Our Graduates

Harvard’s PhDs enter tenure-track jobs at almost three times the national average for programs in American Studies. Our recent graduates teach at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, Harvard Law School, the University of California-Irvine, Tufts University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Virginia, the University of Connecticut, Vassar College, Rutgers University, Dartmouth College, Boston College, Bard, CUNY Queens College, and elsewhere.

Our students regularly win top fellowships and postdocs including from the Fulbright Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Smithsonian, and many others. Beyond the academy, our graduates become museum curators, editors, directors of grants, ministers, and more.

Our graduates publish books and other works that win top honors, including Pulitzer Prizes, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Across the United States and around the world, Harvard American Studies graduates are shaping conversations about the American past and the global future, the relationship between the stories we tell and the world we co-create, who we are and who we can become.

Placements upon Graduation