Our Alumni
About our Alumni
Alumni in Academics:
A history degree at Colorado College helps prepare you to pursue a graduate degree not only in history, but in a number of fields. Our program, which emphasizes critical thinking, archival research, and academic writing helps develop skills that are transferable across the academic world.
According to our 2021-2022 Alumni Survey, 17.6% of our alumni who go to graduate school study history, 15.8% study law, and 15.2% study education.
Alumni in the Professional World:
Our alumni go on to find success in a number of different fields and careers. Some dedicate their lives to history, while others branch out into other fields. Regardless, our Alumni agree that the critical thinking, research, analytical, and writing skills they learn as history majors help them succeed in their chosen professions. The nuanced and diverse worldview that a study of history fosters stays with them forever.
Our alumni go on to careers such as:
According to our 2021-2022 Alumni Survey, 8.5% of our alumni end up working in history, 5.6% work in education, 1.6% work in law, and 7.2% work in other history adjacent fields.
Featured Alumni
Pamela Riney-Kehrberg graduated in 1985, and pursued graduate study in history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned her MA in 1986, and PhD in 1991. From 1991-2000, she taught at Illinois State University. Since 2000, she has taught at Iowa State University. She teaches a number of different classes, but her favorites are America Eats (a food history class) and the US in the 20th Century, 1900-1945. She also regularly works with graduate students. She has supervised 25 master’s students, and 20 PhD students. She is the editor or author of six books. Her seventh, When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s, is due out in the summer of 2022. She is a Fellow of the Agricultural History Society, and a Distinguished Professor – the first ever in Iowa State’s History Department. She lives in Ames, Iowa, with her husband, son, and two cats.
Lauren McArthur Harris (’91) is an Associate Professor of History Education at Arizona State University. After graduation (and a few years skiing in the Colorado mountains), Lauren taught high school history in Arlington, VA. She then earned her PhD in Educational Studies, with emphasis on history/social studies education, at the University of Michigan. Lauren teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in ASU’s history department and the Teachers College, mainly centered on preparing secondary history teachers. She is the co-editor of two books, The Wiley Handbook of History Teaching and Learning (Wiley Blackwell, 2018) and the forthcoming Teaching Difficult Histories in Difficult Times: Stories of Practice (Teachers College Press, 2022). Lauren enjoys hiking, biking, and running with her family in the Arizona desert and mountains
I graduated from CC in December 2004. I received my Master's in Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. After getting my master's degree, I moved to Montreal, Canada and worked as a liaison librarian at McGill University. After that, I took a position as a law librarian at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia, eventually moving to a position as a librarian at the university's Centre for Education Futures. After several years living in Japan, I returned to Montreal in 2021 to take the position of Instructional Services Coordinator at the Concordia University Library.
My publications are here: https://concordia.academia.edu/MeganFitzgibbons
I graduated from CC in 2008, and the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 2014. In between, I was a ski bum in Durango, CO and Salt Lake City, UT. Since 2014, I have practiced law, specializing in cannabis law, criminal defense, small and start-up businesses, estate planning and benefit plans, and most recently blockchain technologies. I currently operate my own small firm and am also of counsel at The Eichner Law Firm and The Rodman Law Group. In 2019 I served as Chair of the Colorado Bar Association Cannabis Law Section, a cannabis-centric group of attorneys that I helped to found. My law practice is nontraditional in nature, both in subjects and schedule, and the block plan definitely helped me to forge such a unique path. I live in Lakewood, CO with my wife Ruth, who is also a CC history grad, and our dog Zeb.
I graduated from The Colorado College in 2004 with a major in History/Philosophy. After CC, I worked as a ski instructor, did some traveling, and then started my teaching career with a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Texas State University. I got interested in civic engagement strategies for teaching US History and made that the focus of a Ph.D. in social studies education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
In 2013 I joined the faculty at Salisbury University in Maryland. I’m now an associate professor, mostly teaching undergraduate courses in social studies education. I’m also the Director of the Institute for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement, a campus-wide office focused on political and community engagement. I won an endowed professorship from the University System of Maryland in 2018 for my work leading campus/community partnerships like the Center for Civic Reflection and our ShoreCorps/AmeriCorps program.
I’ve also become increasingly interested in Holocaust education, and the ways that people use the Holocaust as a proxy for talking about how people should behave in a democracy. I’ve completed fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC and Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights in New York. Since 2015 I’ve led a seminar on Holocaust education, which eventually contributed to my first book, On Becoming a Holocaust Education: Purposeful Pedagogy through Inquiry, released this October by Teachers College Press and the National Writing Project.
My amazing wife (Kat Chapman Pope, ’04) coordinates missing person’s operations for the mid-Atlantic region. My inspiring daughter is a voraciously-reading fifth grader. My rollicking son is a fierce soccer playing second grader. We would all prefer to be at the beach.
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Alumni: History Majors
2025
Hailee Brooks-Kistler
Jay Byron
Jackson Hammock
Fiona Ireland
Katie Leton
Henry Wiener
Ryan Wyly
Arez Khidr
2024
Delia Barnett
Greer Bleyl
Olivia Garg
Katey Grealish
Gabriel Hao
Rob Hudson
Lydia Hussain
Red Mayhew
Owen Smith
Alex Weiss
Emmie Weprin
Hongli Zeng
Oliver Kendall
Nick Bishop
2023
Nick Connolly
Will Floyd
Adrianna Gautreaux
Juanye' Hairston
Maggie Hughes
Anil Jergens
Sophie Jones
Payton Jung
Noah Kahler
Cormac Mccrimmon
Matthew Miramontes
Jacob Moore
Destiny Rhoades
Matthew Silverman
Story Wolf-Tinsman
Julia Staat
2022
Grace Andrews
Yordi Biratu
Joey Brasch
Sabrina Brewer
Sarah Burnham
Javier Cantu
Mahea Daniels
Will Funk
Ben Gellman
Jane Harris
Chili Hopkins
Patrick McGinnis
Henry Nichols
Aaron Pachtman
Christian Roberts
Caroline Sharp
Alex Wuthrich
Turis Jessen
Scott Cunningham
2021
Charlotte Atkins
Nate Blower
Hannah Cianci
Hub Hejna
Hanna Ioffe
Hope Moodey
Brice Tucker
Christiano Versich
2020
Alexander Berardinelli
Molly Dunn
Silas Farwell-Mead
Daniel Feder-Johnson
Lily Fitzpatrick
Caitlin Laurence
Bella Lawrence
Mary Kate Maloney
Connor Nolan
Robert Schilling
Chris Wilkie
2019
Will Bemis
Charlie Britton
Jake Chase
Jasper Coulter
Truett Davis
Hailey Dennis
Otis Hatfield
Ben Israel
Abe Lahr
Westin Michaud
Fleur Pellet
Ricky Yates
2018
Samuel Andrew
Bobby Clements
Madeleine Engel
Mateo Gospic
Valerie Hanna
Connor Hartnett
Clara Houghteling
Eviva Kahne
Will MacEwen
Duncan Phelps
Luis Quiles
Matt Quinlisk
2017
Alison Bemis
Daniel Kaneb
Henry Molner
Charlie Pasciucco
Thaddeus Pryor
Natasha Riveron
Lucas Gerdes
2016
Kian Alden
Elizabeth Colby
Piroska Csapo
Siena Faughnan
Chris Graves
Kaimara Herron-July
Ryan Huettel
Lee Junkin
Ben Kern
Chase Murphy
Danny Norton
Jamie Peng
Jacob Rockwell
Jake Rothman
Jamie Sarafan
Charlie Simon
Sarah Tatum
Jonathan Wenegieme
2015
Cynthia Ambriz
Eve Babcock
James Bartels
Jordan DiGiando
Walt Dubensky
Patrick Lapera
Courtney Lockwood
Caitlyn McCarty
Andres Ramirez
Alumni: History Minors
2025
Molly Widlund
Zoe Smith
Andreas Bach
Ben Dubinsky
Dylan Kerrane
Georgia Rankin
Isaac Fayram
Kiko Dominguez
2024
Aidan Santos
Anna-Rose Burkett
Ben Anastos
Bridget Hanley
Dani Bohart
Ellen Flannery
Emma Bartholomay
Jack Delafield
Jeremy Cashion
Wes Gierkink
Sangay Mingyur
Peyton Marshak
2023
Mazlyn Freier
A.J. Saliman
Chris Sznip
Claire Schwartz
George Schlesinger
Joseph Dryer
Kate Seelert
Luke Daly
Moses Solomon
2022
Ayden Georgi
Ben Lukasiewicz
Elise Chigier
Greg Schmitt
Kel Felton
Liza Roe
Reese Gawronski
Ryan Freedman
Schuyler Luthy
Tommy Yu
Sarah Stamp
2021
Miles Montgomery
Allie Freeburg
Berry Phillips
Claire Rosenberg
Edmund Karmin
Eloise Kelly
Emily Miner
Felix Zhu
Josephine Stevens
Kelly Yue
Kyler Deshpande
Perry Lum
Will Mallory
2020
Shelby Patrick
Anthony Rodriguez-Ruiz
Elias Asher
Margot Flynn
Marguerite Spaethling
Mike Heinonen
2019
Claire Derry
Aidan Franko
Anna Stern
Charles Shorb
Jake Golbus
Kevin Merrigan
Michael Hasson
Myca Steffey-Bean
Noah Gaby
Peyton Tich
Sam Fesshaie
2018
Shelly Cheng
Mark Foreman
Ian Carey
Marty Gaspar
Miranda Einhorn
Sarah Reeve
Will Edwards
2017
Annie Wells
Alicia Danielsen
Brigid Connelly
Desmond Kelly
Ezra Coopersmith
Marcel Havasi
Michael Sorensen
Nick Erly
Sam Hale
Samuel Rothstein
2016
Alumni: History/Philosophy Majors
2025
Alexix Cao
Margalit Goldberg
Emily Newhall
Sam Nystrom Costales
2024
2023
2021
Danny Corrigan
Ellen Loucks
Jacob Roschelle
2020
2019
Jackie Bonasia
Sara Fleming
2018
2017
Ryan Dinneen
Patrick Glastonbury
Drew Turley
Stephen Weinberger
Alumni: History/Political Science Majors
2025
Maggie Aslanian
Katherine Derdzinski
Robert Gluck
Britt Helgaas
Gabby Rogan
Sam Schwartz
Toby Shapiro
Henry Shenk
2024
Chloe Fontenelle
Jonny Gamble
Emma Logan
Owen Mulqueen
2023
Isabel Alter
Grace Wade-Stein
2022
Jolie Curran
Samson Heyer
Daniela Macias
Maggie Shields
2021
Chelsea Barrett
Ian Chalmers
Nell Dickey
Arielle Gordon
Taylor Hawkins
Olivia Rask
2020
Kate DeFrino
David Henderson
Gabriel McGill
2019
Teddy Adams
Ray Barrie-Kivel
Folke Egerstrom
William Kim
Catherine Luchars
Jaysha Schwindt
Maximilian Vivado
Yizheng Wang
2018
Topher Birtch
Aaron Blinderman
Peyton Harvey
Stephanie Kelly
Lev Marcus
Rachael Maxwell
Sandor Teleki
Mostafa Zaki-Taha
2017
Livia Abuls
Ellen Atkinson
Olivia Foster
Abby Gore
Abe Mamet
Lucy Marshall
Julian Neylan
Griffin Noyer
Bryn Prater
Jane Radecki
Taylor Wright
2016
Ian Adams
Chris Bull
Kris Grant
Sergio Portesan
Alta Viscomi
2015
Nic Anderson
Jessie Ayers
Sarah Hupper
Ryan Kell
Erik Laitos
Daniel Levitt
Charlie Reynolds
Alumni: Classics/History/Politics Majors
2025
2024
Katherine Granberry
Kate Wang
2020
2018
2017
Robbie Adler
Maddie Cahill-Sanidas
Claudia Harrison