Recent Ph.D. Placements

The following list demonstrates the types of jobs our graduating Ph.D. students have earned over the past decade in academia, as well as in think-tanks, government, and the private sector.

Tenure-Track Academic Positions (Year Started):

Barbara Elias, Bowdoin College (2013)

Dalei Jie, Peking University (2013)

Emily Thorson, George Washington University (2013)

Timothy Weaver, University of Louisville (2013)

Rosella Cappella, Boston University (2012)

Anne-Marie D’Aoust, Universite du Quebec a Montreal (2012) 

Willie Gin, Xavier University of Louisiana (2012)

Sarah Salwen, Elon University (2012)

Ryan Grauer, University of Pittsburgh (2011)

Keren Yarhi-Milo, Princeton University (2010)

David Karpf, Rutgers University (2010; now at George Washington University)

Kaija Schilde, Boston University (2010)

Nori Katagiri, Air War College (2010)

David Faris, Roosevelt University (2010)

Peter Funke, University of South Florida (2010)

Stefan Heumann, University of Northern Colorado (2009; now at the US State Department)  

Heon Joo Jung, Indiana University (2008)

Jane Gordon, Temple University (2008; now at University of Connecticut) 

Graham Dodds, Concordia University (2007)

Yongshik Bong, American University (2007) 

Ed Webb, Dickinson College (2007)

Stacey Philbrick Yadav, Hobart and William Smith College (2007)

Vikash Yadav, Hobart and William Smith College (2007)

Catherine Wilson, Villanova University (2007)

Amel Ahmed, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2006) 

Michelle Commercio, University of Vermont (2006) 

Dan Miodownik, Hebrew University Jerusalem (2005)    

Robert Watkins, Columbia College, Chicago (2006)

Justin Wert, University of Oklahoma (2005)

Jason Kirk, Virginia Military Institute  (2005; now at Elon University)

Joseph Mink, New College of Florida (2005; now at Hobart and William Smith College)

Ferdous Jahan, University of Dhaka (2005)

Jonathan Isacoff, Gongaza University (2004)

Joon S. Kil, San Diego City College (2004; now at Irvine Valley College)

Mehrdad Mozayan, Naval War College (2004; now at Zayed University, Dubai)

Jean-Marc Blanchard, San Francisco State University (2003)     

Cheng Chen, State University of New York, Albany (2003)

Victoria Farmer, State University of New York, Geneseo (2003)

Galya Ruffer, Northwestern University (2003; now Director of International Studies)

 

Post-Doctoral Positions:

David Bateman, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University (2013-2014) 

Mara Cecilia Ostfeld, Just Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan (2013)

Tim Junio, CISAC Pre-Doc/Post-Doc Fellowship, Center for International Security and Collaboration, Stanford University (2012-2014)

Meral Ugur Cinar, Mellon Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow at the New School for Social Research (2012)

Murad Idris, Mellon Foundation, Cornell University (2012)

Rosella Cappella, Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College (2012) 

Anne-Marie D’Aoust, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Carleton University, Canada (2011)

Marton Markovitz, Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania (2010)

Dave Karpf, Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University (2009)

Willie Gin, U.S. Studies Center, University of Sydney (2009) 

Think Tank, Administrative, and Private Sector Positions:

Alex Channer, Political Consultant and Translator, Kosovo (2012)

Eric Trager, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (2012)

Lia Howard, Critical Writing Program, University of Pennsylvania (2011)

Todor Enev, Senior Analyst, PriceSpective (2011)

Wendy Ginsberg, Congressional Research Service (2011)

Eric Hoyer, University of South Florida (2011)

Praveen Chaudhry, Indian Development Foundation (2010)  

Wambui Mwangi, Generation Kenya (2008)

Tristan Mabry, Naval Postgraduate School (2008)

Kimberly A. Fitch, Gap International (2006) 

Steven Del Rosso, Carnegie Corporation (2004)

Chris Harth, Global Studies Foundation (2003)

Steven Cook, Council on Foreign Relations (2003)

Joseph Glicksberg, Open Society Institute (2003)