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UConn POLS Honors Programs & events of interest to UConn POLS Honors Majors, including news stories & photos of program participants

The UConn POLS Honors program provides advising, thesis supervision, and programming for Honors Political Science majors at the University of Connecticut.

POLS Honors alumni give back to UCONN POLS in many wonderful ways. This fall Alan Bennett, Dan Fata, Jessica Weaver, (a...
11/05/2025

POLS Honors alumni give back to UCONN POLS in many wonderful ways. This fall Alan Bennett, Dan Fata, Jessica Weaver, (all pictured below) along with John Hudak, and Jeanne Zaino (not pictured, sorry) came back to campus. They spoke to Professor Matt Singer’s Political Science Careers class and had meetings with small groups of students.
Thank you for being here for current students!

POLS thesis students attend Fall Frontiers in Undergraduate Research. They had engaged with undergraduate researchers ac...
11/05/2025

POLS thesis students attend Fall Frontiers in Undergraduate Research. They had engaged with undergraduate researchers across a wide range of disciplines and came away with ideas for presenting their own projects at Spring Frontiers and the department’s own REPS symposium.

Torianna Grooms and Alyssa Boggis present their poster “Measuring Territorial Control of Non-State Actors at Fall Fronti...
11/05/2025

Torianna Grooms and Alyssa Boggis present their poster “Measuring Territorial Control of Non-State Actors at Fall Frontiers in Undergraduate Research. Tori and Alyssa are conducting this research as part of a project with Professor Michael Rubin.

Julianne Katz presents her poster “AirPods & the Illusion of Choice: Capitalism in Your Ears” at Fall Frontiers in Under...
11/05/2025

Julianne Katz presents her poster “AirPods & the Illusion of Choice: Capitalism in Your Ears” at Fall Frontiers in Undergraduate Research. This project grew out of research Julianne conducted in Professor Jennifer Sterling-Folker’s class.

Isbaah Khan has defended her thesis "When the Rivers Dry: How Water Scarcity in South Asia is Threatening Human Security...
05/13/2025

Isbaah Khan has defended her thesis "When the Rivers Dry: How Water Scarcity in South Asia is Threatening Human Security." Working with Professor Griggs, Isbaah looks at how climate change is upending shared water resources between Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh and fueling nationalist conflict and argues that governance treaties need updating to deal with these challenges. Congratulations Isbaah!

Christopher Lindsay has defended his honors thesis. Working with Professor Sterling-Folker, Christopher has completed gr...
05/09/2025

Christopher Lindsay has defended his honors thesis. Working with Professor Sterling-Folker, Christopher has completed graduate work on International Organization and Law. Christopher also separately completed an honors thesis in history. Congratulations Christopher!

Eleanor Gelb has defended her honors thesis "Native Spaces: The Struggle for Colleges to Incorporate Native Frameworks i...
05/09/2025

Eleanor Gelb has defended her honors thesis "Native Spaces: The Struggle for Colleges to Incorporate Native Frameworks into Curriculums." Working with Professor Grande, Eleanor explored the history of universities deliberately erasing Native traditions and practices and then explored best practices from universities that have large Native populations to see how Universities can help Native students succeed. This project is designed to inform policies being considered by UConn Avery Point. Congratulations Eleanor!

Michelle Eweka has defended her thesis project "Race, Gender, and Senatorial Delay in Confirming Federal District Court ...
05/08/2025

Michelle Eweka has defended her thesis project "Race, Gender, and Senatorial Delay in Confirming Federal District Court Judges, 1977–2024." Working with Professor Hettinger, Michelle finds that ideological factors are the largest explanation of delays in judicial confirmations but also finds that female judges take longer to get confirmed. Congratulations Michelle!

Shakshi Patel has defended her thesis "Structural Power and Socialization: Connecting International Orders to Immigrant ...
05/08/2025

Shakshi Patel has defended her thesis "Structural Power and Socialization: Connecting International Orders to Immigrant Identity Formation." In her graduate classes, Shakshi explored the factors that underlie the current international order and how globalization shapes identity formation among immigrant groups. Congratulations Shakshi!

Yng Zhen Tse Wan has defended her thesis "Backlash and Threat Perceptions: Analyzing the Multiracial Contexts of Immigra...
05/08/2025

Yng Zhen Tse Wan has defended her thesis "Backlash and Threat Perceptions: Analyzing the Multiracial Contexts of Immigration Attitudes in the United States." Working with Professor Hayes, Zhen did a survey about how people view immigrants from different countries and found that hostility to immigrants depends upon their country of origin, both in the degree to which they are seen as a threat and in the specific reasons people see as threatening. Congratulations Zhen.

(Poster is in the comments)

Sophia Esposito has defended her thesis "Trump's Lies: An Examination of the Fictitious Perception of Latin American Imm...
05/08/2025

Sophia Esposito has defended her thesis "Trump's Lies: An Examination of the Fictitious Perception of Latin American Immigrants as Violent Criminals." Working with Professor Venator, Sophia looked at how coverage of immigrants became polarized when Trump was in office, with Fox News being more likely to discuss immigrants as criminals while CNN became less so. Congratulations Sophia!

Poster is in the comments.

Meghan Jezik has defended her honors thesis "Framing Justice: How Right, Left, and Legacy Media Shape Public Perceptions...
05/08/2025

Meghan Jezik has defended her honors thesis "Framing Justice: How Right, Left, and Legacy Media Shape Public Perceptions
of the U.S. Supreme Court." Working with Professor Hettinger, Meghan looks at how media consumption habits increasingly shape attitudes toward the Supreme Court, polarizing opinions. Congratulations Meghan! Her poster won the best poster award at REPS (it is in the comments).

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