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2008 Summer Thesis Research Award Recipients

Wangui Muigai
“African American female perspectives on the politics of abortion”

Kelsey Quigley
“Humanitarian Law relating to Child Soldiers”

Gabe Scheffler
“Journalism and the role of media during the Vietnam War and during the current conflict in Iraq”

Robert Sneckenberg
“Examining the manner in which presidential signing statements were created and issued during the Reagan, Bush and Clinton Presidencies”


2007 Summer Thesis Research Award Recipients

Ronald Anguas
“Electoral Implications of Election Day Registration”

Jeremy Landau
“Constitutional Competition: Congressional Responses to Judicial Review and Coordinate Construction of the Constitution”

Luke Messac
“Political and Demographic Determinants of Congressional Appropriations for Global Health Programs”

David Porter
“International Trade and Sovereignty: The Negotiation and Implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement”

Sopen Shah


2006 Summer Thesis Research Award Recipients

Julie Hunter

Loui Itoh
“Do Professions of Faith Violate Public Reason? An investigation of whether contemporary American Politicians abide by limits imposed by political philosophers on religious speech”

Tracy Nowski
“Gender on the Campaign Trail”

Nathan Picarsic
“Express Yourself: An Exploration of Expressive Motivations and Identity in the Youth Vote”

Stephen Wertheim
“Debating World Order: Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Elihu Root and the League of Nations, 1914-1920”

David Zhou
“Are Latino and Asian members of Congress more active in promoting issues that concern Latinos and Asians, respectively, than white congressmen and congresswomen who are equally liberal or conservative?”


2005 Summer Thesis Research Award Recipients

Mae Bunagan
“Immigrant women civic participation”

Joe Green

Lauren Kuley
“Civic Engagement of Arab Americans”

Whitney Satin
“Polluting the Vote: How Environmental Policy and Pollution Affects Voting Behavior in Louisiana's Cancer Alley”

Elise Stefanik
“Post-Soviet Civil Unrest: U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1990s”


2004 Summer Thesis Research Award Recipients

Nancy Chang
“Evangelism in U.S. foreign policy (specifically in regards to the Middle East) with a focus on Carter & George W. Bush”

Russell Leino
“Evaluating U.S. military intervention: the illicit narcotics trade in post-invasion Panama”

Alexander Post
“Emergence of institutional infrastructure on the left--why did the left lag so far behind the right and why were organizations like the Center for American Progress and the American Constitution Society founded in the last few years?”

Brandon Terry
“Black nationalism as a political philosophy in the 21st century”