2021
Chasing Gold: Analyzing Opium Cultivation in Afghanistan and its Alternatives, Jack Cameron
The Burden of Whiteness & The Misery of Antiracism, or How I Learned To Care About White People, Adrian S. Costa
Iñupiat Resistance and Adaptation in the North Slope Borough to United States Colonization, Jessica R. Ferson
Iñupiat Resistance and Adaptation in the North Slope Borough to United States Colonization, Jessica R. Ferson
Self-Determination in the Western Sahara: Obstacles and Obligations, Léa Gervais Glaenzer
Selfhood in the Age of Selfies: Considering Social Media as an Extension of the Arendtian Social, Maeve McKaig
Speak Softly and Carry a Big Checkbook: How the Special Relationship Between the Healthcare Industry and the United States Government has Prevented the Passage of Universal Healthcare Legislation, Jacob Davenport Phillips
Muslims in Western Europe: A Look Through Manifestos and Kitabs, Ehsun Syed Qamar
Beyond Jair Bolsonaro: The Making of Brazil’s Environmental Crisis, Emma E. Sandman
Veterans and Disaster Relief: Charity and American Welfare, 1920-1960, Gordon Stearns
American Socialist and Labor Movements from 1865-1925, Preston Z. Tice
From Sword Lesbian to Shield Sapphic: The Quest to Relate the Very Queer Legacy of Joan of Arc to a Modern Incarnation of the Warrior Woman, Angela Paige Woodack
2020
I Pledge Allegiance to One Global Nation: Redefining Citizenship Through The Institutionalization of Cosmopolitan Principles In Response to the U.S. Immigration System, Giselle Lucia Avila
Dysphoric Visibility: Discontents of Queer Visibility in the Media, Sarah Batsheva Bonder
Economic Sanctions and the Survival of Autocratic Regimes, Colin Micheal Brundege
Why Hip Hop Matters: The Political Impact of the MC, Dereck Chavez
The New “Duck-and-Cover” — School Security as Contemporary Civil Defense and Mimetic of the National Security State, Justyn C. Díaz
“Within and Without”: Hiding an Empire and the Filipino experience in the United States during the early 20th century, Tuscany Eden Foussard
Porno-Putinism: The Politics of Sex in the Kremlin’s War Against Gender Progress, Sarah Pavlovna Goldberg
“I’m a Brown B**** Melanin-Rich Indian Queen”: A Political Exploration Of South Asian Diasporas, Cultural Adaptation, And The Arts, Sneha Gopinath
The Race for Time: Experiences in the Temporality of Blackness, Eboni Cymone Grooms
The Paradox of Regulation: An Analysis of the Legislation Surrounding the Sex Trade in India., Vedika Gupta
Origins of the Government Shutdown: The American Budget's Greatest Inefficiency, Samuel Francis Huggins
The Intersection of Socioeconomic Segregation, the Black Voter, and Redistricting within Tallahassee, Florida, Tsion Kiros
Freedom of Speech, George Eli Kunin
Why Can't We Be Friends: The Significance of Sovereignty and China's "One Country, Two Systems", Harrison R. Malinowski
Oaxakeepsie: Connecting San Agustín Yatareni, Oaxaca, and Poughkeepsie, New York, Ava R. Mazzye
The Bismarckian System and His Balance of Power, Siyuan Min
The Origins of Socialism in Cuba: A Question Uncontested, Liam G. Oberholzer
A Skeptic’s Certainty and Their Politics, Melissa A. Rosenthal
The Parallax View: How Conspiracy Theories and Belief in Conspiracy Shape American Politics, Liam Edward Shaffer
A Call for the Inclusion of Nature in Class Struggle, Augusta Valerie Tiziana Spiro Jaeger
China, America, and World Order, Haris F. Talwar
Debunking Chinese investments on Economic Development in Ethiopia, Isaac Taye
The Modern Lawgiver and the Politics of Refounding: What Political Refoundings Reveal About the Nature of Democracy, Anastasia Elizabeth Teller
Warrior Pride: General MacArthur vs. the State, Ian Joseph Ullmann
2019
How to Earn and Lose Your Constituency: A Case Study of New Jersey's Fifth Congressional District, Christopher R. Blake
Why One Populist is Elected and the Other is Not, Shirley X H Cheng
The Fortress State: How the American System Protects Vested Interests and the Status Quo, Axel Clavier
"The Noblest Cause of All": The Moral Turn in American Libertarianism, Addison C. Dowell
Man is a Downgoing, Olorin TS Etemad-Lehmer
Blackness on the Islands: The Intersections of Race and Nation in the Spanish Speaking Caribbean, Lourdes Garcia
Faulty Vision and Political Realism, Quinn F. Lewis
Does Climate Change Invoke Conditions that Create Conflict? Lessons Learned from Syria and Beyond, Mara A. O'Connell
Study on Chinese Immigrants and Chinese-Americans in United States: A Focus on New York City, Xishixin Song
Transnationality: The Construction of an Alternative Global Order, Violette Swidler
The Decline of Liberal Democracy: The Case of Hungary, David Louis Vogel
Moving Forward by Looking Back:How Reconstruction Arguments for Civil Rights Became the Modern Argument for Reparations, Alliyah Richann Williams
A Rogue of Our Own: Rogue States in the American Imaginary, Lily Zacharias
2018
Reporting Identity: Social and Political Implications of Adding a MENA Category to the U.S. Census, Mehgan Rose Abdel-Moneim
The Gentle Giant: Brazilian Soft Power Maximization Toward a New World Order, Kevin Barbosa
Communist China in the 1950s: a Case Study of Non-Recognized States, Aidan Richard Barry
The United States Complex Relationship with the International Criminal Court, Taylor Donovan Bond
Greedy Bastards, Nathaniel Vergoz Carlsen
Plus ça Change, Plus c’est la Même Chose: The Introduction of ‘Soft’ De-Radicalisation Policy in France, Isobel Monique Coen
Politics and the ‘Self’ vs. ‘Other’ Binary: The Failure of the Great Recession as a National Security Threat, Adelina Colaku
Newsroom Action During the Lebanon War: A Look at American and Israeli Media Coverage, Ciara Collins
Newsroom Action During the Lebanon War: A Look at American and Israeli Media Coverage, Ciara Collins
Human Judgment and Autonomous Weaponry: What Does it Mean?, Dalton Lee Davis
Could the Global Health Secuirty Agenda Actually Protect Americans From Emerging Diseases?, Shannon Taylor Dixon
On Citizenship: The Evolution of Civic Education from Mann to Meier, Benjamin R.E. Faller
Do Democracies Excel: An Empirical Analysis of the Democracy- Growth Relationship, Arobi Hanif
Donald Trump and the Spectacle of the Modern American Presidency, Medora McDougall Jones
Marketization in North Korea is Corrupting the Corrupted, Joseph Kim
Puerto Rico's Unique Relationship to the United States An Overview of the Historical Relationship, the Island's Evolving Political System and Immigration to the Mainland, Steven T. Marotta
Brown Pluralism and Beyond: A New Political Vision for South Asian Americans, Rishi P. Mutalik
Securing a Seat at the Table des Grands: French Identity and the Application of Identity Management Strategies in Post-War France, Isabelle Lily Scarborough
The Problem of Privacy, Elle M. Turley
2017
Forget Me Not: Exploring the Rise of the Anti Immigrant Right through the Lens of Historical Amnesia, Eliana Lucia Koenig Accomazzi
“REPORT ALL OBSCENE MAIL TO YOUR POSTMASTER” Reading, Institutions, and the American Public, Post-revolution and 1965, Connor Christopher Boehme
"You Wanna Piece of Me?" : Reframing American Supremacy as White Supremacy, Tayler G. Butler
Rethinking Palestinian Refugee Communities in Pre-War Syria and the Right of Return, Eliza Wincombe Cornwell
Public Discourse and the Securitization of Conflict, Gilda Raizel Edelman
Money Power in Politics, Jonathan Peterson Fisher
U.S. Democracy Promotion in the Middle East: More and Less Than Meets the Eye, Julia Lang Gordon
The Political Economy of State-level Emergency Unemployment Relief: The Case of the New York TERA, 1931-37, Hasani J. Gunn
The Longevity of Religious Terrorist Organizations, William John Hughes
Examining Russia’s Three-pronged Legitimation Strategy in Syria, Denesh Kandiah
Asian American Panethnicity in Politics: An Empirical Study of Financial Contributions and Donor Behavior by the AAPI Electorate in Congressional House Races, Kenichi Andrew Kaneda
Who Acts? Community through Chance, Jonas LH Kunz
Liberate or Assimilate? A Comparative Study of Post-Transition LGBT Activism in Spain and Russia, Austin Jay Lehn
The Executive Branch’s Power in the Drone Program: Why the United States Needs a Drone Court, Mark William Leonhard Jr.
Policymaking in the 2007 – 2008 Financial Crisis: How and Why Policymakers Subverted the Public’s Interest, Samuel Jesse Longenecker
Resistance in the Shadow of the Giant: Bandwagoning and the Importance of Identity in the Foreign Policy of Central Asian States, Nathaniel Edward Matala
Why Didn't the Arab Spring Spread to Eritrea? How Mass Suppression and Fear Can Successfully Prevent Dissent, Winta Amanuel Mehari
The Stability of a Unipolar World Revisited, Grady Michael Nixon
The War on Terror: And the Erosion of the Democratic Imaginary, Maximilian Randall Perkins
Japan's Reemergence As a Military SuperPower: Assessing The East Asian Security Dilemma, Fabrice M. Prepetit
A Mexican Fairytale: The Fall of a Villain and its Perfect Dictatorship, Ana Victoria Valdes Salazar
The Origins of the Chinese Communist Party’s Early Marriage Laws, Yuan Yuan
2016
Examining Monetary Policy in the Absence of a Central Bank and Sovereign Currency in Palestine, Salam Marwan Awartani
From 1890 to Today, Nothing’s Changed: Gentrification in Harlem and the Abuse of Eminent Domain, Bianka Alexandria Bell
Aloha ʻĀina: The United States Military and Its Controversial Use of Hawaiian Land, Kai Bernier-Chen
The Politics of Plan Frontera Sur: A Theoretical Approach to Mexico’s Prosecution of Illegal Migrants, Ana Juliana Borja Armas
A Study of National Unification: What Factors Led to the Divergent Post-Unification Histories of Yemen, Germany, and Vietnam and in What Ways Were They Successful?, Wilson Franklin Brehmer
The Implications of U.S. Development Aid on Public Health: Understanding the connection between India's 1975 Emergency State and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Alison A. Brundrett
We Own the Night: A Study of Securitization Exemplified by Night Raids in Afghanistan, Evelyn Buse