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.
Jennifer Rubenstein, a political theorist, is a new faculty member at the University of Virginia. Sarita Gregory joins the faculty at Vassar College. After spending a year at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, Adria Lawrence will join the faculty at Yale. Bethany Albertson, an Americanist, is at the University of Washington. Sebastian Rosato, who teaches international relations, joined the faculty at Notre Dame and Milan Svolik, who teaches political economy, joined the faculty at the University of Illinois. Other recent placements include Michael Heaney at the University of Florida; Moto Saji at the International University of Japan; Breena Holland at Lehigh University; and Michael Reinhard at Millsaps College, to name a few.
Among recent postdoctoral fellowship winners, Leigh Jenco and Emily Nacol are postdoctoral research associates with the Political Theory Project at Brown University; Neil Roberts in the Department of Africana Studies and Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University; Shang Ha at Yale University; Lora Viola at the Social Science Center, Berlin; and Yasmin Dawood at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council at the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto. Other recent Chicago graduates can be found on college and university faculties throughout the country.
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
Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE)
City University of New York
Dokuz Eylul University
Duke University (2)
Gonzaga University
International University of Japan
Kyunghee University
Lehigh University
McGill University
Millsaps College
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 Florida
University of Hawaii
University of Illinois
University of Notre Dame
University of Virginia
University of Washington
Vasser College
Yale University
