Undergraduate students interested in conducting original research should consider the political science honors program. During their senior year students in the honors program write a thesis on a topic of their choosing while being supervised by a political science faculty member.
2020-2021 Thesis Projects
Thesis Title | Author (Student) | Faculty Advisor |
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Who Does the Rule of Law Rule Out? Examining the Access to Justice for Victims in Post-Conflict Colombia |
Jessica Angel |
Alyssa Prorok |
Egotism: American Refugee Politics |
Arnoldo Ayala |
Cara Wong |
Reputation and Rivalry: How Reputation Building Leads to Conflict |
Christopher Buckley |
Robert Carroll |
Four Horsemen of the Populist |
Hannah Buzil |
Thomas Rudolph |
Coronavirus and IOs: How the Pandemic has Affected American Attitudes Towards the WHO and Other International Institutions |
Mark Choate |
Robert Pahre |
A Rawlsian Justification for International Climate Agreements |
Kimmy Chuang |
Benjamin Miller |
Faction Effectiveness in the House of Representatives |
Naomi Maehr |
Gisela Sin |
Neoliberalism and Clinical Labor |
Kassidy Mahoney |
Samantha Frost |
Crime and the Electoral Outcomes of Progressive Prosecution |
Ali Mirza |
Alicia Uribe-McGuire |
Time, Motivation and Politics: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Increased Political Participation | Halle Noone | Jake Bowers |
Who Picks WHO: Accessing Foreign Policy Attitudes Towards Vaccine Development | Ami Punatar | Aleksander Ksiazkewicz |
The Role of Context in the Partisan Divide Over COVID | Jason Reed | Scott Althaus |
The Hidden Underbelly of Neoliberalism: How Neo-Utilitarianism Makes the System Work | Kyra Sadovi | Samantha Frost |
Mental Health in a Modern Democracy: How Anxiety Impacts American College Students’ Political Behavior | Aishwarya Shekara | Jeff Mondak |
Beneficiaries and Project Outcomes: The Role of Aid Beneficiaries in the Success of Sustainable Agricultural Projects | William Smithson | Daniel Miller |
Who Participates? Latinx Identity Preferences and Their Impact on Civic Engagement and Political Participation | Estrella Vazquez-Hernandez | Cara Wong |
The Identity Crisis in Europe: Analyzing EU Enlargement, Turkey and Cultural Convergence | Hannah Wernecke | Konstantinos Kourtikakis |
Best Thesis Presentation Award (in place of “Best Thesis Poster”): Jessica Angel
Best Thesis Award: Jessica Angel
View presentation videos here.