Job Placement & Achievements

Pedro Accorsi Amaral; IR; Current & Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Notre Dame University

Tracey Blasenheim; IR; Initial Placement: Instructor, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Seo Nyeong (Holly) Jo; CP; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Moravian University

María José "Majo" Méndez Gutiérrez; IR; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Emily Mitamura; PT; Current & Initial Placement: Pembroke Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University

Ashley Sorensen; AP; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, College of Wooster

Yakasah Wehyee; CP; Current & Initial Placement Director, Achieve Twin Cities

Paula Armendariz Miranda; CP; Current Placement: Senior Project Manager, SSRS; Initial Placement: Senior Research Analyst, PYMNTS 

Samarjit Ghosh; IR; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Ozyegin University

Rachael Houston; AP; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Texas Christian University

Ivan Jucá; CP; Current & Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, FGV CEPSP

Siyu Li; AP; Current & Initial Placement: Research Analyst, Minnesota's 4th Judicial District

Oanh Nguyen; CP; Current & Initial Placement: Policy Analyst, Oregon Legislative BIPOC Caucus

Carly Potz-Nielsen; IR; Current & Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Technical University of Munich

María Sanchez; IR; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Colorado College

Patrick Snyder; CP; Current Placement: Qualitative UX Researcher, Pinterest; Initial Placement: Qualitative UX Researcher, Facebook

Logan Stundal; IR; Current Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia Humanitarian Collaborative; Initial Placement: Instructor, University of Michigan

Farrah Tek; IR; Current & Initial Placement: User Experience Researcher, Royal Bank of Canada

Mihaela Toza; CP; Current & Initial Placement: Parliamentary Consultant, Autoritatea Electorala Permanenta

Katrina Heimark; CP; Current Placements: Lecturer, Century College, University of Minnesota - Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire, University of Wisconsin - River Falls; Initial Placement: Lecturer, University of Wisconsin - River Falls

Robert Ralston; IR; Current Placement: Assistant Profesor, University of Birmingham; Initial Placement: Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Fellow, International Security Program

Kristin Lunz Trujillo; CP; Current Placement: Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina - Columbia; Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, COVID States Project, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy, Harvard University

Lucas Franco; CP; Current & Initial Placement: Research Manager, LIUNA Minnesota and North Dakota

Shai Gortler; PT; Current & Initial Placement: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Humanities Research (CHR), University of the Western Cape

José Kaire; CP; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Arizona State University - Tempe

Thomas Vargas Castro; CP; Current Placement: Research Lead, New Power Labs; Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University

Elena Gambino; PT; Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Rutgers University; Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Bates College

Jennifer Halen; IR; Current & Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Graduate Fellow, Harvard University

Elif Kalaycioglu; IR; Current Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa; Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University

Florencia Montal; IR; Current Placement: Independent Researcher & Consultant; Initial Placement: Assistant Research Professor, Universidad Torcuato di Tella

Ahmad Munhazim; IR; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University

Avram Munoz; AP; Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Our Lady of the Lake University; Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College

Charmaine Chua; IR; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of California - Santa Barbara

Holly Dunn; CP; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Southern Florida

Daniel Henry; CP; Current & Initial Placement: Associate Attorney, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago

Chase Hobbs-Morgan; PT; Current Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California - Santa Barbara; Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College

Garnet Kindervater; IR; Current Placement: Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University; Initial Placement: Visiting Scholar, Dartmouth College

Ore Koren; IR; Current Placement: Associate Professor, Indiana University - Bloomington; Initial Placement: Affiliated Faculty, Vincent & Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University - Bloomington

Matthew Motta; AP; Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Public Health; Initial Placement: Affiliated Postdoctoral Research Associate, Yale Law School

Bryan Nakayama; IR; Current Placement: Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, Merck; Initial Placement: Visiting Lecturer, Mount Holyoke College

Adam Olson; AP; Current Placement: Senior Data Scientist, Be The Match; Initial Placement: Data Scientist, Colle McVoy

Quynh Pham; IR; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco

Aaron Rosenthal; AP; Current Placement: Senior Research Specialist, Council on Criminal Justice; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Simmons University

Brianna Smith; AP; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, United States Naval Academy

Jennifer Spindel; IR; Current Placement: Assistant Professor, University of New Hampshire - Durham; Initial Placement: Fellow, Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College

Emily Baer-Bositis; AP; Current Placement: Assistant Professor and MA Program Director, University of New Hampshire - Durham; Initial Placement: Visiting Scholar, Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs, American Political Science Association

Sema Binay; IR; Current & Initial Placement: Owner & Producer, fotosanayii

Christina Farhart; AP; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Carleton College

Lucas Lockhart; CP; Current Placement: Special Review Auditor, Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor; Initial Placement: Customer Due Diligence Analyst, US Bank

Tom Pryor; AP; Current Placement: Staff Attorney, Public Health Law Center at Mitchell Hamline School of Law; Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Macalester College

Paul Snell; AP; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Pacific University

David Temin; PT; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Sergio Valverde; PT; Current & Initial Placement: Medical Interpreter & Health Policy Researcher, Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota

Robert Asaadi; IR; Current & Initial Placement: Instructor, Portland State University

Timothy Callaghan; AP; Current Placement: Associate Professor, Boston University; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University

Brooke Coe; IR; Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University - Stillwater; Initial Placement: Predoctoral Research Fellow, Georgetown University

Ashley English; AP; Current & Initial Placement: Associate Professor, University of North Texas

Caleb Goltz; PT; Current Placement: Assistant Professor and Director of Legal Studies and Legal Skills, St. Thomas University; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Hartwick College

Kevin Lucas; CP; Current Placement: Associate Professor, Capital University; Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Lycoming College

Andrew Lucius; IR; Current Placement: Solutions Architect, Databricks; Initial Placement: Research Manager, Hennepin County Attorney's Office

Matthew Luttig; AP; Current Placement: Associate Professor, Colgate University; Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago

Zein Murib; AP; Current Placement: Associate Professor, Fordham University; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Fordham University

Maron Sorenson; AP; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College

Josh Anderson; PT; Current Placement: Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College; Initial Placements: Lecturer, Augsburg College, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Aaron Beitman; IR; Current Placement: Chief Financial Officer, Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affairs; Initial Placement: Fiscal Policy Analyst, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Phil Chen; AP; Current Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Denver; Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Macalester College

Ralitsa Donkova; IR; Current Placement: Policy Analyst, REPowerEU (DG ECFIN); Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University

Ross Edwards; PT; Current Placement: Associate Professor and Dean of Academic Affairs for the Traditional Undergraduate Program, Albertus Magnus College; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Albertus Magnus College

Darrah McCracken; IR; Current Placement: Political Scientist; Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Western Oregon University

Magic Wade; AP; Current & Initial Placement: Associate Professor, University of Illinois - Springfield

Ilya Winham; PT; Current & Initial Placement: Academic Advisor II & Lecturer, The University of Georgia

Amanda Bryan; IR; Current Placement: Associate Professor, Loyola University - Chicago; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Loyola University - Chicago

Matthew Cravens; AP; Current Placement: Senior Data Analyst, Criminal Justice Coordinating Council of Douglas County, KS; Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor & Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rockefeller Center for Public Policy, Dartmouth College

Adam Dahl; PT; Current Placement: Associate Professor: University of Massachusetts - Amherst; Initial Placement: Lecturer, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

M. David Forrest; AP; Current Placement: Associate Professor and Chair of Law and Society, Oberlin College and Conservatory; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor: Arizona State University

Charles Gregory; AP; Current Placement: Associate Professor, Stephen F. Austin State University; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Stephen F. Austin State University

Michael Julius; AP; Current & Initial Placement: Lecturer, Coastal Carolina University

Giovanni Mantilla; IR; Current Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge; Initial Placement: Fellow, British Academy Newton

Eli Meyerhoff; PT; Current Placement: Lab Staff Coordinater, Franklin Humanities Institute; Initial Placement: Instructor, Duke University

Anthony Pahnke; CP; Current Placement: Associate Professor, San Francisco State University; Initial Placement: Lecturer, St. Olaf College

Henry Thomson; IR; Current Placement: Associate Professor, Arizona State University - Tempe; Initial Placement: Lecturer, Worcester College, University of Oxford

Shaun Williams-Wyche; CP; Current Placement: Associate Director of Research and Data Analysis, Midwestern Higher Education Compact; Initial Placement: Research Analyst, Minnesota Office of Higher Education 

Ismail Yaylaci; IR; Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Istanbul Sehir University; Initial Placement: Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Center for Strategic Studies

Jonas Bunte; IR; Current Placement: Professor, Vienna University of Economics and Business; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Texas - Dallas 

Geoffrey Dancy; IR; Current Placement: Associate Professor, University of Toronto; Initial Placement: Associate Professor, Tulane University

Matthew Dean Hindman; AP; Current Placement: Associate Professor, University of Tulsa; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Tulsa

Mark Hoffman; IR; Current Placement: Dean of the General Course and Global Mobility, London School of Economics and Political Science; Initial Placement: Visiting Professor, Vassar College

Elizabeth Sharrow; AP; Current Placement: Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts - Amherst; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Geoffrey Sheagley; AP; Current Placement: Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Georgia; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota - Duluth

Laura Thaut Vinson; CP; Current Placement: Associate Professor, Lewis & Clark College; Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College

Zhen Wang; CP; Current Placement: Associate Professor, Middle Tennessee State University; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State University

Jennifer Gagnon; PT; Current & Initial Placement: Lecturer, University of British Columbia

Caitlin Jewitt; AP; Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis

Denis Kennedy; IR; Current Placement: Associate Professor, College of the Holy Cross; Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Washington and Lee University

Serena Laws; AP; Current Placement: Assistant Prof, Trinity College; Initial Placement: Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University

Jennifer Lobasz; IR; Current Placement: Associate Professor, University of Delaware; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Delaware

Moira Lynch; IR; Current Placement: Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin - River Falls; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Loyola University - Maryland

Veronica Michel; IR; Associate Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice - CUNY; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice - CUNY

Adriano Udani; AP; Current Placement: Associate Professor, University of Missouri - St. Louis; Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College 

Vincent Vecera; AP; Current Placement: Associate Professor, Randolph College; Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Gustavus Adolphus College

Lauren Wilcox; IR; Current Placement: Associate Professor, University of Cambridge; Initial Placement: Charles and Amy Scharf Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins University