Graduate Alumni Spotlight: Adam Shprintzen

Dr. Adam Shrprintzen graduate from Loyola University of Chicago with distinction in 2011. His studies while attending focused on nineteenth-century America. Dr. Shprintzen published his first book in 2013 titled The Vegetarian Crusade: The Rise of American Reform Movement 1817-1921 through the University of North Caroline Press. The book grew from his dissertation at Loyola which earned him a dissertation award at graduation.

After Loyola, he went on to serve as Digital and Archival Historian at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Student of George Washington at Mount Vernon, where he managed digital history projects as well as the institution’s archival holdings. He was recently hired to work at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania as an Assistant Professor in their History Department.