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.
2021-2022 Thesis Projects
Thesis Title | Author (Student) | Faculty Advisor |
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Migration and Democracy in the European Union | Rumeysa Aydogdu | Cara Wong |
Use of Force in the BLM Era: How High-Profile Citizen-Killings by Police Affect Use of Force Outcomes in Dallas, Texas |
Thomas Ballard | Scott Althaus |
Being Left Behind: Disseminating Populist Rhetoric on Twitter |
Jacob Berlinger | Nora Webb Williams |
Foucault, Power, and Public Health Disparities |
Shivani Bhogaraju | Samantha Frost |
AmeriCAN I…?” : The Effect of the Strength of American Identity on Civic Participation in Second-Generation Americans |
Tyeese Braslavsky | Cara Wong |
Party Systems and Climate Change Mitigation |
Gina Fumagalli | Xinyuan Dai |
Factors in State-Level Native American Voter Suppression |
Jake Gulick | Robert Pahre |
Maintaining Legitimacy in Crises: Examining EU Citizens' Trust |
Melisa Ilkhan | Konstantinos Kourtikakis |
The CCP's Greatest Hits: An Analysis of Personalism and Propaganda Music |
Kaylynn Kattiyaman | Yujeong Yang |
Violence Against Land Defenders in Colombia |
Ari Kelo | Mckenzie Johnson |
Autonomous Civil Society Organizations in Authoritarian Regimes: A Case Study of China |
Edward Kim | Yujeong Yang |
Identity and Politics: The Mechanisms Behind Politically Motivated Covid-19 Behavior |
Katherine King | Avital Livny |
Partisanship and Progeny: The Effect of Political Polarization on Perceptions of Family Functioning |
Jane Knight | Thomas Rudolph |
The Fight for Gideon: Public Defense Resources and Its Impact on Incarceration |
Zachary Kowalski | Alicia Uribe-McGuire |
The RFRA Arrowhead: Understanding State Level Religious Liberty |
Matthew Krauter | Alicia Uribe-McGuire |
Behind the Barred Felon Vote: Political Implications of Felon Disenfranchisement |
Isabel Launspach | Jeff Mondak |
A Justification for Paternalism: Identifying the Good of Subjective and Objective Ends |
Alice Lee | Benjamin Miller |
Patterns of Influence: How Governments Utilize Minority Targeting Propaganda Campaigns |
Benjamin Nathan | Alyssa Prorok |
The Impact of Changes in the Law on the “Court of Public Opinion” |
Adem Osmani | Jake Bowers |
Women Belong in the House (and the Senate): An Analysis of the Impact of Gender and Occupation on Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Senate |
Steph Petrov | Gisela Sin |
Deplatforming the Alt-Right: A Study of Hate Speech and Twitter Bans |
Malia Sayad | Nicholas Grossman |
When Fact-Checks Fail: Instilling Social Responsibility on Social Media |
Alexandra Simon | Thomas Rudolph |
Corporations, Personhood, and the Right to Bend the Law | Clay Ward | Samantha Frost |
Best Poster Award Winners: Kaylynn Kattiyaman
Best Thesis Award Winners: Thomas Ballard and Tyeese Braslavsky