We are ranked as a Top 10 research department and our graduate program has an excellent job placement record. Over the past decade, more than 50% of our Ph.D. graduates have gone on to attain tenure-track positions, and many other students have become leaders in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
2024
- Ben Broman, Assistant Professor, Purdue
- Gloria Cheung, Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen
- Trent Ollerenshaw, Assistant Professor, University of Houston
- Mateo Villamizar Chaparro, Assistant Professor, Universidad Católica del Uruguay
2023
- Curtis Bram, Assistant Professor, University of Texas - Dallas
- Rebecca Dudley, Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University
- Arvind Krishnamurthy, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
- Gabriella Levy, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
- Marayna Martinez, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado - Boulder
- Charles Nathan, Post-doc, City College of New York
- Songkhun Nillasithanukroh - Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas
- Griffin Riddler - Operations Research Analyst, Naval Warfare Development Center
- Viola Rothschild - Intelligence Specialist, US State Department
- Harunobu Saijo, Assistant Professor, Hiroshima University
- Priscilla Torres, Assistant Professor, Wellesley College
- Pei-Yu Wei, Post-doc, University of Texas - Austin
2022
- Serkant Adiguzel, Assistant Professor, Sabancı Üniversitesi
- Pawel Charasz, Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen
- Jared Clemons, Assistant Professor, Temple University
- Jesse Lopez, Research Scientist, RTI International
- Elliot Mamet, Post-doc, Princeton University
- Tim McDade, Director of Research, BlackRock
- Peng Peng, Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
- Jasmine Smith, Assistant Professor, George Washington University
- Hongshen Zhu, Post-doc, University of Pennsylvania
2021
- Robert Allred, Government sector, Department of Defense
- Brian Guay, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
- Luis Guirola, Data Scientist, Banco de España
- So Jin Lee, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
- Zeren Li, Assistant Professor, National University Singapore
- Gabe Madson, Research Scientist, RTI International
- Ana María Montoya, Director of Data Analytics, World Justice Project
- Marco Morucci, Assistant Professor, Michigan State
- Emily Rains, Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University
- Hannah Ridge, Assistant Professor, Chapman University
2020
- Joseph Brown, Squadron Commander, United States Air Force
- Chong Chen, Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University
- Moohyung Cho, Assistant Professor, Ewha Womans University
- Dean Dulay, Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University
- Margaret Foster, Post-doc, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- Ida Hjermitslev, Post-doc, University of Vienna
- Howard Liu, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
- Devin McCarthy, Redistricting Fellow, ACLU
- Soomin Oh, Post-doc, Development Engagement Lab
- Kristen Renberg, Dechart LLP, Charlotte, NC
- Jordan Roberts, Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University
- Jason Todd, Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University
- Tusi Ündes Wen, Research Associate, Duke Center for International Development
2019
- Haohan Chen, Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong
- Eric Cheng, Assistant Professor, Waseda University
- Trang Anh Do, Data Scientist, Nielsen
- Libby Jenke, Assistant Professor, University of Houston
- David Kearney, Senior Data Scientist, CVS Health
- Antong Liu, Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University
- Bailey Sanders, McDermott, Will & Emery, LLP, Washington, D.C.
- Nura Sediqe, Assistant Professor, Michigan State
- Jeremy Spater, Post-doc, Duke University
- Juan Tellez, Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
- Jan Vogler, Assistant Professor, University of Konstanz
- Kaitlyn Webster, Senior Analyst, RS21
2018
- Kathryn Alexander, Assistant Professor, Wheaton College
- Andrew Ballard, Assistant Processor, American University
- Asli Cansunar, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
- Noa Cnaan-On, Quantitative Researcher, Facebook
- Victoria Dounoucos, Survey Methodologist, RTI
- Patrick Howell, Director, Modern War Institute, US Military Academy
- Anh Quoc Le, Research Scientist, Facebook
- Fengming Lu, Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Australian National University
- Victoria Paniagua, Assistant Professor, London School of Economics
- Austin Wang, Assistant Professor, UNLV
2017
- Samuel Bagg, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
- Cindy Cheng, Post-doc, Bavarian School of Public Policy
- Matthew Cole, Preceptor, Harvard University
- Michael Hawley, Assistant Professor, University of Houston
- Sophie Jiseon Lee, Assistant Professor, Metropolitan College of New York
- Joshua Lerner, Research Methodologist, NORC University of Chicago
- Alicia Martinez Reyes-Barrientez, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M-San Antonio
- Ben Radford, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
- Anna Schultz, Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University
- Alexandra Oprea, Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill
2016
- Melina Altamirano, Assistant Professor, El Colegio de México (Colmex)
- Darren Beattie, Writer, Freelance
- Andrew Bell, Assistant Professor, Indiana University
- Jared Daugherty, Director of Grants, Shaw University
- Mark Dudley, Director of Merit Scholarship Programs, Duke OUSF
- Thomas Gift, Associate Professor, University College London
- Rebecca Hatch, Senior Research Analyst, Tufts University
- Laura Frankel, Research Scientist, Facebook
- Taneisha Means, Assistant Professor, Vassar College
- Raymond Mercado, Post-doc, George Mason University
- Shahryar Minhas, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
2015
- Dominique Dery, Program Coordinator, Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center
- Cassy Dorff, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
- Max Gallop, Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Strathclyde
- Florian Hollenbach, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
- Daniel Krcmaric, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
- Aaron Roberts, Senior Consultant, Deloitte
- Simon Weschle, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
2014
- Benjamin Barber, Assistant Professor, Instituto de Empresa Business School
- Seth Cantey, Associate Professor, Washington and Lee University
- Sandra Ley Guiterrez, Assistant Professor, Centro de Investigacion Docencia Economica (CIDE)
- Nathaniel Harris, Internal Medicine Residency, Duke University School of Medicine
- Aaron Houck, Assistant Professor, Queens University of Charlotte
- Danielle Lupton, Associate Professor, Colgate University
- Jonathan Schwartz, Proposal Manager, Paragon Partners Ltd.
- William Wittels, Manager of Undergraduate and Graduate Programs, The Leadership Alliance
2013
- Bradford Bishop, Assistant Professor, Wheaton College
- Aaron King, Associate Professor, UNC – Wilmington
- Charles Miller, Lecturer, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
- Brittany Perry, Instructional Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
- Ionut Popescu, Assistant Professor, Texas State University
- Yi-Ting Wang, Associate Professor, National Cheng Kung University
- Sean Zeigler, Associate Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
2012
- Jessica Carew, Assistant Professor, Elon University
- Cristina Corduneanu, Associate Professor, Central European University
- Christopher Desante, Associate Professor, Indiana University
- Marco Fernández, Research Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey
- Kent Freeze, Assistant Professor, Carleton College
- Melanie Freeze, Visiting Assistant Professor, Carleton College
- Elda Becerra Mizuno, Coordinadora de Opinion Publica de la Presidencia
- Jan Pierskalla, Associate Professor, Ohio State University
- David Rice, Senior Program Manager, Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness
- Arturas Rozenas, Associate Professor, New York University
- Richard Salsman, Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University
- Lenka Bustikova-Siroky, Associate Professor, Arizona State University
- David Sparks, Director of Basketball Analytics, Boston Celtics
2011
- James Bourke, Assistant Principal, Washington International School
- Keegan Callanan, Associate Professor, Middlebury College
- Kathryn Cochran, Director of Foreign Policy Research, Good Judgment Inc.
- Nora Hanagan, Teaching Assistant Professor, UNC – Chapel Hill
- Benjamin Hertzberg, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Gartner
- Kiril Kolev, Associate Professor, Hendrix University
- Jacob Montgomery, Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
- Amber Diaz Pearson, Research Scholar, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
- Lucas Perkins, Software Engineer, Timber
- Anoop Sadanandan, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
- Eugene Walton, Data Analytics Consultant, Girls Inc.
- Candis Watts Smith, Associate Professor, Duke University
2010
- Ali Aslam, Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College
- Nazli Avdan, Associate Professor, University of Kansas
- Bruno Borges, Assistant Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
- Stefan Dolgert, Associate Professor, Brock University
- William English, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
- David McIvor, Associate Professor, Colorado State University
- Kian Ong, Member of Parliament, Malaysia
- Damon Palmer, Vice President, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp
- Sinziana Dorobantu, Assistant Professor, NYU School of Business
- Nicholas Troester, Resources Operations Manager, Research Square
- Mark Yeisley, Associate Professor, Air University
2024
- Ben Broman, Assistant Professor, Purdue
- Gloria Cheung, Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen
- Trent Ollerenshaw, Assistant Professor, University of Houston
- Mateo Villamizar Chaparro, Assistant Professor, Universidad Católica del Uruguay
2023
- Curtis Bram, Assistant Professor, University of Texas - Dallas
- Rebecca Dudley, Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University
- Arvind Krishnamurthy, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
- Gabriella Levy, Post-doc, Brown University
- Marayna Martinez, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado - Boulder
- Charles Nathan, Post-doc, City College of New York
- Songkhun Nillasithanukroh - Post-doc, University of Arkansas
- Griffin Riddler - Operations Research Analyst, Naval Warfare Development Center
- Viola Rothschild - Intelligence Specialist, US State Department
- Harunobu Saijo, Assistant Professor, Hiroshima University
- Priscilla Torres, Assistant Professor, Wellesley College
- Pei-Yu Wei, Post-doc, University of Texas - Austin
2022
- Serkant Adiguzel, Assistant Professor, Sabancı Üniversitesi
- Pawel Charasz, Post-doc, Brown University
- Jared Clemons, Assistant Professor, Temple University
- Jesse Lopez, Research Scientist, RTI International
- Elliot Mamet, American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship
- Tim McDade, Director of Research, BlackRock
- Peng Peng, Post-doc, Yale University
- Jasmine Smith, Assistant Professor, George Washington University
- Hongshen Zhu, Post-doc, University of Pennsylvania
2021
- Robert Allred, Government sector, Department of Defense
- Brian Guay, Post-doc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Luis Guirola, Data Scientist, Banco de España
- So Jin Lee, Post-doc, Harvard/MIT
- Zeren Li, Post-doc, Yale University
- Gabe Madson, Research Scientist, RTI International
- Ana María Montoya, Director of Data Analytics, World Justice Project
- Marco Morucci, Moore-Sloane Faculty Fellow, New York University
- Emily Rains, Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University
- Hannah Ridge, Post-doc, University of Chicago
- Tusi Wen, Research Association, Duke Center for International Development
2020
- Joseph Brown, Squadron Commander, United States Air Force
- Chong Chen, Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University
- Moohyung Cho, Visiting Researcher, Seoul National University
- Dean Dulay, Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University
- Margaret Foster, Post-doc, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- Ida Hjermitslev, Post-doc, University of Vienna
- Howard Liu, Lecturer, University of Essex (after a post-doc, Penn State University)
- Devin McCarthy, Post-doc, University of Oklahoma
- Soomin Oh, Post-doc, Development Engagement Lab at University of Birmingham and University College London
- Kristen Renberg, Duke Law School
- Jordan Roberts, Assistant Professor, Coastal Carolina University
- Jason Todd, Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University
2019
- Haohan Chen, Post-doc, NYU (after a post-doc at UPenn)
- Eric Cheng, Post-doc, University of Toronto
- Trang Anh Do, Data Scientist, Nielsen
- Libby Jenke, Assistant Professor, University of Houston
- David Kearney, Data Scientist, CVS Health
- Antong Liu, Post-doc, Brown University
- Bailey Sanders, Duke Law School
- Nura Sediqe, Post-doc, Princeton University
- Jeremy Spater, Post-doc, Princeton University
- Juan Tellez, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
- Jan Vogler, Post-doc, UVA
- Kaitlyn Webster, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
2018
- Kathryn Alexander, Assistant Professor, Wheaton College
- Andrew Ballard, Assistant Processor, American University
- Asli Cansunar, Post-doc, Oxford University
- Noa Cnaan-On, Visiting Researcher, Stanford University
- Victoria Dounoucos, Survey Methodologist, RTI
- Patrick Howell, Director, Modern War Institute, US Military Academy
- Anh Quoc Le, Research Scientist, Facebook
- Fengming Lu, Lecturer, Australian National University
- Victoria Paniagua, Lecturer at the London School of Economics
- Austin Wang, Assistant Professor, UNLV
2017
- Samuel Bagg, Post-doc, McGill University
- Cindy Cheng, Post-doc, Bavarian School of Public Policy
- Matthew Cole, Preceptor, Harvard University
- Michael Hawley, Post-doc, Notre Dame
- Sophie Jiseon Lee, Instructor, Metropolitan College of New York
- Joshua Lerner, Post-doc, Northwestern University
- Alicia Martinez, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M-San Antonio
- Ben Radford, Principal Data Scientist, Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc.
- Anna Schultz, Post-doc, University of Pennsylvania
- Alexandra Oprea, Research Assistant Professor, UNC Chapel Hill
2016
- Melina Altamirano, Assistant Professor, El Colegio de México (Colmex)
- Daren Beattie, Instructor, Duke University
- Andrew Bell, Assistant Professor, Indiana University
- Jared Daugherty, Director of Grants, Shaw University
- Mark Dudley, Admissions Officer, Duke University
- Thomas Gift, Assistant Professor, University College London
- Rebecca Hatch, Research Analyst, Tufts University
- Laura Frankel, Associate, Benenson Strategy Group
- Taneisha Means, Assistant Professor, Vassar College
- Raymond Mercado, Post-doc, George Mason University
- Shahryar Minhas, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
2015
- Dominique Dery, Healthy Communities Specialist, Transplanting Traditions
- Cassy Dorff, Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico
- Max Gallop, Lecturer, University of Strathclyde
- Florian Hollenbach, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
- Daniel Krcmaric, Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
- Aaron Roberts, Consultant, CEB
- Simon Weschle, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
2014
- Benjamin Barber, Assistant Professor, Instituto de Empresa Business School
- Seth Cantey, Assistant Professor, Washington and Lee University
- Sandra Ley Guiterrez, Assistant Professor, Centro de Investigacion Docencia Economica (CIDE)
- Nathaniel Harris, M.D. Program, Duke University Medical School
- Aaron Houck, AP edX Assessment Coordinator, Davidson College
- Danielle Lupton, Assistant Professor, Colgate University
- Jonathan Schwartz, Post-doc, The Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, University of Wisconsin
- William Wittels, Research Analyst, The Tobin Project
2013
- Bradford Bishop, Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University
- Aaron King, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina – Wilmington
- Charles Miller, Lecturer, Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
- Brittany Perry, Instructional Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
- Ionut Popescu, Assistant Professor, Regent University
- Yi-Ting Wang, Assistant Professor, National Cheng Kung University
- Sean Zeigler, Associate Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
2012
- Jessica Carew, Post-doc/Assistant Professor, Elon University
- Cristina Corduneanu, Assistant Professor, Central European University
- Christopher Desante, Assistant Professor, Indiana University
- Marco Fernandez, Research Director at Mexico Evalua
- Kent Freeze, Assistant Professor, Carleton College
- Melanie Freeze, Visiting Professor, Wesleyan University
- Elda Becerra Mizuno, Coordinadora de Opinion Publica de la Presidencia
- Jan Pierskalla, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University
- David Rice, Adjunct, Connecticut College
- Arturas Rozenas, Assistant Professor, New York University
- Richard Salsman, Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University
- Lenka Siroky, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
- David Sparks, Director of Basketball Analytics, Boston Celtics
2011
- James Bourke, Visiting Fellow, Fordham University
- Keegan Callanan, Assistant Professor, Middlebury College
- Kathryn Cochran, Visiting Lecturer, American University
- Nora Hanagan, Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University
- Benjamin Hertzberg, Visiting Assistant Professor, Emory University
- Kiril Kolev, Assistant Professor, Hendrix University
- Jacob Montgomery, Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
- Amber Diaz Pearson, Post-doctoral Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University
- Lucas Perkins, Self-employed, Start-Up IT Business
- Anoop Sadanandan, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
- Eugene Walton, Postdoctoral Fellow, Pennsylvania State University
- Candis Watts Smith, Postdoctoral Fellow, Texas A&M University
2010
- Ali Aslam, Visiting Instructor, Princeton University
- Nazli Avdan, Junior Research Fellow, University College, Oxford
- Bruno Borges, Assistant Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
- Stefan Dolgert, Assistant Professor, Brock University
- William English, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University
- David McIvor, Assistant Professor, Colorado State University
- Kian Ong, Member of Parliament, Malaysia (formerly Instructor, UCSI University)
- Damon Palmer, Principal, Promontory Financial Group, New York
- Sinziana Popa, Post-doc, Wharton School of Business
- Nicholas Troester, Quality Control Editor, Research Square
- Mark Yeisley, Assistant Professor, Maxwell Air Force
2009
- Michael Brady, Assistant Professor, Denison University
- Anne Flaherty, Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville
- Laura Grattan, Assistant Professor, Wellesley College
- Haifeng Huang, Assistant Professor, University of California Merced
- Daniel Kselman, Junior Research Fellow, Juan March Institute
- Ming-Whey Lee, Assistant Professor, St. John's College
- Jie Lu, Assistant Professor, American University
- Ian McDonald, Visiting Professor, Portland State University
- Brendan Nyhan, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College
- Joel Schlosser, Assistant Professor, Bryn Mawr College
- David Siroky, Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
2008
- Mark Axelrod, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
- Jorge Bravo, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
- Matthew Fehrs, Assistant Professor, St. Mary's College
- Daniel Lee, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
- Monique Lyle, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
- Efrén Pérez, Professor, University of California - Los Angeles
- Philipp Rehm, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford
- Jill Rickershauser, Assistant Professor, American University
- Shanaysha Sauls, School Board Chair, Baltimore City Public Schools
- Timothy Warren, Senior Director, Legislative Programs, General Dynamics Information Technology, Washington, DC (formerly Assistant Professor, Naval Postgraduate School)
2007
- Niambi Carter, Assistant Professor, Purdue University
- Ashwini Chhatre, Assistant Professor, University Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- Lindsay Cohn, Senior Assistant Professor, Naval War College
- Victoria DeFrancesco, Adjunct Professor, Fellow & Senior Analyst, University of Texas
- Matthew Singer, Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut
- Christopher Whytock, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Utah
- Dennis Yeates, Post-doc, Stanford Law School
2006
- Brett Benson, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
- Adam Brinegar, Research Leader, Corporate Leadership Council, Corporate Executive Board (CEB)
- William Curtis, Assistant Professor, University of Portland
- Gerald Digiusto, Visiting Instructor, Bowdoin College
- Seth Jolly, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
- Alisa Kessel, Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound
- Yoonkyung Lee, Assistant Professor, SUNY, Binghamton
- Amy McKay, Assistant Professor, Georgia State University
- Jason Reifler, Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter
- Michael Tofias, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
- John Zachman, Assistant Professor, Northwestern Michigan College
2005
- Ericka Albaugh, Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College
- Philip Brendese, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins
- Kevin Morrison, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
- Shayla Nunnally, Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut
- Dennis Rasmussen, Assistant Professor, Tufts University
- Thomas Scotto, Professor of Government, University of Essex
- Seth Weinberger, Assistant Professor, University of Puget Sound
