Job Placement History
The department's record in placing graduate students is very strong. Following is a list of first and second placements of recent graduates.
2025-2026
| Name | Position | Institution | Subfield |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jeongmin Park | Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow | Nuffield College, Oxford University | Comparative Politics |
| Lina Skoglund | Prize Fellow in Economics, History and Politics | Center for History and Economics at Harvard University | Comparative Politics |
| Ophelia Vedder | Assistant Professor | Washington University in St. Louis | Political Theory |
| Jacob Tucker | Postdoctoral Fellow | The Jordan Center at New York University | Comparative Politics |
| Tristan Hughes | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of British Columbia | Political Theory |
| Emily Salamanca | Postdoctoral Fellow | Stanford Civics Initiative | Political Theory |
| Elaine Yao | Assistant Professor | Washington University in St. Louis | Political Economy |
| Elly Long | Assistant Professor | University of Texas at Austin | Political Theory |
| Ze Han | Data Scientist | The World Bank | International Relations |
| Roel Bos | Postdoctoral Fellow | Copenhagen Business School | Formal Theory & Quantitative Methods |
| Reilly Steel | Associate Professor | Columbia University Law School | Public Law |
| Max Ridge | Professor of Practice | University of Houston | Political Theory |
2024-2025
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Ruggiero | Assistant Professor (2025-26) | University of Virginia |
| Sonya Chen | Assistant Professor (2025-26) | Barnard College |
| Lewis Krashinsky | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Toronto |
| Danny Daneri | Assistant Professor | Syracuse University |
| María José Urzúa Valverde | Assistant Professor | Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico |
| Anthony Taboni | Postdoctoral Fellow (2025-26) Assistant Professor (2026-27) | University of Texas at Austin |
| Alexander Gazmararian | Assistant Professor | University of Michigan |
| Heather Penatzer | Postdoctoral Research Associate | Reimagining World Order (PIIRS), Princeton University |
| Sojun Park | Postdoctoral Fellow (2025-26) Assistant Professor (2026-27) | MIT National University of Singapore, School of Public Policy |
| Robert Oldham | Assistant Professor | Agnes Scott College |
| Utku Cansu | Assistant Professor | Utah State University |
| Ephraim Shimko | Postdoctoral Fellow | ETH Zürich |
2023-2024
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Tiffany Barron | Assistant Professor | University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| Gabe Borelli | Research Associate | Pew Research Center |
| Tom Donnelly | Assistant Professor | University of Richmond, School of Law |
| Peter Giraudo | Postdoctoral Fellow | Goethe Universität Frankfurt |
| William Horne | Assistant Professor | Clemson University |
| Mohammad Isaqzadeh | Assistant Professor | Chapman University |
| Sonny Kim | Postdoctoral Fellow | Nuffield College, University of Oxford |
| Eric Manning | Postdoctoral Fellow | Data Driven Social Science Initiative, Princeton University |
| Sayumi Miyano | Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-24) Assistant Professor (Summer 2024) | Harvard University (2023-24) Osaka University (Summer 2024) |
| Jing Qian | Assistant Professor | New York University, Shanghai |
| Noam Reich | Assistant Professor | Yale University |
| Arantxa Rodriguez Uribe | Policy and Research Manager | J-PAL Europe at the Paris School of Economics |
| Xiaoxiao Shen | Postdoctoral Fellow | Yale University |
| Derek Wakefield | Postdoctoral Fellow | Emory University |
2022-2023
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Haosen Ge | Data Scientist, Wharton School | University of Pennsylvania |
| Theophile Deslauriers | Postdoctoral Fellow | Amherst College |
| Claire Willeck | Data Scientist | Netflix |
| Will Freeman | Fellow for Latin America Studies | Council on Foreign Relations |
| Zenobia Chan | Nuffield College Prize Research Fellow (2023-26) Assistant Professor (Fall 2024) | Oxford (2023-26) Georgetown (Fall 2024) |
| Jade Ngo | Product Manager | Meta |
2021-2022
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Carolyn Barnett | Assistant Professor | University of Arizona, School of Government and Public Policy and School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies |
| Fin Bauer | Appriss | |
| Gabriel Borelli | Research Associate | Pew Research Center |
| Megan Brand | Postdoctoral Fellow | Christopher Browne Center for International Politics, University of Pennsylvania |
| Stephanie Chan | Assistant Professor | Lafayette College |
| Julian Dean | Data Scientist | |
| Daniel Gibbs | Assistant Professor | Virginia Tech |
| Nathan Gibson | Postdoctoral Fellow | Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute |
| Ben Hammond | Professional Staff | U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee |
| Will Horne | Postdoctoral Fellow | Executive Approval Project, Georgia State University |
| Dela Kpo | Bain & Company | |
| Naijia Liu | Assistant Professor | Harvard University |
| Michael Pomirchy | Postdoctoral Fellow | Yale University |
| Noam Reich | Postdoctoral Fellow | NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Susanne Schwarz | Assistant Professor | Swarthmore College |
| Bailey Scott | Postdoctoral Fellow | George Washington's Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics |
| Patrick Signoret | Boston Consulting Group | |
| Gaétan Tchakounte Nandong | Assistant Professor | New York University |
| Carissa Tudor | Assistant Professor | University of Amsterdam |
2020-2021
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Shuk Ying Chan | Prize Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2021-23) Lecturer in Political Theory (2023 ) | Nuffield College, Oxford University University College London |
| John Chin` | Assistant Teaching Professor | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Daniel Gibbs | Postdoctoral Fellow | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Melinda Haas | Assistant Professor | University of Pittsburgh |
| Galileu Kim | Data Science Consultant | World Bank |
| Michael Kistner | Assistant Professor | University of Houston |
| Alexander Kustov | Assistant Professor | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| Rachael McLellan | Lecturer in Politics (tenure-track) | University of Glasgow |
| Erin Miller | Assistant Professor | University of Southern California, Gould School of Law |
| Tommaso Pavone | Assistant Professor | University of Arizona, School of Government and Public Policy |
| Andrew Proctor | Assistant Professor | Wake Forest University |
| Tanika Raychaudhuri | Assistant Professor | University of Houston |
| David Ribar | Consultant | Boston Consulting Group |
| Jose Maria Rodriguez Valadez | Postdoctoral Fellow | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
| Leah Rosenstiel | Assistant Professor | Vanderbilt University |
| James Sasso | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe | |
| Diana Stanescu | Postdoctoral Fellow | Shorenstein APARC at Stanford University |
| Daniel Tavana | Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2022 Assistant Professor, 2022 onward | Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) Pennsylvania State University |
| Carissa Tudor | Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2023 | Brown University, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs |
| Elsa Voytas | Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2022 Assistant Professor, 2022 onward | Dartmouth IE University |
2019-2020
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Baumgardner | Assistant Professor | Belmont University |
| Killian Clarke | Assistant Professor | Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service |
| Chaya Crowder | Assistant Professor | Loyola Marymount University |
| Cassandra Emmons | Postdoctoral Fellow | Harvard University, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs |
| Pavielle Haines | Assistant Professor | Rollins College |
| Dongxian Jiang | Assistant Professor | Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Fordham University-Lincoln Center |
| Korhan Kocak | Assistant Professor | NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Svetlana Kosterina | Assistant Professor | University of Pittsburgh, Department of Economics |
| Anatoly Levshin | Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer | Princeton University, PIIRS |
| Rachael McLellan | Fellow in Political Science and Public Policy | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Erin Miller | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Chicago Law School |
| Steve Monroe | Assistant Professor | Yale-NUS College |
| Saurabh Pant | Assistant Professor | University of Essex |
| Lucia Rafanelli | Assistant Professor | The George Washington University |
| Adam Thal | Research Scientist | |
| Erik H. Wang | Assistant Professor | Australian National University |
2018-2019
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Meir Alkon | Postdoctoral Fellow | Harvard University |
| Dan Berbecel | Assistant Professor | Glendon College, York University |
| Chantal Berman | Postdoctoral Fellow | Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies |
| Naoki Egami | Assistant Professor | Columbia University |
| Ted Enamorado | Assistant Professor | University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill |
| Song Ha Joo | Visiting Scholar/Lecturer | Stanford University |
| Suzie Kim | Assistant Professor | NYU, Abu Dhabi |
| Alexander Kustov | Postdoctoral Fellow | Yale University |
| Adeline Lo | Assistant Professor | University of Wisconsin Madison |
| Asya Magazinnik | Assistant Professor | MIT |
| Brandon Miller de la Cuesta | Postdoctoral Fellow | Stanford University |
| Giuliana Pardelli | Assistant Professor | NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Tommaso Pavone | Postdoctoral Fellow | PluriCourts Centre, University of Oslo |
| Andrew Proctor | President's Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Minnesota |
| Lucia Rafanelli | Research Associate | Smith Institute, Chapman University |
| Tanika Raychaudhuri | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Pennsylvania |
| Sepehr Shahshahani | Associate Professor | Fordham University School of Law |
| Sondre Solstad | Senior Data Journalist | The Economist, London |
| Aaron Tayler | Competitive Intelligence and Strategy Specialist | The Boeing Company |
| Yang-Yang Zhou | Assistant Professor | University of British Columbia |
2017-2018
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Nhung Bui | Data Scientist | |
| John DiIulio | Postdoc | James Madison Program, Princeton University |
| Romain Ferrali | Postdoc | New York University, Abu Dhabi |
| Benjamin Fifield | Research Scientist | |
| Sharan Grewal | Assistant Professor | College of William & Mary (following postdoc at Brookings) |
| Pavielle Haines | Postdoc | University of Denver |
| Brittany Holom | Researcher | Visiting Scholar Program, New York University |
| Ben Johnson | Assistant Professor | Penn State Law |
| Amanda Kennard | Assistant Professor | New York University |
| James Lee | Postdoc | European University Institute |
| Darl Lewis | Postdoc | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Lauren Mattioli | Assistant Professor | Boston University |
| Saurabh Pant | Postdoc | Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse |
| Tyler Pratt | Assistant Professor | Yale University |
| Joan Ricart-Huguet | Postdoc & Lecturer | Yale University |
| Alexander Slaski | Postdoc | Tulane University |
| Adam Thal | Postdoc | Yale University |
| Oskar Timo Thoms | Postdoc | Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada |
| Marie Alienor van den Bosch | Postdoc | Georgetown University |
| Bella Wang | Founding Data Scientist | Group Project |
| David Zuluaga Martinez | Consultant | The Boston Consulting Group |
2016-2017
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| John Chin | Postdoc | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Colby Clabaugh | Postdoc | Harvard University |
| Peter Johannessen | Postdoc | University of Notre Dame |
| Marcus Johnson | Assistant Professor | CUNY Baruch College |
| Mary Kroeger | Assistant Professor | University of Rochester |
| Katie McCabe | Assistant Professor | Rutgers University |
| Vladimir Medenica | Postdoc | University of Chicago |
| Christoph Mikulaschek | Postdoc | Harvard University |
| Elizabeth Nugent | Assistant Professor | Yale University |
| Yuki Shiraito | Assistant Professor | University of Michigan (following postdoc at Dartmouth College) |
| Geoff Sigalet | Postdoc | Stanford University |
| Vinay Sitapati | Assistant Professor | Ashoka University |
2015-2016
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Carolyn Abott | Postdoc | Ohio State University |
| Ryan Brutger | Assistant Professor | University of Pennsylvania |
| Benjamin Ewing | Visiting Assistant Professor | Duke University Law School |
| Michael Hoffman | Assistant Professor | Notre Dame University |
| Richard Jordan | Assistant Professor | Baylor University |
| Patricia Kim | Postdoc | Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program |
| Theodore Lechterman | Postdoc | Stanford University |
| Erin Lin | Assistant Professor | Ohio State University |
| Gabriel Lopez Moctezuma | Assistant Professor | CalTech (following postdoc at Yale University) |
| Kevin Mazur | Postdoc | Oxford University |
| Matthew Tokeshi | Assistant Professor | Williams College |
| Carlos Velasco Rivera | Postdoc | Institute for Advanced Studies Toulouse |
| Austin Wright | Assistant Professor | University of Chicago, School of Public Policy |
2014-2015
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Alex Acs | Assistant Professor | Ohio State University |
| Sean Beienburg | Assistant Professor | Lehigh University |
| Graeme Blair | Assistant Professor | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Alex Bolton | Postdoc | Duke University |
| M. Emilee Chapman | Assistant Professor | Stanford University |
| Yiftah Elazar | Assistant Professor | Hebrew University |
| Sarah El-Kazaz | Assistant Professor | Oberlin College |
| Paul Gardner | Postdoc | Syracuse University |
| Aram Hur | Postdoc | New York University |
| Matt Incantalupo | Visiting Assistant Professor | Haverford College |
| Raymond Kuo | Assistant Professor | Fordham University |
| Alex Lanoszka | Postdoc | Dartmouth College |
| Trevor Latimer | Postdoc | University of Georgia |
| Matthew McCoy | Postdoc | University of Pennsylvania |
| Dinsha Mistree | Postdoc | Stanford University |
| Rohan Mukherjee | Assistant Professor | Yale-NUS College |
| John Oliphant | Research Associate | Pew Research Center |
| Bryn Rosenfeld | Assistant Professor | University of Southern California |
| Alex Ruder | Assistant Professor | University of South Carolina |
| Joshua Vandiver | Visiting Assistant Professor | Williams College |
2013-2014
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Scott Abramson | Assistant Professor | University of Rochester |
| Alex Acs | Visiting Professor | American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| Michael Barber | Assistant Professor | Brigham Young University |
| Matthew Barnes | Assistant Professor | West Virginia University |
| Graeme Blair | Postdoc | Columbia University |
| Brookes Brown | Assistant Professor | Clemson University |
| Tom Dannenbaum | Lecturer (tenure track) | University College London |
| Michael Donnelly | Assistant Professor | University of Toronto |
| Loubna El Amine | Assistant Professor | Georgetown University |
| Sarah El Kazaz | Postdoc | Brandeis University |
| Yanilda Gonzalez | Postdoc | Harvard University |
| Sarah Hummel | Assistant Professor | University of Illinois |
| Chris Kendall | Assistant Professor | University of Puget Sound |
| In Song Kim | Assistant Professor | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Raymond Kuo | Assistant Professor | SUNY, Albany |
| Michael Lamb | Postdoc | University of Oxford |
| Alex Lanoszka | Postdoc | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Adam Liff | Assistant Professor | Indiana University, School of Global and International Studies |
| Michael McKoy | Assistant Professor | Wheaton College |
| Herschel Nachlis | Assistant Professor | Franklin and Marshall College |
| Steve Rogers | Assistant Professor | Saint Louis University |
| Julie Rose | Assistant Professor | Dartmouth College |
| Meredith Sadin | Postdoc | Robert Wood Johnson Health and Policy, Berkeley |
| Steve Snell | Postdoc | Duke University |
| Joshua Vandiver | Lecturer | University of Chicago |
| Meredith Wilf | Assistant Professor | University of Pittsburgh |
2012-2013
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Lamis Abdelaaty | Assistant Professor | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Michael Becher | Assistant Professor | University of Konstanz |
| Deborah Beim | Assistant Professor | Yale University |
| Peter Buisseret | Assistant Professor | University of Warwick |
| Erica Czaja | RWJF Scholar | University of California, Berkeley |
| Michael Donnelly | Postdoc | European University Institute |
| Rex Douglass | Postdoc | University of California, San Diego |
| Daniel Frost | Assistant Professor | Clemson University |
| Matteo Giglioli | Postdoc | Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris |
| Sarah Goff | Postdoc | London School of Economics |
| Alex Levitov | Postdoc | Stanford University |
| Daniel Mark | Assistant Professor | Villanova University |
| Oriana Mastro | Assistant Professor | Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service |
| Benjamin McKean | Assistant Professor | Ohio State University |
| Michael Miller | Assistant Professor | George Washington University |
| Melissa Moschella | Assistant Professor | Catholic University of America |
| Dan Myers | Assistant Professor | University of Minnesota |
| Alex Ruder | Researcher | Rutgers University |
| Sharece Thrower | Assistant Professor | University of Pittsburgh |
2011-2012
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Samuel Arnold | Assistant Professor | Texas Christian University |
| Stephen Chaudoin | Assistant Professor | University of Pittsburgh |
| Loubna El Amine | Postdoc | Yale University |
| Andrea Everett | Assistant Professor | University of Georgia |
| Sandra Field | Assistant Professor | Yale National University of Singapore College |
| Jessica Flanigan | Assistant Professor | University of Richmond |
| Shana Gadarian | Assistant Professor | Syracuse University |
| Nick Goedert | Postdoc | Washington University |
| Sarah Goff | Postdoc | Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Thomas Hale | Postdoc | University of Oxford |
| Kristin Harkness | Postdoc | University of Notre Dame |
| Javier Hidalgo | Assistant Professor | University of Richmond |
| David Hsu | Postdoc | University of Pennsylvania |
| Quinton Mayne | Assistant Professor | Harvard University |
| Gwyneth McClendon | Assistant Professor | Harvard University |
| Michael McKoy | Postdoc | Rutgers University |
| Kanta Murali | Assistant Professor | University of Toronto |
| Julie Rose | Postdoc | Brown University |
| Michael Sullivan | Assistant Professor | St. Mary’s University |
| Philip Wallach | Fellow | Brookings Institution |
2010-2011
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Mary Beth Ehrhardt Altier | Postdoc | The Pennsylvania State University |
| Samuel Arnold | Postdoc | Stanford University |
| Sarah Bush | Assistant Professor | Temple University |
| Nicholas Carnes | Assistant Professor | Duke University, Public Policy School |
| Jing Chen | Assistant Professor | Eckerd College |
| Lauren Davenport | Assistant Professor | Stanford University |
| Yiftah Elazar | Postdoc | Hebrew University |
| David Glick | Assistant Professor | Boston University |
| Javier Hidalgo | Postdoc | Brown University |
| Eva Kaye-Zwiebel | Postdoc | Occidental College |
| Ben Lauderdale | Lecturer (tenure track) | London School of Economics |
| Noam Lupu | Assistant Professor | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Dan Myers | Postdoc | Robert Wood Johnson |
| Genevieve Rousseliere | Postdoc | University of Chicago |
| James L. Wilson | Collegiate Assistant Professor | University of Chicago Society of Fellows |
| Michael Woldemariam | Assistant Professor | Boston University |
| Teppei Yamamoto | Assistant Professor | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
2009-2010
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Melody Crowder-Meyer | Assistant Professor | Sewanee: University of the South |
| Megan Francis | Assistant Professor | Pepperdine University |
| Katie Gallagher | Lecturer | Harvard University |
| Daniel Lee | Fellow | Columbia: Society of Fellows |
| Benjamin McKean | Fellow | University of Chicago: Society of Fellows |
| Dustin Tingley | Assistant Professor | Harvard University |
| Emily Zackin | Assistant Professor | Hunter College |