Job Placement & Achievements
Learn more about our graduate students' placement history by subfield.
We have an excellent placement record for doctoral students. Most graduates have initially obtained tenure-track positions or post-doctoral fellowships at leading universities and colleges. Following is the placement history of our recent graduates.
Current & Initial Doctoral Program Graduate Placement
Garrett Johnson; PT; Current Placement: Adjunct Professor, DePaul University; Initial Placement: Global Programs Manager, Heartland Alliance International.
Yoonsoo Kim; IR; Current Placement: Postdoctoral Researcher, KDI School of Public Policy and Management; Initial Placement: Climate Diplomacy Associate, Solutions for Our Climate.
Emily Kurtz; AP; Current & Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Carleton College.
Adam Lê; AP; Current & Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Carleton College.
Liu Peng; CP; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Peking University.
Valentina Salas Ramos; CP; Current & Initial Placement: Governance and Territory Officer, UNDP Chile.
Carl Graefe; IR; Current & Initial Placement: E. John Rosenwald, Jr. '52 TU'53 Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth University.
Casey Griffin; AP; Current & Initial Placement: Internal Organizer, SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa.
Ibrahim Oker; CP; Current & Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Union College.
Pedro Accorsi; IR; Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Notre Dame University.
Tracey Blasenheim; IR; Initial Placement: Instructor, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.
Matthew Eichinger; IR; Current Placement: Research Consultant, Minnesota House GOP Caucus; Initial Placement: Legislative Assistant, Minnesota House GOP Caucus.
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 Placement: CFD Postdoctoral Fellow, Bowdoin College; Initial Placement: Pembroke Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University.
Ashley Sorensen; AP; Current Placement: Vising Assistant Professor, Macalester College; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, College of Wooster.
Yakasah Wehyee; CP; Current Placement: Managing Director of Alumni and External Affairs, Teach for America, Initial Placement: Director of Step Up Level 2, 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 II, Minnesota's 4th Judicial District.
Oanh Nguyen; CP; Current Placement: Policy Advisor, Office of Immigrant and Refugee Advancement; Initial Placement: Policy Analyst, Oregon Legislative BIPOC Caucus.
Carly Potz-Nielsen; IR; Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Georgia Technical Institute; Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University.
María Sanchez; IR; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Colorado College.
Patrick Snyder; CP; Current Placement: Senior 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 Placement: Senior User Experience Research, Royal Bank of Canada; Initial Placement: User Experience Researcher, Royal Bank of Canada.
Mihaela Toza; CP; Current & Initial Placement: Parliamentary Consultant, Autoritatea Electorala Permanenta.
Katrina Heimark; CP; Current Placement: Fiscal Analyst, Minnesota House of Representatives; Initial Placement: Lecturer, University of Wisconsin - River Falls.
Robert Ralston; IR; Current Placement: Lecturer, University of Birmingham; Initial Placement: Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Fellow, International Security Program.
Kristin Lunz Trujillo; CP; Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Boston College; 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 Placement: Visiting Scholar, University of California - Santa Cruz; 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: Senior Researcher, Rethink Priorities; 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; Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Graduate Fellow, Harvard University.
Elif Kalaycioglu; IR; Current Placement: Lecturer, Kings College; Initial Placement: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, Princeton University.
Florencia Montal; IR; Current Placement: Lecturer, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; 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: Business Intelligence Developer II, Bexar County Information Technology; Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College.
Charmaine Chua; IR; Current Placement: Acting Associate Professor, University of California - Berkeley; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of California - Santa Barbara.
Holly Dunn; CP; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Southern Florida - Tampa.
Daniel Henry; CP; Current Placement: Tax Attorney, Ropes & Gray LLP; Initial Placement: Associate Attorney, Sidley Austin LLP, Chicago.
Chase Hobbs-Morgan; PT; Current Placement: Lecturer, University of California - Berkeley; 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: Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, UnitedHealth Group; Initial Placement: Visiting Lecturer, Mount Holyoke College.
Adam Olson; AP; Current Placement: Senior Data Scientist, Essentia Health; Initial Placement: Data Scientist, Colle McVoy.
Quynh Pham; IR; Current Placement: Assistant Professor, Colby College; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco.
Aaron Rosenthal; AP; Current Placement: Research Director, North Star Policy Action; 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, University of New Hampshire - Durham; Initial Placement: Visiting Scholar, Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs, American Political Science Association
Christina Farhart; AP; Current & Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Carleton College.
Lucas Lockhart; CP; Current Placement: Team Lead Special Review Auditor, Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor; Initial Placement: Customer Due Diligence Analyst, U.S. Bank.
Tom Pryor; AP; Current Placement: Lead Senior Staff Attorney, Public Health Law Center at Mitchell Hamline School of Law; Initial Placement: Visiting Assistant Professor, Macalester College.
Paul Snell; AP; Current Placement: Associate Professor, Pacific University Oregon; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Pacific University Oregon.
David Temin; PT; Current Placement: Associate Professor, University of Michigan; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, University of Michigan.
Sergio Valverde; PT; Current Placement: Health Policy Research, Children's Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota; Initial Placement: Medical Interpreter & Health Policy Researcher, Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.
Robert Asaadi; IR; Current & Initial Placement: Instructor, Portland State University.
Pelin Binnet; CP; Current Placement: Designer - Beauty, Target; Initial Placement: Visual Merchandising Leader, Target.
Timothy Callaghan; AP; Current Placement: Associate Professor, Boston University; Initial Placement: Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University.
Brooke Coe; IR; Current Placement: Associate 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: Senior 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.