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What can you do with an American Studies degree?

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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

RECENT GRADUATES IN AMERICAN STUDIES(SELECTED JOB TITLES)

LAW