Hire a PhD Graduate
Below is a list of our PhD candidates who are on the academic job market and the non-academic job market.
If you have questions, please contact the candidates directly or our placement director Nicole Yadon.
Academic Job Market
| Graduate Student | Political Science Subfields | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Personal Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maryum Alam | International Relations and Political Methodology | For as Long as it Takes? Time Horizons and Foreign Policy Change | Christopher Gelpi | www.maryumnalam.com/ |
| Jungbae An | American Politics and Political Methodology | Congressional Deliberation | William Minozzi and Michael Neblo | anjungbae.github.io/ |
| Sinan Anbarcioglu | Comparative Politics and Political Methodology | Informal Settlements and State Capacity in African Cities | Jan Pierskalla | |
| Adrian Calmettes | International Relations | Cyborg Agencies: On the Constitute Power of Computing Infrastructures | Alexander Wendt | |
| International Relations and Comparative Politics | The Social Legibility of Conflict and Peace: Essays on Framing, Bargaining, and Measurement in Nigeria | Amanda Robinson (Co-Chair), Chris Gelpi (Co-Chair) | |
| Jack Fernandes | Comparative Politics | Disaster Governance and Climate Adaptation in Malawi | Amanda Robinson | https://jackfernandes.org/ |
| Zhiqin Gao | International Relations | Contingency in World Politics | Alexander Wendt | |
| Laurie Georges | International Relations and Comparative Politics | Erasure and Its Reverberations in the Modern International System | Jennifer Mitzen | https://www.lauriegeorges.com/ |
| Christian Godwin | International Relations | Libidinal Power Politics | Alexander Wendt | |
| Moshe Goldman | International Relations | Ontological Security Guarantees | Jennifer Mitzen | https://www.linkedin.com/in/moshe-goldman-4a951490/ |
| Gabriel Gorre | International Relations and Political Theory | Organizing Transnational Counter-Hegemony: Mobilizing Hope Amidst Hegemonic Rupture | Ben McKean | |
| Seobin Han | Comparative Politics and Political Methodology | The Politics of State Narratives and Mass Mobilization | Erin Lin | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YkN-TXIAAAAJ&hl=en |
| Jyhjong Hwang | International Relations and Political Methodology | Times of Abundance and Scarcity: Trade-offs of Chinese Loans to Africa Across Time | Alexander Thompson | linkedin.com/in/jyhjong-hwang-a5bb1665/ |
| Emily Ann Israelson | American Politics and Political Theory | Disrupting Deservingness: How Americans' Orientations toward Egalitarianism Impact Redistribution Attitudes | Michael Neblo and Thomas Nelson | eapisraelson.github.io |
| Euchan Jang | Comparative Politics and Political Theory | Press Here to Deliberate: Rethinking Media's Role in Public Deliberation | Michael Neblo | https://www.euchanjang.com/ |
| Jiyoon Kim | International Relations and Political Methodology: Status Perceptions, Emotions, and Policy Preferences | The Emotional Pulse of Foreign Policy | Christopher Gelpi | https://www.jiyoon-kim.com/ |
| Jing Luo | International Relations and Political Methodology | Foreign Influence in the United States: Lobbying versus Diplomacy | Alexander Thompson | https://nanajing7.github.io/ |
| Daniel Naftel | American Politics and Political Methodology | Identifying the Effects of Policing on Voter Behavior | Vladimir Kogan | https://dnaftel.github.io/ |
| Jared Rabinowitz | International Relations | Redirecting the Public Gaze: Nuclearity, the Settler Colony, and the Environmental Planet in International Politics | Jennifer Mitzen | https://www.jaredrabinowitz.org/ |
| Kaveri Sarkar | International Relations and Comparative Politics | War as a Laboratory: Race and the Scientization of U.S. War-Making | Jennifer Mitzen | https://kaverisarkar.weebly.com/ |
| Daniel Smith | Comparative Politics and Political Methodology | Storm from the Steppes: Institutional Disruption and Divergence in Pre-modern Eurasia, 1000-1800 CE | Marcus Kurtz and Jan Pierskalla | www.danssmith.com/ |
| Taís Souza Carareto | International Relations and Political Theory | A Feminist Theory of the State | Ben McKean | |
| Pim Trommelen | Political Theory | Worthy of Freedom: Popular Government in the Early-Modern Dutch Republic | Ben McKean | www.pimtrommelen.com/ |
| Liuya Zhang | International Relations and Political Methodology | In the Shadows of Imperialism: Postcolonial National Identity and Its Implications for Foreign Policy Orientation | Christopher Gelpi and Jennifer Mitzen |
Non-Academic Job Market
| Graduate Student | Political Science Subfields | Dissertation Title | Dissertation Advisor | Personal Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jungbae An | American Politics and Political Methodology | Congressional Deliberation | William Minozzi and Michael Neblo | anjungbae.github.io/ |
| Sinan Anbarcioglu | Comparative Politics and Political Methodology | Informal Settlements and State Capacity in African Cities | Jan Pierskalla | |
| Katie Gouge | American Politics | Beyond the Two-Party Frame: How Americans Understand Independent Political Identity | Thomas Wood | |
| Edward Hohe | American Politics | Partisan Code Switching and Deep Accommodation | Michael Neblo | |
| Taís Souza Carareto | International Relations and Political Theory | A Feminist Theory of the State | Ben McKean | |
| Connor Tragesser | American Politics | Three Essays on The Politics of Economic Evaluations and Phenomena | Thomas Wood | https://cotrag.github.io/ |
| Seamus Wagner | Comparative Politics | Citizen Claim-Making and Accountability | Amanda Robinson | https://www.seamuswagner.com/ |