What types of jobs will my degree in American Studies prepare me for? What specific jobs have graduates from the American Studies program at Lehigh gotten?
Graduates from our program have gone on to further their academic careers by pursuing the PhD in such fields as English, History, Sociology, and American Studies at Penn State, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Temple, UC Irvine, York University in England, the University of Texas at Austin, St. Louis University, and Brown. A number have also decided to stay on at Lehigh to pursue the PhD in English and History. In addition to moving on to PhD programs, other students have gone on to pursue degrees in law at the College of William and Mary, Masters of Fine Arts in Media Studies at the University of Buffalo, and Masters of Library Science at the University of Chicago. Outside of academics, other students have found employment as a curator at the US Golf Association Museum in New Jersey, as an on-camera host for Fox Sports Net Southwest, as an editor at Runner’s World, as a high school history teacher, and as communications specialists at St. Luke’s Hospital here in Bethlehem, PA.
