This page is designed to provide instantaneous and continuously updated information about our Ph.D. candidates (and some recent Ph.D.s) now on the academic market. For each student, you will find a descriptive paragraph, a curriculum vitae, and a variety of other information. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our job candidates; members of our faculty; Thom Wall, the placement coordinator on our staff; or this year's placement directors Professor Eric Nelson and Professor Kosuke Imai.
| Placement Candidate | Field | Advisor |
| Abbott, Jared | Comparative | Steven Levitsky |
| Abolafia, Jacob | Political Theory | Danielle Allen |
| Bautista-Chavez, Angie M. | American / IR | Daniel Carpenter/Beth Simmons |
| Finger, Leslie | American | Paul Peterson |
| Gao, Huan Jany | Comparative | Elizabeth Perry |
| Goplerud, Max | Methods | Gary King |
| Harpham, John | Theory | Eric Nelson |
| Ifkovits, David | Comparative / American Politics | Torben Iversen / Steven Levitsky |
| Kaslovsky, Jaclyn | American Politics | Stephen Ansolabehere |
| Kohler-Derrick, Gabriel | Comparative | Melani Cammett |
| Lee, Boram | IR/Comparative | Jeffry Frieden |
| Lee, Yoon Jin | IR/Comparative | Iain Johnston / Josh Kertzer |
| Liaqat, Asad | Comparative | Torben Iversen |
| Liu, Shelley | IR/Comparative | Jeffry Frieden |
| Lockwood, Sarah | Comparative | Robert Bates |
| Mazumder, Shom | American Politics/Methods | Daniel Carpenter |
| McElroy, Brendan | Comparative | Timothy Colton |
| Olson, Michael | American Politics | James Snyder |
| Pressly, Lowry | Political Theory | Michael Sandel |
| Reza, Syed Shimail | Political Theory | Michael Sandel |
| Romney, David | Comparative | Melani Cammett |
| Ross Camarena, Kara | International Relations | Robert Bates / Beth Simmons |
| Strange, Austin | IR | Jeffry Frieden / Iain Johnston |
| Weaver, Julie Anne | Comparative | Steven Levitsky |