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Graduate Student Research

Graduate Student Research

The Mershon Center provides support for select graduate students to focus on research related to international security.  Projects cover an interdisciplinary range of fields, from geography to political science. 

To learn more about recent graduate research projects, click on the student's name below.

Soundarya Chidambram (Political Science) Why do People Riot? Implications of Hindu-Muslim Riots in India
Michael Ewers (Geography), Locational Decisions and Perceived Risk of U.S. Multinationals in the New Gulf Development States
Denice Fett (History), Information, Intelligence and Negotiation: The Atlantic European Diplomatic World, 1558-1585
Ursula Gurney (History), The United States and European Détente: Nixon, Ford and the Helsinki Accords, 1969-75
Edward Gutierrez (History), Sherman was Right: The Experience of WWI AEF Soldiers
Marguerite Hernandez (Sociology), Problem Definitions: Understanding the NGO Response to Sex Trafficking
Eliza Ho (History of Art), War, Propaganda and Photography: The Chinese Photographer Sha Fei (1912-50)
Ryan Irwin (History), Race and Revolution: The International Dilemma of Apartheid, 1948-69
Dag Mossige (Political Science), The Perils of Movement Parties: An Investigation of Political Parties in Mexico, Argentina, and Chile
Rohit Negi (Geography), Re-negotiating the Postcolonial Sub-Saharan State: Capitalist Development and Conflicts over Land in Zambia
Mark Rice (History), The Alliance City: NATO and Berlin, 1958-63
Srdjan Vucetic (Political Science), The “Anglosphere”: A Genealogy of an Identity in International Relations
Christina Xydias (Political Science), Women At/On the Ballot: Examining the Effects of Tokenism and Quotas

Dag Mossige
Dag Mossige, Ph.D. student in Political Science, interviewed Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, founder of the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) in Mexico, as part of his research on movement parties in Latin America, or parties that cannot be defined on a left-right continuum
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