Wednesday, May 16, 2007

2007 Graduation Recap

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Haltom hams it up

Congratulations to all of our PG graduates this year. We had a great reception on Saturday before commencement, with a chance to meet family and send along our best wishes to all our newly minted alums. A few photos below; you'll find many more here, ora as a slideshow here. I've also listed the titles of our senior thesis, and marked those that were given awards for best in their field.


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Best wishes to all of our graduates!

Senior Theses

PG 430 Seminar in International Relations, Professor Seth Weinberger


Kait Alley: The Consequences of Neglect: The International Security Implications of the HIV Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa

Jennifer Badewitz: Water Management for Developing Nations: A Framework for Addressing the Threats of Water Scarcity

Ryan Dumm: U.S. Foreign Aid and the Palestinian Authority: Evaluating Efforts to Destabilize Hamas

Lindsay Heppe: Getting U.S. Grand Strategy Right: The Role of Legitimacy and Multilateralism in the War on Terror

Chelsea Howes: Nixing NGO Niches: A Case for the African State (award for best paper in the seminar)

David Johnson: Genocide and the Media: Shaping Intervention

Helen MacDonald: Developing Sub-Saharan Africa

Emily Moody: Nuclear Terrorism

Christopher Pohlad: U.S. Engagement Policy and the Prospect of a Liberalized China

Jennifer Swift: Looking Forward Through Looking Back: An Economic Criticism of Democratic Peace

Jennifer Zimburean: The Environmental Catch-22: Developing in the Name of Sustainable Development

PG420 Seminar in Comparative Politics, Professor Karl Fields

Erik Connell: Giving the People What They Want: The Connection between Proportional Representation, Social Democracy, and Public Satisfaction" (award for best paper in the seminar)

Ingrid Greiser:

Brian Stewart, A Comparison of the European Union and the United States: Overcoming Obstacle to Allow Federalism

PG 411 Seminar in Public Law, Professor Bill Haltom

Brianne L. Adderley: Entitled and Engendered: The Effects and Results of Title IX

Sara Pasquariello: The Evolution From God to Designer: The U.S. Constitution v. Creationism
(award for best paper in the seminar)


Katherine Amelia Miller: Facing the Malpractice Fairytale

Lauren Elizabeth Miller Fat or Fiction: The Construction of Frivolous Lawsuits
Margaret E. Scully South Dakota’s Public Enemy Number One: Women Who Do Not Want To Be Barefoot and Pregnant

Courtney A. Williams : Turning the Page and Un-Reeling the Truth Behind Civil Litigation

Brian D. Bennett: The United States and Compensation Seeking: Relatively Litigious or Litigiously Relative

Robin Fay: Why Americans are Losing the Battle against Corporate Polluters: A Look at Toxic Tort Litigation through Asbestos and Silica Cases

Christopher A. Windsor: Why Lawyers Have no Friends

PG 440 Seminar in Political Theory, Professor Bill Haltom

Seminar in Political Theory, Professor Bill Haltom

Paula P. Patten: Founding Fathers and the Separation of Church and State: What type of Separation Did They Intend?

Mark Wilding: The Impact of Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Action, with Special Attention to Jurgen Habermas (award for best paper in the seminar)

Ronald Foster: Modern Trilecticism: Mortality, Action and the Body Politic

Peter James McAfee: Terrorism’s Effect on Political Equality in the United States: An Extension of Robert Dahl’s On Political Equality

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