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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…

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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…

Alger scholarship

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…

CHR cosponsorship

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…

Hamilton remembered

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,…

Hayes Chair Q&A

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,…

Paul Beck and Richard Gunther

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…

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…