The senior honors thesis program at Madison allows students to showcase their personalized research and scholarship.
The Honors Thesis is a substantial work of independent research or scholarship, to be supervised and evaluated by a faculty member. An honors thesis provides the opportunity for a student to explore a research topic in-depth through rigorous empirical analysis and theoretical development under faculty guidance to be presented in the final semester to the JMC academic community.
Students who have finished a Senior Honors Thesis often use it for writing samples for graduate school, confirmation of research related skills for career purposes, and other meaningful illustrations of academic excellence.
Embarking on a Senior Honors Thesis
Students interested in completing a Senior Honors Thesis are strongly advised to contact the JMC academic affairs office to go over the requirements and deadlines to ensure successful completion.
STEP 1: Select a topic and identify a JMC faculty member willing to serve as your senior honors thesis advisor before the end of the fall semester of your junior year.
STEP 2: Successfully complete three Honors Options in courses required in the “core” of your major (i.e., in courses in the major with the designation MC, either required or electives). Successful completion = meeting all the specified requirements for the awarding of the honors option designation, including receipt of a 3.5 or better in each of the courses.
STEP 3: Successfully complete one independent study (MC 399, 3-4 credits or MC 490H, 4 credits) in your major during junior year. Successful completion = 3.5 or better in the course.
STEP 4: Successfully complete a senior honors thesis (MC 495H, 4 credits for each semester) and a successful public defense of that thesis. Successful completion = a 3.5 or better in each senior thesis course, or overall when the grade given in the first semester is deferred.
For examples of past Senior Honors Theses, view the lists below.
Jack Carlson, “Rousseau and the Moral Worth of Compassion” (Lorch)
Joy Cullen, “US Intelligence Networks on Human Trafficking” (Zierler)
Noah Doederlein, “Mobilizing Culture in Response to Development: Re/commoning and the Potentials of Pluriverse along the Ing River”
Aditi Kulkarni, “The Instant Noodle Effect: Why Food-Insecure College Campuses Are Hungry for Change”
Gabriel Sandoval, “Literary Depictions of Egyptian Regimes, Revolutions, and Resistance” (Olcott)
Audrey Damman, “The Mekong and its Stories: How Water Level Transforms Livelihoods and Knowledge in Chiang Khong, Thailand” (Flaim)
Shimon Likhtman, “Cambodia’s Emergency Response to COVID-19” (Flaim)
Solomon Kronberg, “Haunted Renewal: Stories of Blasted Landscapes in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Chiang Rai, Thailand” (Flaim)
Rosa Razmi, “Motherhood and the State: A Conceptualization of Iranian Citizenship and the Relationship Between Activism Maternal Health” (Sayed)
Christopher Eyke, “Edge of Empires: History, Identity, and Ethnic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Transcaucasia” (Olcott)
Jack Wheatley, “When Hate Had a Home Here: a historical reexamination and oral history of MSU Young Americans for Freedom, the country’s first student-based hate group” (Rohs)
Madison Coil, “Reimagining and Redefining the Work of American Women and Their Families” (Burns)
Allie Lobbia, “Analysis of Interventions to Manage IUU Fishing in Comparative Context: Transponders and PSMA Implementation” (Axelrod)
Seth Marvin-Vanderryn, “The Victory of the Animal Laborans: Environmental Degradation and Modern Discontent” (Wolf)
Julia Kemple-Johnson, “The Commodification of Privacy” (Barksdale-Shaw)
Chris Tyson, “Our Work Begins Here: Settler Colonialism, Land-Grant Universities, and Ecological Catastrophe” (Peters/Flaim)
Delaney McDermott, “Bridging the Gaps Between Arab Americans: How Identity Formation and Trumpian Immigration Policy Creates Difference Between Arabs in the U.S.” (Sayed)
Isabelle Thelen, “The Position of Christian Citizens Within Non-Christian Politics in the Writings of Saint Augustine” (Lorch)
Shiksha Sneha, “Being Desi: Studying South Asian American Political Behavior” (Das Gupta)
Callie Keller, “Japan and R.O.K Security Relations through G.S.O.M.I.A” (Qing)
Danny Olweean, “Farms, Workers, and Pandemic Relief” (Pegler-Gordon)
Elizabeth Lancaster, “Where We Go One, We Go All: QAnon and the Modern Political Conspiracy Theory” (Jackson)
Anthony Luongo, “Thinking Beyond the State: US Democracy Assistance in Africa since the Cold War” (Zierler)
Kathleen Fallon, “What Mediators Mean for Peace: Analyzing the Implications of Local, Regional, and International Mediation Efforts on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations” (Zierler)
Paula Salazar-Valiente, “Support for Child Survivors/Victims of Sexual Abuse in Western Belize” (Goett)
Ben Schwabe, “Thucydides' Critique of the Athenian Vision of Politics” (Lorch)
Chloe Damon, “Governance by Ambiguity: Mapping, Gender, and Land Tenure Contestation in Upland Northern Thailand” (Flaim)
Hanna Foreman, “Avoidable but Inevitable: An Analysis of Inter-Korean Relations and the U.S.-ROK Alliance, and its Influence on South Korean Unification Discourse, 1988-2017” (Komori)
Bridie (Brigid) McBride, “Digitizing Lithuanian Independence, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Metadata" (Olcott)
Jordan George, "America’s Ancien Regime?: Insights About Democracy from Alexis de Tocqueville’s Analysis of France in The Ancien Regime and the Revolution and their Contemporary Applications" (Lorch)
Vishnu Kannan, "Moral Visions and National Security Objectives: Lessons from Two Decades of Democracy Promotion in Afghanistan" (Lorch)
Emily McHarg, “Catalyzed by Crises: Examining Far Right Political Support in Europe” (R. Brathwaite)
Fish (Bryce) Fisher, “Lockean Christianity in Modern Politics” Malahni Ngalle, “Black Feminism in Afro-dance” (Flaim/Harrison)
Katarina Huss, “How to be a Refugee: Expectations and Implications of the 1980 Refugee Act for U.S. Refugees” (Pegler-Gordon)
Harrison Greenleaf, “Shared Interests: An Analysis of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance” (Zierler)
Jonathan Walkotten, “Gender-Affirming Care: Trans Organizing and the Opportunities of Community Health” (Grant/Stein-Roggenbuck)
Gabriel Sandoval, “Literary Depictions of Egyptian Regimes, Revolutions, and Resistance” (Olcott)
Audrey Damman, “The Mekong and its Stories: How Water Level Transforms Livelihoods and Knowledge in Chiang Khong, Thailand” (Flaim)
Shimon Likhtman, “Cambodia’s Emergency Response to COVID-19” (Flaim)
Solomon Kronberg, “Haunted Renewal: Stories of Blasted Landscapes in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Chiang Rai, Thailand” (Flaim)
Rosa Razmi, “Motherhood and the State: A Conceptualization of Iranian Citizenship and the Relationship Between Activism Maternal Health” (Sayed)
Christopher Eyke, “Edge of Empires: History, Identity, and Ethnic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Transcaucasia” (Olcott)
Jack Wheatley, “When Hate Had a Home Here: a historical reexamination and oral history of MSU Young Americans for Freedom, the country’s first student-based hate group” (Rohs)
Madison Coil, “Reimagining and Redefining the Work of American Women and Their Families” (Burns)
Allie Lobbia, “Analysis of Interventions to Manage IUU Fishing in Comparative Context: Transponders and PSMA Implementation” (Axelrod)
Seth Marvin-Vanderryn, “The Victory of the Animal Laborans: Environmental Degradation and Modern Discontent” (Wolf)
Julia Kemple-Johnson, “The Commodification of Privacy” (Barksdale-Shaw)
Chris Tyson, “Our Work Begins Here: Settler Colonialism, Land-Grant Universities, and Ecological Catastrophe” (Peters/Flaim)
Delaney McDermott, “Bridging the Gaps Between Arab Americans: How Identity Formation and Trumpian Immigration Policy Creates Difference Between Arabs in the U.S.” (Sayed)
Isabelle Thelen, “The Position of Christian Citizens Within Non-Christian Politics in the Writings of Saint Augustine” (Lorch)
Shiksha Sneha, “Being Desi: Studying South Asian American Political Behavior” (Das Gupta)
Callie Keller, “Japan and R.O.K Security Relations through G.S.O.M.I.A” (Qing)
Danny Olweean, “Farms, Workers, and Pandemic Relief” (Pegler-Gordon)
Elizabeth Lancaster, “Where We Go One, We Go All: QAnon and the Modern Political Conspiracy Theory” (Jackson)
Anthony Luongo, “Thinking Beyond the State: US Democracy Assistance in Africa since the Cold War” (Zierler)
Kathleen Fallon, “What Mediators Mean for Peace: Analyzing the Implications of Local, Regional, and International Mediation Efforts on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations” (Zierler)
Paula Salazar-Valiente, “Support for Child Survivors/Victims of Sexual Abuse in Western Belize” (Goett)
Ben Schwabe, “Thucydides' Critique of the Athenian Vision of Politics” (Lorch)
Chloe Damon, “Governance by Ambiguity: Mapping, Gender, and Land Tenure Contestation in Upland Northern Thailand” (Flaim)
Hanna Foreman, “Avoidable but Inevitable: An Analysis of Inter-Korean Relations and the U.S.-ROK Alliance, and its Influence on South Korean Unification Discourse, 1988-2017” (Komori)
Bridie (Brigid) McBride, “Digitizing Lithuanian Independence, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Metadata" (Olcott)
Jordan George, "America’s Ancien Regime?: Insights About Democracy from Alexis de Tocqueville’s Analysis of France in The Ancien Regime and the Revolution and their Contemporary Applications" (Lorch)
Vishnu Kannan, "Moral Visions and National Security Objectives: Lessons from Two Decades of Democracy Promotion in Afghanistan" (Lorch)
Emily McHarg, “Catalyzed by Crises: Examining Far Right Political Support in Europe” (R. Brathwaite)
Fish (Bryce) Fisher, “Lockean Christianity in Modern Politics” Malahni Ngalle, “Black Feminism in Afro-dance” (Flaim/Harrison)
Katarina Huss, “How to be a Refugee: Expectations and Implications of the 1980 Refugee Act for U.S. Refugees” (Pegler-Gordon)
Harrison Greenleaf, “Shared Interests: An Analysis of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance” (Zierler)
Jonathan Walkotten, “Gender-Affirming Care: Trans Organizing and the Opportunities of Community Health” (Grant/Stein-Roggenbuck)
Alexander Parsell, “Compromising on Education: An Attempt to Define the Nature of Institutional Failure.” (Emmett)
Apoorva Dhingra, “Ethno-religious Nationalism in India and Sri Lanka.” (Racioppi)
Justin Allen, “Shklar’s Liberalism of Fear, Political Produce, and the American Regime.” (Lindahl)
Tanner Delpier, “School Choice and the Lansing School District: Politics, Markets, and Michigan’s Schools” (Grant)
Ian Hoopingarner, “Lineages of Dissent: Popular and Artistic Resistance to Imperialism and Extraction on ‘the beautiful island’” (Tremonte)
Raziel Lavalais, “Lincolnian Statesmanship.” (Lindahl)
Alexis Noffke, “From ‘Troubles’ to Peace: Paramilitaries and Political Parties in Northern Ireland.” (Racioppi)
Clare O’Kane, “Western or Universal, Foreign Aid or International Development: Americans and Tanzanians on Human Rights as Human Development.” (Pinto)
Cody Schulz, “Azerbaijan: Destined for Diversification or Doomed to Decline?” (Graham)
Beatriz Navarro-Garcia, “Between Parrots and Pig’s Tails: A Study of the Private and Public Realms in One Hundred Years of Solitude.” (Garnett)
Adam Cusick, “Government of the People, or For the People?: The Crisis of Democracy in the European Union” (Lindahl)
Arian Koochesfahani, “The Drama of Republic I and Why a Philosopher Would Want to Rule” (Petrie)
Paul Rose, “Transnational Network Influence on Great Powers: The Case of Germany and Russia” (Axelrod)
Brianna Starosciak, “The Future of Warfare in Eurasia” (Garnett & Zierler)
Brittany Zwierzchowski, “Tocqueville’s America and Pierre Manet’s Christianity: The Compatibility of Democracy and Religion” (Lindahl)
Cory Carone, “Tocqueville and Modern Science: How Scientific Authority Exacerbates Soft-Despotism and the Implications for Liberal Democracy and the Soul” (Craig)
Ansel Courant, “Transnational Writing and Performance in ‘Public’ Digital Spaces: Wikipedia and the 2013 Protests in Brazil” (Rohs)
Teresa Dettloff, “An Examination of Arms Control: The Merits and Limits of the Bilateral and Multilateral Approaches” (Zierler)
Cole Lussier, “Weighing an Active Judiciary: The Supreme Court’s Control over Morality” (Kleinerman)
Matthew Needham, “Political Entrepreneurship Efforts in Education Reform” (Emmett)
Kathryn Allen, “The Trials, Tribulations, and theory that have Shaped Tribal Nations Sovereignty” (Emmett)
Shelby Couch, “Destructive Constructs of Haitian Identity in the Dominican Republic: Cultural Effects on Dominican State Interests and Politics in Relations with Haiti” (Pinto)
Bradley Kells, “Applied Zymology: How Institutions, Culture, and Luck Created the American Microbrew Revolution” (Emmett)
Angelina Mosher, “Feminism, Patriarchy and Elitism: The Mobilization of Women in the Palestinian Nationalist Movement” (Racioppi)
Emily Snoek, “Risky Business: LGBT Youth & Michigan’s Sex Education Curriculum” (Grant)
Christopher Coles, “Revisiting Fukuyama: Recognition and Meaning After The End of History” (El-Rayes)
Kevin Dean, “Access Approved?: the Internet and the Public and Private Spheres in Liberal Democracy” (Craig)
Alexis Duffey, “Setting the Stage: Spectacular History and the Politics of Performance in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Opening Ceremonies” (Rohs)
Rebecca Farnum, “Food and Water as the Middle East and North Africa’s ‘Coal and Steel’: Regional Economic Integration and Peace Prospects” (Axelrod)
Donald Matlock, “Cause and Effect: Understanding Iran’s Nuclear Rationale” (Zierler)
Spencer Nordwick, “Beyond the Field: Agricultural Policy, Development, and Gender in Tajikistan” (Racioppi)
Sarah Pomeroy, “Progressing Towards the Rule of Law: The Effect of History and Foreign Intervention in Post-Authoritarian Nations” (Axelrod)
Evan Stewart, “Measuring the God in You: Bias Against the Non-religious in National Surveys and American Political Rhetoric” (Burns)
Alex Barton, “Encouraging the Efforts and Kindling the Spirits of Others: Francis Bacon on Scientific Accountability” (Craig)
Katelyn Charbeneau, “What are you Waiting For?: Student Waitresses Balancing School, Work and Stereotypes” (Goett and Pegler-Gordon)
Claire Glenn, “Choices, Constraints, and Change: Intercultural Health in the Pearl Lagoon Basin of Nicaragua” (Kramer and Goett)
Laura Kovacek, “Problems, Paradoxes and Potential in the Local Food Movement” (Craig)
Isabel Laczkovich, “European Rhythm - Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: A Critical Analysis of European Public Relations” (Graham)
John Loporto, “Nazism and Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt ‘On the Origins of Totalitarianism’” (Lindahl)
Alyssa Meyer, “Assessing the Persistence of Political Culture in Elite-Led Regime Transitions: The Cases of Turkey and Uzbekistan” (Graham)
Anna Stephens, “Civil Rights and Friedrich Nietzsche: How the Struggle for Equality Can Progress in an Age of Godlessness” (Stokes)
Marissa Wahl, “Self Interest and Soft Power: Explaining Chinese Foreign Policy Intentions in Africa and Latin America” (Qing)
Randall Denison, “Authoritarianism, Liberalism, and Democracy in Turkey” (Lindahl)
Kallie Eisenberger, “How Democracy Shapes Counter-Terror Strategies and Tactics: A Comparison of the United States and Israel” (Aronoff)
Katie Gjerpen, “Nation-Building in Syria and Lebanon During the French Mandate” (Graham)
Andrew Jelinek, “Human Security in Central Asia: The Analytical Limits of Human Insecurity as a Cause of Insurgency and Terrorism” (Graham)
Alyssa Johnson, “Race and Ethnic Voting in the New South Africa: Prospects for Democratic Deepening through Multi-Party competition by the Democratic Alternative Party” (Edozie)
Nicholas Laverty, “Short Term View, Long Term Consequences: Framing the Future of Sino-American Economic Relations” (Qing)
Carly McGarr, “Framing Capital Punishment: A Case Study of the United States and Canada” (Burns)
Kellie Owens, “Private Choices, Public Consequences: How Advanced Reproductive Technologies are Changing American Society” (Largent)
Kelly Steffen, “Natural Resources and Conflict in Post Cold War World: How the End of the Cold War has Created a New Conflict Landscape, Challenges, and a Search for New Solutions” (Schechter)
Lauren Verbiscus, “Ecuadorian Education: The Source of Equitable, Sustainable Development” (Jezierski)
Brianne Walsh, “On the Limits to Modernity and Democracy: The Political Philosophy of Pierre Manent” (Lindahl)
Jennifer White, “Creating an Ecologically Friendly Reproductive Domain for Women: An Analysis of Infant Health in Southeast Michigan” (Jezierski)
Audrey Damman, “The Mekong and its Stories: How Water Level Transforms Livelihoods and Knowledge in Chiang Khong, Thailand” (Flaim)
Shimon Likhtman, “Cambodia’s Emergency Response to COVID-19” (Flaim)
Solomon Kronberg, “Haunted Renewal: Stories of Blasted Landscapes in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Chiang Rai, Thailand” (Flaim)
Rosa Razmi, “Motherhood and the State: A Conceptualization of Iranian Citizenship and the Relationship Between Activism Maternal Health” (Sayed)
Christopher Eyke, “Edge of Empires: History, Identity, and Ethnic Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Transcaucasia” (Olcott)
Jack Wheatley, “When Hate Had a Home Here: a historical reexamination and oral history of MSU Young Americans for Freedom, the country’s first student-based hate group” (Rohs)
Madison Coil, “Reimagining and Redefining the Work of American Women and Their Families” (Burns)
Allie Lobbia, “Analysis of Interventions to Manage IUU Fishing in Comparative Context: Transponders and PSMA Implementation” (Axelrod)
Seth Marvin-Vanderryn, “The Victory of the Animal Laborans: Environmental Degradation and Modern Discontent” (Wolf)
Julia Kemple-Johnson, “The Commodification of Privacy” (Barksdale-Shaw)
Chris Tyson, “Our Work Begins Here: Settler Colonialism, Land-Grant Universities, and Ecological Catastrophe” (Peters/Flaim)
Delaney McDermott, “Bridging the Gaps Between Arab Americans: How Identity Formation and Trumpian Immigration Policy Creates Difference Between Arabs in the U.S.” (Sayed)
Isabelle Thelen, “The Position of Christian Citizens Within Non-Christian Politics in the Writings of Saint Augustine” (Lorch)
Shiksha Sneha, “Being Desi: Studying South Asian American Political Behavior” (Das Gupta)
Callie Keller, “Japan and R.O.K Security Relations through G.S.O.M.I.A” (Qing)
Danny Olweean, “Farms, Workers, and Pandemic Relief” (Pegler-Gordon)
Elizabeth Lancaster, “Where We Go One, We Go All: QAnon and the Modern Political Conspiracy Theory” (Jackson)
Anthony Luongo, “Thinking Beyond the State: US Democracy Assistance in Africa since the Cold War” (Zierler)
Kathleen Fallon, “What Mediators Mean for Peace: Analyzing the Implications of Local, Regional, and International Mediation Efforts on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations” (Zierler)
Paula Salazar-Valiente, “Support for Child Survivors/Victims of Sexual Abuse in Western Belize” (Goett)
Ben Schwabe, “Thucydides' Critique of the Athenian Vision of Politics” (Lorch)
Chloe Damon, “Governance by Ambiguity: Mapping, Gender, and Land Tenure Contestation in Upland Northern Thailand” (Flaim)
Hanna Foreman, “Avoidable but Inevitable: An Analysis of Inter-Korean Relations and the U.S.-ROK Alliance, and its Influence on South Korean Unification Discourse, 1988-2017” (Komori)
Bridie (Brigid) McBride, “Digitizing Lithuanian Independence, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Metadata" (Olcott)
Jordan George, "America’s Ancien Regime?: Insights About Democracy from Alexis de Tocqueville’s Analysis of France in The Ancien Regime and the Revolution and their Contemporary Applications" (Lorch)
Vishnu Kannan, "Moral Visions and National Security Objectives: Lessons from Two Decades of Democracy Promotion in Afghanistan" (Lorch)
Emily McHarg, “Catalyzed by Crises: Examining Far Right Political Support in Europe” (R. Brathwaite)
Fish (Bryce) Fisher, “Lockean Christianity in Modern Politics” Malahni Ngalle, “Black Feminism in Afro-dance” (Flaim/Harrison)
Katarina Huss, “How to be a Refugee: Expectations and Implications of the 1980 Refugee Act for U.S. Refugees” (Pegler-Gordon)
Harrison Greenleaf, “Shared Interests: An Analysis of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance” (Zierler)
Jonathan Walkotten, “Gender-Affirming Care: Trans Organizing and the Opportunities of Community Health” (Grant/Stein-Roggenbuck)
Alexander Parsell, “Compromising on Education: An Attempt to Define the Nature of Institutional Failure.” (Emmett)
Apoorva Dhingra, “Ethno-religious Nationalism in India and Sri Lanka.” (Racioppi)
Justin Allen, “Shklar’s Liberalism of Fear, Political Produce, and the American Regime.” (Lindahl)
Tanner Delpier, “School Choice and the Lansing School District: Politics, Markets, and Michigan’s Schools” (Grant)
Ian Hoopingarner, “Lineages of Dissent: Popular and Artistic Resistance to Imperialism and Extraction on ‘the beautiful island’” (Tremonte)
Raziel Lavalais, “Lincolnian Statesmanship.” (Lindahl)
Alexis Noffke, “From ‘Troubles’ to Peace: Paramilitaries and Political Parties in Northern Ireland.” (Racioppi)
Clare O’Kane, “Western or Universal, Foreign Aid or International Development: Americans and Tanzanians on Human Rights as Human Development.” (Pinto)
Cody Schulz, “Azerbaijan: Destined for Diversification or Doomed to Decline?” (Graham)
Beatriz Navarro-Garcia, “Between Parrots and Pig’s Tails: A Study of the Private and Public Realms in One Hundred Years of Solitude.” (Garnett)
Adam Cusick, “Government of the People, or For the People?: The Crisis of Democracy in the European Union” (Lindahl)
Arian Koochesfahani, “The Drama of Republic I and Why a Philosopher Would Want to Rule” (Petrie)
Paul Rose, “Transnational Network Influence on Great Powers: The Case of Germany and Russia” (Axelrod)
Brianna Starosciak, “The Future of Warfare in Eurasia” (Garnett & Zierler)
Brittany Zwierzchowski, “Tocqueville’s America and Pierre Manet’s Christianity: The Compatibility of Democracy and Religion” (Lindahl)
Cory Carone, “Tocqueville and Modern Science: How Scientific Authority Exacerbates Soft-Despotism and the Implications for Liberal Democracy and the Soul” (Craig)
Ansel Courant, “Transnational Writing and Performance in ‘Public’ Digital Spaces: Wikipedia and the 2013 Protests in Brazil” (Rohs)
Teresa Dettloff, “An Examination of Arms Control: The Merits and Limits of the Bilateral and Multilateral Approaches” (Zierler)
Cole Lussier, “Weighing an Active Judiciary: The Supreme Court’s Control over Morality” (Kleinerman)
Matthew Needham, “Political Entrepreneurship Efforts in Education Reform” (Emmett)
Allie Lobbia, “Analysis of Interventions to Manage IUU Fishing in Comparative Context: Transponders and PSMA Implementation” (Axelrod)
Seth Marvin-Vanderryn, “The Victory of the Animal Laborans: Environmental Degradation and Modern Discontent” (Wolf)
Julia Kemple-Johnson, “The Commodification of Privacy” (Barksdale-Shaw)
Chris Tyson, “Our Work Begins Here: Settler Colonialism, Land-Grant Universities, and Ecological Catastrophe” (Peters/Flaim)
Delaney McDermott, “Bridging the Gaps Between Arab Americans: How Identity Formation and Trumpian Immigration Policy Creates Difference Between Arabs in the U.S.” (Sayed)
Isabelle Thelen, “The Position of Christian Citizens Within Non-Christian Politics in the Writings of Saint Augustine” (Lorch)
Shiksha Sneha, “Being Desi: Studying South Asian American Political Behavior” (Das Gupta)
Callie Keller, “Japan and R.O.K Security Relations through G.S.O.M.I.A” (Qing)
Danny Olweean, “Farms, Workers, and Pandemic Relief” (Pegler-Gordon)
Elizabeth Lancaster, “Where We Go One, We Go All: QAnon and the Modern Political Conspiracy Theory” (Jackson)
Anthony Luongo, “Thinking Beyond the State: US Democracy Assistance in Africa since the Cold War” (Zierler)
Kathleen Fallon, “What Mediators Mean for Peace: Analyzing the Implications of Local, Regional, and International Mediation Efforts on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations” (Zierler)
Paula Salazar-Valiente, “Support for Child Survivors/Victims of Sexual Abuse in Western Belize” (Goett)
Ben Schwabe, “Thucydides' Critique of the Athenian Vision of Politics” (Lorch)
Chloe Damon, “Governance by Ambiguity: Mapping, Gender, and Land Tenure Contestation in Upland Northern Thailand” (Flaim)
Hanna Foreman, “Avoidable but Inevitable: An Analysis of Inter-Korean Relations and the U.S.-ROK Alliance, and its Influence on South Korean Unification Discourse, 1988-2017” (Komori)
Bridie (Brigid) McBride, “Digitizing Lithuanian Independence, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Metadata" (Olcott)
Jordan George, "America’s Ancien Regime?: Insights About Democracy from Alexis de Tocqueville’s Analysis of France in The Ancien Regime and the Revolution and their Contemporary Applications" (Lorch)
Vishnu Kannan, "Moral Visions and National Security Objectives: Lessons from Two Decades of Democracy Promotion in Afghanistan" (Lorch)
Emily McHarg, “Catalyzed by Crises: Examining Far Right Political Support in Europe” (R. Brathwaite)
Fish (Bryce) Fisher, “Lockean Christianity in Modern Politics” Malahni Ngalle, “Black Feminism in Afro-dance” (Flaim/Harrison)
Katarina Huss, “How to be a Refugee: Expectations and Implications of the 1980 Refugee Act for U.S. Refugees” (Pegler-Gordon)
Harrison Greenleaf, “Shared Interests: An Analysis of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance” (Zierler)
Jonathan Walkotten, “Gender-Affirming Care: Trans Organizing and the Opportunities of Community Health” (Grant/Stein-Roggenbuck)
Alexander Parsell, “Compromising on Education: An Attempt to Define the Nature of Institutional Failure.” (Emmett)
Apoorva Dhingra, “Ethno-religious Nationalism in India and Sri Lanka.” (Racioppi)