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. (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 | Current Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| Seda Ozturk | 2021 | New York Times |
| Olga Gasparyan | 2020 | Hertie School of Governance (post-doctoral research fellow) |
| Aram Kim | 2021 | |
| Justin Nicholson | 2021 | Booz Allen Hamilton, Data Scientist |
| Xiaoyan Qiu | 2021 | IE University |
| Karen Albert | 2020 | |
| Jeheung Ryu | 2020 | Princeton University (post-doc) |
| Zuheir Desai | 2020 | IE University |
| Hans Leonard | 2020 | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission |
| Andrea Morris | 2019 | Washington University at St. Louis (post-doc) |
| Emiel Awad | 2019 | London School of Economics (post-doc) |
| Benjamin Laughlin | 2019 | NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Shichao Ma | 2019 | Yelp |
| Gleason Judd | 2019 | Princeton University |
| Peter Bils | 2018 | Vanderbilt University |
| Sergio Jesus Ascencio Bonfil | 2018 | University of New Mexico |
| Youngchae Lee | 2018 | |
| Ian C. Sulam | 2018 | U.S. Government |
| Matthew Sweeten | 2018 | Amazon |
| Ioannis Vassiliadis | 2018 | GutCheck |
| Yu Wang | 2018 | Apple |
| Chitralekha Basu | 2017 | University of Cologne |
| Jonathan Bennett | 2017 | University of Memphis, Center for Community Research and Evaluation, Assistant Director |
| Hun Chung | 2017 | Waseda University |
| Trung Dang | 2017 | United Nations, Program Manager |
| David Gelman | 2017 | Pivotal Software, Data Scientist |
| Michael Gibilisco | 2017 | California Institute of Technology |
| Barbara Piotrowska | 2017 | Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University (Researcher) |
| Bradley Smith | 2017 | Vanderbilt University |
| Susanna Supalla | 2017 | Data science consulting |
| Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir | 2017 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich (post-doc) |
| Casey Crisman-Cox | 2016 | Texas A&M University |
| Rabia Malik | 2016 | New York University Abu Dhabi (post-doc) |
| Jeffrey Arnold | 2015 | University of Washington |
| Robert Carroll | 2015 | Florida State University |
| Mattan Sharkansky | 2015 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem (post-doc) |
| 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 | City of New York, Political Researcher |
| 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 | Emory University |
| Nicole Asmussen | 2012 | Vanderbilt University (post-doc) |
| Tyson Chatagnier | 2012 | University of Houston |
| Gary Hollibaugh | 2012 | University of Pittsburgh |
| Yukari Iwanami | 2012 | Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan |
| Jinhee Jo | 2012 | Kyung Hee University, Korea |
| Jeremy Kedziora | 2012 | U.S. Government |
| Jessica Stoll | 2012 | Institute for Physical Sciences, McLean, VA |
| Matthew Testerman | 2012 | U.S. Navy, Commander--Permanent Military Professor |
| Christian Houle | 2011 | Michigan State University |
| Navine Murshid | 2011 | Colgate University |
| Subhasish Ray | 2011 | National University of Singapore |
| Jun Xiang | 2011 | Rutgers University, Newark |
| Fabiana Machado | 2010 | Inter-American Development Bank |
| Adam Ramey | 2010 | NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Martin Steinwand | 2010 | University of Essex (Senior Lecturer) |
| David Carter | 2009 | Princeton Univeristy |
| 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 |
| Arnd Plagge | 2008 | Universitaet Greifwald |
| Matthew Platt | 2008 | Morehouse College |
| Arthur Spirling | 2008 | New York University |
| Muhammet Bas | 2007 | NYU Abu Dhabi |
| Jeong Hun Han | 2007 | Seoul National University, Graduate School of International Studies |
| 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 | Villanova University |
| Seok-ju Cho | 2005 | Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Republic of Korea |
| Kalina Popova | 2005 | Harris Interactive |
| Kristopher Ramsay | 2005 | Princeton University |
| Robert Walker | 2005 | Willamette University, Atkinson School of Management |
| Antoine Yoshinaka | 2005 | University at Buffalo, SUNY |
| Laura Flamand | 2004 | El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City |
| Justin Fox | 2004 | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Jaehoon Kim | 2004 | Korea Development Institute, Associate Fellow |
| Gail McElroy | 2004 | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Christian Grose | 2004 | University of Southern California, Associate Professor |
| 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 | 2020 Micro Clinic Initiative, Executive Director, Social Venture Partners |
| Catherine Hafer | 2001 | New York University |
| Indriõi H. Indriõason | 2001 | University of California, Riverside |
| Bahar Leventoglu | 2001 | Duke University |
| Tamar London | 2001 | |
| Carolyn Whitfield | 2001 | Rochester, NY |
| Aaron Wicks | 2001 | Action for a Better Community |
| Amy Makinen | 2000 | U.S. Government |
| Lanny Martin | 2000 | Rice University |
| Marc Shapiro | 2000 | ICF Consulting |
| Peter Stone | 2000 | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Nathan Dietz | 1999 | Urban Institute (Associate) |
| Harvey Palmer | 1999 | University at Buffalo |
| Georg Vanberg | 1999 | Duke University |
| Rory Austin | 1998 | Washington, DC |
| Jay Goodliffe | 1998 | Brigham Young University |
| David Hayes | 1998 | Fayetteville, NC |
| Carol Silva | 1998 | University of Oklahoma, Center for Applied Social Research |
| Don-yun Chen | 1997 | National Chengchi University, Public Administration, Taiwan |
| 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 | University of Chicago, Provost |
| 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 | Bhanjpur, India |
| 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 | Temple University Harrisburg, Assistant Director |
| 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, Lee Memorial Chair in Government |
| Richard Forgette | 1992 | University of Mississippi, Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts-Political Science |
| Scott Ward | 1992 | Trevecca Nazarene University, Finance |
| Gary Woller | 1992 | Director of Monitoring and Evaluation, ME&A |
| John Huber | 1991 | Columbia University |
| Vally Koubi | 1991 | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich |
| Carol McPhee | 1991 | Cortland, NY |
| Nancy Perkins | 1991 | Churchville, NY |
| John Wilkerson | 1991 | University of Washington |
| Paul R. Gehman Jr. | 1990 | APEX Technology, Inc. |
| Richard Kronick | 1990 | Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
| 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, Public Affairs |
| Evelyn Fink | 1987 | Lincoln, NE |
| Marianne Reynolds Highwood | 1987 | Research Consultant, England |
| Jeffrey Hill | 1987 | Northeastern Illinois University |
| Michael D. Horn | 1987 | |
| David Lalman | 1986 | |
| 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, Hartford, Former Director of Information Technologies |
| Paul M. Montebello | 1985 | Birmingham, AL |
| Prakash C. Sarangi | 1985 | University of Hyderabad, Pro Vice Chancellor |
| Grace I. Scarborough | 1985 | Research Director, Leidos, Inc. |
| Walter Petersen | 1984 | Industriforvaltnings AB Kinnevik, Stockholm |
| 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 | National University of Singapore |
| John Wright | 1983 | Ohio State University |
| Bruce Berkowitz | 1982 | |
| Raymond Duch | 1982 | Nuffield College, University of Oxford |
| John Fuh-sheng Hsieh | 1982 | University of South Carolina |
| Jonathan Lemco | 1982 | The Vanguard Group, Valley Forge, PA |
| James Morrow | 1982 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Eugene J. Seyna | 1982 | |
| Neil S. Wintfeld | 1982 | Genentech |
| Richard Barke | 1981 | Georgia Institute of Technology, Public Policy |
| Bradford W. Chaney | 1981 | Westat Corporation, Senior Study Director |
| Thomas Mortillaro | 1981 | |
| Richard Smith | 1981 | Roanoke College, Dean of the College |
| Michael Altfeld | 1980 | Carlisle, PA |
| Douglas Beck | 1980 | ICF Consulting, Fairfax, Va. |
| Diana Evans | 1980 | Trinity College |
| Chung-hsiou Huang | 1980 | |
| Gideon Doron | 1978 | |
| 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 | Washington, DC |
| Masakatsu Kato | 1976 | |
| Subrata Kumar Mitra | 1976 | University of Heidelberg, South Asia Institute |
| James Bowen Noble | 1976 | |
| 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 | |
| Edouard 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 | |
| Richard McKelvey | 1973 | California Institute of Technology |
| Abraham R. Wagner | 1973 | Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism (CAST) |
| 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 | Rochester, NY |
| David Rohde | 1971 | Duke University |
| Robert Gale Samberg | 1971 | Albany, NY |
| Cynthia Thomas | 1971 | |
| 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 | Wilton, CT |