(Supervising Instructor in Parentheses)
Fall 2020: November 18
Andrew Ford Failing the Grade: Examining Why Ohio’s School Funding System Remains Unconstitutional (G Parris)
Thomas Kan The Demographic Crisis (focus on Japanese policies) (E Posner)
Nicholas Lowe “Uncommonly Angry Minds”: QAnon and the History of Moral Panic in America (G Parris)
Madeline Myers Never Underestimate the Power of a Woman With a Good Cup of Coffee – the Gender Politics of Fair Trade Coffee (M Hodgetts)
Vanessa Pilatova Comparative Populist Politics: How Czech’s Populist Party Succeeds Over Sweden’s (M Hodgetts)
Timothy Sprunt U.S. Foreign Policy in the Persian Gulf: A Politics of Fear (P Moore)
Leo Thurman Victor Orban’s Project: Building a Nation and Strengthening a State Through Populism (L Tartakoff)
Summer Xia Governmental Coercion in a Global Pandemic: A Balancing Act Allows One Political Goal (China, U.S., Sweden) (E Posner)
Spring 2021: April 28
Michael Amadio COVID-19 and the Nature of States (M Hodgetts)
Juliana Behme Comparing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to the European Union’s European Medicines Agency (J White)
Robert Bruno Regionalism: An Opportunity for Cuyahoga Count to Experience Economic Growth (E Posner)
Nicholas Corwin The Politics of Insulin Prices in the United States (J White)
Andrew Frye Differing Treatment under the State: A Comparative Study of Police and Teachers Unions (K Beckwith)
John Garcia Europe’s Migration Crisis: The Struggle to Pursue European Security and Uphold European Values (E Posner)
Ricky Gilmore-Vega How American Courts Have Advanced Education Rights for Undocumented Latinx Immigrants Since 1946 (L Tartakoff)
Mamadi Jallow The Pathways to Decolonization in Africa: A Comparative Analysis (E Posner)
Nandita Kannapadi The Rise of Anti-Feminism and Backsliding on Gender Equality in Post-Communist Democracies: A Comparative Analysis of Poland and Hungary (K Beckwith)
Aliah Lawson COVID-19 and the U.S. Prison System (M Benza)
Nathan Lesch The Death of Local Journalism: Impacts on Political Attitudes and Participation (G Parris)
Anaiya Manuel Examining Structural Violence as a Result of Racial Trauma at PWIs (G Parris)
Chloe Mieras Under-Represented and Over-Legislated: Politicization of Prison Policy (G Parris)
Timothy Orlando Big Tech and Transportation (M Hodgetts)
Meghan Parker Morals, the Media, and Trump: How Conspiracy Theories Have Spread and Survived in America (G Parris)
Hanna Paris Investigating the Water Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa (M Hodgetts)
Jordan Reif Health Care Policies in an Age of Immigration (J White)
Emma Risley Brexit Spoils the Peace: How the Brexit Era Threatens the Economy and Identity of Northern Ireland (E Posner)
Katharine Toledo Constitutional Discrimination: The Free Exercise Clause and the Rights of the LGBTQ+ Community, 2015-2021 (K Beckwith)
Dalia Zullig A Comparison of the Suffrage Movements in Canada and the U.S.: How Did Federalism Affect the Two Movements’ Strategies? (K Beckwith)