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Furniss Winner

2020 Furniss Book Award Winner Announced

We are pleased to announce the 2020 Edgar S. Furniss Book Award has been granted to Jason Lyall for his book Divided Armies: Inequality and Battlefield Performance in Modern War (Princeton…

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A Letter from Outgoing Director Chris Gelpi

It has been a privilege to serve as director of the Mershon Center for the past four and a half years. The center has grown and changed immensely since I took on this role, and this feels like the…

Meet our grad fellow; Mariana Miguelez Gomez

Graduate Fellow Spotlight: Mariana Miguélez Gómez

Mershon Graduate Fellow Mariana Miguélez Gómez is a seventh-year PhD candidate in the department of political science and her research project is titled "The “Ethnic Card” and the Commodities…

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Meet Mershon's Programming and Research Leaders

We are pleased to announce the Mershon Center’s new Programming and Research Leaders:  

Theodora Dragostinova (History) and Eric Schoon (Sociology) Thematic area: Peripheries and…
Dorothy Noyes

Noyes named director of Mershon Center

Dorothy Noyes, an Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Department of English and professor of comparative studies, has been named director of the Mershon Center for…

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Director Gelpi's Op-Ed for The Columbus Dispatch: "We made Putin's war with Ukraine inevitable"

This opinion article was originally posted to The Columbus Dispatch on March 2, 2022

 

Blame for the tragedy in Ukraine must be placed primarily on Vladimir Putin, a ruthless…

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Mershon Graduate Fellows Forge Ahead Despite COVID Delays, Restrictions

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected nearly every aspect of the world’s population since restrictions began increasing at the beginning of 2020. And while many restrictions have eased, for our…

Graduate Fellow Matthew Spearly

Graduate Fellow Spotlight: Matthew Spearly

Mershon Graduate Fellow Matthew Spearly is a fifth year PhD candidate in the department of political science and his research project is titled "Twenty-First Century Protection: The Politics…

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Why aren’t Americans more alarmed by white-supremacist violence?

This article was originally published on Jan. 19, 2022 for the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog.

Over the past year, white supremacists have been arrested, charged and put on trial…