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.

Resources for Alumni

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

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"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

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Alumni Books

Emily Greene Balch: The Long Road to Internationalism

December 2, 2010

Kristen Gwinn, PhD ’08, delivers this first scholarly biography of Emily Greene Balch, a well-known American academic and cofounder of Boston's first settlement house. Balch was an important...

The Rise and Fall of Theological Enlightenment: Jean-Martin de Prades and Ideological Polarization in Eighteenth-Century France

May 1, 2010

Jeffrey D. Burson, PhD ’06, analyzes the history of the French Enlightenment and its relationship to the French Revolution by casting it as a diverse constellation of Theological Enlightenment...

Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War

April 2, 2010

In this groundbreaking medical history, Andrew McIlwaine Bell, PhD ’07, explores the impact of two terrifying mosquito-borne maladies on the major political and military events of the 1860s,...