The Podium is a peer-reviewed academic journal published annually by the Dalhousie Undergraduate Political Science Society (DUPSS). All papers are written by undergraduate Dalhousie & Kings students.
The Podium Winners - 2023
Members of the Dalhousie Undergraduate Political Science Society - 2023
Winners!
Katie Cheslock - Bill 96 and Indigenous Social Health: Québec’s Francization Policies as a Barrier to Wellness in English-Speaking Indigenous Communities.
Emily La Rocque - Intersectionality: Why Trump’s Election Should Not Come as a Shock
Isabella Stefek - Globalization in Perspective: Exploring Materialism, Idealism and Tradition in the Contemporary World
Evan Colclough - The Impact of International Institutions on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Viewed Through a Rational Choice Institutionalist Perspective
Natasha Ferguson - The Correctional System: Preserving the Owner-Slave Dynamic in the United States
Élisabete Paradis Ferreira - The New Progress: Intersectionality within International Committees and Combining CERD and CEDAW to Bring Justice to Alyne de Silva
Editor - Jessica Duffney
Winners!
Katie Cheslock - Art Against Disrememberment: Ceija Stojka, the Roma Genocide, and the Politics of Memory
Andrew Dogurga - A Greek Tragedy: Optimism Bias, Strategic Misrepresentation, and SME Implementation Gaps
Jessica Duffney - The Sacrificial International Order of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Olivia Paul - A Pivot to American Exceptionalism: How Ronald Reagan Changed the Character of the U.S. Presidency
Rebecca Tomlik - “All music is not suited to everyone”: Examining German Orchestral Music in the Third Reich
Clara von Maltzahn - The Influence of Customary Socialist Ideas on Housing in the Soviet Union and Russia
Hennessy Blue Salam - Buen Vivir, Ecosocialism, and the Mobilization of Indigenous Ecuador
Editor - Isobel Cameron
Winners!
Victoria Hudson - The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Gives Municipalities the Opportunity to Defy their Status as “Creatures of the Province”
Shane Galley - The Shadow it Casts: The Legacy of Slavery on Modern American Institutions
Olivia Paul - An Examination of Robert Putnam’s Two-Level Games in the Oslo Accords
Rony Blanchard - Building a Culture for the African Revolution: The Imagined Communities of Nkrumah and Nyerere in Early Independence Ghana and Tanzania
Alexander Mcnab - A Marxist Analysis of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Caleigh Wong - Not Just a Few Bad Apples: Sexual Violence in the Canadian Armed Forces as a Security Threat
Nick Harris - Blue in the Face, Cold to the Touch: An Analysis of the “Asylum Seeker”
Editor - Emilie Quinn Villanueva