St. Mary's Projects Archive
2006-2007 St. Mary's Projects
Elaine Amankwah, “The Ghanaian Legal System and the Influence of Colonialism:
Mentor: Walter Hill
Warren Besore, “The Utopia Question”
Mentors: Robin Bates and Michael Cain
Jonathan Brolund, “Full Faith and Credit: A Constitutional, Social, and Economic Case for Same-Sex Marriage”
Mentors: Sahar Shafqat and Kristen Sheeran
Julian Brunner, “Anti-Americanism in Latin America and its Root Causes”
Mentor: Sahar Shafqat
Kerry Crawford, “The Disappearing Female: An Analysis of Changing Sex Ratios in China and India”
Mentor: Sahar Shafqat
Aubrey Delaney, “Darfur and the Media: Why the Coverage is So Inadequate and What Certain NGOs are Doing to Raise Awareness”
Mentor: Zach Messitte
Kevin Fogle, “The Rehnquist Court and the Battle to Overcome Roe”
Mentor: Susan Grogan
Abby Johnson, “A Critique of U.S. Foreign Democracy Promotion: The Need to Bridge Policy and Theory”
Mentor: Michael Cain
Elizabeth Lewis, “Tommy McKay for State Senate: A Documentary”
Mentor: Zach Messitte
Matthew Majerowicz, “The Under-Utilized Power of Congress”
Mentor: Susan Grogan
India Martin, “Money, Power, and Respect: Socioeconomics and the Voter”
Mentors: Walter Hill and Susan Grogan
Allen Nuccio, “Surveying Americans’ Knowledge of the U.S. Constitution”
Mentor: Susan Grogan
Jamie Palumbo, “Is the U.S. in the Dark on a New Energy Policy? Shining Light on the Threats Facing U.S. Energy Security”
Mentor: Michael Cain
Elizabeth Slotnik, “The Decline of America’s Soft Power and How It Affects U.S. Foreign Policy: A Look at How Religion Clouds Our Secular Government”
Mentor: Walter Hill
Laura Wallace, “Citizenship and Immigration: A Comparative look at German and American Policy”
Mntor: Sahar Shafqat
2004-2005 St. Mary's Projects
Michael Ben Branch,"I Don’t Sell My Body, I Merely Sell My Time": The Legality and Morality of Prostitution Mentor: Kathryn Norlock
Patrick Bond, "The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Health of the Chesapeake Bay's Ecosystem" Mentor: Susan Grogan
Colin Doyle, "Is Our Way the Best Way? Democracy Vs. Stability in Transitional Societies" Mentor: David Andersen
John Davie, "Protecting Intellectual Property Rights: America's Quest for Economic Prosperity" Mentor: Susan Grogan
Hannah
Faddis,
"Undergraduate Publishing: An Exercise in Scholarship":
Open Water: First Annual Undergraduate Journal in the Social Sciences
Mentors -Sahar Shafqat/Ruth Feingold
Open Water SMP Web Page
John Heltmann, "Talk to Me: An Exploration in the Mind of the Young Voter" Mentor: Michael Cain
Julie Hocker, "When More is Less: The Negative Impact of Oil on Civil and Political Freedom in Azerbaijan, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia" Mentor: Juliana Geran Pilon
George Jakuta, "Regional Institutions and Regional Security Complexes in South Asia and the Middle East: Combating or Facilitating Terrorism?" Mentor: Walter Hill
James Kelley, "James Kelley for Delegate 29C: A Campaign Plan" Mentor: Susan Grogan
Jo Kraft, "The Role of Track-Two Organizations in the Management of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict" Mentor: Sahar Shafqat
Tessa Lowe, "Public Education Lobbying: A Case Study in St. Mary's County" Mentor: Nancy Paige Smith Presentation in community to CARE, a grassroots organization lobbying for quality public school education in St. Mary's County
Logan Louden, "A Comparison of the Japanese and United States' Legislatures: Plan-Rationality and Market-Rationality in Two Case Studies" Mentor: Sahar Shafqat
Mark Maggi, "H$0: Can the Third World Afford to Privatize Water" Mentor: Kristen Sheeran
Erinn Maguire, "True Peace? A Comparison of Post-Conflict Northern Ireland and South Africa" Mentor: Sahar Shafqat
Greg Maly, "The Ethics of U.S. Intervention: A Case Study of the Conflict in El Salvador" Mentor: Zach Messitte
Steve McGraw, "Magical Realism: Reclaiming and Redefining Experience in a Postcolonial World" Mentor: Ruth Feingold
Kim Michel, "Popular Education in Theory and Practice" Mentor: Sahar Shafqat
Christelle Niamke, "The Image of Africa in the Media" Mentor: Sahar Shafqat
Joseph Rieu, "A Dynamic Approach to the Problem of Civic Disengagement: Toward a New Theory of American Citizenship" Mentor: Michael Cain
Brian Rose, "IMF and International Politics" Mentor: Walter Hill
Andrea Selkirk, "The Politics of the Native American Mascot Controversy" Mentor: Nancy Paige Smith
Stephanie Simmons, "Inside-Out: How the United States Health Care Policy Affects the Health of the Nation" Mentor: Susan Grogan
Katie Ward, "Ethnic Conflict in Sudan: The Fine Line Between Civil War and Genocide" Mentor: Sahar Shafqat
Kevin Whalen, "An Analysis of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Assassination and Conspiracy Theories" Mentor: Nancy Paige Smith
2003-2004 St. Mary's Projects
Amy K. Anderson, The Politics of Capital Punishment: A Comparative Study of the United States and France Mentor: Walter Hill
Robert Chance, A Study of Democratization in Central
America
Mentor: Michael Cain
Valerie Chapman, Teddy Roosevelt: A Psychological
Approach to Presidential Performance
Mentor: Susan Grogan
Benjamin Church, The Push for Privatization: The
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 and
Pharmaceutical Liberalization in North America
Mentor: Nancy Paige Smith
Jamie Critchfield, The Law in Shakespeare: Measure
for Measure and The Merchant of Venice
Mentor: Susan Grogan
John Dixon, Yucca Mountain and the Federal Imposition on
Nye County, Nevada
Mentor: Nancy Paige Smith
Erin Doyle, Capitalism, Consumerism and the Cleavers:
Political Influence over Popular Culture During the Cold War
Mentor: Gregg Hall
Judy Gallagher, The First Amendment: Accommodating
Religion in America's Public Life
Mentor: Jim Kenney
Michael Gerpe, The Patriot Act and the Fourth Amendment
Mentor: Nancy Paige Smith
Tiffany Goodyear, Art vs. State (PHILOSOPHY/POSC)Mentor: Juliana Pilon
Joseph Gortenburg, The 1962 Kefauver-Harris Drug
Amendments and Their Effects on the Approval Process of the Food and Drug
Administration
Mentor: Nancy Paige Smith
Michael Hollingsworth, Perspectives on Faith Based
Initiatives and Poverty Reduction
Mentor: Michael Cain
Aida Isakovic, Transitional Justice in Post-Conflict
Environments: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina
Mentor: Gregg Hall
Brian P. Kennedy, An Analysis of Gun Control: The Brady
Law and Public Policy
Mentor: Nancy Paige Smith
Andreas Gabriel Macris, Habitat, Ecology and Alternative
Energy Design for the 21st Century
Mentor: Nancy Paige Smith
Douglass Mayer, Guns, Freedom, and the Constitution
Mentor: Susan Grogan
Jennifer McVey, Judicial Selection Methods in the
United States and Germany: Realization of Ideals or Reflection of Culture?
Mentor: Susan Grogan
Darrell Melton, Determinants of Democratic
Consolidation: A Comparative Study of Russia and Poland
Mentor: Sahar Shafqat
Jon Robins, Imagined Pasts and Promised Futures:
Revolutionary Leadership and Culture in Peru, Sudan, and Sri Lanka
Mentor: Sahar Shafqat
Isis
Rodriguez-Cortes, U.S. Public Diplomacy: What's Wrong with the U.S. Image
Abroad?
Mentor: Gregg Hall
Brian Roffman, The Origins of Zionism
Mentor: Walter Hill
Richard Romer, An Empirical Evaluation of Factors
Influencing High School Performance in Maryland
Mentor: Michael Cain
Erin Rorabacher, International Studies
Cross-Disciplinary Concentration: A Case for One at St. Mary's College
Mentor: Zach Messitte
Kyle Rudder, Outer Space and International Relations
Mentor: Gregg Hall
Gregory T. Scagliotti, U.S. Involvement in Iraq and U.N.
Support
Mentor: Nancy Paige Smith
Sheena Washington, The Politics of Ethnicity and
Religion in the Senegambia (AADS/POSC)
Mentors: Gregg Hall/Femi Ojo-Ade
Robert White, Afrocentricity and Philosophy
Mentor: Michael Taber
Adrienne Wineholt, Nous Contre Eux (Us Versus Them): The
Rhetoric of the Front National
Mentor: Sahar Shafqat
2002-2003 St. Mary's Projects
Melissa Ballowe, "A Critique of Consensus Process: Theory, Practice and Implications" (mentor - Samuel A. Chambers)
Todd Brooks, "The United States and the War on Terrorism" (mentor - Gregory O. Hall)
Samanda Hawkins, "Indigent Criminal Defense: The Last Piece of the Puzzle" (mentor - Susan E. Grogan)
Candice Kamperin, "Plato's Theory of the Forms" (mentor - Samuel A. Chambers)
Matthew Pembleton, "Political Culture and Pluralism: New Forms of Interaction" (mentor - Samuel A. Chambers)
Ivan Shutinya, "Guide to Accessibility Issues" (mentors - Pamela Hicks and Nancy P. Smith)
Jayson Williams, "Commander in Chief: The Expanding Military Power of U.S. Presidents" (mentor - Susan E. Grogan)
2001-2002 St. Mary's Projects
Troy Agnew, "Civil Society: Robert Putnam versus Central Europe" (mentors-Michael Cain and Samuel Chambers)
Karen Blackistone, "Congressional Trade Politics: Trade Promotion" (mentor-Nancy Paige Smith)
Colleen Conley, "Sustainability of After School Funding" (mentor Susan Grogan)
Nichole Downs, "Juvenile Justice" (mentor-Susan Grogan)
Lauren Dunnock, "In Critical Condition: American Health Care Under Review" (mentor-Susan Grogan)
Kristin Effland, "Well-Equipped Cowboys and Super-Moms: The Gendered, Sexed and Sexualized Subject in Advertising" (mentor-Samuel Chambers)
Daniel Fisher, "A College Student's Rights" (mentor-Susan Grogan)
Greg Lennon, "Despues De Fidel: The Potential for Democratization in Cuba" (mentor-Michael Cain)
Kathleen McClellan, "The Supreme Court and Precedent" (mentor-Susan Grogan)
Robert Miller, "Cold War Politics and the Olympics" (mentor-Gregory Hall)
Clynnetta Neely, "The Negative Relationship Between the Civil Rights Movement (1950-1970) and Blaxploitation Films" (mentor-Susan Grogan)
Shaun Owens, "Democracy and Lustration" (mentor-Michael Cain)
Isaac Salazar, "U.S. Hispanic Population: Political and Economic Implications" (mentor-Walter Hill)
Jessica Sanders, "A Modern Woman in Municipal Politics" (mentor-Susan Grogan)
David Sushinsky, "Triangular Diplomacy in the New World Order" (mentor-Gregory Hall)
