Honors
Past Honors Project List with Political Science Advisors
Year | Student Name | Title | Advisor(s) | Area |
2025 | Brooke Gormley | How We "Never Forget": America's Representation of 9/11 | Khristina Haddad | Political Science |
2022 | Hannah Katz | The Individual Within the Collective: Liberty in the Face of Public Health Crises | Yayoi Kato | Political Science |
2021 | Destiny George | Terrorism in Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Boko Haram in Nigeria and Al-Shabaab in Kenya | Faith Okpotor | Political Science |
2021 | Elisabeth Kleppinger | The Global Fashion Industry: Implications for Labor and Crime | Faith Okpotor | Political Science |
2019 | Rocco Beltrami | Influencing Initiatives: Campaign Contributions and Partisanship as Predictors of Success for Citizen-Initiated Ballot Measures in the 2008, 2010, 2016, and 2018 U.S. Elections | John Reynolds | Political Science |
2018 | Rosemary Roberts | The Politics of Rhetoric: Analyzing the Words and Speeches of Barack Obama and Donald Trump to Understand Their Political Success | John Reynolds | Political Science |
2014 | Michael Giacoumopoulos | The Political Economy of Austerity: A Case Study in Greece | Gary Olson | Political Science |
2014 | Aaron Harris | How Political Marketers Target Voters: Do Campaigns Target Voters based on Information and Partisan Engagement Level? | John Reynolds | Political Science |
2012 | Armando Chapelliquen | Huntington, Impact, and Occupy: The Makings of a New Global Paradigm | Bernardo Cantens / Gary Olson | Political Science / Philosophy |
2008 | Danielle Corvacchioli | I Am What I Do. The Politics of Speaking and the Crisis of the Language of Gender. | Khristina Haddad | Political Science |
2007 | Jenna Abramson | Hugo Chavez and 21st Century Socialism: The Superior Alternative | Gary Olson | Political Science |
2006 | Brendan J. Wright | The Naked Citizen: The Constructive and Constricting Powers of Human Nature Claims within Political Theory | Khristina Haddad | Political Science |
2005 | Panayiotes Asimakopoulos | The European Union and the Dichotomy between the Federal and Intergovernmental Forces of Integration | Jean-Pierre Lalande | Political Science |
2005 | Joseph M. Moyer | Freedom, Slavery, and the National Identity: The Evolution of American Political Thought from 1824 until 1860 through the Words and Careers of Abraham Lincoln, William Henry Seward, Stephen A. Douglas | John Reynolds/ Francis Ryan | History |
2004 | Scott T. Williams | The Vulnerability of America's Electric Power System as a National Security | John Reynolds | Political Science |
2002 | Joshua Heebner | Constitutional Considerations: Campaign Finance Reform | John Reynolds | Political Science |
2002 | Nikola Krpan | Political Economy of the Swedish Model | Gary Olson | Political Science |
2002 | Jill Straub | Capital Punishment: A Brief History and Comparative Study | John Reynolds | Political Science |
2001 | Bradley N. Lawton | United States Foreign Policy in Columbia: Drugs, Disparity, and Democratatorship | Gary Olson | Political Science |
2001 | Keri Schantz | Supreme Court Precedents and the Constitutionality of Charitable Choice | John Reynolds | Political Science |
2000 | Jennifer L. Kramer | The Power of Judicial Review and the Establishment of Privacy and Abortion Rights under the Fourteenth Amendment | John Reynolds | Political Science |
2000 | Rachel R. O'Donnell | The Twilight of Intellectuals: Post-Modernisn's Influence on Feminism and Marxism | Gary Olson | Political Science |