2023-24 Placement Cohort
Doctoral students on the job market in 2023.
For additional information regarding students on the job market, please contact our placement director, Professor Aleks Ksiazkiewicz: aleksks@illinois.edu.
PhD Placements (1990- )
| Field | Initial Placement | Current Placement | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | |||
| Kristin Bail | Comparative | St. Mary’s College, Indiana | St. Mary’s College, Indiana |
| Jaeseok Cho | IR | William & Mary (VAP) | William & Mary (VAP) |
| Yuan-Ning Chu | Comparative | Apple | Apple |
| Seyoung Jung | American | Consortium on Electoral Democracy (postdoc) | Consortium on Electoral Democracy (postdoc) |
| Sarah Leffingwell | IR | Booz Allen | Booz Allen |
| Lucie Lu | IR | Columbia (postdoc) | Columbia (postdoc) |
| Matt Pryor | American | Northwestern (VAP) | Northwestern (VAP) |
| Hyo-Won Shin | Comparative | Central Arkansas | Central Arkansas |
| 2022 | |||
| Hyun Joo Cho | IR | Seoul National (postdoc) | Seoul National (postdoc) |
| Luzmarina Garcia | American | Florida Atlantic | Florida Atlantic |
| Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell | comparative | Johns Hopkins | Johns Hopkins |
| Navida Wang | IR | South Carolina | South Carolina |
| Miles Williams | IR | Denison | Denison |
| 2021 | |||
| Nuole Chen | IR/comparative | MIT (postdoc) | MIT |
| Gustavo Diaz | comparative | Tulane CIPR (postdoc) | McMaster (postdoc) |
| Wei Zhong | comparative | George Washington IDDP (postdoc) | George Washington IDDP (postdoc) |
| 2020 | |||
| Ekrem Baser | IR | NYU Abu Dhabi (postdoc) | Syracuse University (postdoc) |
| Christopher Grady | comparative | USAID | USAID |
| Alice Iannantuoni | IR | Geneva (postdoc) | Geneva (postdoc) |
| Luke Plutowski | comparative | LAPOP (Vanderbilt) | LAPOP |
| Julian Scheirer | IR | California DOJ | California DOJ |
| 2019 | |||
| Bernard Brennan | comparative | Johnson & Wales | Johnson & Wales |
| Amanda Burke | comparative | California DOJ | Connections for the Homeless |
| Kyle Estes | comparative | Iowa State | Bradley |
| Jillian Evans | American | Michigan St. (postdoc) | Sister District Project |
| Thomas Lassi | IR | Arizona State (postdoc) | Region Dalarna |
| Tyler Pack | IR | Brigham Young | Brigham Young |
| Quinn Waeiss | comparative | Stanford (CREDO) | Standford (postdoc) |
| 2018 | |||
| Kylee Britzman | American | Lewis-Clark | Lewis-Clark |
| Amanda Cronkhite | comparative | USCGA | School of Advanced Military Studies |
| Collin Paschall | American | APSA Cong'l Fellow | Johns Hopkins |
| Matthew Powers | IR | Illinois | Lindsey Wilson |
| Kelly Senters | comparative | Wesleyan | USAFA |
| Wenshuo (Natalia) Zhang | comparative | Insight Data Science | Apple |
| 2017 | |||
| David Bowden | IR | Pennsylvania | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
| Matthew Cawvey | comparative | Oklahoma State | Erskine College |
| Benjamin Kantack | American | Georgia | Lycoming |
| Audrey Neville | American | Barnard | Qualtrics |
| Blair Niece | IR | Coastal Carolina | USMA (West Point) |
| Duu (Jason) Renn | IR | Denver | Messiah |
| Ashlea Rundlett | comparative | Rhode Island | Rhode Island |
| 2016 | |||
| Evangeline (Gina) Reynolds | IR | TU Dresden | USMA (West Point) |
| Paul Testa | American | Brown | Brown |
| Kaye Usry | American | Elon | Elon |
| Tarah Williams | American | Miami (OH) | Allegheny |
| 2015 | |||
| Cristina Alvarez Mingote | comparative | Illinois (ACE) | Illinois (Beckman Institute) |
| Matt Martin | IR | USAFA | SkyWest Airlines |
| Gina Martinez | IR | Duke (postdoc) | Resource Development Assoc. |
| Bryce Reeder | IR | Purdue | Missouri |
| Melinda (Molly) Ritchie | American | Vanderbilt (postdoc) | Ohio State |
| Matthew Spears | comparative | City of Chicago (Office of Inspector Gen'l) | Chicago Police Dept. |
| Ashly Townsen | IR | Washington State | Air War College |
| Neil Vander Most | comparative | Illinois (EU Center) | Utah |
| 2014 | |||
| Bryce Dietrich | American | Missouri | Purdue |
| Katherine Francis | American | Pittsburgh | Western Governors |
| Xiaoting Li | IR | Zhejiang Normal | Zhejiang Normal |
| Todd Robinson | IR | Illinois | Air University |
| Gennady Rudkevich | IR | Illinois | Georgia College |
| Konstantinos Travlos | IR | Georgia Southern | Ozyegin |
| 2013 | |||
| Sheena Arackal | IR | Illinois GOMB | |
| Andrea Kent | comparative | West Virginia University Institute of Technology | WVU Tech |
| Dan Koev | comparative | Regent | Regent |
| Megan Remmel | American | Norwich | Bradley |
| Burcu Ucaray-Mangitli | comparative/IR | Ipek | Gottingen |
| 2012 | |||
| Andy Bloeser | American | Northern Illinois | Allegheny |
| Leslie Caughell | American | Virginia Wesleyan | Virginia Wesleyan |
| Svitlana Chernykh | comparative | Oxford | Australian National |
| Jason Coronel | American | Illinois (Beckman) (postdoc) | Ohio State |
| Diego Correa | comparative | São Paulo (postdoc) | UFABC |
| Matthew Hayes | American | Indiana | Washington University |
| David Hendry | American | Yale (postdoc) | Hong Kong UST |
| Adam Irish | IR | Georgetown | California State-Chico |
| Aya Kachi | comparative/methods | ETH Zurich (postdoc) | Basel |
| Chera LaForge | American | Indiana-East | Illinois (Gies College of Business) |
| Shweta Moorthy | IR | Northern Illinois | Race Forward |
| Jamie Scalera | IR | Georgia Southern | Georgia Southern |
| Thorin Wright | IR | Arizona State | Arizona State |
| 2011 | |||
| Alexandru Balas | IR | Vermont | SUNY Cortland |
| Matt Hibbing | American | California-Merced | California-Merced |
| Dongsuk Kim | IR | Sogang University | Korean National Diplomatic Academy |
| Steven Meserve | comparative | Texas Tech | Northern Arizona |
| Andy Owsiak | IR | Georgia | Georgia |
| Carly Schmitt | American | Indiana State | Indiana State |
| Carie Steele | IR | Texas Tech | Northern Arizona |
| 2010 | |||
| Daniel Pemstein | comparative | Vanderbilt (postdoc) | North Dakota State |
| Munro Richardson | comparative | Kauffman Foundation | Belk Foundation |
| Huisheng Shou | comparative | Christopher Newport | Tsinghua |
| 2009 | |||
| James Melton | comparative | IMT Lucca, Italy | |
| Toby Rider | IR | Texas Tech | Texas Tech |
| Nathaniel Swigger | American | Ohio State (Newark) | Ohio State (Newark) |
| Sergio Wals | American | Nebraska-Lincoln | Nebraska-Lincoln |
| 2008 | |||
| Seden Akcinaroglu | IR | SUNY Binghamton | SUNY Binghamton |
| Dona-Gene Mitchell | American | Nebraska-Lincoln | Nebraska-Lincoln |
| 2007 | |||
| Jeffrey Cavanaugh | IR | Mississippi State | freelance writer |
| Scott Edwards | IR | Amnesty International | Amnesty International |
| Michael Findley | IR | Brigham Young | Texas |
| Christina Furtado | comparative | Brown | ECF |
| Susan Jellissen | comparative | Belmont | Belmont |
| Bryan McQuide | American | Idaho | Grand View |
| Elizabeth Radziszewski | IR | Yeshiva | Maryland |
| Peter Rudloff | IR | Oklahoma State | Oklahoma State |
| Jay Verkuilen | comparative/methods | CUNY (Psychology) | CUNY (Psychology) |
| 2006 | |||
| Florin Fesnic | comparative | Bucharest | Babes-Bolyai |
| Phil Habel | American | Southern Illinois | South Alabama |
| Michael Lewkowicz | American | Tennessee | Georgia Gwinnett |
| Ahmed Salem | IR | Zayed | Zayed |
| 2005 | |||
| Oana Armeanu | comparative | Southern Methodist | Southern Indiana |
| David Darmofal | American | Ohio State (postdoc) | South Carolina |
| Rebecca Harris | American | Washington and Lee | Washington and Lee |
| 2004 | |||
| Beth Admiraal | comparative | Lynchburg | King's College |
| Chad Atkinson | IR | Wright State | Sinclair CC |
| Justin Bumgardner | IR | Toronto | Toronto |
| Doug Stinnett | IR | Georgia | deceased, 2021 |
| Heather Tafel | comparative | Grand Valley State | Grand Valley State |
| 2003 | |||
| Dexter Boniface | comparative | Rollins College | Rollins College |
| Steve Breezeel | American | Harding | Harding |
| Bill Cunion | American | Mount Union College | Cuyahoga CC |
| Eric McDaniel | American | Texas | Texas |
| Srini Sitaraman | IR | Clark | Clark |
| 2002 | |||
| J. Michael Greig | IR | North Texas | North Texas |
| Joseph Hinchliffe | American | Illinois State | Illinois |
| Brian D. Roberts | American | Principia | Principia |
| 2001 | |||
| Michael Cobb | American | North Carolina State | private consulting |
| Sunil Dasgupta | IR | Brookings | George Washington |
| Jennifer Jerit | American | Southern Illinois | Stony Brook |
| David Paul | American | Fort Hays State | Washington House Rep. |
| Jaroslav Tir | IR | Alabama | Colorado |
| 2000 | |||
| Jeffrey Bosworth | comparative | Illinois | Mansfield |
| Mark Crescenzi | IR | North Carolina | North Carolina |
| Sean Matheson | American | Knox College | Caterpillar, Inc. |
| Shonali Sardesai | IR | Maryland | World Bank |
| David Schwieder | American | Susquehanna | Florida |
| 1999 | |||
| Jeffery Jenkins | American | Michigan State | S. California |
| Sang-Hyun Lee | IR | Wolfram Research | Sejong Institute |
| Dinshaw Mistry | comparative | Cincinnati | Cincinnati |
| Tim Nokken | American | Houston | Texas Tech |
| Jason Sharman | comparative/IR | American (Bulgaria) | Cambridge |
| 1998 | |||
| Andrew Green | comparative | Johns Hopkins | |
| David Longenecker | comparative | US government | US government |
| Swarna Rajagopalan | comparative | Michigan State (postdoc) | Chaitanya Consulting |
| James Sopp | American/Theory | US government | US government |
| 1997 | |||
| Nan Dibello | American | Wells College | SUNY Empire State |
| Donald Greco | American | Baylor | |
| Norman Hurley | American | North Carolina | North Carolina |
| 1996 | |||
| James Alexander | comparative | Northeastern St. (OK) | US Government |
| Badredine Arfi | IR | Southern Illinois | Florida |
| Paul Bolt | IR | Air Force Academy | Air Force Academy |
| Jeanie Bukowski | IR/comparative | Bradley | Bradley |
| Wes Chapin | IR | Wisconsin (River Falls) | Wisconsin (River Falls) |
| Michael Frank | American | Knox College | Anderson |
| Paul Hensel | IR | Florida State | North Texas |
| Garth Katner | comparative | St. Norbert College | Great Books Foundation |
| Chetan Kumar | IR/comparative | Int'l Peace Academy | United Nations |
| Richard Marshall | American | Trial Lawyers Association | Trial Lawyers Association |
| Jeffrey Roberg | comparative | Carthage | Carthage |
| Marybeth Ulrich | IR | Air Force Academy | Army War College |
| 1995 | |||
| Jon Dalager | American | Georgetown College | MnSCU |
| Amit Gupta | comparative | Stone Hill College | Air War College |
| Kelly Kadera | IR | Iowa | Iowa |
| Alex Kozhemiakin | comparative | Georgia State | |
| Tracy Kuperus | comparative | Westmont College | Calvin College |
| Richard Leitch | IR/comparative | Illinois | Gustavus Adolphus College |
| Collins Shackelford | IR | Air Force Academy | Pikes Peak CC |
| Paul Goldschmidt | comparative | Wisconsin (Platteville) | Healthcare Infomatics |
| James Finlay | comparative | SUNY Oswego | deceased, 2023 |
| 1994 | |||
| Tamara Resler | American | Wyoming | freelance consultant |
| 1993 | |||
| Itty Abraham | comparative | SSRC | Nat'l U Singapore |
| Dominique Arel | comparative | Ottawa | Ottawa |
| Terry Clark | IR | Creighton | Creighton |
| 1992 | |||
| Amanda Gouws | comparative | Stellenbosch (S. Africa) | Stellenbosch (S. Africa) |
| Robert Mattes | American | Cape Town | Cape Town |
| Gary Segura | American | Iowa | UCLA |
| 1991 | |||
| Kavita Khory | comparative | Mount Holyoke College | Mount Holyoke College |
| Alex Pacek | comparative | Texas A & M | Texas A & M |
| Benjamin Radcliff | American | Notre Dame | Notre Dame |
| Charles Taber | IR | SUNY Stony Brook | SUNY Stony Brook |
| Mary Beth Wong | Theory | Notre Dame | |
| 1990 | |||
| Kanti Bajpai | comparative | Maharajah Sayajirao | Nat'l U Singapore |
| Keith Boeckelman | American | Texas A&M | Western Illinois |
| DeLysa Burnier | American | Ohio | Ohio |
| Nancy Gallagher | comparative | Illinois Wesleyan | Maryland |
| Gretchen Hower | IR | Michigan State | C&R Research |
| Ellen Riggle | American | Kentucky | Kentucky |