Graduate Placement
The Department of Political Science at 涩里番下载 has a strong record placing our graduates and makes vigorous efforts to help our students find positions.
Our recent graduates have received numerous tenure-track professorships. Over the last ten years 涩里番下载 grads have taken tenure-track positions at, among others, Holy Cross, Michigan State, Middlebury, St. John鈥檚 College, and Syracuse.
In the 2023-24 job market cycle, four of our PhD students were offered and accepted tenure-track assistant professorships: Matthew Berry (theory) at the University of Dallas; Selene Campion (comparative) at the University of Utah; Nathan Davis (theory) at Loyola University; and Tyler Parker (IR) at Mercer University.
Our recent doctoral students have also been very successful in securing postdoctoral fellowships. In the last decade, our students have gone on to postdocs at Columbia, Emory, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, among other institutions.
Our graduates also manage academic centers at institutions such as Princeton and Clemson, and have pursued careers beyond academia at the RAND Corporation and the Congressional Research Service.
Below please find a list of all degree recipients from the last ten years for whom we have information. Positions listed indicate placements information current as of April 2024, and will be updated as needed; please send new information to聽Ryan Hanley, the department鈥檚 placement director.
Placement of Doctoral Program Graduates since 2013
- Yuan He Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
- Tyler Parker,聽Assistant Professor, Mercer University
- Nicholas Anderson, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas-Austin
- Jiyoon Im Bernhoft, Lecturer, Providence College
- Selene Campion,聽Assistant Professor, University of Utah
- Sam Hayes, Visiting Professor, Trinity College
- Rachael Mackey, Research Fellow and Assistant Director, Hudson Institute
- Peter Wilkin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University
- Janet Benestad, Faculty, St. John鈥檚 Seminary
- Andrew Bowen, Analyst, Congressional Research Service
- Yin Chengzhi, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
- Tim McCranor, Academic Programs Manager, Institute for World Politics
- Adam Wunische, Lecturer, George Washington University
- Perin Gocke, Faculty, Milton Academy
- Thomas Goodman, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College
- Peter Necastro, JD Candidate, Northwestern Law School
- Leor Sapir, Fellow, Manhattan Institute
- Jacob Wolf,聽Assistant Professor, University of Austin
- Jonathan Yudelman,聽Assistant Professor, University of Austin
- Timothy Brennan,聽Associate Professor, University of Austin
- Daniel Geary, Vice President, RealClear Foundation
- John Hungerford, Software Engineer, Two Six Technologies
- Heather Wilford, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
- Brendan Bucy, Secretary of the Senate, Nevada
- Matthew Berry,聽Assistant Professor, University of Dallas
- Gregory Burnep, Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross
- Thomas Cleveland, Director of Academic Programs, Jack Miller Center
- Yuxing Huang, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University
- Yael Hungerford, Executive Director, Adam Smith Society, Manhattan Institute
- Timothy Lehmann, Data Analyst, Washington University, St. Louis
- Maria McCollester, Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
- William Mayborn, Adjunct Professor, Babson College
- Adam Thomas, Associate Director, Lyceum Program, Clemson University
- Gary Winslett, Associate Professor, Middlebury College
- Alison Levy, Tutor, St. John鈥檚 College, Santa Fe
- Grayson Gilmore, Software Engineer, Microsoft
- Elitsa Molles, Adjunct Professor, 涩里番下载
- Kimberley Burns, Assistant Affiliate Professor, University of Dallas
- Shilo Brooks,聽Assistant Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University
- Dustin Sebell,聽Associate Professor, Michigan State University
- Nicholas Starr,聽Tutor, St. John鈥檚 College, Santa Fe