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Clemson PO SC students, share your
news with us! We will post news on our current
students here. If you have received an honor, won an
award, presented a paper at a conference, been accepted to
graduate/law school, found a job, please let us know so that
we can post the news here. News that you would like
posted can be sent either to Professor Stewart
(jstewa4@clemson.edu
or Professor Fine
jfine@clemson.edu).
Honors and Awards
Publications
Conference Presentations
HONORS & AWARDS
- National & Regional Honors and
Awards
- 2010
- Seven Political Science majors
have been inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society.
Please join us in congratulating
Allison Hill ('10),
Amy McLeod ('10),
Grayson Schleppegrell ('10),
William Stevenson ('10),
Alice Stewart ('10),
David Tseng ('10),
and Edgar Vaughn ('10).
- 2009
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An 8-person team of Clemson University
undergraduate students participated in Duke University's
International Security Conference (DISC) in
Durham, NC, October 16-18, 2009. The Clemson
University team received the Best Delegation award (all 8
students) as well as the Outstanding Delegate award (Ellen
Andrews). A Best Delegate
award was also made for each of the four committees of the
conference, of which members of the
Clemson delegation won two (Paul
Farmer and
Chris Godbey).
Matthew Londergan
and Paul Sabisch
received Honorable Mentions. Other members of the Clemson
delegation were Danielle
Elhage, Toni Rice
and Lisa Spadaccini. For more details, see the
full story
here.
- Matthew Wilson
('09)
has been awarded a fellowship from the Phi Kappa Phi honor
society. The news is listed on the honor society's
website:
http://www.phikappaphi.org/Web/Scholarships/graduatefellowship.html
Matt now is pursuing a PhD in
Political Science at Penn State University.
- 2008
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An 8-person team of Clemson University
undergraduate students participated in the 5th
annual Stockholm Model United Nations conference (SMUN) in
Stockholm, Sweden, November 21-23, 2008. The Clemson
University team of Adedoyin
Salami ('09)and
Natasha Korba
('10) was awarded the prize
of the Outstanding Delegation to the Food and Agriculture
Committee, where nearly all of the universities at the
conference were represented. For more details, see the
full story
here.
- Seven Political Science majors
have been inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society.
Please join us in congratulating
Katie Ballard ('09),
Jonathan Ernest ('09),
Lauren Smith ('08),
Beth Hershey ('08),
Lizzie Jennings ('08),
Will Massengill ('08),
and Erik Ruediger ('09).
- 2007
- Nadia Aziz
('09) was awarded a Summer Research Diversity
Fellowship in Law and Social Science for Undergraduate
Students at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago. Nadia
worked in conjunction with one of the resident
research faculty at ABF for two months this summer
conducting empirical research on some aspect of law and
legal institutions.
- The 4th Annual Kathryn Williams
Ervin Mock Trial was held in the Georgia Superior
Courthouse, Toccoa, GA, with the Hon. Judge
Cornwell presiding. The winning prosecution team members
were Elizabeth Morrow
('08),
Harold Hughes
(POSC & ECON '08),
and Jarrett Lewis
('07).
- Heath Burgess
('08)
was named "Outstanding Delegate" representing Greece of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization at the American South
Model United Nations in New Orleans in February, 2007. In doing
so, he bested students from Auburn, LSU, and UCF, among
other universities. Two other delegates,
Callie Roth
('08) and
Seth Vining
('07), received “Honorable
Mentions.”
- Clemson College of Business and
Behavioral Science Awards
-
Wallace Dabney
Trevellian Merit Award - presented to the most
outstanding senior in the College of Business and Behavior
Science
-
2011 Recipient -
Bryson Smith
('11)
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2010 Recipient -
Elizabeth Billheimer
('10)
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Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research—presented
to a senior who has completed the most meritorious research
project of the year.
- 2009 Recipient -
Matthew Wilson
('09)
- 2008 Recipient -
Will Massengill
('08)
- 2006 Recipient -
Jessica Hart
('06)
- 2005 Recipient -
Richard Beaulieu
('05)
- 2004 Recipient -
Courtenay Ryals
('04)
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Award for the Outstanding Senior in the Social Sciences—presented
to the senior from the Political Science, Psychology, and
Sociology Departments is judged to be superior in terms of
GPR, professional activities, and potential for future
contributions within his or her field of study.
-
2011 Recipient -
Kimberly Ingram
('11)
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2007 Recipient -
Tarin Holcomb
('07)
- Clemson POSC Department Awards
-
James F. Byrnes Award—award
in American Government; given to the outstanding graduating senior in Political Science.
-
2011 Recipients -
Kimberly Ingram
('11)
and
Bryson Smith
('11)
- 2010 Recipient -
Elizabeth Billheimer
('10)
- 2009 Recipient -
Matthew Wilson
('09)
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2008 Recipient -
Lauren Edwards
('08)
-
2007 Recipient -
Tarin Holcomb
('07)
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2006 Recipient -
Jessica Hart
('06)
-
2005 Recipients -
Megan Gajewski and Richard
Beaulieu ('05)
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2004 Recipient -
Teah Frederick
('04)
-
Matt Locke Faculty Award for Excellence—presented
to the graduating senior whose accomplishments,
in the opinion of the faculty of the Department of
Political Science, merit special recognition.
- 2011 Recipient -
Joseph Bishop and Rachelle Korinko
('11)
- 2010 Recipient -
Allison Hill
('10)
- 2009 Recipient -
Elizabeth Billheimer
('10)
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2008 Recipient -
Elizabeth Morrow
('08)
-
2007
Recipient -
Melissa
Hughes
('07)
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2006 Recipients -
Sarah Deibler and Lindsay
Green-Barber ('06)
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2005 Recipients -
Carla Cagle and Catherine
Runion ('05)
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2004 Recipient -
Jon DuRant
('04)
-
Jack Tuttle-Pi Sigma Alpha Service Award—presented
to a graduating senior in honor of the late
Professor Jack Tuttle and in recognition of the ideals of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political
Science Honorary Society, which are to “stimulate
productive scholarship and intelligent interest in the
subject of government.”
- 2011 Recipients -
Scott Boardman
('11)
and Alice Stewart
('10)
- 2010 Recipients -
Amy McLeod and David
Tseng
('10)
- 2009 Recipients -
Drew Bradshaw and Sarah Hayward
('09)
-
2008 Recipient -
Will Massengill
('08)
-
2007
Recipient -
Sara
Mascola ('07)
-
2006 Recipient -
Kyle Kelly
('06)
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2005 Recipient -
George Holman
('05)
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2004 Recipient -
Courtenay Ryals
('04)
PUBLICATIONS
- Lauren Edwards Smith
('08)
is co-author (with Laura R. Olson and
Jeffrey A. Fine) of "Substantive Religious Representation in
the US Senate: Voting Alignment with the Family Research
Council" which is forthcoming at Political Research
Quarterly.
- Katherine Brackett, Richard
Baker,
Kean Witzeman,
and
Parke Espy, political science students
who participated in the 2006 Tambov Provincial Politics
Program, with Professor Matt Crosston have had their work
published in:
PRO
NUNC: Contemporary Political Processes. Volume 5.
Dialogues on Politics: Materials from the Russian-American
Seminars on Political Science and International Relations,
Tambov State University-Clemson University. 2005-2006.
Co-editors: M.D. Crosston, V.V. Romanov, D.G. Seltzer.
Tambov State University Press. 2006. 197pp. ISBN:
5-89016-258-6
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
- 2010
Georgia Political Science Association conference
-
Camille Sweat,
Patrick Manion
and
Matt Postell,
and
Nick Baulch
(LIT) were featured speakers at a roundtable discussing the
responsiveness of courses in Political Science to national
and international events, useful pedagogies and curriculum
issues in the discipline
- 2010 Midwest Political Science
Association conference
- Allison Hill
('10)
presented a paper titled "The Effect of Information Source
on Political Knowledge Among College Students" in Chicago,
IL - April, 2010.
- Susie Irizarry
('10)
presented a paper titled "Senate Responsiveness to
Public Opinion on Environmental Issues" in Chicago, IL
- April 2010
- Kyle Turner
('10)
presented a paper titled "The Impact of News Media
Consumption on Political Knowledge" in Chicago, IL
- April 2010
- 2009 Midwest Political Science
Association conference
- Eric Giles
('09)
presented a paper titled "Candidate Gender and Youth
Responses to Negative Ads" in Chicago, IL
- April, 2009.
- Matthew Wilson
('09)
presented a paper titled "Determinants of Household
Migration from an Ethnic Perspective" in Chicago, IL
- April 2009
- 2008 Midwest Political Science
Association conference
- Nadia Aziz
('09)
presented a paper titled "Arab American Interests in
Congress: Ethnicity, Constituency, and 9/11" in Chicago, IL
- April, 2008.
- Will Massengill
('09)
presented a paper titled "Economies of Size in Florida:
School District Size and Student Achievement" in Chicago, IL
- April 2008
- 2007 Midwest Political Science
Association conference
- Nadia Aziz
('09)
presented a paper titled "Arab American Representation in
Congress" at the 2007 Midwest
Political Science Association Conference in Chicago, IL -
April 2007.
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