Awards

Honors Thesis Awards

Firestone Medal recipient: Nabikshya Rayamajhi
- Honors Thesis title: Beyond the Ban: Exploring Why Chhaupadi Persists in Nepal Despite Legal Prohibitions
Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation: Alexa Nicol Roman Serrano
- Honors Thesis Title: Between Autonomy and Constraint: Russian Engagement in Mexico
Award for Distinguished Honors Thesis: Ana Paulina Quiroz
- Honors Thesis title: Partisan Polarization, Pandemics, and Policy: Analyzing Partisan Attitudes Towards the Affordable Care Act

Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation: Niloufar Davis
- Honors Thesis Title: Public Goods, Private Dilemmas: Refugee Integration as Strategic Identity Negotiation

Firestone Medal recipient: Elijah Buenarte
- Honors Thesis title: Road to Liberation: How the Relationship Between Transportation and Racism Defines Freedom for Minorities in the United States
Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation: Emily Handsel
- Honors Thesis Title: Are Gun Laws Enforced Equally?: Quantitative Analysis of Florida's Risk Protection Order Law

Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation: Manasa Kumarappan
- Honors Thesis Title: The Future of American Populism: Voices of Neglect, Distrust, and Resentment Across the Southwest.

Firestone Medal recipient: Jessica Gonzalez
- Honors Thesis title: The Impact of Hispanic Ethnicity on Vote Choice.
Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation: Hadassah Betapudi
- Honors Thesis title: The Early Impact of Medical Expansion on Cancer Mortality: A Comparison of Expansion in Kentucky and Non-Expansion in Tennessee

Firestone Medal recipient: Melda Alaluf
- Honors Thesis title: The "Politics" of Family Business: A Social Network Analysis of Turkey's Koç Family & Their Political Connections
Award for Distinguished Honors Thesis: Matthew Dardet
- Honors Thesis title: Measuring the American Voter: Experimental Evidence from the 2008 ANES on Improving Survey Data Quality
Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation: Lyndon Defoe
- Honors Thesis title: Offline Norms and Online Behaviors: A Study of How Audience Perception Shapes Online Black Political Engagement

Firestone Medal recipient: Cade Cannedy
- Honors Thesis title: Why Your Air Will Not Get Better: Path Dependence and Capture in Air Quality Regulation
Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation: Michael Swerdlow
- Honors Thesis title: Empirical Effects of Judicial Involvement in Plea Bargaining

Firestone Medal recipient: Jacob Randolph
- Honors Thesis title: Moderating Candidates or Maintaining the Status Quo? An Evaluation of California's Top-Two Primary
Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation: Meredith Manda
- Honors Thesis title: "The Lesser of Two Evils:" Trustworthiness and Turnout in the 2016 Election

Firestone Medal recipient: Elise Kostial
- Honors Thesis title: Time Heals All: Timing and Competitiveness of Primary Elections
Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation: Sarah Manney
- Honors Thesis title: For Fear of Fake News: The Effect of Warnings on Trust of Partisan Information

Firestone Medal recipient: Brett Parker
- Honors Thesis title: Election or Appointment? A Quantitative Study of the Effects of Judicial Selection Method on Judicial Voting in Criminal Procedure Cases
Award for Distinguished Honors Thesis: James Stephens
- Honors Thesis title: The State of the Soldier: An Analysis of Veteran's Affairs Medical Centers

Firestone Medal recipient: David Kay
- Honors Thesis title: Predicting the Animal Welfare Policy Preferences of Federal Legislators
Award for Distinguished Honors Thesis: Nicole Dayhoff
- Honors Thesis title: Analyzing Racial Sentencing Disparity in State Criminal Courts
Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation: Luke Babich
- Honors Thesis title: Mass Media on the Path to Peace: The Role of the Press in Sino-US Rapprochement

Firestone Medal recipient: Elsa Brown
- Honors Thesis title: Threat Types and Switching Tactics: the Effects on Domestic Audience Costs
Award for Distinguished Honors Thesis: Lily McElwee
- Honors Thesis title: Regime Type and FDI in Extractive Industries
Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation: Edward Ngai
- Honors Thesis title: Representation in Hong Kong

Firestone Medal recipient: AJ Sugarman
- Honors Thesis title: Do Counterinsurgents Make Good Neighbors? Insurgent Organization, Spillover Effects, and Violence in Iraq
Award for Distinguished Honors Thesis: Chi Ling Chan
- Honors Thesis title: Ethnic Discrimination in the Singapore Labor Market: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation: Yoseph Desta
- Honors Thesis title: A Judiciary Punt Syndrome? Analyzing the Supreme Court's Use of the Remand Procedure

Firestone Medal recipient: Eric Dunn
- Honors Thesis title: Legislators in Suits: Analyzing how lawyers make their case to the Supreme Court
Award for Distinguished Honors Thesis: Patrick Kennedy
- Honors Thesis title: Destined to Disappoint? A Cross-Country Analysis of Executive Approval and Political Institutions
Award for Excellence in Honors Thesis Presentation: Alexandra Farhat
- Honors Thesis title: Redefining Constituency: How 140 Characters is Turning Representatives into Surrogates

Best Research Capstone Project Prize - Olivia Wenzel
- Capstone Project Title: Beyond Access: The Rural-Urban Divide in Education Support

Best Policy Practicum Capstone Prize - Elijah Bruce Williams
- Article Title: Drug courts fail women, but There’s a Solution - published in The Los Angeles Times