Here is a list of recent graduates of the Ph.D. program along with their initial placement after graduation.
By initial placement, we mean the first job after graduation, unless a student transitions from a non-tenure-track position to a tenure-track position within three years of graduation. In this latter case, we note the tenure-track position and include the preceding non-tenure-track positions in brackets.
Bios, including current positions, may be found by clicking on the student’s name, whenever available
If you’re a Graduate from the Political Science Program at Yale University and would like to let us know what you are doing, please fill out our Graduate Placement Listing form.
Vatsal Naresh |
Harvard University
College Fellow in Social Studies |
Armando Perez-Gea |
Stanford University, Fellow and Lecturer for Civic, Libreral, and Global Education |
Shikhar Singh |
University of Pennsylvania,
Center for the Advanced Study of India, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Hikaru Yamagishi |
Harvard University
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations. |
David Minchin Allison |
Project on Managing the Atom, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School
Stanton Postdoctoral Nuclear Security Fellow |
Trevor Incerti |
Harvard University
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs |
Gwen Prowse |
Tulane University, Political Science & Africana Studies |
Eli Rau |
Princeton University
Center for the Study of Democratic Politics Fellow |
Nica Siegel |
Goethe-Universität of Frankfurt am Main
Postdoctoral Fellow |
John Ternovski |
Georgetown University, McCourt School of Public Policy
Postdoctoral Fellow |
Tommaso Bardelli |
NYU postdoc |
Jonathon Baron |
Facebook Demography & Survey Science research scientist |
Alyssa Battistoni |
Harvard University Center for the Environment postdoctoral fellow |
Matthew Cebul |
United States Institute of Peace (after postdoc at the University of Michigan, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies) |
Carmen Dege |
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute postdoc |
Maximilian Krahe |
Royal Academy of Belgium |
Elizabeth Krontiris |
Wellesley College’s Writing Program visiting lecturer |
Tumi Makgetla |
Yale University postdoc |
Paul Merklinger |
United States Military Academy, West Point (instructor, then assistant professor) |
Stephen Moncrief |
Tufts University Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy postdoc |
Gautam Nair |
Harvard Kennedy School of Government |
Molly Offer-Westort |
University of Chicago (after postdoc at Stanford University) |
Tiago Peterlevitz |
Yale University postdoc |
Kyle Peyton |
Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University (after Yale Law School postdoc) |
Lauren Pinson |
University of Pennsylvania, Perry World House postdoc |
Christopher Price |
University of Wisconsin - Madison fellow |
Naomi Scheinerman |
Harvard University fellow |
Matthew Shafer |
University of Pennsylvania, Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy postdoctoral fellow |
Alicia Steinmetz |
Stanford University postdoc |
Louis Wasser |
Yale University lecturer and Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies postdoctoral associate |
Baobao Zhang |
Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs (after postdoc at Cornell University, Society of Fellows) |
Graedon Zorzi |
George Fox University |
Consuelo Amat Matus |
Johns Hopkins University (after Stanford University postdoc) |
John Dearborn |
Yale University postdoc |
Nikhar Gaikwad |
Columbia University |
Amy Gais |
Washington University in St. Louis postdoc |
Lisa Gilson |
Bates College (after postdoc at Harvard University) |
Aaron Greenberg |
Deep Springs College instructor |
Lynn Hancock |
Government of British Columbia and sessional instructor at the University of Victoria |
Michael Kalin |
Government of Canada |
William Nomikos |
Washington University in St. Louis |
Hari Ramesh |
Wesleyan University (after college fellow at Harvard University) |
Mara Revkin |
Duke University School of Law (after fellow at Georgetown University Law Center) |
Anurag Sinha |
University of Minnesota (after college fellow at Harvard University) |
Andres Vargas Castillo |
Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace - High Court |
Elizabeth Wellman |
Princeton University, Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice and Department of Politics postdoctoral research associate |
Vivekinan Ashok |
Cornell University postdoc |
Kassandra Birchler |
University of Zurich postdoc |
Natalia Bueno |
Emory University |
Lucas Entel |
Yale University, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies postdoc |
Joshua Goodman |
Air War College (after visiting assistant professor at St. Lawrence University) |
Yuke Li |
Yale University postdoc |
Paul Linden-Retek |
New York University School of Law postdoc |
Daniel Masterson |
University of California, Santa Barbara (after postdoc at Stanford University) |
Patrick O’Brien |
Trinity College postdoc |
Jerome Schafer |
LMU Munich |
Umur Basdas |
Koc University |
Joshua Braver |
University of Wisconsin Law School (after fellow at Tufts University, Harvard University) |
Suparna Chaudhry |
Christopher Newport University (after postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding) |
Stefan Eich |
Georgetown University (after postdoc at Princeton University Society of Fellows) |
German Feierherd |
Universidad de San Andres (after postdoc at Duke University and Yale University) |
Anna Jurkevics |
University of British Columbia |
Jiyoung Ko |
Bates College (after postdoctoral fellow at University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame International Security Center) |
Gareth Nellis |
University of California, San Diego (after postdoc at University of California, Berkeley) |
Pia Raffler |
Harvard University (after postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics and Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance) |
Steven Rosenzweig |
Boston University |
Niloufer Siddiqui |
University at Albany, SUNY (postdoc then assistant professor) |
Michael Weaver |
University of British Columbia (fellow, then assistant professor, after fellow at the University of Chicago) |
Lionel Beehner |
Modern War Institute at West Point |
Julia Choucair Vizoso |
UC Berkeley Center for Middle East Studies |
Blake Emerson |
UCLA School of Law (after Yale Law School JD, and research fellow at Administrative Conference of the United States) |
Daniel Feder |
Beneson Strategy Group |
Francesca Grandi |
Yale University postdoc |
Alexandra Hartman |
University College London |
Benjamin Jones |
Pennsylvania State University, Rock Ethics Institute Assistant Director |
Boleslaw Kabala |
North Carolina State University Lecturer |
Andrea Katz |
Washington University School of Law (after clerk at European Court of Human Rights and U.S. District Court of Massachusetts) |
Judkins Mathews |
Penn State Law |
Mary McGrath |
Northwestern University (college fellow then assistant professor)
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Rebecca Nielsen |
Texas A&M University, Bush School of Government & Public Service , PostDoc |
Shmuel Nili |
Northwestern University |
Erin Pineda |
Smith College (after postdoc at the University of Chicago) |
Kevin Russell |
McKinsey & Company |
Jason Stearns |
Simon Fraser University (after fellow at NYU) |
Kaeli Andersen |
Brigham Young University |
Selim Erdem Aytac |
Koc University |
Cameron Ballard-Rosa |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Robert Blair |
Brown University |
Lara Chausow |
Congressional Research Service |
Adam Dynes |
Brigham Young University |
Adom Getachew |
University of Chicago (postdoc, then assistant professor) |
Adi Greif |
Cloudburst Group and SRI International (after postdoc at Stanford University, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law) |
Corinna Jentzsch |
Leiden University |
Jung Kim |
University of North Korean Studies |
Malte Lierl |
German Institute of Global and Area Studies research fellow (after postdoc at Yale University) |
Lucy Martin |
UNC-Chapel Hill |
Luis Schiumerini |
University of Notre Dame (visiting fellow, then assistant professor, after postdoc at University of Oxford, Nuffield College) |
Qiuqing Tai |
Boston Consulting Group |
Dawn Teele |
University of Pennsylvania |
Rory Truex |
Princeton University (instructor, then assistant professor) |
Peter Aronow |
Yale University (lecturer, then assistant professor) |
Allison Carnegie |
Columbia University |
Karina Cendon Boveda |
University of Oxford (after Max Weber Fellow at the European Union Institute) |
Erica De Bruin |
Hamilton College |
Divya Devasher |
University of New Hampshire (after lecturer at Yale University lecturer and postdoc at Princeton University) |
Shawn Fraistat |
Yale University Lecturer |
Matthew Longo |
University of Leiden (after University of Oxford, St. Anne’s College, Clayman Junior Research Fellow) |
Meghan Lynch |
Temple University |
Luke Mayville |
American University postdoc |
Navid Mehrdad |
Higher School of Economics (after postdoc at Princeton University and Columbia University) |
Shivaji Mukherjee |
University of Toronto |
Celia Paris |
Loyla University Maryland |
Angelika Schlanger |
Self-employed as Independent Research Analyst and Writer |
Rachel Silbermann |
Analyst Institute (after Yale University postdoc and lecturer) |
Kahreen Tebeau |
IMPAQ International |
Kyohei Yamada |
International University of Japan |
Regina Bateson |
MIT |
Teresa Bejan |
University of Toronto (after postdoc in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University) |
Uday Chandra |
Georgetown School of Foreign Service-Qatar (after postdoc at Max Planck Institute) |
Nathaniel Cogley |
Tarleton State University |
Brian Fried |
Zinkerz (after postdoc at Yale University and fellow at Hebrew University of Jerusalem) |
Calvert Jones |
City College of New York (CUNY) |
Paul Kenny |
Australia National University |
David Lebow |
European University Institute postdoc (after Yale Law School JD) |
Melissa Mason |
UNITE Here |
Lani Rowe |
Independent Business and Technology Consultant |
Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl |
University of Virginia |
Brandon Terry |
Harvard University (junior prize fellow, then assistant professor) |
Lucas Thompson |
National Republican Senatorial Committee |
Peter Verovsek |
Sheffield University (after lecturer at Harvard University) |
Elizabeth Addonizio |
Morgan Stanley |
Lihi Ben Shitrit |
University of Georgia School of International and Public Affairs |
Edwin Camp |
Yale University postdoc |
Valerie Frey |
OECD |
Nancy Hite |
Tufts Fletcher School |
Amelia Hoover Green |
Drexel University |
Yi Kang |
Hong Kong Baptist University |
Paul Lagunes |
Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (after postdoc at Yale University) |
Yang Lin |
RAND |
Leonid Peisakhin |
NYU-Abu Dhabi (after postdoc at Juan March Institute) |
Juan Rebolledo |
Government of Mexico (after postdoc at Yale University) |
Ryan Sheely |
Harvard Kennedy School of Government |
Joshua Simon |
King’s College London (after postdoc at New School for Social Research) |
Paolo Spada |
Harvard Kennedy School of Government postdoc |
Shuping Wang |
Barclays |
Ana Arjona |
Northwestern University (after postdoc at Columbia University) |
Onur Bakiner |
Seattle University (after limited term assistant professor at Simon Fraser University) |
Mario Leonardo Chacon Barrero |
NYU-Abu Dhabi |
Karisa Cloward |
Southern Methodist University |
Tiffany Davenport |
United States Naval Academy |
Ryan Garcia |
Rochester Institute of Technology |
Mei Guan |
Oliver Wyman |
Min-young Han |
Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs |
Nihal Turkuler Isiksel |
Columbia University (after postdoc at European University Instiute) |
Alexander Kirshner |
Duke University (after postdoc at NYU-Abu Dhabi) |
Dominika Koter |
Colgate University (after postdoc at University of Chicago) |
Joseph Lampert |
Northwestern University, Searle Center for Teaching Excellence |
Xiaobo Lu |
Texas A&M, Bush School of Government and Public Service |
Joel Middleton |
University of California - Berkeley (after Visiting Assistant Professor at NYU) |
Juli Minoves-Triquell |
Liberal International |
Robert Person |
United States Military Academy, West Point (after postdoc at Yale University) |
Gemma Sala |
Grinnell College |
Abbey Steele |
Syracuse University Maxwell School (after postdoc at Princeton University) |
Laia Balcells |
Duke University (after researcher and affiliated professor at Institut d’Analisi Economica-CSIC and Barcelona Graduate School of Economics) |
Ilhan Demiryol Gaye |
Bahçeşehir University (lecturer, then assistant professor, after postdoc and lecturer at Yale University) |
Stephen Kaplan |
George Washington University (after postdoc at Princeton University) |
Brandon Kinne |
University of Texas at Dallas |
David G. Leslie |
Harvard University, Committee on Degrees in Social Studies |
Christopher Mann |
University of Miami |
Nigel Thalakada |
Government of Canada, Department of National Defence |
Shatema Threadcraft |
Rutgers University (postdoc, then assistant professor) |
Sonali Chakravarti |
Wesleyan University (after postdoc at Trinity College) |
Kushanava Choudhury |
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Early Career Fellowship |
Stephen Engel |
Marquette University |
Josip Glaurdic |
University of Cambridge Junior Research Fellow |
Matthew Hall |
Saint Louis University |
Michael Helfand |
Pepperdine University School of Law |
Nicole Kazee |
University of Illinois at Chicago |
LaiYee Leong |
Southern Methodist University |
Tarek Masoud |
Harvard Kennedy School of Government |
Harris Mylonas |
George Washington University (after postdoc at Harvard University) |
Nasos Roussias |
Sheffield University (after postdoc at the Center for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, CEACS, Juan March Foundation) |
Debra L. Shulman |
College of William and Mary |
Steven Shewfelt |
Joint Warfare Analysis Center |
Shiru Wang |
University of Hong Kong postdoc |
Chuanjie Zhang |
Tsinghua University |
Julia Azari |
Marquette University |
Angelica Bernal |
University of Massachusetts - Amherst |
Mayling Birney |
LSE (after postdoc at Princeton University) |
Stuart Chinn |
University of Oregon School of Law (after visiting assistant professor at University of Texas School of Law) |
Michelle Clarke |
Dartmouth College |
Rafaela Dancygier |
Princeton University (instructor, then assistant professor) |
Nandini Deo |
Lehigh University |
Daniela Donno |
University of Pittsburgh |
Takeshi Ito |
Colorado College |
Stephen Kosack |
London School of Economics (after visiting fellow at Brown University, Watson Institute for International Studies) |
Timothy Parichat |
New School
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Elizabeth Saunders |
George Washington University (after postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, Olin Institute for Strategic Studies) |
Jennifer Tobin |
Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy (after fellow at University of Oxford and Brookings Institution) |
Andrew Volmert |
Brown University postdoc |
Justin Zaremby |
Law Clerk to the Hon. Jose A. Cabranes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (after Yale Law School J.D.) |
Sonu Bedi |
Dartmouth College |
Zhiming Chen |
Universite de Montreal (invited professor, then assistant professor) |
Daniel Galvin |
Northwestern University (college fellow, then assistant professor) |
Lilach Gilady |
University of Toronto |
Matthew Glassman |
Congressional Research Service |
Chinyelu Lee |
self-employed as independent contractor/volunteer |
Jaime Lluch |
European University Institute postdoc |
Joanna Mosser |
Drake University |
Anton Orlich |
McKinsey & Company |
Thomas Pepinsky |
University of Colorado - Boulder |
Danilo Petranovich |
Yale University lecturer |
Melvin Rogers |
University of Virginia (after scholar-in-residence at Carleton College) |
Jennifer Smith |
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee |
Aleksandra Sznajder Lee |
University of Richmond (after postdoc at Columbia University) |
Vineeta Yadav |
University of Notre Dame (after postdoc at Princeton University) |
Nancy Brune |
Harvard School of Public Health, International Health Systems Group |
David Engstrom |
Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel |
Helen Erler |
Kenyon College |
Robin Hayes |
Santa Clara University (after Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University) |
Matthew Light |
University of Toronto (after visiting assistant professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst) |
Jun Saito |
Franklin and Marshall College (after visiting assistant professor at Wesleyan University) |
Rachel Milstein Sondheimer |
United States Military Academy, West Point |
Dorian Warren |
Columbia University (after postdoc and visiting faculty at the University of Chicago) |
David Yoon |
McKinsey & Company |
Annalisa Zinn |
Quinnipiac University |
Alissa Ardito |
Duke University (visiting professor, post-doctoral fellow) |
Sarah Dix |
Harvard University lecturer |
Andra Gillespie |
Emory University |
Matthew Green |
Catholic University of America (after lecturer at Yale University) |
Alexandra Guisinger |
University of Notre Dame |
Alethia Jones |
University at Albany, SUNY |
Nomi Lazar |
University of Chicago |
Naomi Murakawa |
University of Washington |
David Nickerson |
University of Notre Dame |
Amy Rasmussen |
California State University Long Beach |
Rachel Seher |
DePaul University |
Yumin Sheng |
Wayne State University |
Douglas Woodwell |
University of Indianapolis |
Elizabeth Cohen |
Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs |
Raluca Eddon |
United Nations |
Ethan Leib |
University of California - Hastings College of the Law (after clerk for the Honorable John M. Walker, Jr., Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, and litigation associate at Debevoise & Plimpton) |
Willem Maas |
York University (after postdoc at New York University) |
Thomas Miley |
Yale University lecturer |
John Phillips |
California State University |
Sarah Song |
MIT |
Yi Zhao |
Macalester College Freeman Postdoctoral Fellow |
Jessica Allina |
Colgate University |
Casiano Hacker-Cordon |
University of Connecticut (postdoctoral lecturer) |
Mary Cooper |
Ohio State University (after postdoc at Stanford University) |
Jamie Morin |
US Senate Budget Committee |
Patricia Nordeen |
University of Chicago, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Harper-Schmidt fellow |
Jason Sorens |
University at Buffalo, State University of New York (after lecturer at New School University and Yale University) |
Andrew Stigler |
United States Naval War College (after Visiting Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College) |
Dara Strolovitch |
University of Minnesota |
Wenhao Cheng |
Tsinghua University (after postdoc at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government) |
Gregory Forster |
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research |
Jeffrey Friedman |
Barnard College |
Nathan Jensen |
Washington University in St. Louis |
Janet Laible |
Lehigh University |
Colleen Shogan |
George Mason University |
Beth Ilene Weinberger |
Yale University Research Associate |
Meredith Weiss |
DePaul University (after lecturer at Yale University) |
Janelle Wong |
University of Southern California |
Deborah Brooks |
Dartmouth College (after Senior Research Director at The Gallup Organization) |
Stephen Brooks |
Dartmouth College |
Jacob Hacker |
Yale University (after Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University) |
Eileen Hunt |
University of Notre Dame |
Jaechun Kim |
Yale University, Department of Political Science and Center for International and Area Studies lecturer |
Robin Theurkauf |
Yale Divinity School M.Div. Studies |
Steven Wulf |
Lawrence University |