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Our program has been quite successful in placing our graduates. Since 2000, 44 out of 47 of our graduates from the PhD program have received tenure-track appointments in a variety of academic institutions. Almost all of these students received offers during their final year in the program while completing their degree and in their first year on the job market. Below you will find profiles of some recent graduates and a list of recent placements.
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Sarah A. Fulton (PhD, 2006) is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M
University. She is interested in campaigns and elections,
with an emphasis on women in American politics.
Her dissertation, Alice Through
the Looking Glass: Gender, Perceptions
and the Decision to Run, considered the
impact of gender and attitudes on the decision to run for higher office, using
a large-n mail survey she conducted among a national sample of state
legislators. Sarah has received a number of awards, most
recently the Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the 2007
meeting of the Western Political Science Association for research based on her
dissertation. She has published articles
in the Political Research Quarterly
and the American Political Science Review
(with Cherie Maestas, L. Sandy Maisel, and Walter J. Stone) and is currently
working on a project that examines the impact of gender on electoral outcomes
and fundraising success.
Daniel Brunstetter (PhD, 2005) is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine.
Daniel studies political theory, with a focus on early modern thought. His dissertation,
Conquest of Paradigms: The Discovery of the New World and the rise of Modernity, explored the impact of the
Discovery of the New World on the evolution of European thought, illustrating how the shock of this unforeseeable
encounter led to a paradigm shift in the European understanding of human nature and politics. As a graduate student,
Daniel received a number of awards, including a Chateaubriand Fellowship to conduct research in France. His current
research interests include early modern political thought, the just war, and French political thought in the
Enlightenment. He is currently working on a project that examines the importance of the sixteenth-century Spanish
debates about the conquest of the New World in clarifying contemporary questions about the just war.
Skyler Cranmer (PhD, 2007)
is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Skyler’s primary interest is in political methodology, in which he is conducting research in Bayesian statistics (particularly multiple change point estimation and reversible jump MCMC), missing data imputation, complex network analysis, and automated data gathering and content analysis. He spent 2006-07 as a visiting pre-doctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science and then remained there during 2007-08 as a post-doctoral fellow. He has recent articles in Conflict Management and Peace Science, "Do Governments of the Left Attract more Terrorism than Governments of the Right?" (with Michael T. Koch) and the Journal of Politics, "Demography, Democracy and Disputes: The Search for the Elusive Relationship Between Population Growth and International Conflict" (with Randolph M. Siverson).
Patricia Sullivan (PhD, 2004) is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia. Tricia's dissertation,
The Utility of Force: War Aims and Asymmetric War Outcomes,
explored why militarily strong states frequently fail to achieve their
political objectives when they use military force against weak state
and non-state targets. As a graduate student, Tricia received several
research fellowships, including dissertation fellowships from the
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and University of
California. She was also awarded an NSF dissertation improvement grant.
A paper based on a chapter of her thesis was awarded the 2004 Graduate
Student Paper Prize by American Political Science Association section
on Military Operations and Strategy.
Among her recent articles are "War Aims and War Outcomes," in Journal of Conflict Resolution, and "What Price Victory: When Leaders Underestimate the Cost of War," in Confict Management and Peace Science.