Honors Class of 2025

Dashiell Advincula, "Fanon's Nietzsche: Deconstructing the Ontological Turn in Black Studies"

Samantha Bevins, "A Partisan Agreement: How do Americans View the United States' 180-day Restriction for Asylum Seekers' Employment?"

Ella Briman, "Ranked Choice Voting and Political Efficacy"   

Elizabeth Chun, "National Identity in the Face of Threat"

Adrienne Coleman, "Strategic Returns? Assessing the Belt and Road Initiative's Global Impact on China's Economic, Political, and Soft Power Ambitions"

Alice Cook, "The Boundaries of Objectivity: Investigating the Impact of Democracy Threat Coverage on Political Attitudes"

Carson Goh, "Fair Districts, Declining Representation? How Independent Redistricting Commissions Shape Electoral Competition and Minority Representation"

Prescott Herzog, "After the Bloodbath: U.S. Responses to Protest Crackdowns Abroad"

Aarushi Jain, "Between the Nation and the Region: Understanding India's Uneven Embrace of the BJP"

Alexander Joel, "United We Stand? Sources of Disunity Under Threat in Frontline States Following Russia's 2022 Invasion of Ukraine"

Alexa Kalach, "The Political Economy of U.S. Firearm Trafficking and Criminal Violence in Mexico"

Armita Mirkarimi, "We Already Have Enough Terror in Our Country: Framing Empathy in Al Hol"

Jared Pugh, "Revitalizing the Eighth Amendment in the Contemporary Age of American Punishment"

Vynateya Purimetla, "American Public Opinion on Chemical Weapons' Ethicality"

Sophie Saraisky, "Partisanship in Machiavelli's Republican Theory"

Madeleine Shaw, "Facing the Past: How Learning About Past Wrongdoing Affects Public Support for Renewed Conflict"

Bennett Essay Prize in Political Theory and Public Law - Jared K. Pugh

Jeffrey L. Pressman Prize in American Government - Carson C. Goh

Rockefeller Prize in Comparative Politics - Elizabeth S. Chun and Prescott J. Herzog

Rockefeller Prize in International Relations - Madeleine A. Shaw

The Fowler Family Prize in Democratic Politics - Prescott J. Herzog and Armita Mirkarimi

Rockefeller Memorial Postgraduate Fellowship - Carson C. Goh