Plato and Policing: Alumnus’ Unique Class for Cops
Whether he’s policing Baltimore’s streets or teaching cops in the classroom, Detective Edward Gillespie, BA ’92, emphasizes the lessons he’s learned from literature, history and philosophy.
...Alumni Outcomes
The GW Department of History is proud of its undergraduate and graduate alumni who have used their education as a springboard to successful careers in law, the military, medicine, government, nongovernmental organizations, journalism, politics and teaching. They have published books, won fellowships and taught in universities from Colorado to China.
Recent Undergraduate Alumni Employers
- ABC News
- Atomic Heritage Foundation
- Center for American Progress
- Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
- Disney ABC Television Group
- DC Public Schools
- Fox Associates
- Grassroots Campaigns
- IBM
- Japan Exchange and Teaching Program
- National History Center
- Smithsonian National Postal Museum
- U.S. House of Representatives
- The Washington Post
"Being out in the city as a cop can be such a culture shock. Literature, history and philosophy helped me through some difficult situations. ... The humanities are a window into understanding people."
Edward Gillespie
BA '92
Recent Graduate Alumni Employers
- 1% for the Planet
- California State University, Long Beach
- Constitutional Sources Project
- City College of New York
- East Tennessee State University
- Jefferson Management Consultants
- Lyngo
- Missouri University of Science and Technology
- National Archives
- National Security Archive
- Northrop Grumman
- Oklahoma State University
- Peking University High School
- Steptoe and Johnson
- Tarleton State University
- University of Amsterdam
- University of Sioux Falls
- U.S. Army
- U.S. Department of Defense
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- U.S. Department of the Interior
- Virginia Military Institute
Alumni News
The Fight and Fury of the Z-Man
Iconic photographer Michael Zagaris, BA '67, has shot rock gods and all-stars for 50 years. During his career, he’s photographed (and, in many cases, befriended) some of the biggest celebrities of...
Alumni Books
Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War
U.S. policy makers believed that the American weapons could safely compensate for technological limitations which otherwise made it difficult to destroy high flying, fast moving airplanes. In ...
Klu Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s
Klu Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s
The Uprooted: Race, Children, and Imperialism in French Indochina, 1890-1980
For over a century French officials in Indochina systematically uprooted métis children—those born of Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or Indian fathers—from their homes. The...
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