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Undergraduate Research Opportunities

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The Department of Political Science at Grove City College offers students the academic freedom to conduct meaningful, relevant research alongside experienced and accomplished faculty. Research opportunities are an integral component to an excellent undergraduate education and help prepare students for top graduate and professional programs and successful careers in professional sectors.

Independent Election Commission

Professor Michael Coulter chaired an eight member Independent Election Commission appointed by the Mercer County Commissioners after some electronic voting machines used in the county failed to record votes in a presidential election. Student Emily Shaheen served as research assistant for the committee. Data that Professor Coulter and Shaheen collected about the performance of the machine compared to the performance of other electronic voting machines led to a state agency decertifying the voting machines and prohibiting the use of those machines in future elections.

International Relations and Security

2017
Benjamin Allison (’18, national security studies minor) presented research at the 2017 annual meeting and conference of the Midwest Political Science Association. He was one of approximately 25 undergraduates selected to present research on international relations and security.

His research focused on understanding patterns and likelihood of terrorist attacks on bridges and tunnels in the U.S. Among his findings are that counter-terrorism efforts are effective in diminishing the value of bridges and tunnels as targets, and that terrorist organizations do not highly value bridges and tunnels as a means of targeting large numbers of people in a single attack.

2016
Kyle Niehoff (’17, political science major/national security studies minor) presented research at the 2016 annual meeting and conference of the Midwest Political Science Association. He was one of approximately 25 undergraduates selected to present research on international relations and security.

His research focused on political conditions that breed so-called right-wing radicals in the young adult population of the U.S. His findings showed moderate causality between perception of liberal policy agendas and the rise in this population.

U.S. Foreign Policy

Kyra Rumble (’16 political science major/national security studies minor) presented research at the 2016 annual meeting and conference of the Midwest Political Science Association. She was one of approximately 25 students selected to present research on U.S. foreign policy.

Her research focused on the application of negative foreign policy pressure resulting in increased oppression of minority populations. Increased negative pressure in U.S. foreign policy was found to increase oppression of minority groups in sub-Saharan Africa and Southwest Asia.

Race Relations

Danielle DiQuattro ('18 political science major/economics minor) recently presented a paper "Racial Tensions, Discrimination, and Relations and Their Effects on Political Participation" at the 2017 annual Pennsylvania Political Science Association Conference.

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Current Students

  • The Center for Vision and Values: Lorenzo Carrazana

Alumni

  • The Daily Signal: Rachel Bovard '06
  • The American Spectator: Claire Healey '14
  • The Wall Street Journal: Matt Costlow '10
  • Jared Walczak '08 now works at the Tax Foundation and has written numerous policy papers for the organization on everything from state pension fund security to state tax and budgets. Read a sample of his work on reforming Louisiana's budget process.
  • Jarrett Skorup '11 works as an analyst at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy where he has written policy papers on a host of issues from reforming criminal justice to occupational licensing laws. Read a sampling of his work on licensing laws.
  • The American Spectator: co-authors Josh Delk and Professor Paul Kengor
  • Nasz Dziennik (daily paper in Poland): co-authors Josh Delk and Professor Paul Kengor
  • Grant Wishard interned at the Weekly Standard in the summer of 2015 and at USA Today in the summer of 2016. As an intern at the Weekly Standard, Grant wrote several pieces that appeared online and in print. He has continued to write for these media outlets since. Read Wishard's articles.
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