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Recent PhD Placements

Placement Year 2025

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Assistant Teaching Professor
North Carolina State
Amanuel Gebremichael
Teaching Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sam Koreman
Postdoctoral Associate
University of Buffalo, Department of Philosophy's Philosophy, Politics, Economics program
James Kwoun
Professor of Strategic Intelligence
National Intelligence University | College of Strategic Intelligence
Jacob Lollis
Assistant Professor
University of Cincinnati
Tolu O. Odukoya
Assistant Professor
Georgia Southern University
Sowon Park
Postdoctoral Fellow
Duke University
Melle Scholten
Lecturer
University of Twente, Department of Public Administration

Placement Year 2024

Olyvia Christley
Assistant Professor
Washington State University, School of Politics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs
Robert Kubinec
Assistant Professor
Political Science, New York University-Abu Dhabi
COL Rafael (Ralph) Lopez
Special Assistant to the Director
Carnegie Mellon Institute for Politics and Strategy
Danilo Medeiros
Assistant Professor
Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ross Mittiga
SOAS University of London
Senior Lecturer
B. Kal Munis
Assistant Professor
Auburn University
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Lecturer
Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
Emily Sydnor
Associate Professor, School of Communication
Southwestern University Department of Political Science
Lauren Van De Hey
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Utah State University

Placement Year 2023

Sally Joy Bonsall
Lecturer
University of Nebraska
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Climate Science Advisor
Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice in New York City
Matthew Frierdich
Assistant Teaching Professor, MU Honors College
Truman School of Government and Public Affairs, University of Missouri
Benjamin Helms
Assistant Professor
Texas A&M University, Department of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Services
Daniel Henry
Assistant Teaching Professor
Department of African American Studies and The Program for Leadership and Character, Wake Forest University
Firat Kimya
Visiting Assistant Professor
Swarthmore College
Janet Lawler
Instructional Assistant Professor
University of Houston, Honors College
Nicola Nones
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Toronto
Shiran Ren
Research Analyst
Southern Publishing and Media Co. in Guangzhou, China
Justin Rose
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
University of Redlands
Rachel Smilan-Goldstein
Social Scientist
American National Election Studies, Stanford University
Jeffery Tyler Syck
Assistant Professor
University of Pikeville
Laura White
Associate Legislative Analyst
Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission

Placement Year 2022

Joseph G. Amoroso
Instructor of American Politics
U.S Military Academy - West Point, Department of Social Sciences
Richard Burke
Assistant Professor
Hampden-Sydney College, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs
Ruixing Cao
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Duisburg-Essen
Simonas Cepenas
Assistant Professor
ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius, Lithuania
Chris Dictus
Predoctoral Fellow, Clements Center for National Security
University of Texas at Austin
Pi-Cheng (Carl) Huang
Data Scientist
Apple
Brittany Leach
Tenure-track Assistant Professor
Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, School of Anthropology, Political Science, and Sociology
Hsuan-Yu Lin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Political Science at Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Chen Wang
Assistant Professor
University of Idaho, Department of Politics and Philosophy

Placement Year 2021

Aycan Katitaş
Fellow, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance
Princeton University
Verlan Lewis
Visiting Fellow, Center for American Political Studies
Harvard University

Placement Year 2020

Adam G. Hughes
Research Scientist
Facebook
Matt Scroggs
Visiting Assistant Professor
Lewis & Clark College, Department of International Affairs
Alex Welch
Assistant Professor, General Faculty
University of Virginia, Department of Politics

Placement Year 2019

Harrison Frye
Assistant Professor
University of Georgia, Department of Political Science
Nicholas Jacobs
Assistant Professor
Colby College
Frances Yaping Wang
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Singapore Management University, School of Social Sciences

Placement Year 2018

Susan Brewer-Osorio
Assistant Professor
University of Arizona
April Herlevi
Research Scientist, China Studies Division
CNA
Callum Ingram
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
University of Nevada Reno
Kenneth Lowande
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan Department of Political Science
Viet Tuan Nguyen
Dean, Department of International Politics & Diplomacy
Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV)
Nicole Pankiewicz
Research Assistant Librarian and Adjunct Assistant Professor
University of Utah
Sam Plapinger
Research Analyst
Operations Evaluation Group, CNA
Abigail Post
Assistant Professor of International Relations/National Security in the Department of History & Political Science
Anderson University

Placement Year 2017

Sarah Andrews
Assistant Professor
Principia College
Andrew Clarke
Assistant Professor, Department of Government and Law
Lafayette College
Thomas Gray
Assistant Professor
University of Texas, Dallas
Boris Heersink
Assistant Professor
Fordham University
Roger Herbert: Theoretically
General Robert T. Herres Distinguished Military Professor in Leadership and Ethics
US Naval Academy, Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law
Elizabeth Kaknes
Assistant Professor
Marist College
Department of Politics
Institute of Government Studies
Korea University
Marina Omar
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Mary Baldwin University
Justin Peck
Wesleyan College
Assistant Professor
Claire Timperley
Permanent Lecturer, School of History, Philosophy, Political Science & International Relations
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Placement Year 2016

Christopher Ferrero
Assistant Professor, Politics
Coastal Carolina University
Lindsay Flynn
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Wheaton College (MA)
James Patterson
Assistant Professor of Politics
Ave Maria University
Michael Poznansky
Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Intelligence Studies, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
University of Pittsburgh
Molly Scudder
Associate Professor
Purdue University Department of Political Science
Yu Jin Woo
Japan Program Research Scholar at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC)
Stanford University

Placement Year 2015

Laura Blessing
Senior Fellow
Government Affairs Institute, Georgetown University
Robert F. Hamilton
Professor of Strategy
U.S. Army War College, and a Black Sea Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute
Steven Liao
Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science
University of California, Riverside
Anand Rao
Assistant Professor, Political Science
State University of New York at Geneseo

Placement Year 2014

Emily Pears
Assistant Professor
Claremont-McKenna College

Placement Year 2013

Department of Politics
Professor
Anadolu University, Department of International Relations (Eskisehir/ Turkiye)