2023 HONORS PROGRAM

HONOR STUDENTS AND THEIR THESES

Marco Allen, "Ctrl+Alt+Defeat: Assessing The Impact of Cyber Operations in a US-China Conflict"

Caleb Benjamin, "Drones in the Age of Conventional Conflict: Assessing Whether Low-Cost Drones Could Destroy Mobile Targets in a U.S.-China Conflict" 

Isabella Dunbar, "From Hope to Disappointment: The Perils of Public Optimism in Democratization"

Matthew Gluck, "A Reflective Right: The Roots of Disagreement Over Privacy in the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause"

Deirdre O'Neill, "At War with Words: The Danger of Metaphor in Political Persuasion"

Meghan Powers, "Aesthetics, Politics, & Aesthetic Political Theory"

Mitchell Ransden, "Mudslinging at the Margins: The Conditionality of Negative Campaigning Under Ranked-Choice Voting in the United States."

Ryan Schwartz, "From Wall Street to Main Street: How Equity Ownership and Retail Investor Engagement Shape Policy Preferences"

Arvind Shankar, "The Paper Bengal Tiger: Assessing India's Great Power Rise"

Samuel Zuniga, "Reconsidering Emotions, Political Representation, and Remembrance: A Theory of Political Forgiveness for Reparations"

2023 HONORS PRIZES AND AWARDS

Bennett Essay Prize in Political Theory and Public Law - Matthew A. Gluck 

Pressman Prize in American Government - Ryan J. Schwartz 

Rockefeller Prize in Comparative Politics - Arvind Shankar

Rockefeller Prize in International Relations - Marco E. Allen & Caleb A.F. Benjamin