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Penn State Deliberates
2018-19
Volume 1: The Penn State Speech & Debate Society
Volume 2: Madison Stromswold
Volume 3: Daniela Rojas Medina
Volume 4: O’Neill Kennedy, Penn State College Democrats
Volume 5: Hope Wilson, Philosophy in Conversation
Volume 6: Allison Dombach, Penn State College Republicans
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Volume 9: Brendan Bernicker
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Volume 11: Deliberation Nation, Week 1
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Volume 13: David Carcamo, Latino Caucus
Volume 14: Lesley Cosme
Volume 15: Dilvany Thomas
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2018-19
Volume 1: The Penn State Speech & Debate Society
Volume 2: Madison Stromswold
Volume 3: Daniela Rojas Medina
Volume 4: O’Neill Kennedy, Penn State College Democrats
Volume 5: Hope Wilson, Philosophy in Conversation
Volume 6: Allison Dombach, Penn State College Republicans
Volume 7: Daniel Hizgilov, Liberal Arts Undergraduate Council
Volume 8: Stephanie Keyaka
Volume 9: Brendan Bernicker
Volume 10: Zak Kalp, Better Politics PSU
Volume 11: Deliberation Nation, Week 1
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Volume 13: David Carcamo, Latino Caucus
Volume 14: Lesley Cosme
Volume 15: Dilvany Thomas
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Michael Berkman
Director, McCourtney Institute for Democracy
Director, Center for American Political Responsiveness
Professor of Political Science
318 Pond Lab
Email: mbb1@psu.edu
Christopher Beem
Managing Director, McCourtney Institute for Democracy
Associate Research Professor of Political Science
327 Pond Lab
Email: cbeem@psu.edu
Xiaoye You
Director, Center for Democratic Deliberation
Liberal Arts Professor of English and Asian Studies
430 Burrowes Building
Email: xuy10@psu.edu
John Gastil
McCourtney Institute for Democracy Founding Director
Distinguished Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences and Political Science
240 Sparks Building
Charlie Dent
Visiting Fellow
Burt L. Monroe
Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science, Social Data Analytics, and Informatics
Head, Program in Social Data Analytics
Director, Center for Social Data Analytics
Chief Scientist, McCourtney Institute Mood of the Nation Poll
207 Pond Lab (Dept of Political Science); B001 Sparks (Center for Social Data Analytics)
(814) 865-9215
Email: burtmonroe@psu.edu
Eric Plutzer
Director, Mood of the Nation Poll
Professor of Political Science and Sociology
312 Pond Lab
Email: plutzer@psu.edu
Debra Hawhee
McCourtney Professor of Civic Deliberation
McCourtney Institute for Democracy Senior Scholar
Professor of English and of Communication Arts and Sciences
208 Burrowes Building
Email: hawhee@psu.edu
Jenna Spinelle
Communications Specialist
328 Pond Lab
Email: jenna@psu.edu
Ray Block
Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies
Laurence and Lynne Brown-McCourtney Early Career Professor in the McCourtney Institute
308 Pond Lab
Email: rjb6233@psu.edu