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Alumni Updates

Look here for updates from our former M.A. and Ph.D graduates.  Please send your accomplishments to JHendrickson@niu.edu, along with your degree and graduation year.  Connect with your friends and peers from your days at Northern Illinois University.

  • Melissa Hayes (PhD 2010) won a 2011 Cromwell Fellowship from the American Society for Legal History.
  • Stacey Randall (PhD 2009) was promoted to Director of Institutional Effectiveness at Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove, IL in 2011.
  • Tom Arne Midtrod (PhD 2008) has a newly released book, "The Memory of All Ancient Customs: Native American Diplomacy in the Colonial Hudson Valley" (Cornell University Press, 2012)

    Jon Rice (PhD 1998) is working in Boston with the Freedom Trail Foundation and teaching at the University of Massachusetts, Life-Long Learning Center in fall of 2011.
  • Michael C. Hickey (NIU PhD 1993; Dept. of History, Bloomsburg University) has won the “Outstanding Reference Source Award” for 2012 from the American Library Association (Reference and User Services Association) for his book, Competing Voices from the Russian Revolution:  Fighting Words (Greenwood, 2011).   The book was also selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011.
  • Michael Haugse (MA 1991) has been named "Principal of the Year" for 2012 by the Black Hawk Region of Illinois Principal's Association. info
  • James Livingston (PhD 1980) has a newly released book, "Against Thrift: Why Consumer Culture is Good for the Economy, the Environment, and Your Soul" (Basic/Perseus, November 2011).
  • Who will be next...