Job Placement
Ph.D. students and recent graduates from our program enter the job market every year, successfully securing employment within and outside academia. Learn more about our most recent and past job placements.
| Candidate | Fields of Study | Advisors |
| Neija Asimovic | Comparative Politics, Social Media, Ethnic Politics, Political Behavior, Experiments | Joshua Tucker, Gwyneth McClendon, Cyrus Samii and Shanker Satyanath |
| C. Felipe Balcazar | International Political Economy, Comparative Politics | Peter Rosendorff, Pablo Querubín, David Stasavage |
| Michael Becker | International Relations, Political Violence | Eric Dickson, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Arturas Rozenas |
| Martin Castillo Quintana | Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Criminal Conflict, Formal Theory | Catherine Hafer, Adam Przeworski, David Stasavage |
| Rafael Ch | Comparative Politics, Conflict | Pablo Querubín, Cyrus Samii, Hye Young You |
| Franziska Roscher | Comparative Politics, Gender, Political Behavior, India | Kanchan Chandra, Gwyneth McClendon, Pat Egan, Rachel Brule |
| Zoe Xincheng Ge | International Relations, International Political Economy, International Cooperation | Peter Rosendorff, Alastair Smith, Tara Slough, Amanda Kennard |
| Kyu Won Lee | Bureaucratic Politics, American Political Institutions | Sanford Gordon, Catherine Hafer, Hye Young You |
| Giacomo Lemoli | Comparative Politics, Historical Political Economy | Arturas Rozenas, Shanker Satyanath, David Stasavage |
| Francis William Meda | Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Formal Theory | Arturas Rozenas, Catherine Hafer, Alastair Smith |
| Massimo Pulejo | Political Economy, Comparative Politics | Pablo Querubín, Shanker Satyanath, Hye Young You |
| Chris Schwartz | International Relations, Methodology, Formal Theory | Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith, Tiberiu Dragu |
Job Placement History
| Name | Position | Institution |
| Patrick Chester | Postdoctoral Scholar |
The China Data Lab, UCSD |
| Dongil Lee | Assistant Professor | Korea Development Institute |
| Matt Malis | Postdoctoral Fellow | Princeton School of Public and International Affairs |
| Matt Malis | Assistant Professor | Texas A&M University |
| Lucia Motolinia | Assistant Professor | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Tine Paulsen | Assistant Professor | University of Southern California |
| Ye Wang | Assistant Professor | University of North Carolina |
| Sidak Yntiso | Assistant Professor | University of Rochester |
| Jan Zilinsky | Postdoctoral Fellow | Technical University of Munich |
| Stephanie Zonszein | Assistant Professor | University of California Berkeley |
| Name | Position | Institution |
| Rafael ChDuran | Postdoctoral Fellow | Empirical Studies of Conflict Project, Princeton University |
| James Bisbee | Assistant Professor | Vanderbilt University |
| James Bisbee | Postdoctoral Fellow | Center for Social Media and Politics, NYU |
| Taylor Mattia | Postdoctoral Fellow | Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Immigration, University of Pennsylvania |
| Sebastian Thieme | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Toulouse |
| Stephanie Zonszien | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Pennsylvania |
| Name | Position | Institution |
| Antonella Bandiera | Assistant Professor | Instiuto Tecnológico Autónomo de México |
| Nicholas Haas | Assistant Professor | Aarhus University |
| Sean Kates | Associate Director of Programs in Data Analytics | School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania |
| Prabin Khadka | Lecturer (Assistant Professor) | University of Essex |
| Zhenhuan (Reed) Lei | Assistant Professor | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Umberto Mignozzetti | Visiting Assistant Professor | Emory University |
| Ju Yeon Park | Lecturer (Assistant Professor) | University of Essex |
| Steven Rashin | Postdoctoral Fellow | Salem Center, University of Texas |
| Denis Stukal | Associate Professor | HSE University |
| Name | Position | Institution |
| Abraham Aldama | Postdoctoral Fellow | Social Norms Group, University of Pennsylvania |
| Zhaotian Luo | Assistant Professor | University of Chicago |
| Mateo Vasquez | Assistant Professor | Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México |
| Alessandro Vecchiato | Postdoctoral Fellow | Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society, Stanford University |
| Name | Position | Institution |
| Maria Carreri | Assistant Professor | University of California San Diego |
| Emine Deniz | Assistant Professor | Özyeğin University |
| Megan Metzger | Postdoctoral Fellow | University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Kevin Munger | Assitant Professor | Pennsylvania State University |
| Sergey Sanovich | Postdoctoral Fellow | Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University |
| Renard Sexton | Assistant Professor | Emory University |
| Alexandra Siegel | Assistant Professor | University of Colorado |
| Gabor Simonovits | Assistant Professor | Central European University |
| Denis Stukal | Postdoctoral Fellow | Social Media and Political Participation Lab, NYU |
| Name | Position | Institution |
| Eric Arias | Assistant Professor | College of William and Mary |
| Rodolpho Bernabel | Assistant Professor | ESPM (Sao Paolo Brazil) |
| Jeffrey Carnegie | Teaching Assistant Professor | Montana State University-Bozeman |
| Livio Di Lonardo | Assistant Professor | Bocconi University |
| Soenke Ehret | Researcher | Oxford Nuffield |
| Marlene Guraieb | Data Scientist | |
| Carlo Horz | Assistant Professor | Texas A&M University |
| Hannah Simpson | Assistant Professor | Texas A&M University |
| Emily West | Assistant Professor | University of Pittsburgh |
| Name | Position | Institution |
| Drew Dimmery | Data Scientist | |
| Omar Garcia Ponce | Assistant Professor | George Washington University |
| SP Harish | Assistant Professor | College of William and Mary |
| Woo Chang Kang | Lecturer | Australian National University |
| Kai Ou | Assistant Professor | Florida State University |
| Ju Yeon Park | Postdoctoral Fellow | Washington University at St. Louis |
| Sunkyoung Park | Assistant Professor | Incheon National University |
| Pedro Silva | Assistant Professor | Universidad San Francisco de Quito |
| Name | Position | Institution |
| Pablo Barbera | Assistant Professor | University of Southern California |
| Brett Casper | Business Associate Consultant | ZS Associates |
| Jenny Guardado | Assistant Professor | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Adam Harris | Lecturer (Assistant Professor) | University College London |
| Franziska Keller | Assistant Professor | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Marko Klasjna | Assistant Professor | Georgetown School of Foreign Service; Government Department (joint position) |
| Parashar Kulkarni | Assistant Professor | NUS College, Yale University |
| Lindsay Newman | IHS Markit | County Risk and Forecasting Team |
| Scott Tyson | Assistant Professor | University of Michigan |
| Name | Position | Institution |
| Michaël Aklin | Assistant Professor | University of Pittsburgh |
| Nicholas Almendares | Visiting Assistant Professor | Tulane University; Federal District Court of the Southern District of Texas |
| Iulia Cioroanu | Research Fellow | University of Exeter |
| Lindsey Cormack | Assistant Professor | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| Dominik Duell | Assistant Professor | University of Essex |
| Pablo Fernandez-Vazquez | Assistant Professor | University of Pittsburgh |
| Jorge Gallego | Assistant Professor | Universidad del Rosario |
| Ji Yeon Hong | Assistant Professor | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Sebastián Lavezzolo | Assistant Professor | Carolos III University of Madrid |
| Name | Position | Institution |
| Andrew Bausch | Postdoctoral Fellow | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Ana Bracic | Assistant Professor | University of Oklahoma |
| Julie Browne | Assistant Professor | Yeshiva University |
| Hanil Chang | Postdoctoral Fellow | New York University Abu Dhabi |
| Drew Conway | Head of Data | Project Florida |
| Patrick LeBihan | Assistant Professor | Science Po (France) |
| Andrew Little | Assistant Professor | University of California Berkeley |
| Kristin Michelitch | Assistant Professor | Vanderbilt University |
| Kazuto Ohtsuki | Assistant Professor | Waseda Institute for Advanced Study |
| Gonzalo RIvero | Senior Data Scientist | Westat |
| Victoria Shineman | Assistant Professor | University of Pittsburgh |
| Tianyang Xi | Assistant Professor | National School of Development, Peking University |
| Yael Zeira | Croft Assistant Professor | University of Mississippi |
| Thomas Zeitzoff | Assistant Professor | American University |
| Name | Position | Institution |
| Mike Tiernay | Senior Data Scientist | Edmunds |
| Michael Kates | Visiting Assistant Professor | Georgetown University |
| Alexander Herzog | Lecturer | Clemson University |
| Nicholas Beauchamp | Assistant Professor | Northeastern University |
| Didac Queralt | Assistant Professor | Yale University |
| Robin Harding | Associate Professor | University of Oxford |
| Tolga Sinmazdemir | Senior Lecturer | SOAS, University of London |
| Name | Position | Institution |
| Daniel Berger | Data Lead | Creative Associates International |
| Mathew Coakley | Teaching Fellow | University of Warwick |
| Michael Woodruff | Senior Vice President | Citigroup Digital Insights |
| Andrew Therriault | Chief Data Officer | City of Boston |
| Anna Getmansky | Assistant Professor | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Alejandro Quiroz Flores | Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) | University of Essex |
| Adam Bonica | Assistant Professor | Stanford University |
| Feryal Cherif | Associate Professor | Loyola Marymount University |
| Simon Chauchard | Assistant Professor | Dartmouth College |
| James Hollyer | Benjamin Evans Lippincott Associate Professor | University of Minnesota |
| Name | Position | Institution |
| Anna Bassi | Associate Professor | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
| Anjali Thomas Bohlken | Assistant Professor | Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech |
| Gökçe Göktepe | Assistant Professor | IBEI Barcelona |
| Fernando Martel | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard University |
| Hande Mutlu | Lecturer | Columbia University |
| Ernest Sergenti | Senior Economist | World Bank |
| Yunus Sozen | Assistant Professor | Bahcesehir University, Istanbul |
| Name | Position | Institution |
| Melanie Goodrich | Research Manager | Westat |
| Gwendolyn Taylor | Postdoctoral Fellow | Yale University |
| Yu Wang | Assistant Professor | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Name | Position | Institution |
| Leslie Johns | Associate Professor | University of California Los Angeles |
| Vincentas Vobolevicius | Associate Professor | ISM University of Management and Economics |
| Name | Position | Institution |
| Ozlem Atlan | Associate Professor | Koc University, Istanbul |
| Severine Autesserre | Professor | Barnard College |
| Beth Ginsburg | Assistant Professor in Residence | University of Connecticut |
| Julios Rios-Figueroa | Associate Professor | CIDE |
| Nicole Simonelli | Clinical Professor | New York University |
| Melanie Goodrich | Senior Consultant | Booz Allen Hamilton |