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Mershon student scholars awarded Fulbright-Hays Grants
Mershon-funded doctoral students Natalie Wright Romeri-Grass and Mohammed Shedeed were awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grants. Natalie will spend nine…
Transitioning From Violence: Mershon Partners With USIP
This summer Mershon’s Transitioning from Violence Consortium partnered with the US Institute of Peace on a two part theory-to-practice workshop among global experts. This followed on TFV’s year-…
Spotlight: Burundi - Mershon collaboration shapes United Nations Peacebuilding Fund initiative
For the past three years, Kara Hooser (PhD student, Department of Political Science) and Teri Murphy (Mershon Associate Director) have worked alongside Burundian researchers to analyze the root…
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…