Placement History

The department has an excellent record of graduate placement. Recent graduates have obtained positions at leading universities and at leading organizations in government and industry. Following is the placement history for our recent graduates.


2007-2008

Fiona Barker Assistant Professor, Victoria University of Wellington ( New Zealand)

Anders Corr Job market candidate for Fall 2008

Federico Ferrara Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

Marius Hentea pursuing doctoral degree in Literature in France

Daniel Hopkins Assistant Professor, Georgetown University

Andrew Kennedy Assistant Professor, Australian National University

Jason Lakin Post-Doc; Harvard School of Public Health

Helene Landemore Post-Doc, Brown University

Olivia Lau Mathematical Statistician, Food and Drug Administration

Katerina Linos Post-Doc; Harvard Society of Fellows

David Mednicoff Assistant Professor, University of Masschusetts Amherst

Manjari Miller Lecturer; Harvard University

Ryan Moore Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

Sonal Pandya Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Wendy Pearlman Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Aziz Rana Post-Doc; Yale University

Andrew Reeves Assistant Professor, Boston University

Almaz Zelleke Director of Academic Affairs, The New School for Social Research


2006-2007

Benjamin Ansell Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

Traci Burch Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Jose Fernandez-Albertos Assistant Professor, Universidad de Barcelona

Tammy Frisby Executive Director, Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West, Stanford University

Yvonne Gastelum Lecturer, San Diego State University

Daniel Gingerich Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Jeffrey Green Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Michael Griesdorf Visiting Professor, University of Leiden, Netherlands

Michael Horowitz Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Lane La Mure Vice President, Atticus Capital, LP

Bruno Macaes Professor, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin

William Phelan Assistant Professor, Trinity College, Dublin

Nirmala Ravishankar Research Scientist, University of Washington

Rahul Sagar Assistant Professor, University of Singapore

Andrea Sangiovanni-Vincentelli Assistant Professor, King’s College London

Liam Schwartz (unknown)

Kristin Smith Assistant Professor, American University

Hillel Soifer Assistant Professor, Bates College

Mark Somos Lecturer, Harvard College

Vesla Weaver Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Wrede Braden, Catharina (unknown)


2005-06

Gabriel Aguilera Financial Consultant, Fraser Financial Group

Mark Copelovitch Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin/Madison

Noah Dauber Lecturer, Harvard College

Benjamin Deufel Senior Associate, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research

Harumi Furuya (not on job market)

Douglas Kriner Assistant Professor, Boston University

Jonathan Laurence Assistant Professor, Boston College

Robert Mickey Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Shannon O’Neil Visiting Scholar, Columbia University

Maria Popova Assistant Professor, McGill University

Naunihal Singh Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

Anna Stilz Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Robert Urbatsch Assistant Professor, Iowa State University


2004-05

Christopher Adolph Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Daniel Aldrich Assistant Professor, Tulane University

Daniel Choi not on job market

Rafael de la Dehesa Assistant Professor, CUNY Staten Island

Ioannis Evrigenis Assistant Professor, Tufts University

Magda Hinojosa Assistant Professor, Texas State University

James Honaker Assistant Professor, UCLA

Rieko Kage Assistant Professor, Kobe University

Casey Klofstad Assistant Professor, University of Miami

Tao Li Assistant Professor, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics

Bryan McGraw Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University

Matthew Price JD program at Harvard Law School

Alexandra Samuel Managing Director, Angus Reid Consultants

Travis Smith Assistant Professor, Concordia University

Lily Tsai Assistant Professor, MIT

Endre Tvinnereim Analyst, Point Carbon, London

Alexandra Vacroux Post-doc, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Thaddeus Williamson Assistant Professor, University of Richmond


2003-04

Yevgenia Albats Assistant Professor, Moscow University of Economics; Columnist, Moscow Times; Talk Show Anchor, Echo Moskvi Broadcasting

Bryan Garsten Assistant Professor, Williams College

Lawrence Hamlet Assistant Professor, Rhodes College

Daniel Ho JD program at Yale Law School

Kosuke Imai Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Alan Jacobs Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

Bertram Johnson Assistant Professor, Middlebury College

Andrew Karch Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Ian MacMullen Assistant Dean, Washington University in St. Louis

Karuna Mantena Assistant Professor, Yale University

Jason Maloy Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma

Tamara Metz Assistant Professor, Reed College

Suzanne Nielsen U.S. Army Officer (Major), 532nd Military Intelligence Battalion in the Republic of Korea.

Chad Noyes not on the job market

Alice Ristroph Associate in Law, Columbia University; Visiting Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College

Jeffrey Ritter Assistant Professor, Rutgers University

Victor Shih Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

David Singer Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

David Siu Part-time employment and fatherhood

Carla Valle Assistant Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ

Robert Van Houweling Assistant Professor, University of Michigan


2002-03

Christopher Brooke Lecturer and Jr. Dean of Arts, Magdalen College, Oxford

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita Assistant Professor, Washington University (St. Louis)

David Campbell Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

Eric Dickson Assistant Professor, New York University

Sam Ewing Assistant Professor, Elmira College

Michaele Ferguson Assistant Professor, University of Colorado

Karen Ferree Assistant Professor, University of California-San Diego

James Fowler Assistant Professor, University of California-Davis

Kristin Goss Consultant, Corporation for Nat’l and Community Service; Lecturer, Georgetown University

Nigel Gould-Davies Research Analyst, British Government (Foreign & Commonwealth Office)

Macartan Humphreys Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Orit Kedar Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Steven Lenzner post-doc at Princeton University and Hebrew University

Istvan Majoros Officer, Hungarian mission to the European Union

Bonnie Meguid Assistant Professor, University of Rochester

John Parrish Assistant Professor, Ohio State University

Robert Pekkanen Assistant Professor, Middlebury College

Alejandro Poire Romero Professor, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico

Benjamin Read Assistant Professor, University of Iowa

Benjamin Runkle U.S. Government, Department of Defense

Ying Shang Assistant Professor, Beijing University

Oxana Shevel Assistant Professor, Purdue University

Timothy Shah Research Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center

Elizabeth Stanley-Mitchell Assistant Professor, Georgetown University

Matthew Stephenson Assistant Professor, Harvard Law School


2001-2002

Arash Abizadeh Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University

Christina Davis Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Jacques Hymans Post-Doctoral Fellow, Olin Institute

Joel Johnson, Professor Augustana College

Geunwook Lee Post-Doctoral Fellow, Olin Institute

Aaron Lobel Host and Exec Producer, America Abroad Radio,

Stephen Marshall Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Donald Raber Assistant Professor, Presbyterian College

Kim Reimann Assistant Professor, Georgia State University

AJ Robinson unknown

Peter Singer Brookings Institution, Project on US Policy Towards Islamic World

Mike Tomz Assistant Professor, Stanford University

2000-2001

Danielle Allen Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Benjamin Berger Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College

Liliana Botcheva-Andonova Assistant Professor, Colby College

Anthony Boustani High School Teacher

Evan Charney Assistant Professor, Duke University

Mark Duckenfield Assistant Professor, University College, London

Frieda Fuchs Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University

James Fuerst Adjunct Professor, New School University

Daniel Polisar Director of Research, Shalom Center

Kenneth Scheve Assistant Professor, Yale University

Alvin Tan Monetary Authority of Singapore

Alvin Tillery Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame

Joshua Tucker Assistant Professor, Princeton University


1999-2000

Christian Alfonsi Research Director, Organic, Inc.

Ted Brader Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Noel Calhoun Assistant Professor, City University of New York

Peter Cannavò Visiting Professor, Hamilton College

Kanchan Chandra Assistant Professor, MIT

Wendy Franz Assistant Dean of Freshmen, Harvard University

Anna Grzymala-Busse Assistant Professor, Yale University

Bernard Harcourt Assistant Professor, University of Arizona Law School

Mala Htun Assistant Professor, New School

Patrick Joyce Adjunct Professor, Wellesley College

Nancy Kokaz Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Anita Krug Attorney, Hale and Dorr

Angelia Means Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College

Bruce Morrison Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario

Jason Neidleman Adjunct Professor, DePaul University

Jennifer Pitts Assistant Professor, Yale University

Hiram Ramirez-Rangel Visiting Professor, Universidad del Sagrado Corazon

Andrew Rudalevige Assistant Professor, Dickinson College

Michele Swers Assistant Professor, Mary Washington College

Alan Szarawarski Assistant Professor, Gettysburg College

Paul Talcott Assistant Professor, Emory University

Eric Thun Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Maurits van der Veen Post-doc, University of Pennsylvania

Steve Voss Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky

Michael Witt Post-doc, Harvard - U.S. Japan Program


1998-1999

Edwina Barvosa-Carter Assistant Professor, UC Santa Barbara

Gary Bass Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Kenneth Benoit Assistant Professor, Trinity College, Dublin

Erik Bleich Assistant Professor, Middlebury College

Pepper Culpepper Assistant Professor, Kennedy School of Gov’t

Mark Elder Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

Margarita Estevez-Abe Associate Professor, Harvard University

Page Fortna Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Fu Jun Assistant Professor, Qinghua University, PRC

Stephanie Golob Assistant Professor, Baruch College-CUNY

Dmitry Gorenburg Research Position at the Davis Center for Russian Studies

Tom Harsanyi Lecturer in Social Studies, Harvard University

Louisa Lund Analyst, Office of the Chief Legislative Analyst, Los Angeles

Isabela Mares Assistant Professor, Stanford University

Patchen Markell Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Sankar Muthu Assistant Professor, New School

Mark Nagel Investment Banker, Merrill Lynch – London

Dan Posner Assistant Professor, UCLA

Curt Signorino Assistant Professor, University of Rochester

Mireya Solis-Soberon Assistant Professor, Brandeis University

Timur Yontar Consultant, Dean & Co.





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