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.
2019-2020 Thesis Projects
Thesis Title | Author (Student) | Faculty Advisor |
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It’s My Party and I’ll Switch if I Want To: Electoral Impacts of Party Defection by MPs in the UK House of Commons, 2010-2019 |
Jackson Barnett |
Carol Leff |
Making Friends and Influencing People: The Effects of Social Media Networks on Subjective Political Knowledge |
Jonathan Bonaguro |
Scott Althaus |
Disinterested: The Role of Rational Self-Interest in White Working Class Attitudes Towards the Affordable Care Act |
Joseph Dillier |
Cara Wong |
A (Manly) Man’s Game: Masculinity, Gender Threat, and Political Participation |
Casey J. Griffin |
Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz |
Social Movements, Party-fit and Female Representation |
Millie G Johnson |
Thomas Rudolph |
What Happens When the Cavalry Actually Comes?: Investigating Relationships between Intervention, Grievance Type, and Conflict Intensity during Civil Wars |
Corbin Kakac |
Nicholas Grossman |
Revisiting Ethnic Social Identification Theory |
Chih-Ming (Louis) Lee |
Avital Livny |
Public Opinion and Minority Rights after the EU’s 2004 Enlargement |
Miranda MacNaughton |
Carol Leff |
Variety in U.S. Intervention: Middle Eastern and North African Conflicts Since 2003 |
Sophia Wickum |
Nicholas Grossman |
Best Thesis Presentation Award (in place of “Best Thesis Poster”): Casey J. Griffin & Jonathan Bonaguro
Best Thesis award winner: TBA