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Honors

Honors student presentation

Honors 

Past Honors Project List with Political Science Advisors

Year Student Name Title Advisor(s) Area
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