The department has an excellent record of graduate placement. Recent graduates have obtained positions at leading universities and at leading organizations in government and industry. Following is the placement history for our recent graduates.
2023-24
Amy Chandran Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Caterina Chiopris Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Kaitlyn Chriswell Post-doc, Brown University
Julia Coyoli Assistant Professor, University of Strathclyde
Shusei Eshima Data Scientist, Netflix
Joshua Freedman Post-doc, University of Pennsylvania
Chelsea Green non-academic job candidate
Sarah Gustafson Assistant Professor, American University
Dimitrios Halikias Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Christopher Havasy Assistant Professor, Penn State University Law School
Liam Klein Research Fellow, Clingendael
Hansong Li Assistant Professor, American University
Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki Post-doc, European University Institute
Natasha Murtaza Visiting Assistant Professor, Williams College
James Rosenberg additional education (law school)
Jacob Roundtree Post-doc, Johns Hopkins University
Tyler Simko Assistant Professor, Univ Michigan
Seth Soderborg Principal Consultant, SNS Analytics LLC
Olivia Woldemikael Post-doc, The New School for Social Research
Andi Zhou Assistant Professor, U.S. Naval Academy
2022-23
Sean Ashley Post-doc, University of Maryland
Soubhik Barari Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Avishay Ben Sasson-Gordis Post-doc, Hebrew University
Fernando Bizzarro Neto Assistant Professor, Boston College
Jessie Bullock Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
Noah Daponte-Smith Analyst, Eurasia Group
Kevin DeLuca Assistant Professor, Yale University
Reva Dhingra Policy and Planning Advisor, International Rescue Committee
Georgina Evans Research Scientist, Google
Naima Green-Riley Assistant Professor, Princeton University
Jingkai He Post-doc, Stanford University
Hanno Hilbig Assistant Professor, U.C. Davis
Jacob Hoerger Senior Researcher, Equal Justice Initiative
Alyssa Huberts Social Scientist, The Lab @ DC
Kaneesha Johnson Post-doc, University of North Carolina Chapel Hillre
Andrew Leber Assistant Professor, Tulane University
Aseem Mahajan Post-doc, New York University Abu Dhabi
Harry Oppenheimer Assistant Professor, Georgia Tech
Yon Soo Park Co-Founder, R.care
Connor Phillips Post-Doc, Vanderbilt University
Justin Pottle Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago
Sascha Riaz Assistant Professor, European University Institute
William Tilleczek Post-doc, McGill University
Briitta van Staalduinen Assistant Professor, Leiden University
Arjun Vishwanath Assistant Professor, Boston University
Saul Wilson Assistant Professor, Ashoka University
Alica Xu Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Soichiro Yamauchi Data Scientist, Google
Hanyu Zelda Zhao Assistant Professor, Tohoku University
2021-22
Pablo Balan Assistant Professor, Tel Aviv University
Jeremy Bowles Post-doc, Stanford University; Assistant Professor, University College London
Jacob Brown Post-doc, Princeton University; Assistant Professor, Boston University
Leah Downey Junior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
Mitchell Kilborn Product Scientist, LinkedIn
Amy Lakeman Adjunct Professor, Calvin University
Pamela Nwakanma Leading Edge Fellow, American Council for Learned Societies
Matthew Reichert Preceptor in Social Studies, Harvard University
Tobias Resch Lead Research Scientist, Amend Project
Atyug Sasmaz Assistant Professor, Bryn Mawr College
Nicholas Short Post-doc, Princeton University
Joshua Simons Director, Labour Together
2020-21
Angie Bautista-Chavez Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Christopher Chaky Experimentation and Analytics Researcher, Harvard Business Review.
Colleen Driscoll Data Scientist, PayPal
Edmund Flanigan Assistant Professor, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Jon Gould Assistant Professor, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Mark Hill not on academic job market
Anna Hopper Assistant Professor, NYU Shanghai
Connor Jerzak Assistant Professor, U.T. Austin
Gabe Koehler-Derrick Assistant Professor, NYU-Abu Dhabi
Shiro Kuriwaki Assistant Professor, Yale University
Audrey Latura Postdoctorate Associate, Yale University
Brendan McElroy Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
Michael Morse Assistant Professor, Boston College
Lowry Pressly Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard University
Albert Rivero Assistant Professor, University of Virginia
David Romney Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University
Andrew Stone Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi
Julie Weaver Lecturer on Social Studies and Academy Fellow, Harvard University
Jin Zang Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Axle
Michael Zoorob Research Advancement Manager, Meta
2019-20
Jared Abbott Post-Doc and Lecturer, Princeton University
Alla Baranovsky Math Teacher, Dana Hall School
Huan Gao Assistant Professor, Carleton College
Max Goplerud Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Yichen Guan Chief Consultant and Head of Research, PalmDrive Inc.
John Harpham Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Connor Huff Assistant Professor, Rice University
David Jud Lead Director of Research, Civey
Jaclyn Kaslovsky Assistant Professor, Rice University
Boram Lee Assistant Professor, London School of Economics
Yoon Jin Lee Assistant Professor, City University of New York (CUNY)
Shom Mazumder Freelance Writer and Cook
Belen Milmanda Fernandez Assistant Professor, Trinity College
Michael Olson Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis
Austin Strange Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong
Sarah White Assistant Professor, U.S. Military Academy
2018-19
Jacob Abolafia Assistant Professor, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Christopher Carothers Associated Scholar, University of Pennsylvania
Christopher Celaya Program Coordinator and Lecturer, Colorado State Univ.
Rush Doshi Founding Director of the China Strategy Initiative, Brookings
Chase Foster Research Fellow and Lecturer, Brown University
Rebecca Goldstein Assistant Professor, U.C. Berkeley Law School Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program
Jesse Gubb Research Manager, J-Pal North America
Dana Higgins Principal Data Scientist, Fidelity Investments.
Jennifer Howk Director, TrueNorth Health Foundation
Tyler Jost Assistant Professor, Brown University
Aaron Kaufman Assistant Professor, NYU Abu Dhabi
Tsin Yen Koh Assistant Professor, Yale-NUS College Singapore
Mayya Komisarchik Assistant Professor, University of Rochester
Dominika Kruszewska Manager, Bain. & Company
Adam Lebovitz WYNG Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
Brian Libgober Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
Dan Moskowitz Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Rory Schacter Research Scholar, University of Tokyo
Shanna Weitz Social Science Research Analyst, US Dept of Health and Human Services
Tess Wise Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
2017-18
Pamela Ban Assistant Professor, U.C. San Diego
Peter Bucchianeri Research Consultant, Vanderbilt University
Ranjit Lall Associate Professor, University of Oxford
Leslie Finger Assistant Professor, University of North Texas
Samuel Imlay Research Scientist, The College Board
Madhav Khosla Associate Professor of Law, Columbia University
Matthew Kim Assistant Professor of Law, University of Florida
Chan Peter Kim Senior Associate, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Christopher Lucas Assistant Professor, Washington University St. Louis
Shim Reza Assistant Professor, University of Lahore
Anton Strezhnev Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Kai Thaler Assistant Professor, U.C. Santa Barbara
Jon Weigel Assistant Professor, U.C. Berkeley
Li Chiao George Yin Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College
2016-17
Adriana Alfaro Assistant Professor, ITAM (Mexico)
Ashley Anderson Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Jonathan Bruno Associate Attorney, Del Sole Cavanaugh Stroyd LLC
Kara Ross Camanera Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago
Volha Charnysh Assistant Professor, M.I.T.
Emily Clough Assistant Professor, Northeastern University
Rachel Friedman Assistant Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University
Iza Ding Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Michael Gill Research Scientist, Meta
Shelby Grossman Research Scholar, Stanford Internet Observatory
Michael Hankinson Assistant Professor, George Washington University
Jeffry Javed Researcher, Meta
Tae-Yeoun Keum Assistant Professor, U.C. Santa Barbara
Charles Lesch Associate Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Zeynep Pamuk Assistant Professor, London School of Economics
Stephen Pettigrew Director of Data Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Senior Analyst for NBS News
Jonathan Phillips Assistant Professor, the University of São Paulo
Amanda Pinkston Team Lead, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs
Soledad Prillaman Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Gabrielle Ramaiah Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company
Melissa Sands Assistant Professor, London School of Economics