The OSU Department of Political Science has an excellent placement record. Our graduates have been highly successful in securing positions at major research universities and liberal arts colleges, while others have pursued non-academic careers in government agencies, non-governmental organizations, and the private sector. Rather than providing a sample of notable placement success, we provide below a list of our placements. This includes all the data we have regarding where all of our Ph.Ds. since 2004 were placed or are currently employed.
Our department has placed a steady stream of Ph.Ds. in top positions over the past two decades. In fact, a study showed that Ohio State Ph.Ds. in tenured and tenure-track positions elsewhere outnumber current OSU faculty by more than two to one, something that is true of fewer than twenty universities nationwide.
Department of Political Science Placement, 2004 – 2025
2025 Graduates
Maryum Alam, IR, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College
Bear Brown, AP, Assistant Professor of American Politics, Colin Powell School, City College of New York
Abigail Kielty, AP, Senior Quantitative Researcher, Slack
José Pérez, CP, Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, Texas A&M University-San Antonio
2024 Graduates
Martin Armstrong, PT, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science and Sociology, Murray State University
Andrew Goodhart, IR, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Victoria Gurevich, IR, Research Analyst, Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Daniel Naftel, AP, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government
Chris Ray, IR, Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Security and Conflict Studies, George Washington University
2023 Graduates
Soohyun Cho, CP, Postdoctoral Fellow, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University; future Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College
Kaitlin Engelbrecht, AP, Survey Consultant, National Democratic Institute
Mackenzie Erickson, AP, Analytic Scientist, Nationwide
Kara Hooser, IR, Assistant Instructional Professor, Committee on International Relations, University of Chicago
Minseon Ku, IR, Postdoctoral Fellow, Diplomacy Project at the Global Research Institute and a faculty affiliate at the Department of Government, William & Mary; NCAFP’s Korea Peninsula Emerging Leaders Program 2024 cohort; Postdoctoral Fellow, Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College
Mariana Miguelez Gomez, CP, Research Assistant, Hamilton College
Laura Moses, AP, Plurality Institute
David Peterson, IR, Assistant Instructional Professor, Computational Social Science, University of Chicago; former Postdoctoral Fellow, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Mael van Beek, IR, Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University
2022 Graduates
Vladimir Chlouba, CP, Assistant Professor, University of Richmond, former Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame
Erik Clarke, Associate Scientist, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
Liwu Gan, PT, Faculty Fellow, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
John Harden, IR, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College; formerly at Ripon College
Dong Hye Kim, PT, Yonsei University
Caleb Pomeroy, IR, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto; former Stanton Fellow, Stanford University; former Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College
Grant Sharratt, PT, Data Analyst, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
Matthew Spearly, Analytic Scientist, Enterprise Analytics Office, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
Seoeun Yang, ME, Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
2021 Graduates
Alec Clott, CP, Associate Director of Data Analysis, The Gender Equity Policy Institute
Jared Edgerton, IR, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas; former Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Liwu Gan, IR, Postdoctoral Fellow, Syracuse University
Ricardo Graiff Garcia, Data Scientist, Nationwide Insurance
Charles Harpole, CP, Health Policy Senior Analyst, Abt Associates
Jianzi He, CP, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Duke Kunshan University, Professor at Fudan University
Jon Kingzette, Senior Data Analyst, Campbell & Company
Kevin Simmt, Lecturer, California Polytechnic State University
Linnea Turco, Assistant Instructional Professor, University of Chicago
Brandon Zaffini, IR, Professor at Geneva College
2020 Graduates
Miguel Garza Casado, CP, Research Associate, MDRC
Jonathan Green, AP/Methods, Assistant Professor, Duke University; former Postdoctoral Fellow, Northeastern University
Daniel Kent, IR, Data Scientist, Udemy; former Data Scientist, Kaiser
Andrew Podob, Principal UX Researcher, UnitedHealthcare; former Research Manager, Reason Research
Mini Saraswati, CP, Director of Research, Strategy, and Analysis, Sierra Club; former Deputy Director of Research and Innovation, Voter Participation Center (2020-2021)
Gregory Smith, IR, Assistant Professor of Political Science for the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University; former Postdoctoral Associate, Duke University; former Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth's Dickey Center for International Understanding
Leyla Tosun, CP, Senior Research Analytics Specialist, Government Research Center, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Iku Yoshimoto, IR, Lecturer at University of Tokyo
2019 Graduates
Eli Assaf, Data Scientist, Humana; former Data Scientist, Disney
Benjamin Campbell, IR, Data Scientist, CoverMyMeds, Aware
Alexandra Castillo, CP, Research Methodologist, Pew Center
Caitlin Clary, IR, Data Scientist, Biostat Global Consulting
Jose Fortou Reyes, CP, EAFIT University in Medellín, Colombia
Austin Knuppe, IR, Assistant Professor, Utah State University; former Postdoctoral fellow, Dartmouth
Reed Kurtz, IR Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science at Purdue University; former Postdoctoral Research Affiliate, Mershon Center for International Security Studies; former Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Otterbein University
Adam Lauretig, IR, Data Scientist, Barclays Investment Bank
Will Massengill, AP, Associate Data Scientist, Florida Blue
Anna Meyerrose, CP, Assistant Professor for School of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University; former Postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton University Niehous Center for Globalization and Governance (2021-2022)
Andrew Rosenberg, IR, Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Avery White, IR, Program Assistant, Ohio State University
2018 Graduates
Aisha Bradshaw, IR, Associate Editor, Nature Human Behavior
Alison Craig, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Kyle Larson, IR, Capital University
Nicky Mack, AP, Ohio Wesleyan University
John Raines, IR, Head of Political Risk
Peter Tunkis, CP, Senior Customer Advocacy Insights Specialist
Wei-Ting Yen, CP, Assistant Professor of Government Department, Franklin and Marshall College, 2019; former Postdoctoral Fellow, Denison University
2017 Graduates
Alison Craig, AP, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
Raphael Cunha, CP, Assistant Professor, Florida State University 2018; former Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University 2017
Nicholas Felts, Kettering Foundation
Margaret Hanson, CP, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, 2018; former Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, 2017
Gabriella Lloyd, CP, Operations Research Analyst and Data Scientist for The Department of the Navy; Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Maryland, 2018; former Postdoctoral Fellow, Binghamton University
Jakob Miller, AP, Taylor University
Lauren Ratliff Santoro, AP, University of Texas at Dallas
Daniel Silverman, IR, Carnegie Mellon University; former Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University
2016 Graduates
Paul DeBell, CP, Fort Lewis College
Marina Duque, IR, Florida State University, 2018; former Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University, 2017; former Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 2016
Lauren Elliott-Dorans, AP, Ohio University
Sebastien Mainville, IR, Visiting Researcher, Center for International Peace and Security Studies, McGill University
Vittorio Merola, CP, Stony Brooks University, 2017; former Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, Toulouse School of Economics
2015 Graduates
Dustin Carnahan, AP, Michigan State University
Eun Bin Chung, IR, University of Utah
Jessica Defenderfer, AP, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Agnar Helgason, CP, Social Research Center, University of Iceland
Yalidy Matos, AP, Rutgers University, 2017; former Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University
Jason Morgan, Data Scientist, Aware
Katy Powers, IR, University of Georgia, 2016; former Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth University
2014 Graduates
Sarah Bryner, AP, Director, Research Department at the Center for Responsive Politics
Nyron Crawford, AP, Temple University
Matt Hitt, AP, Louisiana State University
Jason Keiber, IR, Baldwin Wallace; Otterbein University
Cheryl Laird, AP, Saint Louis University
Thiago Marzagão, CP, Brazilian antitrust agency (CADE - Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica)
Eleonora Mattiaci, IR, Post-Doc Amherst College
John Oates, IR, Florida International University
2013 Graduates
Austin Carson, IR, University of Chicago; former postdoc, Princeton University
Djayadi Hanan, IR, University of Paramadina, Jakarta
Benjamin Jones, IR, University of Mississippi
Joshua Kertzer, IR, Assistant Professor, Harvard University, 2014; former post-doc, Dartmouth College, 2013
Shivaji Kumar, IR, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Daniel Lempert, AP, SUNY-Potsdam
Emily Lynch, AP, APSA Congressional Fellow, 2013-2014
Fernando Nuñez-Mietz, IR, McGill University
David Traven, IR, Kenyon College
2012 Graduates
Bentley Allan, IR, Johns Hopkins University
Zoltan Buzas, IR, Associate Professor of Global Affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame; Drexel University
J. Bryan Cole, AP, University of Houston
Seth Goldstein, IR, Booz Allen Hamilton
Dane Imerman, IR, Oberlin College
Chris Kypriotis, AP, Warren Wilson College
Xiaoyu Pu, IR, University of Nevada, Reno; former postdoc, Princeton University
Jiwon Suh, CP, Sogang University, Institute for East Asian Studies
Nina Kollars, IR, US Naval War College (Associate Professor); College of St. Benedict;
2011 Graduates
Quintin Beazer, CP, Florida State University; former postdoc, Yale University
A. Burcu Bayram, IR, University of Arkansas: McMaster University, Canada; UT Arlington
Vanessa Bouche, AP, Texas Christian University
Sarah Bryner, AP, Center for Responsive Politics
Jeffrey Budziak, AP, Western Kentucky University
Soundarya Chidambaram, CP, University of Arkansas – Fayetteville (visiting)
Christopher Devine, AP, Mount Vernon Nazarene University
Erin Graham, IR, Associate Professor of Global Affairs, Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame; Drexel University; former postdoc, Princeton University
Erik Heidemann, AP, Kent State University
Marcus Holmes, IR, Fordham University
Todd Makse, AP, Susquehanna University
Steven Nawara, AP, Valdosta State University
Scott Powell, CP, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
Yoonah Oh, CP, Korea Institute for Economic Policy, Seoul, South Korea
Allyson Shortle, AP, University of Oklahoma – Norman
Kathleen Winters, AP, Old Dominion University
Dana Wittmer, AP, Colorado College (Colorado Springs, CO)
2010 Graduates
Daniel Blake, IR, IE Business School; former post-doc, Princeton
Dino Christenson, AP, Boston University
Delton Daigle, AP, George Mason University
Eric Grynaviski, IR, George Washington University
TongFi Kim, IR, Griffith University; Purdue University (visiting)
Kyle Kopko, AP, Elizabethtown College
Justin Lance, CP, Presbyterian College
Danielle Langfield, CP, College of Wooster (visiting)
Todd Makse, AP, Radford University (visiting)
Sarah Sokhey, CP, University of Colorado-Boulder
Byungwon Woo, IR, Oakland University
Christina Xydias, CP, Union College (visiting)
Kadir Yildirim, CP, Post-Doc, Princeton
2009 Graduates
Richard Arnold, CP, Muskingum College
Lakeyta Bonnette, AP, Georgia State University
Tom Dolan, IR, University of Central Florida; Rochester
Delia Dumitrescu, CP, Post-Doc, University of Montreal
Nanaho Hanada, CP, St. Olaf College (visiting)
Erin McAdams, AP, College of Charleston
Zachary Mears, IR, Analyst, Private Sector
Banks Miller, AP, University of Texas-Dallas
Dag Mossige, CP, Davidson College (visiting)
Autumn Payton, IR, Post-Doc, European University Inst.
Tina Pierce, AP, Denison University (visiting)
Amanda Rosen, IR, Webster University
Michael Reese, IR, University of Chicago/CIR (visiting)
Yusuf Safarti, CP, Illinois State University
Anand Sokhey, AP, University of Colorado-Boulder
Konstantin Vossing, CP, Humboldt University (Berlin)
2008 Graduates
Kuskridho Ambardi, CP, Gadjah Mada University
Samuel DeCanio, AP, Yale University
Ryan Kennedy, CP, University of Houston
Katja Michalak, CP/AP, University of Bulgaria
Christopher Moore, IR, Bethel University
Bradley Nelson, IR, Analyst, Private Sector
Eric Russell, AP, Auburn University
Anna Shadley, CP, The Ohio State University (Administration)
Corwin Smidt, AP, Michigan State University
Yohanes Sulaiman, IR, Analyst, Ctr for Dem., Int. Peace and Sec. Stud. (Jakarta)
Srdjan Vcetic, IR, Univ of Ottawa; former post-doc, Cambridge
Sean Williams, AP, Analyst, Private Sector
Unislawa Wszolek, IR, Spelman College
2007 Graduates
Dinissa Duvanova, CP, SUNY Buffalo
Roman Ivanchenko, AP, Analyst, Joint Welfare Analysis Center
Natalie Kistner, CP, James Madison University
Nathan Toronto, IR, Analyst, Foreign Military Studies Office, Ft. Leavenworth
Linda Trautman, AP, Ohio University, Lancaster
Dinna Wisnu, CP, USAID, World Learning Respect Program, Deputy Director
2006 Graduates
Brandon Bartels, AP, George Washington University; Stony Brook University
Ray Block, AP, University; Wisconsin -- LaCrosse; Florida St. U
Jong Kun Choi, IR, Post-doc, Yonsei University, South Korea
Bridget Coggins, IR, Dartmouth College
Paul Fritz, IR, Hofstra University
Yoav Gortzak, IR, Arizona State University
Amu Oakes, IR, College of William and Mary
Brent Strathman, IR, Dartmouth (visiting)
2005 Graduates
William Anderson, AP, University of South Dakota
Brett Curry, AP, Georgia Southern University
Gregory Gwiasda, AP, Analyst, Private Sector
Andrew Holbrook, AP, University of New Orleans
Hiram Irizarry-Osorio, CP, Analyst, Kirwan Institute, OSU
Robert Kelly, CP, University of the Pacific
Jeffrey Martinson, IR, Meredith College
Scott Orr, CP, Texas Lutheran University
Justin Taylor, AP, Analyst, Private Sector
2004 Graduates
Eileen Braman, AP, University of Indiana
Andrew Farrell, AP, University of Oklahoma (visiting)
Yoram Haftel, IR, University of Illinois - Chicago
Blair King, AP, Analyst, National Democratic Inst for Int. Affairs
Gregory Miller, IR, University of Oklahoma; College of William & Mary
J. Quin Monson, AP, Brigham Young University
Kenneth Mulligan, AP, Southern Illinois, Carbondale
Jason Mycoff, AP, University of Delaware
Mary Outwater, AP, Director, Oklahoma University Poll
Julie Anne S. Peterson, AP, Analyst, Private Sector
Kevin Sweeney, IR, Analyst, Department of Defense
Wendy Watson, AP, Southern Methodist University; University of North Texas;
Margaret Williams, AP, Goucher College; James Madison University
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