Charles Calcaterra graduated with a major in History and minor in International Relations in 2021. He is now the Group Tours and Program Sales Coordinator at the Detroit Historical Society. He earned a master’s degree in History and a Graduate Certificate in Historic Preservation from Eastern Michigan University in 2024.

Allison Lemley graduated with a major in English and Education and a History Teaching minor. She won the Quirinus Breen Prize in 2015. Allison just completed her dissertation entitled “’Shows, Pageants, and Sights of Honour’: History, Memory, and the Use of Spectacle in William Shakespeare’s and John Fletcher’s King Henry VIII” at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. On April 6, 2026, the History Department sponsored a public lecture she delivered—“Reconstructing Shakespeare’s Globe: History and Memory.” She is currently a lecturer with the chair of English Literature at the University of Bam- berg in Germany.

After graduating from GVSU with a major in Group Social Studies, Jamie Pleyte taught English in Korea for four years. She then transitioned to teaching at international schools for the next eleven years in China, the Philippines and Poland where she taught, Social Studies, English as a Second Language, Design and Physical Education / Health to middle schoolers from all over the world. She is currently Assistant Director of Study Abroad and International Partnerships at the Padnos International Center.