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 |
