Graduate Placement
The Department of Political Science at Boston College has a strong record placing our graduates and makes vigorous efforts to help our students find positions.
Our recent graduates have received numerous tenure-track professorships. Over the last ten years BC grads have taken tenure-track positions at, among others, Holy Cross, Michigan State, Middlebury, St. John’s College, and Syracuse.
In the 2023-24 job market cycle, four of our PhD students were offered and accepted tenure-track assistant professorships: Matthew Berry (theory) at the University of Dallas; Selene Campion (comparative) at the University of Utah; Nathan Davis (theory) at Loyola University; and Tyler Parker (IR) at Mercer University.
Our recent doctoral students have also been very successful in securing postdoctoral fellowships. In the last decade, our students have gone on to postdocs at Columbia, Emory, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, among other institutions.
Our graduates also manage academic centers at institutions such as Princeton and Clemson, and have pursued careers beyond academia at the RAND Corporation and the Congressional Research Service.
Below please find a list of all degree recipients from the last ten years for whom we have information. Positions listed indicate placements information current as of April 2024, and will be updated as needed; please send new information to Ryan Hanley, the department’s placement director.
Placement of Doctoral Program Graduates since 2013
- Yuan He Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
- Tyler Parker, Assistant Professor, Mercer University
- Nicholas Anderson, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Texas-Austin
- Jiyoon Im Bernhoft, Lecturer, Providence College
- Selene Campion, Assistant Professor, University of Utah
- Sam Hayes, Visiting Professor, Trinity College
- Rachael Mackey, Research Fellow and Assistant Director, Hudson Institute
- Peter Wilkin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University
- Janet Benestad, Faculty, St. John’s Seminary
- Andrew Bowen, Analyst, Congressional Research Service
- Yin Chengzhi, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University
- Tim McCranor, Academic Programs Manager, Institute for World Politics
- Adam Wunische, Lecturer, George Washington University
- Perin Gocke, Faculty, Milton Academy
- Thomas Goodman, Assistant Professor, Rhodes College
- Peter Necastro, JD Candidate, Northwestern Law School
- Leor Sapir, Fellow, Manhattan Institute
- Jacob Wolf, Assistant Professor, University of Austin
- Jonathan Yudelman, Assistant Professor, University of Austin
- Timothy Brennan, Associate Professor, University of Austin
- Daniel Geary, Vice President, RealClear Foundation
- John Hungerford, Software Engineer, Two Six Technologies
- Heather Wilford, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
- Brendan Bucy, Secretary of the Senate, Nevada
- Matthew Berry, Assistant Professor, University of Dallas
- Gregory Burnep, Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross
- Thomas Cleveland, Director of Academic Programs, Jack Miller Center
- Yuxing Huang, Associate Professor, Tsinghua University
- Yael Hungerford, Executive Director, Adam Smith Society, Manhattan Institute
- Timothy Lehmann, Data Analyst, Washington University, St. Louis
- Maria McCollester, Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
- William Mayborn, Adjunct Professor, Babson College
- Adam Thomas, Associate Director, Lyceum Program, Clemson University
- Gary Winslett, Associate Professor, Middlebury College
- Alison Levy, Tutor, St. John’s College, Santa Fe
- Grayson Gilmore, Software Engineer, Microsoft
- Elitsa Molles, Adjunct Professor, Boston College
- Kimberley Burns, Assistant Affiliate Professor, University of Dallas
- Shilo Brooks, Assistant Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University
- Dustin Sebell, Associate Professor, Michigan State University
- Nicholas Starr, Tutor, St. John’s College, Santa Fe