Ph.D. Job Market Candidates

Below is an alphabetical list of Yale Ph.D. students and recent graduates currently on the job market. Please feel free to contact them, their advisors, or the DGS for additional information. 

Any Yale Graduate Student wishing to be added to this page can do so by filling out our PhD Job Market Candidates submission form.

Visit our Job Market Resources page for liknks and advice.

Placement Officers

Alex Debs
Rosenkranz Hall
115 Prospect Street
alexandre.debs@yale.edu

Daniel Mattingly
Rosenkranz Hall
115 Prospect Street, Room 405
daniel.mattingly@yale.edu

Current Students

Elyse Boldt

Dissertation:  “Great Power Crises and the Evolution of Strategic Rivalries”
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/elyse-boldt
Advisors List:  Alexandre Debs, Sebastian Rosato, Soyoung Lee, Ian Shapiro
Areas of Concentration:  International Relations, Security Studies, Nuclear Politics, and Qualitative Methods
Email:   elyse.boldt@yale.edu

Samuel Dunham

Dissertation:  “Under the Gun: Repression, Airpower, and Control in the British Mandate for Iraq”
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/samuel-dunham
Advisors List:  Isabela Mares, Didac Queralt, Steven Wilkinson
Areas of Concentration:  Comparative Politics, International Security, Politics of the Middle East and North Africa
Email:   samuel.dunham@yale.edu

Tylir Fowler

Dissertation:  “The Strategic Logic of Populist Competition”
Personal Website:  https://sites.google.com/view/tylirfowler
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/tylir-fowler
Advisors List:  Milan Svolik, Gerard Padró i Miquel, Emily Sellars
Areas of Concentration:  Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Formal Theory
Email:   tylir.fowler@yale.edu
 

Ishaan Jajodia

Dissertation:  “Between Town and Country: City Planning as Political Philosophy in Practice”
Personal Website:  ishaanjajodia.com
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu//people/ishaan-jajodia
Advisors List:  Steven Smith (Chair), Bryan Garsten, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Stephen Skowronek
Areas of Concentration:   Political Theory
Email:   ishaan.jajodia@yale.edu

Matthew Koo

Dissertation:  “The Autocratic Deep State: The Causes and Consequences of Politicization in Security Bureaucracies”
Personal Website:  https://mattmkoo.github.io/
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/matthew-koo
Advisors List:  Kate Baldwin (co-chair), Jennifer Gandhi (co-chair), Elisabeth Wood, Daniel Mattingly, Elizabeth Parker-Magyar
Areas of Concentration:   Comparative Politics; International Relations
Email:   matthew.koo@yale.edu

Gary Leung

Dissertation:  “Nationalism and Authoritarian Rule”
Personal Website:  https://garytleung.github.io/
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/gary-leung
Advisors List:  Nicholas Sambanis (chair), Jennifer Gandhi, Daniel Mattingly
Areas of Concentration:   Comparative Politics
Email:   gary.leung@yale.edu

Sean Nossek

Dissertation:  Essays on Trade, Market Concentration, and the Power of Firms and Workers
Personal Website:  https://sites.google.com/view/seannossek/
Advisors List:  Didac Queralt, Ken Scheve, Leonardo Baccini (external)
Areas of Concentration:  International Relations, Comparative Politics, Quantitative Methods
Email:   sean.nossek@yale.edu

Chetana Sabnis

Dissertation:  
Departmental Profile:  https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/chetana-sabnis
Advisors List:  
Areas of Concentration:  
Email:   chetana.sabnis@yale.edu