Placement of Graduates
department of political science
The department makes vigorous efforts to find suitable positions for its graduate students, especially for graduates of its doctoral program. Happily, we have been quite successful. Ph.D. students from the department have received tenure-track jobs and post-doctoral fellowships at such institutions as Emory University, Harvard University, Duke University, Michigan State University, Kenyon College, St. John's College, the University of Houston, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of London.
The placement program is directed by Professor Robert C. Bartlett. A key component is an annual employment seminar in which young faculty discuss their own searches and distribute written suggestions and hints. There is also the department's annual reception at the APSA convention, which is designed to provide a home base for our students at the convention and to provide a nice occasion for students and faculty alike to meet graduates and friends of the department. Also, the director and other faculty review a student's résumé and other documents involved in job applications. And the faculty who have worked most closely with a student have responsibility for writing and calling on his or her behalf.
Prior to going for an interview, the student is to "test-drive" his or her job talk before an audience of faculty and fellow grad students. This is a tough audience, and the experience has proved to be a big help—even a job clincher—for a number of applicants.
Placement of Doctoral Program Graduates 2000-2012
2000-01
Jennifer Erkulwater
Associate Professor (tenured)
Department of Political Science
University of Richmond
Richmond, VA
Kathleen Bailey
Adjunct Associate Professor
Associate Director
Islamic Studies and Societies
Department of Political Science
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA
Christopher Kukk
Associate Professor (tenured)
Department of Political Science
Director, Honors Program
Western Connecticut State University
Danbury, CT
2001-02
Michael Ehrmantraut
Tutor (tenured)
St. John’s College
Sante Fe, NM
2002-03
Haila Al-Mekaimi
Professor for Political Science
Head of Euro-Gulf Research Unit
College of Social Sciences
Kuwait University
Kuwait
Jeremy Bailey
Associate Professor (tenured)
Department of Political Science
University of Houston
Houston, TX
Timothy Lynch
Lecturer
Department of Political Science
University of Melbourne
Australia
Thomas Schneider
Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
Head of Political Science
University of St. Francis
Fort Wayne, IN
2004-05
Jeffrey Black
Tutor (tenured)
Director of the Graduate Institute in Liberal Education
St. John’s College
Annapolis, MD
John Colman
Assistant Professor and Chair
Department of Political Science
Ave Maria University
Ave Maria, FL
Tobin Craig
Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
James Madison College
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
Uner Daglier
Assistant Professor
Sung Kyun Kwan University
Seoul, Korea
Stephen Lange
Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
Morehead State University
Morehead, KY
2005-06
Hiroshi Nakazato
Associate Director
International Studies Program
Adjunct Professor
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA
Joy Samad
Research Affiliate
Centre for Global Governance
London School of Economics
London, England
2006-07
David Bobb
Director, Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship
Lecturer
Department of Politics
Hillsdale College
Hillsdale, MI
Natalie Wills Culp
Adjunct Professor
Constantin College of Liberal Arts
University of Dallas
Irving, TX
Kyle Dell
Associate Professor (tenured)
Department of Political Science
Guilford College
Greensboro, NC
Erik Dempsey
Post-doctoral Fellow
Thomas Jefferson Center
University of Texas-Austin
Austin, TX
Wyatt Dowling
Lawyer
Yetter Coleman LLC
Houston, TX
Jakub Franek
Lecturer
Anglo-American University
Prague, Czech Republic
Randal Hendrickson
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Duke University
Durham, NC
2007-08
Mischa Ann Beckett
Lecturer
Simmons College
Boston, MA
Jonathan Culp
Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
Department of Politics
University of Dallas
Irving, TX
Benjamin Lorch
Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of Political Science
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
2008-09
Alexandre Provencher-Gravel
Professeur
Département de philosophie
Cégep de Sainte-Foy
2410, chemin Sainte-Foy
Québec, Canada G1V 1T3
Wing Kwan Anselm Lam
Assistant Professor
School of the Humanities
Hang Seng Management College
Hong Kong
Raphael Arteau-McNeil
Visiting Adjunct Professor
Department of Philosophy
Laval University
Quebec City, Quebec
Canada
Philip Wodzinski
Tutor (tenured)
Thomas Aquinas College
Santa Paula, CA
2009-10
Heitor Gouvea
Special Assistant to the President
Advancement Plus
Cambridge, MA
2010-11
Stephen Eide
Senior Research Associate
Worcester Regional Research Bureau
Worcester, MA
Kazutaka Kondo
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Waseda University
Tokyo, Japan
David Levy
Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of Political Science
Emory University
Atlanta, GA
Paul Nolette
Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
Department of Political Science
Marquette University
Milwaukee, WI
2011-2012
Alison Smith
Department of Political Science
College of the Holy Cross
Worcester, MA