Department of History

2008-09

Benji Barron, “A Mysterious Revival of Roman Passion”: Mussolini’s Ambiguous and Opportunistic Conception of Romanità

J. Patrick Brown, Migrants, Miners, and Mayors: A History of Scranton, Pennsylvania, from 1865-1902

C. Hardy Calvert, Conflict and Acculturation. Patterns of Cross-Cultural Exchange in Norman Sicily

Lauren Ditty, Knowledge and Complicity: High-Society Women and the Third Reich

Annie Evans, “We Shall Never Be the Same As We Have Been”: Northern and Southern Women in the Civil War

Daniel Franken, Industrial Modernization in Argentina: Understanding the Economic Strategy of Martínez de Hoz, 1976-1981

Daniel Groh-Wargo, Cornerstone or Chimera? The Role of the Jewish National Fund in the Formation of the Jewish State, 1920-1939

William Howerton, Le Tigre et Sa Jungle: A Comparative Study of the Political Development of Georges Clemenceau and the French Third Republic from 1871-1906

Ava Jacobi, Into the Abyss: The Legacy of the “Rape of Belgium” Propaganda

Elizabeth Kerley, Apostates from the Intelligentsia: Personality, Culture, and the Defense of Absolute Values in the Philosophical Thought of Petr Struve, Semën Frank, Nikolai Berdiaev, and Sergei Bulgakov, 1902 to 1918

James Leader, Abolition's Unwitting Sacrifice: How the British abolitionist movement betrayed the Black Loyalists in Sierra Leone

Benjamin Levandoski, Organic Documents: American History Textbooks from 1944-1985

Chris Howard Miller, The Domestic Nation: The Relationship between Nation and Family in the Confederacy

Malcolm Munkittrick, The Aga Khan Award for Architecture and the Creation of an Islamic Built Identity, 1976-2007

Anthony Piccirillo, "A Vile, Infamous, Diabolical Treaty": The Franco-Ottoman Alliance of Francis I and the Eclipse of the Christendom Ideal

Daniel Rendleman, From Revolution to Rebellion: George Washington as Seen by the Literary Societies of the Greater Chesapeake, 1813-1868

Zack Tupper, Hoya Paranoia: How Georgetown Found its Swagger During the Reagan Years

Rick Umbrecht, "Idle Tales of some Designing Men": the Pennsylvania Assembly and the Wyoming Crisis, c. 1754 – 1810

2007-08

Mary Bracewell, Sendero Luminoso: Organizational Strengths Become Revolutionary Weaknesses

Reid Collins, British Counterinsurgency Strategy and the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)

Anne Fauvre, The Bosnian War in a Post-Cold War Context: Russia's Effect on US Foreign Policy and the Creation of Peace in Bosnia, 1994 -1995

Eren Jon Gryskiewicz, The Family Jewels: The CIA at the Intersection of Law, Politics, the Presidency, and the People

Heather Hosmer, Attaché to Armament: The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on United States Defense Capabilities

Stephen Kenny, Rex Anglorum: The Transformative Reign of Alfred the Great and the Unification of England in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries

Steven Kensinger, Tuaoi afa ma maninoa [The Hurricane and theCalm are Neighbors]: The Colonial Period in Westeern Samoa, 1900-1935

Julia McCarthy, Japan and the International Labor Organization's Emerging Relationship, 1919-1925

Alexander Parkhouse, The British Reaction to the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: Efforts to Promote the British Commitment to the European Community

Daniel Quinlan, British India from Honourable Company to Honourable Colony: The East India Company and the Charter Act of 1813

Lorraine Riley, At the Crossroads: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Father Coughlin, and the Changing Consciousness of Catholic America

Rose Katherine Townsend, China's Interest and Africa's Responsibility: An Analysis of China's Post-Cold War Economic Foreign Pooicy on Sub-Saharan African Development

2006-07

Patrick Connolly, The Rise of Immaterialism in Eighteenth Century Britain

Emily Curran, Félix Ireta Viveros and la Danza de los Cerdos Corruption, Politics, and Foot-and-Mouth Disease in 1940s Mexico

Gina Farinella, "Breeding an Imperial Race": Fabians, Eugenics, and Empire, 1884-1914

Jonathan Fayer, Let the Prodigals be Welcome: William F. Buckley Jr., White Ethnics, and the 1965 New York City Mayoral Election

Kara Flook, The Rise and Fall of the Fourth Power: Examining the Mutual Influence of the Independent Russian Press and the First

Chechen War

Matthew Freeman, New Zealand's Mixed Member Proportional and Maori Representation: Improvement in Rights and Relations

Jonathan Gingerich, The Politics of German Idealism: Humboldt, Hegel and the Rise of the Prussian University

Robert Heberle, A New Faith in the Balance: Hugo Black, the First Amendment and the McCarthy Era

Julia Melle, Educating an Empire: United States Perspectives on Education in Hispaniola During the Age of Imperialism, 1915-1934

Kathleen Riordan, No Need of Prayers: The Role of Martyrdom in the Irish Republican Movement

Chana Sacks, In the Wake of an Uprising: An MSF Intervention in Chiapas, Mexico, 1994-2004

Daniel Starck, The French Empire and the Evolving Image of the Tirailleurs Sénégalais

Lucas Wittmann, Writing History in the Present Tense: The Postwar Public Historian in America

Ryan Winn, From Brest-Litovsk to Rapallo: The Effect of the German View of Communism on the Soviet-German Relationship

Emily Zand, The Saffron Wave Ebbs, Reformism Flows: The Bharatiya Janata Party within the National Democratic Alliance, 1998-2004

2005-2006

Bojan Bozovic, American Media Portrayals of the Srebrenica Massacre and Operation Storm: A Study in Media Bias

Laura Dziorny, Party Politics in the Congressional Elections of 1930

Prashina Gagoomal, Unsung Heroes: An Examination of the Role of U.S. based Filipino Exiles in the Overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos' Regime (1972-1986)

Marta Kalabinski, How the New York Times Covered the Warsaw Uprising of 1944

Berry Kurland, The Failure of Third Republic Education Policies in Lower Brittany, 1870-1914

Jason Meyer, American Involvement in the Clandestine Immigration of Jews to Palestine, 1945-1948

Mark Murphy, Archbishop Oscar Romero and American Foreign Policy toward El Salvador, 1977-1980

Kelsey Ruppel, Values of Work in Volga German Culture(s), 1850-1917

Stewart Salwin, Shakespeare and the Richard III Debate: A Historiographical Analysis

John Sutherland, Aegypto Capta: Finding the Poor in Egypt Under the Roman Empire

Vikram Tamboli, Bandits and Mapuche Rebellion: The Development of Indigenous Resistance in 19th Century Chile

Nicholas Wheeler, A Voegelinian Interpretation of the Polemical Literature of the Gregorian Revolution

2004 - 2005

Liam Ahearn, Irish-American Patriots: The Irish Brigade and their Impact upon Mid-19th Century America

Lyndsay Arundel, An Analysis of the 1864 Massacre at Sand Creek: Representations of Various Social Perspectives

Gina Castellano, Community Action Programs during the War on Poverty

Brian Cwiek, Changing Faces: Picturing Minorities in 20th Century China

Robert Houston, Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Role of Near Eastern Symbolism within European Freemasonry through the Establishment of

the American Republic

Jeffrey Katra, The Politics of Monticello

Ilya Kharin, Japanese Orthodox Church: The Trial Year, 1912-1945

Eric Lipton, The New Guinea Annexation Crisis of 1883

Philip Marcelo, The Relationship between European Settlers and Native

Americans in Turn of the Century Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia (Southern Chile and Argentina, 1890-1920)

Sara Mills, Two Cultures Collide: The Socio-Cultural Effects of French Occupation on Indochina

Philip Pearson, Wool & crime in 19th century Australia

Daniel Sirkin, A Third Force or Merely a Third Circle? - British Decision-making regarding European Integratioin, 1951-1956

Jordan White, Young Europe: Mazzini's Role in the Development of European Nationalisms