
2026 Research Days
Research Topics
Arts and Innovation: Do It Wrong on Purpose
- The Music of Existence: The Art of Translating a Lifetime into Songs by Violet Abrahamsson
- Conservation Art: Art as a Voice and Action for Environmental Conservation by Kathleen Chen
- Creative Brain and Critical Thinking: Can We Really Think Outside the Box? by Hailey Dlugolenski
- From Impressionism to Anime: The Art Movement Still Being Overlooked by Julianna Fox
- Too Much or True Expression: Challenging Fashion Norms Through Maximalism by Emilia Handal
- Seeing to Believe by Maya Howard
- The Acting Body: When Imperfection is Powerful by Isabella Loflin-Van Dorn
- In a Chinese Time of My Life: Appreciation or Appropriation? by Angela Lu
- Favoritism in Folktales: Shifting the Story Spotlight to Under-Represented Communities by Amithi Nair
- Finding Flow: An Exploration of Meditation through Watercolor by Ginger Oldmixon
- Stress in University Students Expressed Through Music and Visual Art by Natalie Peters
- Graff Girls: Anonymity and Resilience in Women's Street Art by Ariella Rabineau
- The Rooms We Hide: Challenging the Silence Around Our Inner Thoughts by Allison Rances
Climate Justice
- From Ecocide to Empowerment: Holding High Polluters Liable to Strengthen the Authority of Small Island Developing States by Maya Akselrod
- The Spread of Climate Misinformation and Its Impact on Public Perception by Ituru (Hillary) Babalola
- Climate, Contagion, and Disease Dynamics: A Comparative Analysis of Dengue in Bangladesh and Singapore by Ruby Bogaisky
- Politics of Visibility: Climate Narratives on Social Media by Megan Buchovecky
- When Nature Disappears: Cultural Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Indigenous Communities by Addisyn Buckley
- Problematic Policies: A College Perspective on Animal Rights Laws by Kairo Campbell
- Power, Participation, and Injustice in the Green Energy Transition by Cristina Campomanes
- Climate Governance After Colonialism: Establishing Indigenous Authority in Environmental Governance by Ashley Curtiss
- Not So Green, Green New Deal: Depoliticizing GND Framing to Improve Support for Climate Policy by Jiajun Dong
- Climate Anxiety and Disengagement: Examining the Psychological Barriers to Environmental Action by Claire Fitzgerald
- Regulating the Seabed: International Law and the Future of Deep Sea Mining by Hayden Gofman
- Intersection with Religion and Relation with Climate in South Asia by Mariam Hossain
- Multi-species Consideration: A Framework for Ethical Climate Justice by Noelle Kay
- Water Injustice Throughout History in the Local Binghamton Area by Ishaank Madhadi
- Climate Governance in a Post-Conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina by Aleksandar Pejcic
- Heroes, Hooligans, or Hypocrites: Media Framing and the Legitimacy of Climate Disobedience by Ravital Reingold
- Resistance of Resource Removal: A Broad Review of Instances of Extractivism in Latin and South America by Jordan Riak
- Climate Reparations: What Does That Mean? by Loise Yonga
- Federalism and the Fight for Climate Policy at the Subnational Level by Michael Zych
Debating Basic Income
- Free Money and Temptation Goods: Exploring the Debate Over Basic Income and Substance Use Disorder by Gabriel Arang and Adrian Hernandez
- From Dot-Com Dreams to AI Realities: Automation, Disruption, and the Debate Over Universal Basic Income by Samuel Beltra
- Is Automation Anxiety Cyclical?: Basic Income Proposals in the Ages of Cybernation and AI by Henry Brandler
- Women in a Society that Worships Capital: Can UBI Save Them? by Sophia Cheung
- Brushes, Bureaucrats, and Backlash: Government Art Subsidies from the New Deal to Covid by Isabella Coolsen
- Earthlings of all Countries, Unite: Degrowth Movements and Green New Deal Policies by Alec Elkin
- Can Democracy Thrive in a Future with Less Labor?: A Political Analysis of AI Forecasts by Avner Friedman
- Care in the Time of Automation: Examining the Future of Feminized Domestic Labor by Sakthi Jagannath
- Where the Work at?: The Uneven Geography of Gig‑Economy Opportunities by Eugene Kim
- Spacemen, Welfare Cadillacs, and The Man in Black: The 1960s Guaranteed Income Debates in US Popular Culture by Sarah Lindner
- More Bucks, More Graduates: The Educational Impacts of CCTs and Free Lunch Programs in the United States by Cienna Mitchell
- “Train Now for Tomorrow’s Jobs”: The Ad Council’s Corporate Response to Automation Fears in the 1960s by Ethan Murphy
- Beyond the Breadwinner: A History of Women and Welfare by Jenelle by Oppong Mensah
- What Is Work For: Insights from Arendt, Marx, and Weil for the Age of AI by Phoenix Rivera
- Can Basic Income Function as a Mental Health Policy? by Andrew Santilli
- Natural Inheritance and Its Discontents: A Contemporary Reevaluation of Agrarian Justice by Zachary Stark
- Learning from Vienna: The Social Housing Model’s Lessons for NYCHA by Lara Stein
- Why You Should Always Leave a Tip: An Exploration of Gig Work by Michael Valdez
- Work vs Welfare: The Battle for the Future of American Livelihood in the 1960s by Daisy Varela
- From Work Incentives to Public Health: The Evolving Reception of Canada’s MINCOME Experiment by Ronald VerdeRose
- The Road not Taken: Conservatism’s Debate on Welfare Reform in the 1980s by Leo Zhong
Futures Past
- The Artist is Absent: Two Science Fiction Anthologies on the Future of Art by Katharine Aberle
- Love, Optimized: Futurist Matchmaking and the Genealogy of the Dating App by Kailyn Aniano
- Irradiating the End Times: U.S. Nuclear War Films and the Rejection of Apocalypse by Adam Brukman
- Afrofuturism’s Skepticism: George Schuyler and the Limits of Technology as Liberation by Kelsey Cruz
- Taking AI Personally: The Moral Implications of Artificial Personhood in Midcentury Science Fiction by Matthew Cusumano
- Nuclear Futures and Cold War Fears: Space Opera as a Reflection of Cold War Nuclear Anxieties by Hannah Eig
- The Storm Before the Storm: The Origins of Dystopia in Late Victorian Fiction by Joshua Erenberg
- Administering Abundance: Post-Scarcity Futures from Keynes to Captain Picard by Oliver Friedli
- Fanfiction and Bloodchild: How Female Desire Challenges Homophobia and the Patriarchy by Advika Gakhare
- Before Split-Brains: Mind Uploading and the Problem of Multiplicity in Pre-1970s Science Fiction by Oliver Galeotafiore
- Of Ants and Men: Competition, Mutual Aid, and Evolution in Wells’s Scientific Romances by Brenda Galicia
- The Real Empathy Test: The Moral Limits of Blade Runner’s Vision by Andrew Johnson
- Kings of the Air: British Edisonades in The Halfpenny Marvel, 1894-1897 by Samantha Katz
- The Self and the Cyberpunk: Posthumanism from Neuromancer to Ghost in the Shell by Qiao Jun Lee
- Genes and Jesus: The American Eugenics Society's 1926 Sermon Contest by Matthew Newman
- The Frankenstein Complex: Origins of the Robotic Rebellion in Science Fiction by Tieran O'Connor
- Editing Reproduction: Eugenics and Global Reform in Margaret Sanger’s The Birth Control Review by Ava Raguso
- Bodies in Motion, Futures in Question: Title IX Forces Significant Societal Change by Brielle Rene
- Peter George Reconsidered, or: How the Writer Behind Dr. Strangelove Learned to Fear the Bomb by Katharine Sheahan
- From Panic to Pedagogy: Using Science Fiction to Teach about Population Futures in the 1970s by Aiden Suarez
- Survival of the Kindest?: Perspectives on Evolution and Post-Capitalism in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century by Joe Zeng
Learning Law and Legal Studies
- International Climate Compliance by Oliver Benenson
- Variation in Outcomes of US Supreme Court Reproductive Rights Cases by Lucy Black
- The Causes of Judicial Independence by Jamison Burke
- Why is there Variation in the Number of Prisoners Held in Private Prisons across U.S. States? By Sebastian Choppelas
- Variation in Media Freedom Across Countries by Mason Chung
- Why Do Homicide Rates Vary Across the 50 U.S. States? by Christopher Galante
- Judicial Ideology Under Constraint: Wartime Effects on Free Speech Decisions by Christine Jiang
- Analyzing Reasons for Judicial Decision-Making in Religion Clause Cases by Maya Jurkevich
- Ideology and Judicial Decision-Making in Supreme Court Religion Cases by Molly Kantor
- The Politics of the Sixth Amendment: Explaining Structural Variation in State Public Defender Systems by John Lazos
- State Ideology and Latino Population as Predictors of 287(g) Immigration Enforcement Variation by Maxime Le Lay
- What Accounts for Cross-National Variation in Environmental Policy Stringency? by Madison Lynch
- Explaining Variation in State Incarceration Rates: The Roles of Poverty and State Ideology by Jessica Nierman
- From Ratification to Reality: A Cross-National Analysis of CEDAW’s Uneven Gender Equality Outcomes by Dylan Siegel
- Explaining Variation in Supreme Court Voting on Reproductive Rights: The Roles of Ideology and Religion by Karina Singh
- American Democracy: The Policy Influence of Its Elites and Average Citizens by Christopher Viotto
- Coding the Coverage: Analyzing Positive and Negative Media Coverage of Supreme Court Cases by Athena Vishudanand
- Ideology or Strategy? Understanding Supreme Court Justice Voting Behavior in Civil Rights Cases by Olivia Vitullo
- The Role of Judicial Ideology in Supreme Court Decisions on Reproductive Rights by Emma Walker
New Authoritarianism
- A Kleptocrats Paradise: A System for the Corrupt by the Corrupt and Not for the People by Jeremy Baker-Paquette
- The Power of People: An Analysis of Authoritarian and Democratic Populism by Austin Biesty
- Spectacle of the Strongman: Donald Trump’s Use of Media Strategy in his Campaigns by Jenny Cho
- Why Support an Authoritarian? The Effect of Population in Modern Authoritarian Populism by Ryan Church
- Repetition in Rhetoric: An Analysis of Putin's Speeches during the Russia Ukraine War by Kayla Cloherty
- Institutional Resilience and Democratic Collapse in China’s Contested Territories by Lukas Derasmo
- The Authoritarian Appeal: Trump’s Rhetoric as an Autocratizing Force by Chloe Deshaies
- From Shame to Pride: How Different Emotional Perspectives can Affect the Political Spectrum by Caitlin Dickhuth
- Democratic Whiplash: The Mechanics of Double Transitions Within Democratizing Countries by Miles Docil
- Populism and Conspiracy: How Political Leaders Use Conspiratorial Narratives to Mobilize Support by Lucas Gleason
- AI, Philosopher Kings, and the Antichrist: Big Tech’s Assault on Democracy by Theodore Grekin
- The Big 5 Personalities and the Social Dominance of Authoritarianism by Casey Guan
- Democracy Under Fire: Why Democratic Commitment Persists in Wartime Ukraine by Vladyslav Hudz
- Democracy Undone: Authoritarianism and its Popular Appeal in Modern India by Julianne Joseph
- Mínzhǔ and Minjujuui: Autocratic Influence, Democratic Erosion, and Democratic Resilience in Taiwan and South Korea by Nei Lauscher
- The Best of the Worst: Early Twentieth Century America’s Application of Authoritarianism by Bodhi Lee
- Twitter Revolution vs. TikTok Uprisings: Comparing Gen-Z and Millennial Movements Through the Lens of Social Media by Daniel Levy
- Manufacturing Distrust: Anti-Intellectualism and Democratic Erosion by Samuel Miller
- Attack on the Out-group: Conspiracy Stereotypes Online and the Galvanization of Believers and Authoritarians by Molly Oakley
- An Illusion of Empowerment: "Autocratic Genderwashing" and the Complexities of Women’s Political Participation by Samantha Palmese
- The Politics of Appearance: Fashion as Symbolic Resistance Against Autocracies in the Middle East and North Africa by Neena Paulson
- Infrastructures of Power: Energy, Nationalism, and the Consolidation of Authoritarian Rule by Tahara Reinherz
- Constitutional Dictatorship to a State of Exception: A Look Within America’s Past to Answer its Present by Sarah Shapiro
- Global Lifelines: How External Economic Networks Sustain Modern Authoritarianism by Samuel Valarezo
Roots and Routes in Sephardic Studies
- Study of Sephardic Immigration to New York through Written Documents by Leila Falkovsky
- La Kuestion dela Mujer: Westernization and Sephardi Women in the Eastern Mediterranean Ladino Press in the Period 1870-1913 by Anne-Marie Gabel
- Redefining the Sephardic Role in the Argentine Zionist Movement by Marcos Guinazu
- The Abendana Network: Shaping Early Modern European Intellectual Discourse by Rafi Josselson
- Los Tiempos: The Development and Effects of Zionism Among Sephardic Communities by Erin Keating
- Sephardic-Ashkenazi Contact and the Sephardic Identity in New York City by Aaron Miller
Social Context of Learning
- Supporting Single Parents Through Daycare by Mikaela Garber, Alyssa Langer, Jolie Naidus
- Best Way to Play? Observing Intergenerational Dynamics in Children Museum Engagement by Eliora Glickman, Myla Tannenbaum, Cameron Huchro
- From Development to Integration: Assessment of the New York State Master Teacher Program's Professional Development by Joseph Hoermann, Daphne Linn, Ryan Mohasin
- Youth Support Services Needs Assessment by Michelle Katz, Jonah Cassidy, Eliora Roth
- Exploring the Connection between an Afterschool Program and its Relationship to Students' School Engagement and Family Involvement by Olivia Lahm, Jadon Ross, Corvis Gill, Gianna Barberio
- Assessing Library Resources for Community Impact by Sammy Mangat, Therese Roque, Andrew Gurcharan
- Student Engagement in Virtual Learning by Shawn Tipiere, Quinn Breslin, Emma Degen, Julian Cancio
Stereotypes and Stuttering
- Perception of Stuttering as a Disability: A Comparative Analysis of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Classifications Among Adults by Maximiliano Arias Chacha and Parker Cavanaugh
- Assessing Stereotypes Against Singers Who Sutter by Mary May Elkass and Elle McCormack
- People Who Stutter and Their Experiences with Healthcare Providers by Ethan Grauer and John Harrigan
- The Difference in the Perception of Stuttering in Men and Women Survey by Alexa Green and Peyton Case
- The Correlation Between a Person’s Education on Stuttering and the Advice They Give to People Who Stutter by Brenna Krieger and Korina Hung
- Effects of Perceived Communication Levels in Sports on Athletic Inclusion for People Who Stutter by Isabella Morelli and Michelle Belakh
- Academic Assumptions' Effects on Students who Stutter by Shanzay Rahman and Madisen Chancy
- Musicians' Perceptions Regarding Role Entrapment of People Who Stutter by Adam Rossi and Daniel Byon
- Bias of Social Work Students and Staff Against People Who Stutter and How That Affects Their Willingness to Help by Fiona So, Edrick Clermont, and Angela Tao