2009 Summer Thesis Research Award Winners

2009 Summer Thesis Research Award Recipients

Kiran Bhat
"The Moderating Branch: Supreme Court Behavior towards Strong Partisan Coalitions, 1938-2008"

Katherine Calle
"Public and Rhetorical Role of the White House Chief of Staff"

Liya Eijvertinya
"Voluntary Carbon Markets"

Jonathan Gould
"Citizenship, Positive Rights, and the American Tradition"

Daniel Kroop
"Scandal, Surplus, and the Power of Partisans: How the Lewinsky Affair Undid Entitlement Reform"

Rachel Mak
"Assessing U.S Capacity to Promote Renewable Energy Use through Public Policy"

Lindsey Parker
"The Effects of a State’s Religious Composition On Senate Voting Behavior"

Eva Rosenberg
"Vanguard:  A 1960s Radical Queer Youth Group in San Francisco"

Jon Staff
"Social Capital on American Indian Reservations"

Yi Wei
"Societal Preconditions for Success in Social Entrepreneurship and their Role in Shaping Public Policy"