Career Placement

Graduates from our program primarily pursue academic careers with the goal of a tenure-track position at a college or university. In recent years, our students have been offered tenure track positions at leading research universities such as Yale, Harvard, the Ohio State, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Cornell, Northwestern, University of Iowa, University of Pittsburgh, Boston College, Texas A+M, and Georgetown, among others. Our students also do well in obtaining positions at selective liberal arts colleges, such as Middlebury, Denison, Amherst, Grinnell, Wesleyan, Macalester, and the University of San Francisco. Consistent with trends in the discipline, many students now receive a one or two-year post-doctoral fellowship after receiving their PhDs from our Department, and in recent years our students have been awarded many of these, including at London School of Economics, Harvard, Georgetown, University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Brown, Northwestern, and Columbia.

Many of our students will also choose to enter the private sector, the non-profit world, or government. In recent years our students have pursued careers such as Data Scientists, Consultants, Researchers, and Directors.