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Read how Madhumita Dutta and her team transformed research into art in The Lantern.
Laura Dugan and Jack Wipple talked to PsyPost about their research on political rhetoric and extremist activity. At the national level, the researchers found a positive association between the…
Search Lab team members Derek Congram and Nick Passalacqua participated in a panel on forensic ethics and Jazmin Borrayo presented a poster at the Humanitarian Forensics conference.
There was something unsettling about gathering peacebuilders in Northern Ireland to ask what peace means today - and watching the past return almost literally to the doorstep.
We were…
As a result in part of Mershon support, Governing reconciliation: Metagovernance, alignment, and sustainable peace in Northern Ireland was published in Peace and Sustainability …
Nowshin Sharmila’s Mershon-funded research project is a steppingstone for creating new models for ground-level problem-solving. A graduate student in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies who…
Madhumita Dutta published an article in The Wire about Jahlma Nallah, a glacial stream that floods in the sun. This phenomenon, affecting thousands of rural mountain households, local…
Through support of two new initiatives, the Mershon Center is enhancing the scholarship relevant to national, international, and human security. The Mershon Center is proud to announce that we are…
Starting in 2023 and led by Associate Director for Peacebuilding Research Dr. Teri Murphy, the Mershon Center partnered with International Alert Nepal on a three-year research initiative examining…
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of awards from the Spring 2026 grant cycle.
Faculty AwardsSix faculty members from six…
Congratulations Dr. Zickafoose! Alexis Zickafoose, Mershon Center student affiliate, successfully defended her dissertation, Sowing Success: How Women’s Agripreneurship Cultivates…
Fresh vegetables. Food processors. Specialized dairy startups. These businesses are all examples of the agripreneurship that is enhancing rural livelihoods and food security. Alexis Zickafoose, Ph…
At our Mershon Monday on February 23, Kevin McClatchy, Associate Professor of Theatre, Film, and Media Arts and 2024-2025 Ohio State Artist Laureate, shared his experiences of incorporating…
Teri Murphy, Mershon Center Associate Director, and Derek Congram, Mershon Center Research Associate, witnessed the dignified return of Father Torres in Bogotá, Colombia on February 15, 2026…
Seiba Issifu and Max Woodworth published the article “Formalization from above, resistance from below: Voices of struggle and survival in Ghana’s contested…
Erin Moore, the Dr. Carl F. Asseff Assistant Professor in Anthropology and the History of Medicine in the Department of Anthropology at Ohio State, is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist…
Mehr Mumtaz published an article on Afghan Refugees in Pakistan in The Conversation that centers the experiences she had during her fieldwork in Pakistan, which was supported by a grant from the…
Congratulations to everyone who received funding during the Mershon Center’s Autumn 2025 grant cycle!
Faculty members from nine departments are pursuing research projects related to national…
Mershon Postdocs Nicholas Nyachga, Helen Murphey, and Julia Marino review the expert panel discussion of nuclear politics.
Mershon Postdocs Nicholas Nyachga, Helen Murphey, and Julia Marino review the environment and security panel and discussion.
New Forensic Anthropology lab helping Teri Murphy and Nick Passalacqua assist with forensic training and casework related to the disappeared in Colombia.
Christopher Gelpi, professor of Political Science and former Mershon director, published an article, co-authored with a former Mershon GRA Victoria Gurevich, which came out this week in the…
Peter Mansoor talked to Paul Woodadge on WW2TV about his book "Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines."
Nationalities Papers published an article by Laurie Georges entitled Knowledges that Cannot Be Known: Structuring Azerbaijani Attachment to Nagorno-Karabakh.
Mershon Postdocs Nicholas Nyachega, Helen Murphey, and Julia Marino review conflict and peacebuilding panel and discussion.
Kendra McSweeney was quoted in a story about the U.S. military strike on a vessel off Venezuela. Her comments stem from research conducted with Mat Coleman and supported by Mershon.
Steph Pedron is a Mershon affiliate and a Political Science Ph.D. Candidate concentrating in American Politics, Political Methodology, and Political Psychology. Steph is working on a dissertation…
Mershon Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow Eda Ayaydin will represent the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the 2025 Arctic Encounter Summit (AES) in Anchorage, Alaska July 30 -…
Eda Ayaydin's article for The Arctic Institute critically examines the symbolic and discursive dichotomies embedded in the Arctic Council’s process for assessing non-Arctic states’ observer…
Mershon Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow Eda Ayaydin; and co-author Andreas Raspotnik, Director of the High North Center for Business and Governance at Nord University; published an article in E…
This July, Teri Murphy, Associate Director for Peacebuilding Research at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, travels to Bogotá, Colombia to host a workshop with co-hosts Roddy…
On April 28, the Mershon Center partnered with the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Val de Loire (MSH) to present a webinar entitled “Franco-American Crossed Perspectives on Academic Freedom.” The…
On June 11, Mershon postdoctoral visiting fellow Eda Ayaydin, Ph.D. was invited to participate in a workshop on Restoring Arctic Exceptionalism, followed by a high-level conference on…
In the latest issue of the Federal Sentencing Reporter, Ohio State Geography Professors Kendra McSweeney and Mat Coleman illuminate a profound justice policy story surrounding ‘boat defendants’. …
Dr. Eda Ayaydin is a postdoctoral visiting fellow who is joining us at the Mershon Center this summer.
Dr. Ayaydin is a political scientist specializing in Arctic geopolitics, with a…
Water towers of the Indus Basin are featured in the newest story for River Ethnographies, part of the Indus River Basin Project funded by the Mershon Center.
The newest story for River Ethnographies, part of the Indus River Basin Project funded by the Mershon Center, features Sangam Chinar.
At our Mershon Monday gathering on April 15, Christopher Leger, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History, examined Latvia’s rapidly evolving memory politics in the shadow of Russia’s full…
At our Mershon Mondays event on March 31, Laurie Georges, a PhD candidate in Political Science, presented her research on the mechanisms of erasure: the intentional removal of peoples and their…
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies is pleased to announce that Carissa Garcia and Molly Hornberger have received Chadwick F. Alger Peace and Conflict Resolution Undergraduate…
At the Mershon Monday event on March 24, Dr. Erin Moore, Assistant Professor in Anthropology, presented her Mershon-funded book project, Investing in Girls: Sex, Money, and the Deceit of…
At our Mershon Monday event on March 17, Emily Hardick presented her Mershon-funded research on the relationship between the international mobility of performers and cultural diplomacy in the…
Dr. Jacien Carr presented his research on the Poro (men’s power associations) history, folklore, and warfare during the First Liberian Civil War (FLCW) from 1989 to 1997 at the March 3 Mershon…
On February 10, Professor Max Woodworth, Associate Professor of Geography, presented his ongoing research on Taiwan’s “military-dependent villages” (MDVs)—communities forged in the aftermath of…
In November 2024, Mershon Center for International Security Studies Associate Director Teri Murphy was invited to Bogotá, Colombia to learn more about the Unidad de Búsqueda de Personas dadas por…