Anthony Guerriero, 1999

Currently ›› Senior Community and Federal Relations Representative, Office of Government and Community Affairs, Massachusetts Port Authority and Visiting Instructor, History Department, Salem State College.

M.A. Project ›› “Understanding Jackie Robinson and the Racial Integration of Major League Baseball, 1896-1964”

The AMST M.A. ›› …taught me how to do research by gathering multiple forms of information, and opened my eyes to the needs and ideologies of others, which has been extremely helpful during my career in public service.

Currently ›› Founder of Ashmont Media, a public relations company focused on media, government and community relations and co-owner of Ashmont Records, a record and book imprint [photo courtesy of BMI]

M.A. Project ›› “The Day My Mama Socked it to the Harper Valley PTA: Country Music Womanhood in the Second Wave of Feminism”

The AMST M.A. ›› …taught me cultural literacy and historical context, which has been important in my writing about the arts and pitching stories to the media. I tell students who are working towards careers in public relations or the music business that I think a liberal arts education is preferable to a business education.

Currently ›› PhD in American Studies, Boston University, 2007; Part time Lecturer in American Studies at University of Massachusetts Boston and in History and Literature at Harvard University

M.A. Project ›› “Yiddishe Springtime: Einstein Enters US Popular Culture, 1919-1924”

The AMST M.A. ›› …offered a combination of brilliant faculty, cohesive course requirements, academic rigor, and intellectual community which taught me how to produce scholarly work, to read historically, and to teach effectively in heterogeneous undergraduate classrooms.

Sing Vivathana Perron, 2002

Currently ›› Education and Enrichment Co-ordinator at a pediatric clinic for low-income families in Manchester, NH

M.A. Project ›› “Live Free or Die: Lao American Refugees Negotiate Identity, Race, and Citizenship in Southeastern New Hampshire—An Oral History”

The AMST M.A. ›› …reconnected me with my cultural heritage and taught me how we, as global citizens, can contribute more meaningfully to our communities and to our countries.

Currently ›› History teacher, Plymouth North High School, Plymouth MA

M.A. Project ›› “The Hidden Industrial History of Plymouth, MA: A Curriculum for High School Students at the Plymouth Public High Schools”

The AMST M.A. ›› …gave me a new perspective on teaching history. With an emphasis on primary sources and listening to ordinary people, it opened my eyes to innovative teaching methodologies and taught me how to use local sources to make history come alive for my students.

Currently ›› Professor of Foreign Languages at Hanoi University of Technology and  doctoral student in Higher Education Leadership in the Graduate School of Education, UMass Boston

M.A. Project ›› “Women Administrators in US Higher Education, 1970-2003”

The AMST M.A. ›› …gave me the intellectual tools to be a “change agent” at Hanoi University of Technology in Vietnam