Graduate students enrolled in Ivan Allen College Liberal Arts graduate courses submitted abstracts by January 1st, 2018 to present papers at the IAC graduate student conference. Presentations were scheduled as 10 minute papers on panels or 9 minute roundtable presentations during the conference on Friday, January 26th, 2018, 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., in Room 102 of the Stephen C. Hall Building (215 Bobby Dodd). The Ivan Allen Graduate Student Advisory Board members reviewed the abstracts and organized the schedule for the conference. Graduate students were recruited to volunteer as session chairs and respondents.
2018 IAC Graduate Student Conference Program
January 26, 2018
Urban and Rural Infrastructure
- Revathi Roopini Veriah (Public Policy): The Ery System: Conflict & Management of Common Property Resources in Tamil Nadu, India
- Xincheng Shen (History and Sociology): Meandering Shortcut: Shanghai’s Slow Adoption of Water Closet in the 20th Century
Organizations, Communities, and Social Change
- Rebecca Watts Hull (History and Sociology): When one size does not fit all: Lessons from a comparative study of ‘Real Food’ campus campaigns
- Supraja Sudharsan (Nunn School): Transnational networks and urban climate governance
Energy Technology and Policy
- Chair: Rebecca Watts Hull (History and Sociology)
- Ross Beppler (Public Policy): Identifying Barriers to the Deployment of Widespread Dynamic Electricity Pricing
- Jenna McGrath (Public Policy): How Do Disruptions on the U.S. Electric Grid Influence Federal Funding?
- Anthony Harding (Economics): Coordination through Cooperation: Climate Clubs with Solar Geoengineering
Transnational Cooperation and Conflict
- Chair: Christopher Zakroff (History and Sociology)
- Suon Choi (Nunn School): Mining Rhetoric of North Korea: Its Perception of the U.S.-R.O.K. Extended Deterrence
- Plamen Mavrov (Nunn School): A Survey of Past Challenges to the Transatlantic Partnership
- Christopher Long (History and Sociology): Mirror over the Horizon: Hexagon and Institutional Realignment in Early US Space Espionage
- Plamen Mavrov (Nunn School): A Survey of Past Challenges to the Transatlantic Partnership
- Christopher Long (History and Sociology): Mirror over the Horizon: Hexagon and Institutional Realignment in Early US Space Espionage
Technology and Culture
- Chair: Brooke Bosley (Digital Media/LMC)
- Garrett Bunyak (History and Sociology): Fat Cats and Porky Pooches: ‘Pet Obesity,’ Moral Panic, and Multi-species Possibilities
- Amanda Domingues (History and Sociology): Gender, race and science: the unsinkable drown proofed bodies
- Alice Hong (History and Sociology): A Grave Danger: Sanitary Arguments for Cremation in the United States at the Turn of the 20th Century
Research and Data
- Alaina Totten (Economics): The Impact of Displaced Persons on International Relations
- Adriana Alvarado Garcia (Digital Media/LMC): The Lack of Data on Human Rights Violations in Mexico
- Firaz Peer (Digital Media/LMC): Whose Context is it anyway? How Zillow’s algorithmic system conflicts with other operational contexts in the housing market
Innovation
- Chair: Josh Fisher (Digital Media/LMC)
- Jon Schmid (Nunn School): Do External Threats Drive Military Technology Innovation? Empirical Evidence in the Affirmative
- Seokbeom Kwon (Public Policy): Impact of patent ownership transfer patent holdup risk and innovation of firms
- Seokkyun Woo (Public Policy): The Role of Curiosity in Science: Evidences from Ig Nobel Prizes
Alice Clifton (History and Sociology): Front-Line Fowl: Messenger Pigeons as Communications Technology in the U.S. Army
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