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 |