Undergraduate and Fifth-year Research

2019

• John Short, “Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, and the Origins of Neoconservatism”
• Benjamin Ravel, “The Causes and Consequences of the Pueblo Crisis”
• Gregory R. Farrington, “A Far More Potent Spell: Music and Identity in the American Civil War”
• Alice Dillon, “Solidarity and Inclusion: An Exploration of Lesbian HIV/AIDS Activism through Photography”
• Benjamin Bergeron, “Stage Presence: Musicians’ Influence on the Anti-Apartheid Movement”

2018

• Casey Bush, “The Unforgivable: A Historical Analysis of Forgiveness After the Holocaust”
• Spencer Cronin, “Confronting the Past: The Holocaust as Narrated Through Facing History and Ourselves”
• Khalil Power, “The Preserver of Judaism: How Women Imagines, Shaped, and Asserted a United States-Jewish Practice through Cookbooks”
• Teide Riley-McNary, “The Role of Poetry in History: Seamus Heaney and the Troubles.”

2017

• Adelaide Petrov- Yoo, “The Political Role of Public Opinion in the Societ invasion of Afghanistan”
• Meghan Paradis, “Writing Under Watch: German Jewish Writers and Weimar German Women’s Magazines (1924-1930)”
• Marisa Natale, “‘I Went Down Exactly to Where People Were’: Women in the Palestinian Nationalist Movement, 1987-2005”
• Devin Melle, “Washed Ashore: Black American Whalemen at Home and Abroad”
• Emily Langley, “Girls Next Door and Revolutionaries: How Communism Transformed the Roles of Women in the Vietnam War.”
• Samuel Korstvedt, “Remembering the Mongol Empire”
• Santiago Jose Herdoiza Ponce, “Lurking Behind the Shadows: A Study on The Alliance for Progress and US Interventionism in Ecuador During the Kennedy Administration”
• Patrick Fox, “Shifting Paradigms in the Levant: The Six Day War, Isreal, and the Forces of Change in the Middle East, 1967-1973”
• Rachel Christ, “Twentieth-Century America Witchcraft: A Study of the Relationship between Female Empowerment and Contemporary Interpretations of Witchcraft”

Fall Fest

• ” ‘Good Things Are Comin’ ‘: The Art and Ideas of Tumen Soliz,” Michael Ippolito ’21 (Fall Fest 2019)
• “Representation and Autonomy in the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair,” Toni Armstrong ’19 and Khalil Power ’18

Academic Spree Day (Spring)

• “Women Push to Adapt Judaism as Seen Within Jewish Cookbooks, 1889-1935,” Khalil Power ’18 (Honors Thesis)
• “Confronting the Past: The Holocaust as Narrated Through Facing History and Ourselves,” Spencer Cronin ’18 (Honors Thesis)
• “Seamus Heaney: The Role of Poetry in History,” Teide Riley-McNary ’18 (Honors Thesis)

2019

• Spencer Cronin, “Conveying the Unimaginable: A History of American Holocaust Education”
• Adelaide Petrov-Yoo, “Decision Makers and Their Beliefs: Digging deeper into the simplistic narrative of Afghan ‘Freedom Fighters’”

2018

• Patrick A. Fox, “Unstable Sands and Winds of Change: The Regime of Hafiz al-Asad and its Interactions with the United States (1966-1976)”
• Mathew Dale Rice, “Deacon of the Cold War: Jimmy Carter, his Christian Faith, and his Foreign Policy”

2017

• Pingzhen Hu, “Red Star over Africa: Examining Chinese foreign policy in Africa since the Cold War”
• Robert Burns, “An Era of Transition: The Evolution of the Image of the Founding Fathers in American Culture between the Civil War and the Second World War”
• Benjamin Davis, “The United States and South Africa during the Kennedy Administration 1961-1963: John F. Kennedy, the United States, and South Africa”

2016

• Gregory Gaines, “Calvary, Stormaktstiden and the Military Revolution”
• Anne Marie Goguen, “Seeking Refuge in the Netherlands: The Dutch Kindertransport”
• Faith Jean, “From Enemies to Allies: American Perception of German Women during the Crisis Years”
• Austin Howard Alexander, “Because Your Cause Is Right and God Is on Your Side: Jimmy Carter, His Foreign Policy Advisors, and the Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Cold War”
• Lauren Cyr, “‘The Path of Action’: Terrorism and Preparedness after 9/11”
• David LaJeunesse, “The Flyboys vs. ‘The Acme Gun Club’ The US Navy and the Development of Naval Air Power and Aircraft Carriers between World Wars I and II”

2015

• Jeffery Wasson, “American Citizens and British Subjects: How Perceptions of the United States Influenced Canadian Self-Government”
• Derek Medeiros, “Riding into the Sunset: The Image of the American Frontier in Post-Suez Britain, 1965- c.1968”