The following current and former students are seeking academic appointments. Penn State’s political science Ph.D. students have been placed at some of the top institutions in the U.S.
Student | Research Interests | Committee | |
|---|---|---|---|
Q.J. Clarke | Race & Gender; Temporal and Network Methods; Text Analysis | Suzanna Linn, Lee Ann Banaszak, Bruce Desmarais, Ray Block, Charles Seguin | |
Chi Shun (Gary) Fong | Authoritarian Politics; Political Communication; Contentious Politics | Joseph Wright, Bruce Desmarais, Daniel Tavana, Charles Seguin | |
Nicholas Hemauer | Machine Learning; Text Analysis; Policy Diffusion | Bruce Desmarais, Tracee Saunders, Michael Nelson, Charles Seguin | |
YiMin Huang | Democratization, Authoritarianism | Joseph Wright, Eric Plutzer, Boliang Zhu, Daniel Tavana, Daniel DellaPosta | |
Sara (Lindsay) Snyder | Gender and Politics; Political Ambition; Sex/Gender Quotas | Vineeta Yadav, Lee Ann Banaszak, Daniel Tavana, Susanne Klausen | |
Yang Song | Political Behavior; Political Socialization | Eric Plutzer, Ray Block, Suzanna Linn, Liying Luo, Kevin Munger | |
William (Tyler) Suman | International Relations, Political Economy, and Social Data Analysis | Douglas Lemke, Bruce Desmarais, Roseanne McManus, Charles Seguin, Amy Liu | |
Sheng-Hui (Brooke) Tseng | Gender and Politics; Comparative Politics; East Asia | Lee Ann Banaszak, Joseph Wright, Vineeta Yadav, Sara Liao | |
Yang Yang | International Security; Diplomacy; Causal Inference | Roseanne McManus, Bumba Mukherjee, Joseph Wright, Cory McCartan, Giancarlo Visconti |
Placement Director
Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Placement Director
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Areas of Interest:
- International Relations