Graduate Program
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 2009, particularly given the severity of the economic downturn. To commence tenure-track appointments, Todd Hall is headed for the University of Toronto; Keisha Lindsay to the University of Wisconsin; Nuno Monteiro to Yale University; Michelle Murray to Bard College; Emily Nacol to Vanderbilt; Bonnie Weir to the University of Illinois, Paula Booke to Hope College; Zachary Callen to Carroll College; John Schuessler to the Air War College; Shang Ha to CUNY, Brooklyn; Waikeung Tam to the University of Singapore; and Deva Woodly and Rafi Youatt to the New School. Zeynep Bulutgil begins her post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton this fall as does Tehama Lopez at Duke and Jennifer London at Tufts. Vaidya Gundlupet will finish a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard before heading to the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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 Advising and Planning Services (CAPS) 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.
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
Dokuz Eylul University
Duke University
Gonzaga University
Hope College
International University of Japan
Kyunghee University
Lehigh University
McGill University
Millsaps College
The New School
Northwestern University
Nuffield College, Oxford
North Central College
Seoul National University
Southern Methodist University
St. Lawrence University
Syracuse University
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Chicago Law School
University of Florida
University of Hawaii
University of Illinois
University of Notre Dame
University of Singapore
University of Toronto
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin
Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Yale University
