Alumni Highlights
Career Possibilities 
American Studies majors go on to careers in fields such as business, law, college and secondary teaching, government, journalism, medicine and museum archive work.
Barry Rauhauser
A former Penn State York student, Barry Rauhauser, started American Studies at Penn State York and then finished at another Penn State location. He went on to win one of the ten annual prestigious Winterthur Master's Degree Fellowships that are administrated jointly by the University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum and Library. He is currently serving as the curator of collections at the Lancaster County Historical Society.