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We are two political science professors with a decade’s combined experience supervising students completing their undergraduate and master’s thesis.

  • Paul Musgrave is an associate professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has supervised more than two dozen theses and projects. He is also the Honors Program Director for the Political Science major, in which he oversees the thesis process for Honors students in the major.

  • Nicholas Davis is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama, where he runs the Democracy and Open Science

    (DEMOS) Lab.

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Political scientist. Professor. Writer. Mitchell Scholar. Reproached by Mikhail Gorbachev. “You want it to be one way, but it’s the other way.”
Nick is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Alabama, where he runs the Democracy and Open Science (DEMOS) lab.