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 the Graduate Placement Listing form from the department and the following survey from the Graduate School.
| 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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| Jennifer D. Wu |
SUNY Binghamton (after University of Pennsylvania, Provost Postdoctoral 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 |
