Congratulations to our CISAC Honors Graduates

On Friday, June 10th, 2022, we celebrated the accomplishments of the students in the Honors Program in International Security Studies.

Gabriella Conforti

Political Science; History, Islamic Studies

Ballots and Bullets: Understanding the Conditions that Facilitated Hybrid Actor Participation in Elections in Iraq and Lebanon

Advisor: Lisa Blaydes

Cole Griffiths

Political Science

Talk is Cheap: Democracy Promotion, Human Rights Rhetoric, and the US International Military Education and Training Program

Advisor: Kenneth A. Schultz

William Howlett

Economics; International Relations

Balancing Act: US Financial Diplomacy towards China’s Current Account Surplus, 2009-2013

Advisor: Judith Goldstein

Deborah Jantz

International Relations; French

Battlegrounds to Bipartisanship: The Effect of Military Experience on Bipartisanship in the U.S. Congress

2022 Winner, Firestone Medal for Excellence in Undergraduate Research

Advisors: Joseph Felter and Scott Sagan

Kai Kato

International Relations; Computer Science

Taking Data Hostage: Exploring the Feasibility of Using Ransomware for Interstate Coercion

2022 Winner, William J. Perry Prize

Advisors: Herbert Lin and Jeffrey Ullman

Alexandra Koch

International Relations; Human Rights

The Political Reconstruction of Protecting National Interests: Why the United States Negotiated and Signed but did not Ratify the 1977 Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions

2022 Winner, John Holland Slusser World Peace Prize

Advisor: Scott Sagan

Hannah Kohatsu

International Relations

Assessing Red Lines in the U.S.-China-Taiwan Trilateral Relationship

Advisor: Oriana Skylar Mastro

Katharine Leede

Political Science; Music

Spies in the Public Eye: A Comparative Community Analysis of Nuclear Sleuths and Government Intelligence Agencies

Advisors: Rose Gottemoeller and Amy Zegart

Olivia Morello

International Relations

National Security and Academic Freedom: How American Universities Navigate Great Power Competition

Advisors: Tim Stearns and Gil-li Vardi

Emma Smith

International Relations; Human Rights

Too Big to Fail? Evaluating the Association between Large-Scale Irrigation Schemes and Civil Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa, in the Context of the Climate Crisis

Advisor: Kenneth A. Schultz

Samantha Thompson

Political Science

Discomfort with Disinformation: Assessing U.S. Aversion to Sustained Counter Disinformation Efforts

Advisor: Amy Zegart

Theo Velaise

Bioengineering; East Asian Studies (China Subplan)

From Genomic Sequencing to Cerebral-Based Weaponry: The New Frontier of the People’s Liberation Army’s Military Technology

Advisor: Oriana Skylar Mastro

CISAC Honors Teaching Team

Cameron Tracy, Harold Trinkunas, Rod Ewing

Appreciate