While students complete their dissertations, the department works actively to help them find appropriate employment. The following Ph.D. students and recent graduates are seeking employment this academic year.

Job Market Candidates 2020-2021
Candidate Fields of Study Dissertation Title Advisors
Shuk Ying Chan,
Website 		Political Theory Postcolonial Global Justice Charles Beitz, Anna Stilz, Lea Ypi, Desmond Jagmohan
John Chin,
Website 		Comparative Politics, International Relations Military Power and Democratization Helen V. Milner, Carles Boix, David B. Carter, Joseph Wright
Harris Doshay,
Website 		Comparative Politics The Church Fenced In: Religious Resistance and Control in Authoritarian China
 Rory Truex, Mark R. Beissinger, Christopher Achen
Cassandra V. Emmons,
Website 		International Relations Regional Organizations as Democracy Enforcers: Designing Effective Toolkits
 Kim Lane Scheppele, G. John Ikenberry, Andrew Moravcsik, Christina Davis
Noel Foster International Relations Revisionist Statecraft: How Authoritarian Powers Manipulate Rivals' Domestic Preferences to Reshape the International Order Aaron Friedberg, Gary Bass, Mark R. Beissinger, Melissa M. Lee, Marc Ratkovic
Daniel Gibbs,
Website 		American Politics, Formal Theory & Quantitative Methods Individual Accountability and Collective Decision-making in Legislatures Charles Cameron, Nolan McCarty, Matias Iaryczower
Nathan Gibson,
Website 		American Politics Presidential Use of Centralization and Politicization Brandice Canes-Wrone, Charles Cameron, Nolan McCarty
Mindy Haas,
Website 		International Relations, Public Law Secrecy and Oversight: U.S. Law and the Domestic Politics of Covert Action Gary Bass, Aaron Friedberg
Dongxian Jiang,
Website 		Political Theory, Public Law In Defense of a Non-Dominating Government in China
 Jan-Werner Mueller, Stephen Macedo, Alan Patten, Christopher Achen
Michael Kistner,
Website 		American Politics Fundraising for the Caucus: Money, Party Politics, and Policymaking in American Legislatures Brandice Canes-Wrone, Nolan McCarty, Patricia A. Kirkland
Nicole Kliewer,
Website 		American Politics, Formal Theory & Quantitative Methods The Values and Vices of a Veteran Voice Christopher Achen, Paul Frymer, Patricia A. Kirkland
Lauren C. Konken,
Website 		Comparative Politics, International Relations The Politics of Constructive Ambiguity in International Relations Helen V. Milner, Gary Bass, James Raymond Vreeland, Krzysztof J.Pelc (McGill University)
Alexander Kustov,
Website 		American Politics, Comparative Politics Borders of Compassion: International Migration and the Politics of Parochial Altruism Grigore Pop-Eleches, Rafaela Dancygier, Tali Mendelberg, Martin Gilens
James Lee,
Website 		International Relations The Wages of Containment: Foreign Aid, American Grand Strategy, and the Origins of the Developmental State Atul Kohli, Helen V. Milner, Thomas Christensen, Christina L. Davis
Rachael McLellan,
Website 		Comparative Politics The Politics of Local Control in Electoral Autocracies Grigore Pop-Eleches, Leonard Wantchekon, Carles Boix, Alisha Holland
Erin Miller,
Website 		Political Theory Assessing Competing Claims to Speak over Mass Media: The Priority of Audiences’ Epistemic Claims Charles Beitz, Philip Pettit, Anna Stilz
Tommaso Pavone,
Website 		Comparative Politics, Public Law The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics Behind the Judicial Construction of Europe. Kim Lane Scheppele, Andrew Moravcsik, R. Daniel Kelemen, Paul Frymer
Andrew Proctor,
Website 		American Politics Coming Out to Vote: The Political Construction of Sexuality and Gender Identity in the United States Dara Strolovitch, Paul Frymer, Christopher Achen, Tali Mendelberg
Tanika Raychaudhuri,
Website 		American Politics The New Democrats: On the Social Roots of Asian American Partisan Political Behavior
 Tali Mendelberg, Dara Strolovitch, Andrew M. Guess, Martin Gilens
Noam Reich,
Website 		International Relations, Formal Theory & Quantitative Methods How Do States Negotiate? Kristopher Ramsay, Matias Iaryczower, Jacob N. Shapiro
David Ribar,
Website 		American Politics, Formal Theory & Quantitative Methods How Public Concerns Over Symbolic Prestige Influence America’s Foreign Policy Tali Mendelberg, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Andrew M. Guess, Keren Yarhi-Milo (Columbia)
Leah Rosenstiel,
Website 		American Politics, Formal Theory & Quantitative Methods Essays on Congress, Bargaining, and Federal Grants Nolan McCarty, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Frances Lee
William Smith,
Website 		American Politics Essays on Elections and Responsiveness in the United States Nolan McCarty, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Jonathan Mummolo
Diana M. Stanescu,
Website 		International Relations, Formal Theory & Quantitative Methods The Bureaucratic Politics of Foreign Economic Policymaking Melissa M. Lee, James Raymond Vreeland, Christina Davis (Harvard University), Kosuke Imai (Harvard University)
Daniel L. Tavana,
Website 		Comparative Politics The Origins of Oppositions: Elections, Identity, and Order in the Middle East Amaney A. Jamal, Christopher Achen, Rory Truex
Johan Andreas Trovik,
Website 		Political Theory Why Work? A Political Theory of the Promises and Perils of Work Jan-Werner Mueller, Alan Patten, Philip Pettit
Carissa L. Tudor,
Website 		Comparative Politics Women’s Rights in the Longue Durée Deborah Yashar, Carles Boix, Jeremy Adelman, Dawn Teele
Elsa Voytas Comparative Politics, International Relations, Formal Theory & Quantitative Methods Political Participation After Violence: The Role of Transitional Justice
 Jacob N. Shapiro, Deborah Yashar, Brandon Stewart, Alisha Holland
Ian Walling,
Website 		Political Theory Diagnosing Rhetoric: Platonic Social Criticism in the Gorgias Melissa Lane, Greg Conti, Jeffrey Stout

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.

2020-2021

Name Position Institution
Melinda Haas Post-Doctoral Fellow for Intelligence and National Security Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Michael Kistner Assistant Professor University of Houston
Alexander Kustov Assistant Professor University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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
Leah Rosenstiel Assistant Professor Vanderbilt University
Elsa Voytas Post-Doctoral Fellow (2021-2022) Assistant Professor (2022 onward) Dartmouth (Fellowship) IE University (Assistant Professor)

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 Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford University (Stanford Civics Initiative)
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
Adam Thal Research Scientist Facebook
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
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 Google
John DiIulio Postdoc James Madison Program, Princeton University
Romain Ferrali Postdoc New York University, Abu Dhabi
Benjamin Fifield Research Scientist Facebook
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
Lucia Rafanelli Research Associate Smith Institute, Chapman 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