List of Placement Students
Students on the Job Market for Fall 2009
Here we place brief bios and information about placement students at the University of Iowa Political Science Department. This page provides information about our advanced doctoral students and recent Ph.D.s currently on the academic job market. The following students are seeking Fall 2009 positions.
If you would like more information please contact the candidates, their faculty advisors, or our Director of Ph.D. Placement, Professor Sara Mitchell. A candidate’s confidential placement file consisting of curriculum vitae, unofficial transcript, letters of recommendation, a summary of student evaluations or writing samples may be requested by a prospective employer by contacting our Graduate Placement Secretary, Wendy Durant.
Daniel C. Bowen
Placement Candidate
American Politics and Research Methodology, specializing in American legislative institutions, representation, public opinion, multilevel modeling, and geographic information systems (GIS).
Disseratation Project: Constituency Size, Districting Principles, and the Representational Relationship
Email: daniel-bowen@uiowa.edu
Bowen's website and curriculum vitae
Jonathan P. Day
Placement Candidate
American Politics, Research Methodology, specializing in political institutions, presidency, Congress
Dissertation Project: The Strategy of Campaign Visits in Presidential Elections
Email: jonathan-day@uiowa.edu
Day's website and curriculum vitae
Holley Hansen
Placement Candidate
Comparative Politics, International Relations, Applied Methodology
Dissertation Project: Ethnic Voting and Representation: Minority Russians in Post Soviet States
Email: holley-hansen@uiowa.edu
Hansen's website and curriculum vitae
Benjamin Knoll
Placement Candidate
American Politics
Dissertation Project: Understanding the "New Nativism": Causes and Consequences for Immigration Policy Attitudes in the United States
Email: benjamin-knoll@uiowa.edu
Knoll's website and curriculum vitae
Amanda Licht
Placement Candidate
Tae Eun Min
Placement Candidate
Stephen Nemeth
Placement Candidate
James Rydberg
Placement Candidate
American Politics, Methodology
Dissertation Project: Representation in the American States
Email: james-rydberg@uiowa.edu
Rydberg's website and curriculum vitae
Jeffrey Stout
Placement Candidate
International Relations, Comparative, Formal Theory, and American
Dissertation Project: The Evolution of Scope, Aggression, & Revisionism: A Dynamic Model of Grand Strategy
Email: jeffrey-stout@uiowa.edu
Stout's website and curriculum vitae
Jill Wittrock
Ph.D. Granted in December 2008
Comparative Politics, Methodology, American Politics
Dissertation Title: Voting Behavior after Electoral Reform: Cross-National Experiments
Email: jill.wittrock@politics.ox.ac.uk
Wittrock's website and curriculum vitae
