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Spring Grant Cycle Opens - Feb 15 Deadline
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies is pleased to announce its Spring 2025 funding cycle. All proposals are due on February 15, 2025. These are the grants reviewed in spring:
…End of Semester Message from Hayes Chair Christopher McKnight Nichols
Dear Colleagues, We hope you are all doing well as the semester winds down and the much-needed holiday season approaches. Below are some recent updates from the desk of Christopher McKnight…
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Global Perspectives Recordings Now Available
Our recent symposium on the nuclear non-proliferation regime brought together a diverse group of international experts to discuss the current state and future challenges of this critical global…

Violence, Ideology & Extremism Working Group (VIEW) Research Projects
On Monday, November 25th, Professor Laura Dugan, PhD Student Jack Wippell, and PhD Student Taylor June (Sociology) introduced the Violence, Ideology and Extremism Working Group (…

Spoils of War: The Repatriation of Children in the Balkan Borderlands
At our Mershon Monday event on November 18th, Professor Theodora Dragostinova (History) shared her new research project focusing on the cases of over a thousand children who became the unintended…

Kagotho research examines the mental health experiences of women living in long-term displacement camp
The Mershon Center supports faculty and student research through grant and scholarship opportunities and is home to programs and research initiatives with unique goals and perspectives on security…

Carly Goodman’s “Dreamland” wins 2023 Furniss Book Award
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies at The Ohio State University is delighted to announce this year’s winner of the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award is Carly Goodman, for…

Richard Herrmann on Identity Attachments in Serbia
On our Mershon Monday on October 21st, we had the pleasure of hearing Richard Herrmann, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science, discuss his recent research on national and…

Postdoc Blog: Stumbling to Victory
American Air Power, Diplomacy, and Politics in the Bosnian WarAt our Mershon Monday event on October 14th, Chuck Laubach, a doctoral student specializing in military history at The Ohio State…