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Mershon and College of Public Health hosts Virtual Symposium, The Far-Right: Examining its Roots and Challenging its Reach, with Plans to Build a Community Consortium to Address Concern
On October 12 and 13, the Mershon Center and the College of Public Health are hosting the virtual symposium, The Far-Right: Examining its Roots and Challenging its Reach. This symposium is…

Tiglay named Peace Scholar Fellow by the United States Institute of Peace
2020-21 Mershon Graduate Fellow Leyla Tiglay (Ph.D. Candidate, History) was awarded a Peace Scholarship by the United States Insitute of Peace (USIP). Her dissertation examines the nexus…

Weekly Lunch Conversations to return with Mershon Mondays
To celebrate life in person, the Mershon Center is instituting weekly lunch conversations, Monday 12-1:30 in the Mershon conference room, Derby 1039. No preregistration is required and no specific…

A Look Across the Threshold: Welcome from Dorothy Noyes, Director
Dear Mershon friends,
Reasserting ritual amid pandemic and political uncertainties, we wish you a happy academic new year! International, national, and human security urgently demand our…

First Chadwick F. Alger Peace and Conflict Resolution Student Scholarship Awarded
We are pleased to announce Lauren Dahler, a third-year Eminence Fellow at Ohio State, has been awarded the 2022-23 Chadwick F. Alger Student Support Fund scholarship.
Dahler, a…

Mershon Co-Sponsors Series on Crisis, Uncertainty and History
The Mershon Center is proud to announce the co-sponsorship of a series with the Center for Historical Research on the topic of "Crisis, Uncertainty, and History: Trajectories and Experiences of…

Richard F. Hamilton Remembered
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies mourns the passing of longstanding research associate Richard F. Hamilton (January 18, 1930-June 15, 2022). A sociologist of mass politics,…

Q&A: Christopher McKnight Nichols, Mershon's New Hayes Chair in National Security Studies
We are excited to welcome Christopher McKnight Nichols to the Mershon team as the Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair of National Security Studies. Nichols joins us from Oregon State University,…

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…