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.
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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