Our PhD students receive sophisticated and flexible graduate training that prepares them well to compete for academic positions, postdoctoral fellowships, as well as careers with the government, NGO’s and the private-sector, both in Canada and abroad. Below is a list of some of our recent graduate placements.
| Name | Area | Year of Graduation | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aarie Glas | International Relations | 2017 | Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University |
| Abraham Singer | Political Theory | 2015 | Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago |
| Adam Casey | Comparative Politics | 2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan |
| Aden Dur-E-aden | International Relations | 2023 | Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute |
| Adrienne Davidson | Canadian Government | 2018 | Assistant Professor, McMaster University |
| Alejandro Garcia Magos | Comparative Politics | 2019 | Lecturer, University of Toronto |
| Alena Driescho | International Relations | 2016 | Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University |
| Alesha Porisky | Comparative Politics | 2021 | Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University |
| Alexandre Pelletier | Comparative Politics | 2018 | Assistant Professor, Université Laval |
| Alexis Lerner | Comparative Politics | 2020 | Assistant Professor, US Naval Academy |
| Amanda Arulanandam | Political Theory | 2023 | Visiting Fellow, Princeton University |
| Amir Abdul Reda | Comparative Politics | 2021 | Assistant Professor, University of Mohamed VI Polytechnique |
| Amy Janzwood | International Relations | 2020 | Assistant Professor, McGill University |
| Andrea Cassatella | Theory | 2015 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Andrew McDougall | Canadian Government | 2016 | Assistant Professor, University of Toronto |
| Anibal Saldias | Comparative Politics | 2021 | Policy Analyst, Economist Intelligence Unit |
| Anna Kopec | Public Policy | 2022 | Assistant Professor, Carleton University |
| Arjun Tremblay | Comparative Industrial | 2016 | Assistant Professor, University of Regina |
| Asif Farooq | International Relations | 2021 | Policy Advisor, Innovation, Science & Economic Development Canada |
| Begum Uzun | Comparative Politics | 2019 | Assistant Professor, MEF University |
| Benjamin Cormier | International Relations | 2019 | Assistant Professor, University of Strathclyde |
| Beth Jean Evans | International Relations | 2017 | Principal Consultant, Evans Global Consulting |
| Bowen Yu | International Relations | 2019 | Assistant Professor, Fudan University |
| Brianna Botchwey | International Relations | 2021 | Senior Policy Analyst, Global Affairs Canada |
| Cait Power | Political Theory | 2021 | Assistant Professor, York University |
| Cameron Sabadoz | Political Theory | 2015 | Contract Faculty, Carleton University |
| Carmen Ho | Comparative Politics | 2020 | Assistant Professor, University of Guelph |
| Catherine Moez | Comparative Politics | 2024 | Fellow, Centre for the Politics of Feelings |
| Catherine Ouellet | Comparative Politics | 2024 | Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal |
| Charles Larratt-Smith | International Relations | 2020 | Assistant Professor, University of Texas at El Paso |
| Cheng Xu | International Relations | 2024 | Assistant Professor, Smith College |
| Chi Kwok | Political Theory | 2020 | Assistant Professor, Lingnan University |
| Ching-Fang Hsu | Comparative Politics | 2020 | Assistant Professor, National Chi-Nan University in Taiwan |
| Christian Elliot | International Relations | 2023 | Assistant Professor, Penn State School of International Affairs |
| Christopher LaRoche | International Relations | 2018 | Assistant Professor, Central European University |
| Clifton van der Linden | International Relations | 2018 | Assistant Professor, McMaster University |
| Constantine Vassiliou | Political Theory | 2019 | Assistant Professor, University of Houston |
| Craig Damian Smith | International Relations | 2017 | Executive Director, Parity |
| Daniel Hutton Ferris | Political Theory | 2021 | Lecturer, Newcastle University |
| Daniel Schillinger | Political Theory | 2017 | Lecturer in Humanities, Yale University |
| Daniel Sherwin | Political Theory | 2022 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Carleton University |
| Daniella Levy-Pinto | Comparative Development | 2017 | Manager, National Network for Equitable Library Service |
| David Gordon | International Relations | 2015 | Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz |
| David Houle | Canadian Government | 2015 | Public Policy Analyst, Public Sector |
| David Polansky | Political Theory | 2017 | Senior Fellow, Institute for Peace and Diplomacy |
| Dorina Verli | Political Theory | 2016 | Program Officer, SSHRC |
| Douglas Joseph MacKay | International Relations | 2015 | Research Fellow, Australia National University |
| Dov Kanengisser | Comparative Development | 2016 | Senior Policy Advisor, Ontario Ministry of Health |
| Dragana Bodruzic | Comparative Politics | 2019 | Corporate Sustainability Specialist, Sympact Advisory |
| Dylan Marando | Canadian Government | 2021 | Policy Advisor, Prime Minister's Office |
| Elena Goracinova | Comparative Politics | 2020 | Market Research Analyst, MotivBase |
| Elinor Bray-Collins | Comparative Development | 2016 | Professor, Humber College |
| Ella Street | Political Theory | 2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University |
| Emile Dirks | Comparative Politics | 2022 | Research Associate, University of Toronto |
| Emily Scott | International Relations | 2019 | Assistant Professor, University of Birmingham |
| Emma Planinc | Political Theory | 2017 | Asssistant Professor, University of Notre Dame |
| Erfan Xia | Political Theory | 2023 | Assistant Professor, Shanghai Technical University |
| Erica Petkov | Comparative Politics | 2022 | Manager, Canadian Civil Liberties Association |
| Erica Rayment | Canadian Government | 2020 | Assistant Professor, University of Calgary |
| Evan Rosevear | Comparative Politics | 2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Hong Kong |
| Eve Bourgeois | Canadian Government | 2022 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecole Nationale d'Administration Publique |
| Gabriel Arsenault | Canadian Government | 2016 | Assistant Professor, University of Moncton |
| Geoffrey Cameron | Comparative Politics | 2018 | Assistant Professor, McMaster University |
| Gerald Bareebe | Comparative Politics | 2019 | Assistant Professor, York University |
| Gregory Eady | Comparative Development | 2017 | Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen |
| Gustavo Carvalho | International Relations | 2015 | Researcher, Environmental Governance Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy |
| Hamish van der Ven | IR | 2015 | Assistant Professor, McGill University |
| Heather Millar | Comparative Politics | 2018 | Associate Professor, University of New Brunswick |
| Igor Shoikhedbrod | Political Theory | 2017 | Assistant Professor, St. Francis Xavier University |
| Jacqueline Peterson | Comparative Politics | 2020 | Manager, Kathairos Solutions Inc |
| Jamie Levin | International Relations | 2015 | Assistant Professor, St. Francis Xavier University |
| Jason VandenBeukel | Canadian Government | 2021 | Director of Communication, Ministry of Municipal Affairs & Housing |
| Jean Lachapelle | Comparative International Relations | 2017 | Assistant Professor, Université de Montréal |
| Jennifer Hove | Comparative Development | 2015 | Manager, Education Quality and Accountability Office |
| Jerald Sabin | Canadian Government | 2016 | Assistant Professor, Carleton University |
| Jessica Soedirgo | Comparative Politics | 2020 | Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam |
| Joanna Rice | Comparative Politics | 2020 | Consultant, Global Survivors Fund |
| Joelle Dumouchel | International Relations | 2015 | Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen |
| Jonas Schwab-Pflug | Political Theory | 2017 | Senior Manager, Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) |
| Jonathan Kent | International Relations | 2018 | Research Fellow, Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada |
| Jonathan Melchiorre | Comparative Politics | 2018 | Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes |
| Jose Parra | Political Theory | 2016 | Lecturer, Universidad Externado de Colombia |
| Juan Aranda Vargas | Political Theory | 2019 | Assistant Professor, UPAEP |
| Juan Pereira Marsiaj | Comparative - Development | 2017 | Senior Quality Assurance Advisor, Indigenous Advanced Education and Skills Council (IAESC) |
| Karol Czuba | Comparative Politics | 2019 | Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University |
| Kate Korycki | Comparative Industrial | 2017 | Assistant Professor, Western University |
| Kevin Edmonds | Comparative Politics | 2020 | Assistant Professor, University of Toronto |
| Kevin Luo | Comparative Politics | 2022 | Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota |
| Khalid Ahmed | Comparative Development | 2018 | Assistant Professor, Quatar University |
| Kiran Banerjee | Political Theory | 2016 | Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan |
| Kristen Pue | International Relations | 2020 | Policy Analyst, Employment and Social Development Canada |
| Kristin Cavoukian | Comparative Industrial | 2016 | Sessional Lecturer, University of Toronto |
| Lahoma Thomas | International Relations | 2021 | Assistant Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University |
| Lama Mourad | Comparative Politics | 2019 | Assistant Professor, Carleton University |
| Lennart Maschmeyer | International Relations | 2020 | Senior Researcher, ETH Zurich - Centre for Security Studies |
| Leslie Wee | Political Theory | 2015 | Instructor, George Brown College |
| Lincoln Rathnam | Political Theory | 2017 | Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University |
| Lindsay Mahon | Political Theory | 2017 | Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshan University |
| Lior Sheffer | Comparative Politics | 2018 | Associate Professor, Tel Aviv University |
| Maika Sondarjee | International Relations | 2020 | Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa |
| Marie Gagne | Comparative Politics | 2020 | Consultant, Tetra Tech ARD |
| Marion Laurence | International Relations | 2019 | Assistant Professor, Canadian Defence Academy |
| Mark Winward | Comparative Politics | 2019 | Manger, Return on Disability Group |
| Mary Jo MacDonald | Political Theory | 2023 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Jyväskylä |
| Matthew Hamilton | Political Theory | 2018 | Assistant Professor, University of Toronto - Scarborough |
| Matthew Lesch | Canadian Government | 2017 | Assistant Professor, University of York |
| Matthew Wilder | Canadian Government | 2018 | Research Advisor, Employment and Social Development Canada |
| Matthieu Mondou | Comparative Politics | 2015 | Adviser, Public Policy, Innovation & Sustainability, Ministère de l'Économie et de l'Innovation |
| Maxime Heroux-Legault | Canadian Government | 2017 | Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia |
| Md Mujahedul Islam | Comparative Politics | 2024 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto |
| Megan Dersnah | International Relations | 2016 | Director of Policy, Right to Play |
| Merom Kalie | Theory | 2015 | Teacher, Massuah Institute for Holocaust Studies |
| Michael Braun | Comparative Politics | 2022 | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of the Witwatersrand |
| Michael Gavin | International Relations | 2017 | Assistant Professor, University of Queensland |
| Michael Motala | International Relations | 2023 | Owner, EVERLEX Legal |
| Michael Pelz | Comparative Politics | 2015 | Senior Policy Advisor, Government of Ontario |
| Michael Youash | Comparative Politics | 2019 | Senior Manager, Global Centre for Pluralism |
| Milena Pandy | Comparative Politics | 2022 | Instructional Support Administrator, University of Toronto |
| Minh Do | Canadian Government | 2020 | Assistant Professor, University of Guelph |
| Nathan Lemphers | Comparative Politics | 2019 | Economic Analyst, Climate Change Canada |
| Nathan Olmstead | Political Theory | 2023 | Analyst, Niagara Parks |
| Nathaniel Gilmore | Political Theory | 2019 | Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin |
| Nicholas Fraser | Comparative Politics | 2019 | Policy Innovation Fellow, University of California - Berkeley |
| Nick Ruderman | Canadian Government | 2017 | Assistant Professor, Concordia University |
| Noaman Ali | Comparative Politics | 2019 | Assistant Professor, Lahore University of Management Sciences |
| Olga Kesarchuk | Comparative Development | 2015 | Business Officer, University of Toronto |
| Ozlem Aslan | Political Theory | 2019 | Visiting Professor, Kadir Has University |
| Patricia Greve | International Relations | 2018 | Research Fellow, Balsille School of International Affairs |
| Paul Thomas | Canadian Government | 2016 | Senior Research Associate, The Samara Centre for Democracy |
| Pierre Rivest-Bonin | Canadian Government | 2020 | Senior Data Scientist, Employment and Social Development Canada |
| Pinar Dokumaci | Political Theory | 2017 | Assistant Professor, University of Dublin |
| Reut Marciano | Comparative Politics | 2023 | Assistant Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Robert Ballingall | Political Theory | 2016 | Assistant Professor, University of Maine |
| Safiyyah Ally | Political Theory | 2018 | Executive Producer, 'Let the Quran Speak' |
| Salar Asadolahi | Public Policy | 2024 | Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University |
| Sarah Rich-Zendel | International Relations | 2019 | Postdoctoral Fellow, York University - Osgoode Hall |
| Sarah-Sophie Flemig | Comparative Development | 2015 | Chief Executive, The Cattanach Charitable Trust |
| Scott Dodds | Political Theory | 2019 | Stakeholder Relations Manager, Government of Ontario |
| Scott McKnight | International Relations | 2020 | Research Writer, University of Toronto |
| Semir Teshale | Comparative Politics | 2018 | Senior Research Associate, Institue for Security Studies |
| Semuhi Sinanoglu | Comparative Politics | 2024 | Researcher, German Institute of Development and Sustainability |
| Shaukat Ansari | Comparative Politics | 2018 | Part-Time Lecturer, Mt. Allison University |
| Shelly Ghai | Development Studies | 2021 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo |
| Shu Liang Yan | Comparative Politics | 2020 | Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shenzhen |
| Simon Lambek | Political Theory | 2019 | Assistant Professor, University of the Fraser Valley |
| Simon Pratt | International Relations | 2017 | Lecturer, University of Melbourne |
| Simona Chiose | Comparative Industrial | 2016 | Senior Policy Advisor, University of Toronto |
| Sophie Borwein | Canadian Government | 2020 | Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University |
| Stefan Ferraro | Canadian Government | 2022 | Data Analyst, Freelance |
| Stephanie Murphy | Political Theory | 2020 | Director, HCM Strategists |
| Steven Denney | Comparative Politics | 2019 | Assistant Professor, University of Vienna |
| Sude Beltan | Comparative Development | 2018 | Policy Analyst, Intergovernmental Committee on Urban Regional Research |
| Sude Beltan | Development Studies | 2018 | Research Officer, Government of Ontario |
| Takumi Shibaike | International Relations | 2020 | Assistant Professor, Syracuse University |
| Tanya Whyte | Canadian Government | 2019 | Software Developer, Prodigy Education |
| Teddy Harrison | Political Theory | 2019 | Assistant Professor, Harvard University |
| Thomas Meredith | Political Theory | 2019 | Adjunct Lecturer, Santa Clara University |
| Timothy Berk | Political Theory | 2023 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Ottawa |
| Tina Rupcic | Political Theory | 2017 | Assistant Professor, Concordia University |
| Travis Southin | Canadian Government | 2022 | Future Economy Lead, the Transition Accelorator |
| Vanessa van den Boogaard | Comparative Politics | 2020 | Research Fellow, University of Sussex |
| Victor Bruzzone | Political Theory | 2024 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn State |
| Wilfrid Greaves | International Relations | 2016 | Assistant Professor, University of Victoria |
| William O'Connell | International Relations | 2024 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University |
| Yang-Yang Cheng | Political Theory | 2024 | Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University |
| Yannick Dufresne | Canadian Government | 2015 | Assistant Professor, Université Laval |
| Yao Wen | International Relations | 2020 | Assistant Professor, Fudan University |
| Yi-Chun Chien | Political Theory | 2018 | Assistant Professor, National Chengchi University |
| Zachary Taylor | Canadian Government | 2015 | Assistant Professor, Western University |
| Zain Asaf | Comparative Politics | 2022 | Lecturer, University of Toronto |
| Zak Black | Political Theory | 2022 | Research Officer, Library of Parliament |
| Zhichao Tong | Political Theory | 2020 | Assistant Professor, Sun Yat-sen University |