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Doctoral Graduate Placements
Our Ph.D.s have been accepted to positions at universities such as Dartmouth, Georgia State University, the University of Arkansas, Southern Indiana University, Omaha, Walden, St. Paul College, Benedictine College, Arizona Christian University, and Sabanci University (Turkey). Two of our recent Ph.D.s are tenured Associate Professors at Utah State. Some have gone on to pursue careers in government, such as working for the Department of Defense. Other students accepted postdoctoral fellowships at institutions such as the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and Michigan State. Several of our Ph.D. candidates have earned dissertation awards, including those from the National Science Foundation.
| Name | Graduated | Placement |
| A.J. Simmons | 2018 | Director of Accountability and Data with Arizona Department of Education |
| Valery Dzutsev | 2017 | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague |
| Erik Bumgardner | 2016 | Lawyer Metrics consulting, Washington D.C. |
| Scott Swagerty | 2015 | Arizona Auditor General's Office |
| Jean Crissien | 2015 | Dallas County Community Colleges - Mountain View College |
| Amanda Wintersieck | 2015 | Assistant Professor at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
| Jill Carle | 2014 | Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project in Washington, D.C. |
| Zhipei Chi | 2014 | Assistant Research Fellow at Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, China |
| Shannon Conley | 2014 | Assistant Professor at James Madison University |
Peter Hickman | 2014 | Air Force Officer at the Western Air Defense Sector |
Emily Molfino | 2014 | Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory of the Virginia Bioinformatic Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech |
Daniel Pout | 2014 | Instructor at Arizona State University |
Chris Hale | 2013 | University of Alabama |
David Muchlinski | 2013 | Assistant Professor with the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech |
Alexander Arifianto | 2012 | One-year postdoctoral fellowship at Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore |
Jessica Auchter | 2012 | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
Stefan Borg | 2012 | Post-Doc at Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm |
Leonardo Figueroa-Helland | 2012 | Westminster College |
Kil Joo Ban | 2011 | Instructor at the ROK Naval Academy |
Tracy Munsil | 2011 | Arizona Christian University |
Phillip Hardy | 2010 | Benedictine College, Illinois |
Sean Hays | 2010 | Northern Arizona University |
Rafael Jimeno | 2010 | University of Arkansas |
Nicholas Larowe | 2010 | University of Southern Indiana |
Halit Tagma | 2010 | Sabanci University, Turkey |
Elizabeth Wheatley | 2010 | Arizona State University |
James Andresen | 2009 | St. Paul College |
Michael Jensen | 2009 | Post-Doc at Maxwell School of Syracuse University |
Matthew Jette | 2009 | Teacher at BASIS Scottsdale, Executive Director of the American Cancer Society, Professor at Grand Canyon University and Northern Arizona University |
Wei Lu | 2009 | Renmin University, College of Commerce |
Christopher Lundry | 2009 | Research Assistant Professor, ASU project funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research |
Sarah Gershon | 2008 | Georgia State University |
Ramazan Kilinc | 2008 | Michigan State - 3 years, Currently at University of Nebraska, Omaha |
Maria Ortuoste | 2008 | Tenure at California State University - East Bay |
Timothy Ruback | 2008 | Dartmouth College |
Karen Shafer | 2008 | Walden University |
Kai He | 2007 | Tenure; Griffith University (Australia) |
Beatrice Buchegger | 2006 | Private Sector in Austria |
Jeffery Zavadil | 2006 | Department of Defense |
Hui-yun Feng | 2005 | Tenure; Griffith University (Australia) |
Lisa-Mari Centeno | 2003 | Professor at Adams State University in Colorado |
Stefan Andreasson
| 2003 | Tenured Senior Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast (UK) |
See Seng Tan | 1999 | Professor at Nanyang Technological Univeristy (Singapore) |