History

Our Alumni

Explore This Section

Prospective Students

Department History

Faculty and Staff Our Students Our Alumni Emeriti Professors Contact Us

Department Overview History Major History Minor Interdisciplinary Majors and Minors Guidelines for Coursework from Other Institutions

Curriculum Overview Course Grid Thematic Fields Course Designations

Prospective Students

The Capstone Experience Research Funding Awards and Honors Resources for Research and Writing Phi Alpha Theta American Historical Association Undergraduate Journals

News & Events

Department History

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:

World Cloud Alumni

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 20^th 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.

show all / hide all

Alumni

History Majors:
Ethan Castette
Jeremy Jarecki
Will Myers
Mohan Raghunath
Felipe Singer
Emma Snow
History Minors:
Will Anderson
Jacob Aldrich
Cassidy Schnaufer
Diego Martinez
Ely Dickson
Tobin Spiller
Eliza Blanning
Rex Karjian
Talia Cardin
Alison Mueller-Hickler
Dre Kocmur
History/Philosophy Majors:
Kwynne Blaivas
Brooks Hainen
Aden Katz
Willa Schendler
Robert Thomis
History/Political Science Majors:
Felix Battle
Ady Bolinger
Evan Cote
Luke Donaldson-Reid
Ashley Entwistle
Ella Fritz
Aiden McLean
Mila Naumovska
Grant Thompson
Zoe Williamson
Classics/History/Politics Majors:
Andrew Schreiner

History Majors:
Hailee Brooks-Kistler
Jay Byron
Jackson Hammock
Fiona Ireland
Katie Leton
Henry Wiener
Ryan Wyly
Arez Khidr
History Minors:
Molly Widlund
Zoe Smith
Andreas Bach
Ben Dubinsky
Dylan Kerrane
Georgia Rankin
Isaac Fayram
Kiko Dominguez
History/Philosophy Majors:
Alexix Cao
Margalit Goldberg
Emily Newhall
Sam Nystrom Costales
History/Political Science Majors:
Maggie Aslanian
Katherine Derdzinski
Robert Gluck
Britt Helgaas
Gabby Rogan
Sam Schwartz
Toby Shapiro
Henry Shenk
Classics/History/Politics Majors:
Grace Baer

History Majors:
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
History Minors:
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
History/Philosophy Majors:
Charles Stacey
History/Political Science Majors:
Chloe Fontenelle
Jonny Gamble
Emma Logan
Owen Mulqueen
Classics/History/Politics Majors:
Katherine Granberry
Kate Wang

History Majors:
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
History Minors:
Mazlyn Freier
A.J. Saliman
Chris Sznip
Claire Schwartz
George Schlesinger
Joseph Dryer
Kate Seelert
Luke Daly
Moses Solomon
History/Philosophy Majors:
Star Goudriaan
History/Political Science Majors:
Isabel Alter
Grace Wade-Stein

History Majors:
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
History Minors:
Ayden Georgi
Ben Lukasiewicz
Elise Chigier
Greg Schmitt
Kel Felton
Liza Roe
Reese Gawronski
Ryan Freedman
Schuyler Luthy
Tommy Yu
Sarah Stamp
History/Political Science Majors:
Jolie Curran
Samson Heyer
Daniela Macias
Maggie Shields

History Majors:
Charlotte Atkins
Nate Blower
Hannah Cianci
Hub Hejna
Hanna Ioffe
Hope Moodey
Brice Tucker
Christiano Versich
History Minors:
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
History/Philosophy Majors:
Danny Corrigan
Ellen Loucks
Jacob Roschelle
History/Political Science Majors:
Chelsea Barrett
Ian Chalmers
Nell Dickey
Arielle Gordon
Taylor Hawkins
Olivia Rask

History Majors:
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
History Minors:
Shelby Patrick
Anthony Rodriguez-Ruiz
Elias Asher
Margot Flynn
Marguerite Spaethling
Mike Heinonen
History/Philosophy Majors:
Benedict Wright
History/Political Science Majors:
Kate DeFrino
David Henderson
Gabriel McGill
Classics/History/Politics Majors:
Ian O'Shaughnessy

History Majors:
Will Bemis
Charlie Britton
Jake Chase
Jasper Coulter
Truett Davis
Hailey Dennis
Otis Hatfield
Ben Israel
Abe Lahr
Westin Michaud
Fleur Pellet
Ricky Yates
History Minors:
Claire Derry
Aidan Franko
Anna Stern
Charles Shorb
Jake Golbus
Kevin Merrigan
Michael Hasson
Myca Steffey-Bean
Noah Gaby
Peyton Tich
Sam Fesshaie
History/Philosophy Majors:
Jackie Bonasia
Sara Fleming
History/Political Science Majors:
Teddy Adams
Ray Barrie-Kivel
Folke Egerstrom
William Kim
Catherine Luchars
Jaysha Schwindt
Maximilian Vivado
Yizheng Wang

History Majors:
Samuel Andrew
Bobby Clements
Madeleine Engel
Mateo Gospic
Valerie Hanna
Connor Hartnett
Clara Houghteling
Eviva Kahne
Will MacEwen
Duncan Phelps
Luis Quiles
Matt Quinlisk
History Minors:
Shelly Cheng
Mark Foreman
Ian Carey
Marty Gaspar
Miranda Einhorn
Sarah Reeve
Will Edwards
History/Philosophy Majors:
Isaac Rubinstein
History/Political Science Majors:
Topher Birtch
Aaron Blinderman
Peyton Harvey
Stephanie Kelly
Lev Marcus
Rachael Maxwell
Sandor Teleki
Mostafa Zaki-Taha
Classics/History/Politics Majors:
Brittany Camacho

History Majors:
Samuel Andrew
Bobby Clements
Madeleine Engel
Mateo Gospic
Valerie Hanna
Connor Hartnett
Clara Houghteling
Eviva Kahne
Will MacEwen
Duncan Phelps
Luis Quiles
Matt Quinlisk
History Minors:
Annie Wells
Alicia Danielsen
Brigid Connelly
Desmond Kelly
Ezra Coopersmith
Marcel Havasi
Michael Sorensen
Nick Erly
Sam Hale
Samuel Rothstein
History/Philosophy Majors:
Ryan Dinneen
Patrick Glastonbury
Drew Turley
Stephen Weinberger
History/Political Science Majors:
Livia Abuls
Ellen Atkinson
Olivia Foster
Abby Gore
Abe Mamet
Lucy Marshall
Julian Neylan
Griffin Noyer
Bryn Prater
Jane Radecki
Taylor Wright
Classics/History/Politics Majors:
Robbie Adler
Maddie Cahill-Sanidas
Claudia Harrison

History Majors:
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
History Minors:

Peter Maric

History/Political Science Majors:

Ian Adams

Chris Bull

Kris Grant

Sergio Portesan

Alta Viscomi

History Majors:
Cynthia Ambriz
Eve Babcock
James Bartels
Jordan DiGiando
Walt Dubensky
Patrick Lapera
Courtney Lockwood
Caitlyn McCarty
Andres Ramirez

History/Political Science Majors:

Nic Anderson

Jessie Ayers

Sarah Hupper

Ryan Kel

Erik Laitos

Daniel Levitt

Charlie Reynolds

show all / hide all

History Alumni in the News:

New Elective Class Helping Students Better Understand Black History

At Rhizome, French horn player Abe Mamet Anchors a Wonderful Jazz Quartet

Teaching Genocides with Lauren Harris and Stephanie Reid - Visions of Education

AHA Member Spotlight: Pamela Riney Kehrberg

Want to be featured? Send your stories to Jane Murphy (jmurphy@coloradocollege.edu)

History News

History Majors Find ‘Magic’ in Chicago Archives

Heyer wins Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Algeria

Grace Andrews ’22 Garners Teach for America Position

Paul Adler Publishes Book on Globalization and Activism

Ben Gellman ’22, Deksyos Damtew ’22 Projects for Peace Winners

Intimacy, At a Distance – Class Touches on History of Sexual Roles and Practices

Professor Amy Kohout Awarded Fellowship for Work on Book

Report an issue - Last updated: 10/08/2026

Site Tools

Audience Portals

Our Alumni