EXCEL and Bergh Scholars
Lafayette’s EXCEL Scholars Program and Bergh Family Fellowships provide opportunities for select students to work as research assistants for faculty members. In the Government and Law Department, students have collaborated with faculty on a wide range of projects. Below are examples of such projects.
Ella Dalgliesh ’25, Democracy for Whom?
Samantha Natividad ’25, Liliana Roginski ’25, Emma Li ’27, Kate SantaMaria ’27, Gov Lab Team Leaders, College Political Engagement Project
Jacob Moldover ’24, The Rage of Replacement: The Far Right’s Politics of Demographic Anxiety
Phoebe Goltra ’24, and Trebor Maitin ’24, Legitimate Order: Great Power Competition and the Regional Order in East Asia
Amanda Kapitula ’24, Debates on the Conceptualization and Policies to Prevent Domestic Violence in Central and Eastern Europe
Giulia Matteucci ’24, Gov Lab Manager, Politics of Evidence-Based Policymaking Project
Jacob Potter ’23, and Shiloh Harrill ’23, Blind Justice: Hungarian Policies on Violence against Women and Girls
Charlie Mirsky ’23, The Politics of Corruption, Populism & Democratic Decline
Catarina Kruman ’23, Lily Halvorson ’24, and Potter Hughes ’24, Getting to Zero: The Politics of Carbon Neutrality in East Asia
Claire Fedor ’23, Political Justice: A History of the Politicization of the Supreme Court
Jacob Potter ’23, and Katelin Seber ’23, Debates on the Conceptualization and Policies to Prevent Domestic Violence in Central and Eastern Europe
Adam Bakalchuk ’22, Deja Jackson ’23, Yuchen (Michael) Sun ’23, The Peer2Power Project: Relational Organizing and Civic Action
Kelly Mwaamba ’22, Political Control of America’s Courts
Jordan Karp ’22, A Biography of Benjamin Netanyahu
Ed Martin ’22, Political Justice: A History of the Politicization of the Supreme Court
Julia Cassidy ’22, Political Mentorship and the Gender Gap in Candidate Recruitment
Lauren Krock ’22, John Schaar’s American Political Thought Lectures and The Politics of Fashion
Adam Bakalchuk ’22, Essays on American Political Representation and GOV LAB Manager
Clare Mengel ’21, Reinventing the Wheel: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the East Asian Regional Order
Lauren Phillips-Jackson ’21, Comparative Models of Colonial/Imperial Police
Saeed Malami ’20, Migration and Conflict in West Africa: The Case of Nigeria
Daniel Markovits ’20, Home Style and Legislative Effectiveness in the U.S. House
Samantha DeMarse ’20, Arielle Dana ’20, Edward Martin ’22, Political Justice: A History of the Supreme Court
Trevor Goodwin ’20, Fighting for Ideological Donors in the U.S. House
Rachel Gershengoren ’20, The Victimhood Discourse in Contemporary Israel; A Political Biography of Benjamin Netanyahu
Rustin Armknecht ’20, Nature versus Nation: Green Growth and Environmental Politics in East Asia
Saeed Malami ’20, Migration and Conflict in West Africa: The Case of Nigeria
Kevin Milton ’19, Angela Shi ’21, Aberrant Sovereignties: The Secessionist Impulse in Disenchanted Democratic Times
Jesse Glaser ’19, and Audrey Mangum ’21, Escape or Embrace Reactors: Contrasting Nuclear Energy Politics in Germany and South Korea
Caroline Shaffer ’19, Fayola Fair ’19, and Lesley Idrovo-Pauta ’20, Ryana Jones ’20, Politics of the Justice Gap: The Political Causes and Consequences of Unequal Civil Legal Representation
Kamini Masood ’19, Comparative Illiberalism: Contemporary Challenges to Democracy in Hungary
Nicole Harry ’19, The Routledge Handbook to Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Nicole Harry, ’19, Comparative Illiberalism: Contemporary Challenges to Democracy in Hungary
Abdul Manan Bhat ’18, Claire Swanson ’19, Michael Allen ’21, Joslyn Brodfuherer ’21, The Victimhood Discourse in Contemporary Israel and A Political Biography of Benjamin Netanyahu
Phoebe Silos ’18, Reeve Lanigan ’19, Political Justice: A History of the Rise of the Politicized Supreme Court
Rebecca Wai ’18, Sources of Changing Immigration Politics in East Asia
Sarah Hayet ’18, Making a Local Difference in a Neoliberal Age: Lessons from Resilient Communities
John Jurow ’17, The Politicization of the Supreme Court
Joseph Ritter ’17, Middle East Politics: The Dominance of Victimhood
Joshua Silver ’17, Adam Valavanis ’17, Redefining Energy Security and Envisioning Energy Union in Europe and East Asia
Andrew Keck ’16, Gender Equality and Domestic Violence: The Cases of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and A Frontier of Global Environmental Politics: Controversies of Fracking in Eastern Europe
Juannell Riley ’15, Who Are They? What do they Want? On Nations and Strangers
Jacob White ’15, The Arab Spring and Israel & Democratic Peace Theory
Lucien Bruggeman ’14, Politics of Biological Attribution
Jason Goldfarb ’14, Uses of Federalism by the Supreme Court
Sara Yeganeh ’14, Federalism Revolution in the Supreme Court
Joshua Geesey ’13, Juannell Riley ’15, Who Speaks? Who Listens? Exclusion in Democratic Space
Kelly Senters ’13, The Politics of Attribution and Social-Emotional Influence over Political Opinion
Kelly Senters ’13, Anti Great-Power Nationalism in East Asia and Latin America
Glenn Chabora ’12, Lindsey Ryan ’12, Heather Hughes ’15, Defining Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Violation: Adaptations, Innovations and Resistance in Communist and Post-communist States
Allyson Blackwell ’12, Cameron Roche ’13, Lucien Bruggeman ’14, Emotions and Political Identity in Political Blogs
Blagovest Baychev ’12, The Politics of Domestic Violence in Post-Communist States: Differences and Similarities across the Baltics
Glenn Chabora ’12, Changes in Post-communist Gender Regime: The Case of Central and Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective
Nan Li ’12, The Rise of China and Changing Sino-Korean Relations
Ryan Dawe ’11, Political Behavior in American Politics
Matthew Goldstein ’11, The Legacy of George W. Bush’s Foreign Policy: Moving Beyond Neo-Conservatism and Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within
Lauren Buisson Hudacek ’10, Emily Esteve ’10, Kelly Sendelsky ’10, Brendan Lawson ’11, Tyler Basting ’12, Lindsay Sullivan ’12, Jordana Weisman ’12, Karalyn Enz ’13, Hope VI
Jason Pang ’10, Charles Prutzman ’11, Global Dialogue on Federalism and Bush Federalism
Jason Pang ’10, Federalism in the Bush Administration and in Global Dialogue
Matthew Goldstein ’10, The Foreign Policy of George W. Bush
David Stamm ’08, Federalism in the Bush Administration
Dustin Antonello ’07, Ethnic Conflict in Developing Countries
Brandon Benjamin ’06, Federalism and Government Performance
Lori Weaver ’06, Brendan O’Regan ’06, and Allison Ligorano ’06, Decisions of Justice Antonin Scalia
Elizabeth Cassidy ’05, Combatting Domestic Violence in Central and Eastern Europe
Ben Wilmoth ’05, Domestic Violence Legislation in Post-Communist Europe
Noah Goldstein ’04, Foreign Policy of Ariel Sharon
Shannon Sullivan ’04, Constitutionality of Abstinence-Only Sex Education
Leanne Speitel ’02, Impact of Parental Consent Requirements for Abortion