While students complete their dissertations, the department works actively to help them find appropriate employment.
Recent placements are shared below.
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.
2024-2025
| Name | Position | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| Joseph Ruggiero |
Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-25) Assistant Professor (2025-26) |
Stanford University University of Virginia |
| Sonya Chen |
Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-25) Assistant Professor (2025-26) |
University of Pennsylvania 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 |
| Jeongmin Park | Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow | Nuffield College, Oxford University |
| Anthony Taboni |
Postdoctoral Fellow (2025-26) Assistant Professor (2026-27) |
University of Texas at Austin |
| Alexander Gazmararian | Assistant Professor | University of Michigan |
| Lina Skoglund | Prize Fellow in Economics, History and Politics | Center for History and Economics at Harvard University |
| Ophelia Vedder | Assistant Professor | Washington University in St. Louis |
| 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 |
| Jacob Tucker | Postdoctoral Fellow | The Jordan Center at New York University |
| Tristan Hughes | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of British Columbia |
| Emily Salamanca | Postdoctoral Fellow | Stanford Civics Initiative |
| Robert Oldham | Assistant Professor | Agnes Scott College |
| Utku Cansu | Assistant Professor | Utah State University |
| Elaine Yao | Assistant Professor | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Elly Long | Assistant Professor | University of Texas at Austin |
| Ze Han | Data Scientist | The World Bank |
| Roel Bos | Postdoctoral Fellow | Copenhagen Business School |
| Ephraim Shimko | Postdoctoral Fellow |
ETH Zürich |
| Reilly Steel | Associate Professor | Columbia University Law School |
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 |