Political science majors present, defend senior research projects
Photo: Salve Regina’s 2018 senior political science majors
The Department of Political Science and International Relations will hold its 51st annual presentation and defense of senior research Saturday, Feb. 22; Saturday, Feb. 29; and Saturday, March 7, in the O’Hare Academic Building, Room 260.
Thirteen senior political science majors are scheduled to present and defend their research. Members of the Salve Regina community are invited to attend and may stay for any length of time.
The schedule is:
Saturday, Feb. 22
9:00 a.m. — Mikaela Barbour, “The Evolving Spheres of Commerce Clause Jurisprudence: Why the Reinstitution of State Sovereignty through U.S. v. Lopez is Limited”
9:45 a.m. — Madison Schettler, “Defending Legal Sovereignty: American Opposition to the International Criminal Court”
10:30 a.m. — Vigen Ciottone, “Turkey’s Denial of Genocide: Suppression of International Acknowledgment of the 1915 Armenian Genocide”
11:15 a.m. — Isabel Ould-Sfiya, “Watergate’s Influence on the Press and the People”
12:00 p.m. — Timothy L. Mentor, “Death, Profit and Fake News: King Leopold’s Campaign of Propaganda and Wealth Extraction in the Congo”
Saturday, Feb. 29
9:00 a.m. — Riley Rancourt, “The War on Drugs: How Public Alarm Influenced Crack Legislation”
9:45 a.m. — Bryce W. Scholtes, “From Empire to Independence: Cold War Tension, Emerging Austrian Neutrality and the Austrian State Treaty of 1955”
10:30 a.m. — Shane Lafond, “NATO and the Bear: Post Cold War Expansion and the Rise of Authoritarian Russia”
11:15 a.m. — Henry Nickerson, “Salvador Allende’s Failed Path to Socialism: Poor Governance Leading to the Coup D’etat of 1973”
Saturday, March 7
9:00 a.m. — Karina D. Popa, “Jihadist Roots in Wahhabism: A Theological Aberration in the Islamic World”
9:45 a.m. — Brendan Kelly, “Faction Influence: How Safeguards Outlined in Federalist no. 10 Have Been Subverted”
10:30 a.m. — Meghan Buckley, “School Searches: Do Students Have Fewer Rights?”
11:15 a.m. — John Dale Richie, “The First American: Roger Williams and His Fight for the American Soul”
