Research & Data Analysis
The following examples showcase my research and data analysis skills being applied to the humanities, social sciences, and communications fields.
"Putting the Planet on the Ballot: Climate Change Framing in 2016 and 2018 Political Ads"
This is paper was written as part of my undergraduate honors thesis at Penn State University. I conducted a quantitative research study on US political advertising by performing a content analysis on over eighty gubernatorial, congressional, or presidential campaign ads to see how they framed climate change and climate-related issues.
"Key Determinants of Confirmed COVID-19 Cases"
In May 2020, I performed a multivariate cross-sectional model to study what factors were strong determinants of confirmed COVID-19 cases. This paper served as my final research paper for the INTAF 803: Multi-Sectoral and Quantitative Analysis course I had to take as part of my master's degree program.
Final Research Paper for HIST 445
This paper was researched and written about the debate surrounding political dissent in times of war with specific attention given to the controversy surrounding Eugene Debs' arrest, trial, and conviction for an anti-war speech he gave in 1918 once the United States entered World War One. HIST 445: The Emergence of Modern America (1877-1919) was a class I completed as part of my Bachelor of Arts in History degree program.
Final Research Paper for HIST 442
I wrote this paper as a historical analysis of factors that were used to justify the United States' expansionist actions in the 1800s. It looks at the rhetoric and arguments used within a number of primary sources that helped to build the concept of "Manifest Destiny" in the United States. HIST 445: The Early American Republic (1783-1850) was a class I completed as part of my Bachelor of Arts in History degree program.
Final Research Paper for HIST 302W
I completed research on former Union and Confederate soldiers who were drafted into the Egyptian Army in the 1870s for HIST 302W, a class I completed as part of my Bachelor of Arts in History degree program. I specifically studied how the former American Civil War soldiers interpreted their experiences and time in Egypt by analyzing the primary writings of six American soldiers - 3 former Union soldiers and 3 former Confederate soldiers - employed in the Egyptian Army during this period.