Political science students soar in 2019

Wayne State's Department of Political Science congratulates our students on their recent successes.

B.A./B.P.A. students

Phi Beta Kappa: American Honor Society for liberal arts major designees for 2018-19

• Abbas Abdallah
• Jake Clor
• Fatima Dakroub
• Dalia Ibrahim

Presentations

• Kristina Curtiss presented "Elections, Election Monitoring, and Venezuela's Political Crisis" at the Wayne State University UROP Conference, March 2019
• Dalia Ibrahim presented "Examining the Role of Accounts of Past Atrocities (Collective Memory) in Mobilizing Support for Ethno-Nationalist Political Agendas" at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Kennesaw State University, April 2019
• Zoë Pidgeon presented "Examining the Rise of Heritage Populism in the Country of France in Relation to the 2017 Presidential Election?" at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Kennesaw State University, April 2019
• Sheham Saif presented "A Look into the Constitutional Arrangement and Configuration of the Electoral Process of the 1990 Croatian Election which provided for Ethno-national Political Entrepreneurship" at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Kennesaw State University, April 2019
• John Sedarous presented "The Success of Political Entrepreneurs Within Divided Societies" at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, Kennesaw State University, April 2019
• Zachary Szymanski presented "Oil and Politics: The Dynamics of the US-Saudi Alliance: Does Oil or Geopolitical Interests Play a Greater Role in Justifying the US-Saudi Alliance Today?" at the All Politics is Local Conference, Walsh University, April 2019
• Jessica Thompson presented "Political Trust and the Resurgence of Populism" at the 12th Global Studies Conference, Jagiellonian University, June 2019

M.P.A. students

New positions

• Will Cochran started his new position as the constituent services representative at the office of Congressman Andy Levin.
• M.P.A. student Simone Bell was named assistant to the city manager for the City of Novi.

Ph.D. students

Dissertation defenses

• John Girdwood (2018): Chair - Jeffrey Grynaviski
• Amy Bromsen (2018): Chair - Michael Goldfield
• Kevin Lorentz (2019): Chair - Brady Baybeck
• Ilker Kalin (2018): Chair - Frederic Pearson

Placements

• Kim Saks McManaway (2019): M.P.A. director, University of Michigan, Flint. Chair, Ewa Golebiowska
• Nicole Gerring (2018): Visiting fellow, Kroc Institute, Notre Dame University. Chair, Sharon Lean
• Connor Sutton (2018): Visiting assistant professor, Rhodes College. Chair, Daniel Geller