allowed me to develop interpersonal communication skills in relation to the difficult and complex issues of history. Similarly, this has helped me in law school as relating the issues of the law to colleagues is an everyday skill and task. [sic]"

Cassie Clements (2003) received a full tuition scholarship from Portland State University and is completing an M.S. in Economics in Portland, OR.  She is employed as a Credit Analyst with Bay Bank and enjoys riding bikes and microbrews in her spare time.

Bland Ford (2003) is studying at Harvard Law School and spending 2-3 years in the peace corp in Honduras.

Elana Jakel (2003) is working on a Ph.D. in Russian History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and has been given a four-year scholarship. In 2007, she was awarded an IREX grant to do an academic year's dissertation research in Ukraine.

Matt McDuff (2003; MAE History, 2005?) in Fall 2007 began studying for a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Connecticut with a full fellowship. Before that, he taught two years at the Wind River (Arapahoe) Reservation High School.

Emily Weidhaas (2003) is working with Americorps in St. Louis.

Andrew Holmes (2002) served a few years in the Peace Corps in Kazakhstan. Currently he is in the MBA program at University of Chicago.

Angela Ligouri (2002) is attending the University of Notre Dame Law School, and in 2004 was article editor of the Notre Dame Law Review.

Christina Miller (2002) began (Fall 2005) the Masters program in Archival Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Ryan Koonce (2001) earned an M.A. in documentary film at Emerson in Boston, and in June 2007 was working for the Library of Congress Recorded Sound Division.

Derek Mallett (MA 2001) is completing a dissertation at Texas A&M University, "Hitler's Generals in America: U.S. National Security and the Evolution of Prisoner of War Policy." His MA Thesis at Truman, advised by Prof Hanley, was "'They Were Just People Like We Were': World War II German Prisoners of War in Missouri." After Truman, Derek worked for two years as Coordinator of Graduate Admissions and Recruitment at Missouri State University in Springfield. In 2008, he holds a Dissertation Fellowship from the German Historical Institute.

Meredith Boyt (2000) went to Columbia University's graduate program in Education, received a $7,000 scholarship.

Charles Eblen (2000) went to Columbia Law School.

Charles Foster (2000) went to study Divinity at Oral Roberts University.

David Pennington (2000) planned to attend Washington University graduate school.

Robin Summers (2000) went to study Law at George Washington University.

Angela Ernst, Washington and Lee University, law.

David Newland (200_). Is finishing the MA in History at Truman, and works for the National Park Service at Isle Royale National Park, Lake Superior, in the Cultural Resource Division. He has worked on various projects including a study of the history of land acquisition on the island, photography of historic buildings and artifacts, archeological digs, and environmental compliance for construction projects.

Ryan Kincaid (1998) acted in theaters in Los Angeles and more recently in Chicago, where he plans to pursue a master's in library science. David Low (2003) is finishing a year in Germany with a Fulbright Teaching Award. He plans to pursue a Ph.D. in German Studies.

Sean Carney (1997?) has the J.D. from University of Chicago, and now works for a big Chicago law firm.

Ben Jewell (1997?) earned an MAE at Truman and as of 2001 was teaching in Kansas City.

Casey Kusiak (BS 1996, MA 2002) is working at the Saint Louis Science Center as a gallery lead and getting masters degree number two from SIUE in
instructional design and learning technology.  He is either going to pursue a PhD in interactive education or do instructional design in the private sector.

Adam Marchand (1995) has an MA in African History from Yale, and now organizes the clerical unions there. They recently settled a very important strike.

Jeff Krajewski (1993) obtained a JD from DePaul University College of Law in 1996.

Malcolm Ringo (1993) teaches English as Foreign Language at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. Lori Schwartz is attending graduate school at the University of South Carolina, earning a Ph.D. in History and Library Sciences

John Thompson (1991?) had the MA in Latin American Studies, and MBA from University of Chicago. He currently lives in Chicago and works in international insurance-finance.

Jaimee Conley began a law program at University of Missouri in 2006. She wrote in February 2007 that "Every day demands my attention and best effort. My professors are fantastic and I'm thriving in such a challenging environment. More than ever, I'm thankful for my experiences at Truman because I really think they prepared me well for the next step. A lot of students were completely overwhelmed by the reading load, but thanks to my history professors at Truman, it was nothing new to me!"

Petra DeWitt earned her Ph.D. in History at the University of Missouri in December 2005.

Brian Malone, University of Missouri, Law.

Anna K. Thompson, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, history.