Recent PhD Placements

See where some our recent graduates have found placements after earning their PhD in Communication from Cornell University. The Graduate School also has survey data on doctoral career outcomes.

• Tianen Chen, PhD (2025)
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Communication
  University of South Florida
• Megan Sawey, PhD (2025)
  Lecturer
  Department of Communication
  Cornell University
• Pengfei Zhao, PhD (2025)
  Assistant Professor
  College of Communication and Information
  Florida State University
• Alisius Leong, PhD (2024)
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Communications and New Media
  National University of Singapore
• Colten Meisner, PhD (2024)
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Communication
  North Carolina State University
• Cat Lambert, PhD (2023)
  Lecturer
  Department of Communication
  Cornell University
• Yiwei Xu, PhD (2023)
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  Center for an Informed Public
  University of Washington Information School
• Chelsea Butkowski, PhD (2022)
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  Center on Digital Culture & Society, Annenberg School for Communication
  University of Pennsylvania
• Julie Cannon, PhD (2022)
  Assistant Professor
  Department of English and Communication Studies
  Roanoke College
• Motasem Kalaji, PhD (2022)
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Communication Studies
  California State University Northridge
• Swati Pandita, PhD (2022)
  Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate
  Neuroscience of Social Media
  California Institute of Technology
• Oliver Ngai Keung Chan, PhD (2021)
  Assistant Professor
  School of Journalism and Communication
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Byungdoo Kim, PhD (2021)
  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Citizens, Environment, and Safety Research Group in the Department of Psychology
  Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• John Lunsford, PhD (2021)
  User Experience Researcher, Safety
  Uber Technologies Inc. 
• Shruti Sannon, PhD (2021)
  Computing Innovation Fellow and Postdoctoral Researcher
  University of Michigan School of Information
• Melissa Seipel, PhD (2021)
  International Admissions Coordinator 
  Brigham Young University
• Vincent Chao Yu, PhD (2021)
  Visiting Lecturer
  Cornell University
• Alex Hinck, PhD (2020)
  Assistant Professor
  San Francisco State University
• Jason Holley, PhD (2020)
  Director of Communications
  J. A. Green & Company