Please join us for the 2026 Honors Thesis Presentations! These presentations mark the culmination of a year of intensive research, critical analysis, and dedicated scholarship by our department’s honors candidates and engage with the diverse range of political and social research underway in our department.
Silsby 215, Haldeman 125 and Zoom
Meeting ID: 960 9399 4695 Passcode: 229668
Monday, May 18, 2026
9:45 to 10:15AM: Beatrice Conti, “Tacit Consent: Rethinking American Citizenship”
12:00 to 12:30PM: Joseph Hirsh, “Division of Defense Labor and Its Discontents: How Political Ideology Shapes Complementary Procurement in Alliances”
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
9:00 – 9:30AM: Lucinda Gullison, “Worried Workers: The Effects of Artificial Intelligence Employment Fears on Political Preferences”
2:00 to 2:30PM: Erin Parker, “Attention Not Action: The Role of Policy Design and Natural Disasters in Shaping Environmental Legislation and Public Opinion” Haldeman 125
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
9:00 to 9:30AM: Emilia Williams, “Rethinking Western Water Rights”
Friday, May 22, 2026
10:30 to 11:00PM: Kyrylo Fomin, “Elite Rhetoric and Public Opinion: How Aid to Ukraine Became a Polarizing Issue”
2:00 to 2:30PM: Daphna Cohen, “Sovereignty for Sale: Commercial Military Actors and Civil War Outcomes”
3:30 to 4:00PM: Anika Mukker, “Nationalism and Human Rights Attitudes: Evidence from the Southern Cone”
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
9:00 to 9:30AM: Eliza Miller, “Framing Manhood: Masculine Identity Activation and Trump's Political Appeal on TikTok”
12:15 to 12:45PM: Eddi Aronson, “Whether it Works: Misinformation and Fact-Checking Across a Domestic-International Framework”
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
12:45 – 1:15PM: Casey Bertocchi, “The Tradeoff: Weighing the Lives of Combatants and Civilians in Conflict”