City Diplomacy and Economic Growth

Faculty Sponsor: Mary Alice Haddad Abstract: Diplomacy, conventionally thought to be the mechanism between states to manage international relationships, increasingly, became observable between cities/regions. In the recent decade, many cities in the United States have established an office or unit directly responsible for international affairs. This project intends to capture the relationship between city diplomacy … Read more

Exploratory Text Analysis on the Congressional Response to the Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Faculty Sponsor: Logan Dancey Abstract: In this project, we employ topic modeling and word count differences to examine congressional reaction to the end of the war in Afghanistan through an analysis of House and Senate committee hearings pre- and post-withdrawal. The heightened media attention to the withdrawal provides us with an opportunity to study how … Read more

Guns as Symbols in Ads

Faculty Sponsor: Erika Franklin Fowler Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: Recent increases in mass shootings have resulted in more political discussions about guns and subsequently gun laws. As a result, researchers have focused on analyzing political ads as a way to examine the discourse in reference to these issues. Our data set was the … Read more