Graduate Program
PhD Alumni
Since the inception of its PhD program in the 1960s, the Department of Political Science has been consistently producing some of the most distinguished and influential scholars in the discipline.
Rochester PhDs currently sit on the faculties of an array of universities and colleges, including Harvard, Stanford, UNC Chapel Hill, Duke, UCLA, UCSD, Columbia, Ohio State, Michigan, Minnesota, NYU, Caltech, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, Rice, Washington (St. Louis), Notre Dame, Northwestern, Texas, and Yale. Others are flourishing outside of the academy. (Retired alumni are listed with their last institutional affiliation. Deceased alumni are listed in italics, along with their last institutional affiliation.) Listed here is a complete roster of our alumni--sorted by year of PhD, with the most recent alumni listed first.
| Name | PhD | Most Recent Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Aram Kim | 2021 | |
| Justin Nicholson | 2021 | Booz Allen Hamilton |
| Seda Ozturk | 2021 | New York Times |
| Xiaoyan "Christy" Qiu | 2021 | IE University |
| Karen Albert | 2020 | Joint Warfare Analysis Center |
| Mason DeLang | 2020 | Measures for Justice |
| Zuheir Desai | 2020 | IE University |
| Olga Gasparyan | 2020 | Hertie School of Governance (post-doc) |
| Hans Leonard | 2020 | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
| MaryClare Roche | 2020 | Arab Barometer |
| Jeheung Ryu | 2020 | Kookmin University, Korea |
| Emiel Awad | 2019 | London School of Economics (post-doc) |
| Gleason Judd | 2019 | Princeton University |
| Benjamin Laughlin | 2019 | NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Shichao Ma | 2019 | Yelp |
| Andrea Morris | 2019 | TNTP |
| Sergio Ascencio | 2018 | University of Essex |
| Peter Bils | 2018 | Vanderbilt University |
| Youngchae Lee | 2018 | |
| Ian C. Sulam | 2018 | |
| Matthew Sweeten | 2018 | Amazon |
| Ioannis Vassiliadis | 2018 | GutCheck |
| Yu Wang | 2018 | Apple |
| Chitralekha Basu | 2017 | University of Cologne |
| Jonathan Bennett | 2017 | University of Memphis (Assistant Director) |
| Hun Chung | 2017 | Waseda University |
| Trung Dang | 2017 | United Nations |
| David Gelman | 2017 | Pivotal Software |
| Michael Gibilisco | 2017 | California Institute of Technology |
| Barbara Piotrowska | 2017 | King's College London (Fellow) |
| Bradley Smith | 2017 | Vanderbilt University |
| Susanna Supalla | 2017 | Sparkline Insights |
| Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir | 2017 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich (post-doc) |
| Casey Crisman-Cox | 2016 | Texas A&M University |
| Rabia Malik | 2016 | University of Essex |
| Jeffrey Arnold | 2015 | Instacart |
| Robert Carroll | 2015 | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| Mattan Sharkansky | 2015 | Matrix BI |
| William Spaniel | 2015 | University of Pittsburgh |
| Peter Haschke | 2014 | University of North Carolina at Asheville |
| Brenton Kenkel | 2014 | Vanderbilt University |
| Hye-Sung Kim | 2014 | Winthrop University |
| Paulina Marek | 2014 | 605 |
| Miguel Rueda Robayo | 2014 | Emory University |
| Kerim Kavakli | 2013 | Bocconi University, Milan |
| Jonathan Klingler | 2013 | University of Mississippi |
| Patrick Kuhn | 2013 | Durham University |
| Lukas Pfaff | 2013 | U.S. Government, Analyst |
| Shawn Ling Ramirez | 2013 | Shelf Engine |
| Nicole Asmussen | 2012 | Oakland University |
| Tyson Chatagnier | 2012 | University of Houston |
| Gary Hollibaugh | 2012 | University of Pittsburgh |
| Yukari Iwanami | 2012 | Osaka City University, Japan |
| Jinhee Jo | 2012 | Kyung Hee University, Korea |
| Jeremy Kedziora | 2012 | Northwestern Mutual |
| Jessica Stoll | 2012 | Institute for Physical Sciences, McLean, VA |
| Matthew Testerman | 2012 | United States Navy Academy (deputy director) |
| Christian Houle | 2011 | Michigan State University |
| Navine Murshid | 2011 | Colgate University |
| Subhasish Ray | 2011 | O.P. Jindal Global University |
| Jun Xiang | 2011 | Rutgers University, Newark |
| Fabiana Machado | 2010 | International Monetary Fund |
| Adam Ramey | 2010 | NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Martin Steinwand | 2010 | University of Essex |
| David Carter | 2009 | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Daniel Gillion | 2009 | University of Pennsylvania |
| Matthew Jacobsmeir | 2009 | West Virginia University |
| Deniz Aksoy | 2008 | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Tanya Bagashka | 2008 | University of Houston |
| Shin-Goo Kang | 2008 | Ajou University, Korea |
| Arnd Plagge | 2008 | VW Credit |
| Matthew Platt | 2008 | Morehouse College |
| Arthur Spirling | 2008 | New York University |
| Muhammet Bas | 2007 | NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Jeong Hun Han | 2007 | Seoul National University |
| Elena McLean | 2007 | University of Buffalo |
| Taehee Whang | 2007 | Yonsei University |
| Cristina Bodea | 2006 | Michigan State University |
| Songying Fang | 2006 | Rice University |
| Stephen E. Gent | 2006 | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Insun Kang | 2006 | Institute for National Security Strategy, Korea |
| Tim Carter | 2005 | Drew University |
| Seok-ju Cho | 2005 | Kyung Hee University, Korea |
| Kalina Popova | 2005 | NPD Group |
| Kristopher Ramsay | 2005 | Princeton University |
| Robert Walker | 2005 | Willamette University |
| Antoine Yoshinaka | 2005 | University at Buffalo |
| Laura Flamand | 2004 | El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico |
| Justin Fox | 2004 | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Christian Grose | 2004 | University of Southern California |
| Jaehoon Kim | 2004 | Korea Development Institute |
| Gail McElroy | 2004 | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Ahmer Tarar | 2003 | Texas A&M University |
| Gang Guo | 2002 | University of Mississippi |
| Christopher Kam | 2002 | University of British Columbia |
| Branislav Slantchev | 2002 | University of California, San Diego |
| Lynne Davidson | 2001 | Lynne J. Davidson |
| Catherine Hafer | 2001 | New York University |
| Indridi H. Indridason | 2001 | University of California, Riverside |
| Bahar Leventoglu | 2001 | Duke University |
| Tamar London | 2001 | Penn State University (instructor) |
| Carolyn Whitfield | 2001 | Rochester, NY |
| Aaron Wicks | 2001 | Community Action Partnership |
| Amy Makinen | 2000 | U.S. Government |
| Lanny Martin | 2000 | Bocconi University, Milan |
| Marc Shapiro | 2000 | Cairo, Egypt |
| Peter Stone | 2000 | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Nathan Dietz | 1999 | Urban Institute |
| Harvey Palmer | 1999 | University at Buffalo |
| Georg Vanberg | 1999 | Duke University |
| Rory Austin | 1998 | National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
| Jay Goodliffe | 1998 | Brigham Young University |
| David Hayes | 1998 | Troy University |
| Carol Silva | 1998 | University of Oklahoma |
| Don-yun Chen | 1997 | National Chengchi University |
| Mitchell S. Sanders | 1997 | Meliora Research LLC |
| Randolph Stevenson | 1997 | Rice University |
| Lynn Vavreck | 1997 | University of California, Los Angeles |
| O. Fiona Yap | 1997 | Australian National University |
| Ethan R. Zorick | 1997 | Essex, England |
| Todd Kunioka | 1996 | California State University, Los Angeles |
| Annette Steinacker | 1996 | Loyola University, Chicago |
| Daniel Diermeier | 1995 | Vanderbilt University (chancellor) |
| Simon Jackman | 1995 | University of Sydney, US Study Center (CEO) |
| William J. Kubik | 1995 | Hanover College |
| Fiona McGillivray | 1995 | New York University |
| Melinda Mueller | 1995 | Eastern Illinois University |
| Stephen Porter | 1995 | North Carolina State University, College of Education |
| Alastair Smith | 1995 | New York University |
| Ronald J. Vogel | 1995 | Southern University, Public Policy and Urban Affairs |
| Byeonggil Ahn | 1994 | Seoul National University, International and Area Studies |
| Shrikant Dash | 1994 | Global Consumer Bank |
| Matthew Gabel | 1994 | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Wendy Schiller | 1994 | Brown University |
| Guy Whitten | 1994 | Texas A&M University |
| Yen-pin Chiang | 1993 | Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Chief Program Support Officer |
| Laura Dimino | 1993 | Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency |
| Lucy Drotning | 1993 | Columbia University, Associate Provost |
| Timothy Feddersen | 1993 | Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University |
| Richard Himelfarb | 1993 | Hofstra University |
| William Hixon | 1993 | Lawrence University |
| Thomas O'Donnell | 1993 | |
| Yi Feng | 1992 | Claremont Graduate University |
| Richard Forgette | 1992 | University of Mississippi |
| Scott Ward | 1992 | Trevecca Nazarene University |
| Gary Woller | 1992 | Mendez England & Associates |
| John Huber | 1991 | Columbia University |
| Vally Koubi | 1991 | ETH Zurich |
| Carol McPhee | 1991 | North Carolina |
| Nancy Weyl | 1991 | Churchville, NY |
| John Wilkerson | 1991 | University of Washington |
| Paul R. Gehman Jr. | 1990 | Lockheed Martin |
| Richard Kronick | 1990 | University of California, San Diego |
| Itai Sened | 1990 | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Samuel Wu | 1990 | |
| Patrick Fett | 1989 | University of Memphis |
| Clifford Griffin | 1989 | North Carolina State University |
| Joon Pyo Jung | 1989 | Yeungnam University, Korea |
| Chae-han Kim | 1989 | Hallym University, Korea |
| Gerald Bushee | 1988 | Mount Olive College |
| Sirithorn Chantrasmi | 1988 | Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bangkok |
| C. Lawrence Evans | 1988 | College of William and Mary |
| Seifeldin Hussein | 1988 | |
| Woosang Kim | 1988 | Yonsei College, Korea |
| Anne Reisinger | 1988 | Clark University |
| William T. Bianco | 1987 | Indiana University |
| Christine DeGregorio | 1987 | American University |
| Evelyn Fink | 1987 | Lincoln, NE |
| Marianne Reynolds Highwood | 1987 | Research Consultant, England |
| Jeffrey Hill | 1987 | Northeastern Illinois University |
| Michael D. Horn | 1987 | SUNY Geneseo (instructor) |
| David Lalman | 1986 | University of Maryland |
| Michael O'Grady | 1986 | NORC at the University of Chicago, Senior Fellow |
| Margaret E. Raymond | 1986 | Stanford University, Hoover Institution, Research Fellow |
| David S. Castle | 1985 | Lamar University |
| Hank Jenkins-Smith | 1985 | University of Oklahoma |
| John Langeland | 1985 | Trinity College |
| Paul M. Montebello | 1985 | Mathematica Policy Research |
| Prakash C. Sarangi | 1985 | University of Hyderabad |
| Grace I. Scarborough | 1985 | Research Director, Leidos, Inc. |
| Walter Petersen | 1984 | |
| Madeleine Smith | 1984 | U.S. House of Representatives, Ways and Means Committee |
| Darrell Dobbs | 1983 | Marquette University |
| Keith Krehbiel | 1983 | Stanford University |
| David Newman | 1983 | Health Care Cost Institute |
| John Wright | 1983 | Ohio State University |
| Bruce Berkowitz | 1982 | Foreign Policy Research Institute (editor) |
| Raymond Duch | 1982 | Nuffield College, University of Oxford |
| John Fuh-sheng Hsieh | 1982 | University of South Carolina |
| Jonathan Lemco | 1982 | The Vanguard Group |
| James Morrow | 1982 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Eugene J. Seyna | 1982 | |
| Neil S. Wintfeld | 1982 | Novo Nordisk |
| Richard Barke | 1981 | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Bradford W. Chaney | 1981 | Westat Corporation, Senior Study Director |
| Thomas Mortillaro | 1981 | |
| Richard Smith | 1981 | Roanoke College, Dean of the College |
| Michael Altfeld | 1980 | US Army |
| Douglas Beck | 1980 | ICF Consulting |
| Diana Evans | 1980 | Trinity College |
| Chung-hsiou Huang | 1980 | |
| Gideon Doron | 1978 | ISPSA Press Tel Aviv University |
| Keith Poole | 1978 | University of Georgia |
| Theodore Anagnoson | 1977 | California State University, Los Angeles |
| Jerome Black | 1977 | McGill University |
| Stephen Paul Brown | 1977 | |
| James Enelow | 1977 | University of Texas at Austin |
| Linda Fowler | 1977 | Dartmouth College |
| Roman Hedges | 1977 | Ways and Means Committee, New York State Assembly |
| Ralph C. Joyce | 1977 | Statistics Canada |
| Barry Kay | 1977 | Wilfred Laurier University |
| Martin Jay Zechman | 1977 | Jolicoeur & Associates Risk Solutions, LLC |
| Jane L. Gilbert | 1976 | Food and Drug Administration |
| Masakatsu Kato | 1976 | |
| Subrata Kumar Mitra | 1976 | University of Heidelberg, South Asia Institute |
| James Bowen Noble | 1976 | Attorney, La Crosse, WI |
| Stuart H. Teger | 1976 | Attorney, Detroit, MI |
| John Aldrich | 1975 | Duke University |
| Charles Edward Lucier | 1975 | Booz-Allen & Hamilton, Cleveland, OH |
| Steven Maser | 1975 | Willamette University, Atkinson School of Management |
| Nancy McGlen | 1975 | Niagara University, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences |
| David G. Pfeiffer | 1975 | Policy Analyst, Honolulu |
| Jeffrey Richelson | 1975 | National Security Archive, Senior Fellow |
| Gloria I. Toivola | 1975 | University of Wisconsin, Superior |
| Robert Weber | 1975 | Saint John's University |
| Terence Brennan | 1974 | |
| Édouard Cloutier | 1974 | Université de Montréal |
| Lee Dutter | 1974 | Adult and Continuing Education, Barry University |
| Jane Jenson | 1974 | Université de Montréal |
| Lynda W. Powell | 1974 | University of Rochester |
| William Paul Alexander, Jr. | 1973 | |
| Wendy Joan Hoag | 1973 | University of Michigan |
| Richard McKelvey | 1973 | California Institute of Technology |
| Abraham R. Wagner | 1973 | Columbia University, Adjunct Professor |
| T. Edward Westen | 1973 | Central Michigan University |
| Peter A. Wissel | 1973 | |
| Peter Aranson | 1972 | |
| Partha Chatterjee | 1972 | Columbia University, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Policies |
| Morris Fiorina | 1972 | Stanford University |
| John Happy | 1972 | Guelph, Ontario |
| William C. Stratmann | 1972 | Rochester, NY |
| Sarah F. Liebschutz | 1971 | SUNY Brockport |
| David Rohde | 1971 | Duke University |
| Robert Gale Samberg | 1971 | Albany, NY |
| Cynthia Thomas | 1971 | INPEA - Westat |
| Wallace Donald George Gagne | 1970 | Sophia University |
| David B. Meltz | 1970 | Attorney |
| James T. Murphy | 1970 | Saint John's University |
| Kul Rai | 1970 | Southern Connecticut State University |
| Kenneth Shepsle | 1970 | Harvard University |
| Barbara Sinclair | 1970 | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Mark Stern | 1970 | Shepherd University, Vice President of Academic Affairs |
| William James Zavoina | 1970 | |
| John C. Blydenburgh | 1969 | Clark University |
| Peter Ordeshook | 1969 | California Institute of Technology |
| Robert Alan Schoenberger | 1967 | San Diego, CA |