Placement History
As one of five or six schools whose graduates fill the country's leading political science departments, we start by recruiting the very best students and then offer them the kind of serious professional training that produces outstanding young scholars.
The vitality of our graduate program is apparent in the list of awards and fellowships won by our graduate students each year, as well as by students' post-graduate careers. Worthy of note is our students' exceptional performance on the tenure-track job market in 2011, particularly given the severity of the economic downturn. Ten of our students are off to tenure-track teaching positions this year: Zeynep Bulutgil to the Fletcher School at Tufts University; Andrew Dilts to Loyola Marymount University; Joseph Fischel will spend a year at the Pembroke Center at Brown University before taking up a position at Yale; Juan Ibarra to CIDE; Burak Kadercan to the University of Barcelona; Jamila Michener to Cornell University after a postdoctoral year as a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar at the University of Michigan; Nikola Mirilovic to the University of Central Florida; Gladys Mitchell-Walthour to Dennison College; Erica Simmons to the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and Frank Smith to the University of Sydney. Lauren Duquette-Rury has been awarded the Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship at UCLA and Loren Goldman the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at UC Berkeley. In addition, Jennie Han has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities at Bard College; Anne Harrington de Santana at the Monterey Institute of International Studies; Anne Holthoefer at the Committee on International Relations here at the University of Chicago; Jenna Jordan at the Harris School also at the University of Chicago; Rosemary Kelanic at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University; and Jennifer London a visitor position at the Institute for Advanced Study. The promising scholarly careers of these recent Chicago Ph.D.s began with graduate seminars and workshops and culminated with important thesis research.
The promising scholarly careers of these recent Chicago Ph.D.s began with graduate seminars and workshops and culminated with important thesis research.
The department recognizes that some Ph.D.s seek employment outside the traditional fields of teaching and research. The University's office of Career Advancement can help students evaluate these options and supports a full range of placement services with corporations, non-profit institutions, and government agencies. In the past decade, several graduates have entered the State Department and moved into senior policymaking positions. Other recent graduates have been involved in state and local government, academic administration at colleges and universities, or work at major international consulting firms.
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Recent Tenure Track Placements:
Academia Sinica
Air War College
Bard College
Carroll College
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
City University of New York
Cornell University
Denison College
Dokuz Eylul University
Duke University
George Mason
Georgia Tech University
Gonzaga University
Hope College
International University of Japan
Kyunghee University
Lehigh University
Loyola Marymount University
McGill University
Millsaps College
The New School
Northwestern University
Nuffield College, Oxford
North Central College
Oberlin College
Ohio University
Reed College
Scripps College
Seoul National University
Southern Methodist University
St. Lawrence University
Syracuse University
Tufts University
University of Barcelona
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Central Florida
University of Chicago Law School
University of Florida
University of Hawaii
University of Illinois
University of Notre Dame
University of Oregon
University of Singapore
University of Sydney
University of Toronto
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin
Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Washington University
William Paterson
Williams College
Yale University
