Penn Placements 2021-2022

Congratulations to all our recent and soon-to-be Ph.D.'s who will be starting off in new positions this coming Fall (or in some cases already started new positions during the past year)!

Sumitra Badrinathan (Ph.D. 2021) is has accepted a TT position at American University after having served as a post-doctoral fellow at Oxford University in 2021-22.

Christopher Blair (Ph.D. expected 2022) has accepted a TT position at Princeton University.

Evelyne Brie (Ph.D. expected 2022) has accepted a TT position at the University of Western Ontario.

Gemma Dipoppa (Ph.D. 2020) has accepted a TT position at Brown University after having served as a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford in 2020-22.

Gabriel Salgado (Ph.D. expected 2022) has accepted a TT position as Assistant Professor at Trinity College.

Meghan Garrity (Ph.D. expected 2022) has accepted a Post-doctoral Fellowship in the International Security Program at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs.

Nicholas Bell (Ph.D. expected August 2022) has been named Associate Director for Data & Analytics at Clairity (healthcare start-up using artificial intelligence to predict breast cancer risk).

Archana Kaku (Ph.D. 2021) has been serving as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Consortium for Faculty Diversity at Muhlenberg College.

Heather Swadley (Ph.D. 2021) has been appointed Visiting Assistant Professor in Political Science at Swarthmore College for 2022-2023.

Siyao Li (Ph.D. expected 2022) has accepted a TT position at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public & International Affairs (GSPIA).

Karen Nershi (Ph.D. 2021) has been serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University's Stanford Internet Observatory and the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC).

Shira Pindyck (Ph.D. 2021) is completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Technology and International Security at the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), based in Washington DC.

Katherine Rader (Ph.D. 2021) has just accepted a TT position at Christopher Newport University while completing a post-doctoral fellowship as an APSA Congressional Research Fellow.

Nathaniel Shils (Ph.D. expected 2022) has accepted a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Israeli Studies at UCLA.

Gregory Koutnik (Ph.D. 2020) has just accepted a position at Beloit College as Visiting Assistant Professor (renewable up to 3 years).

Zachary Smith (Ph.D. in progress) has been working since 2021 as a behavioral scientist at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention.

Joanna Wuest (Ph.D. 2019) has just accepted a TT position at Mt. Holyoke College while completing a post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton University.

Danielle Hanley (Ph.D. 2018) has accepted a new TT position as Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clark University after having served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Rutgers and Clark. 

Alex Garlick (Ph.D. 2016) has accepted a new TT position as Assistant Professor at University of Vermont, after having served as Assistant Professor at The College of New Jersey (and, prior to that, as APSA Congressional Fellow).

A more comprehensive list of our Ph.D. placements since 2001 can be found here.