Student Conferences | Department of Politics and Government

2021 Pi Sigma Alpha Best Paper Awards

Haley Ehlers, Illinois State University

Toxic Relationship with Public Housing: Are Health and Safety Conditions Influencing Factors in Length of Stay?

Grace Burgener, Illinois State University

Protest and Repression: How do Protest Objectives Impact the Likelihood of Repression?

Dani Park, Illinois State University

Fragmented Ontology and the Production of Unity

Beatrice Beirne, Saint Louis University

For Work, for Rest, for Selfies: Solidarity Portraiture and Capitalist Photography in Post-Automation America

Molly Sulzer, University of Southern California

The Politics of Abortion: Testing the Attitudinal Model in the Fifth and Ninth Circuits

Thomas Sheffield, State University of New York at Fredonia

Practical Insights or Parlor Games? The Visibility of a Systemic Approach to Analyzing Modalities of Interpretation

These papers can be found in the Critique student research journal.

29th Annual Illinois State University Conference for Students of Political Science

The Department of Politics and Government at Illinois State University invites you to the 29^th Annual Illinois State University Conference for Students of Political Science, which will take place on Friday May 13, 2022. This year for the second time we will hold our conference virtually. ISU’s Annual Conference provides students of political science an opportunity to share their research with the larger academic community and build scholarly networks. We welcome papers from all subdisciplines of political science from both undergraduate and graduate students. Panelists at the previous conferences included 750 students attending over 100 colleges and universities.

The proposal submission deadline is April 15, 2022. Full conference papers need to be submitted by May 1, 2022. If you are interested in presenting your research in this exciting event, please submit an abstract of your paper no longer than 250 words in our online portal: https://conferencebit.com/29th-annual-illinois-state-university-conference-for-students-of-political-science-2022

Dr. Orçun Selçuk from Luther College will deliver this year's keynote speech. His keynote is titled Polarizing Populism in Latin America: Inclusion, Exclusion and Opposition.

If you have any questions about the conference, please do not hesitate to contact the conference coordinator:

Dr. Yusuf Sarfati Email: ysarfat@ilstu.edu

This conference is sponsored by Pi Sigma Alpha, the Undergraduate Political Science Association, The Graduate Student Association, and The Department of Politics and Government at Illinois State University.