2021-22 Placement Cohort
Doctoral students on the job market in 2022 represent the fields of American politics, comparative politics, international relations, and political theory.
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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) | NYU Abu Dhabi (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) | Stanford (CREDO) | |
| 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 (CSBS) | |
| 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 | Indiana-East | |
| 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 | Cornell | |
| 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 | |