Graduate Student Placement History

Political Science, UCSD

Our graduate students have been very successful in securing positions at leading universities and research organizations.  This list indicates the current and original placements of students that obtained a PhD in political science from UCSD.

LAST NAME FIRST NAME DEG DATE DISS  ADVISOR POSITION CURRENT LOCATION Original Placement (if different)
BROWN ROBERT L. 2008 - Summer LAKE TTrack Temple University
HENDRIX CULLEN 2008 - Summer HAGGARD/GLEDITSCH TTrack University of North Texas
HOLLANDER ETHAN 2008 - Summer LAKE/COMISSO TTrack Wabash College
PACHON MONICA 2008 - Summer COX/SHUGART TTrack Universidad de los Andes
PISA MICHAEL 2008 - Summer BROZ/HAGGARD Int'l Economist US Treasury, Office of Int'l Affairs, East Asia
WEISS JESSICA 2008 - Summer LAKE/SHIRK TTrack Yale University (deferred 2009) Princeton-Harvard China and the World (Post-Doc)
WELLER NICOLAS 2008 - Summer COWHEY/McCUBBINS TTrack University of Southern California
RIOS-CAZARES ALEJANDRA 2008 - Spring McCUBBINS TTrack CIDE-Mexico
TIEDE LYDIA 2008 - Spring McCUBBINS TTrack University of Houston
WONG WENDY 2008 - Spring LAKE TTrack University of Toronto (deferred 2008)
BOUDREAU CHERYL 2007 - Summer McCUBBINS TTrack University of California, Davis
BOULDING CAREW 2007 - Summer DRAKE TTrack University of Colorado at Boulder
CARROLL ROYCE 2007 - Summer COX/SHUGART TTrack Rice University
CUNNINGHAM KATHLEEN 2007 - Summer LAKE TTrack Iowa State University
HAMERLY IVY 2007 - Summer STROM TTrack Baylor University
KIM HENRY A. 2007 - Summer COX TTrack University of Arizona
SMITH HEATHER M. 2007 - Summer KAHLER/GLEDITSCH TTrack Lewis & Clark College
ZHENG YU 2007 - Summer SHIRK/COWHEY TTrack University of Connecticut  Harvard University (Post-Doc)
WILLIAMSON ROSCO 2007 - Spring MARES TTrack Point Loma Naxerene University
BEARDSLEY KYLE 2006 - Summer GLEDITSCH/LAKE TTrack Emory University
CAIN SEAN A. 2006 - Summer JACOBSON Visiting American University
CUNNINGHAM DAVID 2006 - Summer WALTER TTrack Iowa State University Harvard University (Post-Doc)
ELLIS VALDINI MELODY 2006 - Summer SHUGART TTrack Portland State University
HOFFMAN BARAK 2006 - Summer GIBSON TTrack Georgetown University Stanford University (Post-Doc)
HYDE SUSAN 2006 - Summer LAKE TTrack Yale University 
SALEHYAN IDEAN 2006 - Summer WALTER/GLEDITSCH TTrack University of North Texas
BEAULIEU EMILY 2006 - Spring COX TTrack University of Kentucky  
PRATA ADRIANA 2006 - Spring McCUBBINS   State of Oregon
ESTRADA LUIS 2005 - Summer POPKIN Researcher Central de Estrategias Politicas
LUXON NANCY 2005 - Summer STRONG/GOLDMAN TTrack University of Minnesota University of Chicago (Post-Doc)
MICHELBACH  PHILIP 2005 - Summer STRONG TTrack West Virginia University
PHILLIPS JUSTIN 2005 - Summer JACOBSON TTrack Columbia University
RICE LAURIE 2005 - Spring KERNELL Instructor UC San Diego
RICKARD STEPHANIE 2005 - Spring BROZ/HAGGARD TTrack Dublin City University Pennsylvania State University
GOLUB MARK 2005 - Fall STRONG TTrack Scripps College in Pomona
DEN HARTOG CHRISTOPHER 2004 - Winter McCUBBINS TTrack Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Northwestern University (Post-Doc)
TROUNSTINE JESSICA 2004 - Summer BRIDGES TTrack Princeton University
LAKE DANIEL 2004 - Spring MARES TTrack SUNY Plattsburgh Wayne State University
LAMBERT PRISCILLA 2004 - Spring GOUREVITCH/KRAUSS TTrack Western Michigan University
LAZARUS JEFF 2004 - Spring COX TTrack Georgia State University
MONROE NATHAN 2004 - Spring McCUBBINS TTrack UC Merced Michigan State University
NYBLADE BENJAMIN 2004 - Spring STROM TTrack University of British Columbia Univ. of British Columbia (Post-Doc)
PINTO PABLO 2004 - Spring KAHLER/GOUREVITCH TTrack Columbia University
SCRIBNER DRUSCILLA 2004 - Spring DRAKE TTrack University of Wisconsin, Osh Kosh
SHORTELL CHRISTOPHER 2004 - Spring HIRSCH/BRIDGES TTrack Cal State University, Northridge
SMITH CHARLES(Tony) 2004 - Spring HIRSCH/JACOBSON TTrack University of California, Irvine University of Miami
SUOMINEN KATI 2004 - Spring SMITH Researcher Inter-American Development Bank
TIMMONS JEFF 2004 - Spring COX/LAKE TTrack ITAM - Mexico
VERGARA RAFAEL 2004 - Spring CORNELIUS Researcher ARCOP - Mexico City
CARNEY RICHARD 2003 - Summer KAHLER Instructor University of Denver
ENGSTROM ERIK 2003 - Summer KERNELL Tenure UC Davis University of North Carolina
CRISTIANI DANIEL 2003 - Spring STRONG Post-Doc UC Berkeley