Undergrad Research: Political Science / Undergrad Research: Political Science

Exploring Post-Anarchism within Liberal Democracy - Nick Wathke, Emporia State University

Polytropic Socrates’ Implicit Defense of Philosophy: Lying, Justice, and Sophistry in Plato’s Lesser Hippias - Samantha Trudeau, Carroll College

Missouri in a State of Nature: The Murder of Ken McElroy and its Relation to Hobbes’ Social Contract Theory - Hannah Jackson, Christopher Newport University

Mortality and Statesmanship: From Thucydides to the Modern Era - Rachel Wagner, Christopher Newport University

Political Obligation and Lockean Contract Theory - Samantha Fritz, Youngstown State University

Testing Tocqueville: The Political Theory of the Mayflower Compact and Its Legacy - Vanessa Sherman, Bridgewater State University

The Biblical Inspiration Behind the Second Treatise - Amy Samantha Al-Salaita, Loyola University Chicago

The Need for Deception: The Republic in Bong Joon-Ho’s Snowpiercer - Elaina Barbieri, Carroll University

Giorgi Areshidze, Claremont McKenna College

James Michael Nguyen, University of California, Irvine