2019 Conference

Panel 1A: Public Policy

Schroeder 214
Chair: Gaoming Zhu, Illinois Wesleyan University
Discussant: Gaoming Zhu, Illinois Wesleyan University

• Cheyanne Pincsak, Illinois State University

  Think Twice Before A Bite: Toward A Skeptical Framework of the U.S. Food System

• Jason “Tyler” Smith,Illinois State University

  Maintenance of Power: Felon Disenfranchisement as a Racialized Threat to Democratic Legitimacy

• Kate Brunk, Illinois State University

  Community Influence in Public Opinion on Federal Reproductive Health Subsidies

Panel 1B: American Politics

Schroeder 215
Chair: Murat Iplikci, Illinois State University
Discussant: Murat Iplikci, Illinois State University

• Wei Hua, Illinois State University

  How Risk Orientation Shapes Support for Graduate Student Unionization

• Dana Van De Walker, Sam Houston State University

  The Effect of the 2017 Trump Administration Travel Ban on International Graduate Applications at Texas Public Universities

• Brady Mullican, Westminster College

  Infrastructure and Management of Local Political Campaigns For Statewide Elections

Luncheon: 12:00-12:30 PM

Schroeder 236 (for participants)

Keynote Speaker: 12:30-1:15 PM

Schroeder 236 (open to the public)

Megan Remmel, Bradley University

The Reliability of Self-Reported Personality Responses in Elected Officials: Using Second-Hand Assessments to Investigate the Utility of State Legislators' Self-Reported Personality

Panel 2A: International Relations

Schroeder 214
Chair: Dana Van De Walker, Sam Houston State University
Discussant: Dana Van De Walker, Sam Houston State University

• Gaoming Zhu, Illinois Wesleyan University

  Polarized China: The Effect of Media Censorship on People’s Ideology

• Zunaid Almamun, Illinois State University

  Failure of Political Settlement in Chittagong Hill Tracts

• Nick Schwake, Wartburg College

  The Impact of Globalization On Economic Development

• Rashed Mosharref, Illinois State University

  Measuring State Fragility: A Case of Electoral Violence against Religious Minority in Bangladesh

Panel 2B: Political Thought

Schroeder 215
Chair: Mizanur Rahman, Illinois State University
Discussant: Mizanur Rahman, Illinois State University
Sydney Smith, The University of Texas at Austin

• Nick Mullins, Illinois State Unversity

  Islamist Thoughts on Democracy

• Mizanur Rahman, Illinois State University

  The Sovereignty of Ummah: Ghannouchi’s Thought on Islamist Sovereignty

• Sydney Smith, University of Texas at Austin

  Civic Virtue in the American Revision of Rome

Panel 3A: Political Economy

Schroeder 214
Chair: Ryan Arnold, Illinois State University
Discussant: Ryan Arnold, Illinois State University

• Freddie Eden, Wartburg College

  Corruption Among Nations: Investigating Causal Factors

• Trevor Hurd, Wartburg College

  Investment Behavior in the Wake of the 2008 Recession

• Murat Iplikci, Illinois State University

  A Stunt, A Shut-Down, and Heavy Diplomatic Propaganda: The Story of Curtiss-Wright Corporation’s Penetration to the Turkish Market

Panel 3B: Race and Gender Politics

Schroeder 215
Chair: Rhiannon Stringer, Illinois State University
Discussant: Rhiannon Stringer, Illinois State University

• Lorren Pack, Illinois Wesleyan University

  Rape Myth Effects on Juror Decisions in Deliberations of Rape Cases: How Rape Myths Affect Jury Deliberations

• Victoria Nemec, Illinois State University

  Support on Abortion for Minority Women and White Women

• Tyler Smith, Illinois State University

  Criminalized to Silence: A Systemic Denial of Black Victimhood as Exposed Through the Lens of the Black Lives Matter movement