Some of our graduates have gone on to:
- Attain PhD’s and become university professors
- Work for historical commissions, arts alliances, museums, and libraries
- Teach English or Social Science in public high schools
- Serve as school counselors, principals and State Officials in the education field
- Serve the Department of Labor, in the Social Security Department
- Practice law or medicine; one is in the CIA
- Hold positions in banking, real estate insurance, and sales and management
- Work for historical commissions, arts alliances, museums, and libraries
- Serve the community as social workers, paralegals, political campaign coordinators, urban planners, entrepreneurs and business owners
- Work for advertising agencies and public relations firms, and to make impressions on society as screenwriters and professional musicians
With this in mind, the real question is:
“What can’t you do with an American Studies degree?”
RECENT GRADUATES IN AMERICAN STUDIES
(SELECTED JOB TITLES)
LAW
Attorney at Law
Public Defender
Trustee, The University of Alabama System
Education
Director, External Affairs and Development, College of Engineering
Counselor, Mesquite (TX) Middle School
Principal, Patterson Elementary School (Houston, TX)
Instructor, School of Social Work
Assistant Director, Hayworth College (NC)
Senior Assistant to the President for Development, Georgetown (KY) College
Tennis Coach, Oberlin (OH) College
Program Specialist II, School of Education (UAB)
Museums
Assistant Manager of Museum Sales, Monticello
Museum Consultant, Arkansas Department of Parks & Tourism
Public Relations Specialist, Babe Ruth Museum
Libraries
Curator of the F.S. McKnight Photographic Collection and Director of the Evans Memorial
Library, Aberdeen, MS
Special Collections Librarian
Assistant Acquisitions Librarian
Library Assistant
Media/newspapers/Publishing
Manager, Public Television Information
Production Manager, Center for Public Television
Author, Remember September (Romance Thriller)
Author, Adam Sandler: Not Too Shabby (Juvenile Biography)
Popular Music Critic, Tampa (FL) Tribune
Real Estate Editor, Lexington (KY) Herald-Leader
Account Executive, Litho Publishing Company
Not For Profit Organizations
Programs Director, Arts Alliance of Jackson & Hines Co. (MS)
Community Celebration and Documentation Coordinator, Alabama Rural Services
Educational Programmer, Smithsonian Institution Associates
Development Officer, University of Mississippi Press
Demonstrator, Cajun Folklife Festival (Lafayette, LA)
Public Relations Specialist, Campfire Girls of America
Director of Rural Services
Executive Director, Jessie Ball DuPont Fund
Business
Inside Sales Manager, Pacesetter Steel (Atlanta)
Office Coordinator, Apple One Employment Services
Website Developer, Montgomery (AL) Advertising Agency
Park Leadership Trainee, Universal Studios (Japan)
Director, Target Marketing (Advanta Insurance)
Assistant Inventory Analyst, Purchasing/Inventory (Levenger’s)
Marketing Analyst, Pulte Homes of Texas, L.P.
President, The Godwin Group (Advertising and Public Relations—Jackson, MS)
GOVERNMENT
Public Health Counselor, State of Pennsylvania
Wage and Hour Investigator, U.S. Department of Labor
Architectural Historian, Office of Archaeological Services (AL)
Section 106 Coordinator, Alabama Historical Commission
Press Secretary, Alabama 7th Congressional District
