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Serious Games and World Politics Summer Seminar Kicks Off
This summer’s Serious Games and World Politics Summer Seminar in Mokra Gora, Serbia has begun.
Seven PhD students from Ohio State’s English and Political Science Departments have joined…

Alger Undergraduate Student Scholarship Awardees Announced
The Mershon Center is delighted to announce that Julia Davies and Ruth Elendu have been awarded grants from Chadwick F. Alger Peace and Conflict Resolution Endowed Student Support Fund for their…

Mershon's Laura Dugan reflects on The Far-Right: Examining its Roots and Challenging its Reach Symposium
YouTube Videos of Mershon/College of Public Health Symposium on Far-Right Extremism are Available. The Symposium was a Success, AND it is Just the Beginning
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Marmon pens memorial of "The vanguard of Black American transnationalism in Zimbabwe"
Tommie Sankange was the first black American public figure permanently residing in Zimbabwe who was not a missionary. Why don’t we know more about her?
Mershon Post Doctoral Scholar Brooks…

Newell receives $492,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation
Margaret Newell, a distinguished professor in The Ohio State University Department of History, was “delighted” to learn she would be receiving $492,000 from the Mellon Foundation.
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Sooyeon Kang published in Journal of Peace Research
One of the unresolved puzzles in the civil resistance and contentious politics literatures is why some movements that begin seeking limited redress in a certain policy space escalate their claims…

Mershon Center 2023-24 Funding Cycle Opens
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies announces the opening of its funding cycle for 2023-2024! The first competitions, closing on March 1st, are for graduate and …

Brooks Marmon interviews D. Elwood Dunn for Review of African Political Economy blog
Mershon post-doctoral scholar Brooks Marmon, a researcher of pan-African diplomacy and transnational political networks in southern Africa, conducted an interview for the …

Comparative National Elections Project awarded "Best Dataset" by American Political Science Association
Mershon’s Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP) has been awarded the 2022 Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba best dataset prize from the American Political Science Association’s Comparative…