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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 of…
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 collective…
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 double major in…
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 Politics…
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 University…