Department of History

2010-11

Francis Gieringer, "Born into the Purple": American Perceptions of the Japanese at the Lewis and Clark Centennial and the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

Samuel Harris, Our Historic Elysium: The Forging of Modernity in Ridgefield, Connecticut during the Country Place Era, 1880-1920

Kristen Leung, Digesting Southern Food: How New Deal Cultural Programs Constructed a Folk Image of Southern Food

Jennifer McCarter, Mul s-sa'a: the "Great Man of the Hour"—An Analysis of the Political Opportunity Structures that Facilitated Tribal Mobilization in the Rif War, 1921-1926

Charles McElyea, The Paradox of Apartheid: Social Segregation and Cultural Collaboration in Medical Discourse

Keith Rafferty, A Few Clerics at Court: Catholic Clergymen in the Lay Politics and Administration of Spain during the Reigns of "Los Austrias Mayores", Charles V/I and Philip II: 1516-1598

Kristen Sandgren, Sorrow Unspent: Professional Discourse Between 1960 and 1980 Concerning the Development of a PTSD Diagnosis

Caitlin Shea, "John Bull's Other Island" and British Identity in an Era of Imperialism: The Reactions of the Anglo-Irish Literary Elite to the Execution of the Leaders of the Easter Rising and the Trial and Hanging of Sir Roger Casement (1916)

Victoria Stulgis, Operation Soft Energy: The Energy Crisis and the Environmental NGOs Behind the Anti-Nuclear and Solar Movements

2009-10

Jeffrey Bolling, From Red Wings to Red Stars: Bombers, Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, and the Evolution of the Soviet Strategic Arsenal in the Early Cold War

Bissie Bonner, “One and Done” or “Long Run” Democracy? The Rhetoric and Behavior of Algeria’s Front Islamique du Salut, 1989-1992

Maya Brodziak, “The Pagans are Wrong and the Christians Are Right:” The Evolution of Europe’s Understanding and Perception of the Muslim World During the Crusades, 1095-1291

Eliza Buddenhagen, The Taching Oil Field: A Window into the Cultural Revolution

Jonathan Cohn, Who Is Out of Line in the March of Progress? Perspectives on Religion and Industry Around the Great Exhibition of 1851

Sarah Forrest, The Nation Under Construction: Identity as a Political Tool in the Formation of the Senegalese State (1945-1980)

Jeanne Fundakowski, Patent Medicine and the Failure of Federal Regulation in the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act: Cocaine, Coca-Cola, and the Evolution of an Industry

Matthew Giffin, The Britain of the East: Liberalism, Darwinism, and British Perceptions of Japan, 1851-1914

Rebecca Glade, “The Americans Call Me Africa’s Lenin:” Hassan al-Turabi’s Role in Sudan, 1989-2000

Adam Kemal, The Limits of Soft Empire: Great Britain, Egypt, and Middle Eastern Defense, 1945-1949

Charles Leisure, The Development of the British Capital Markets of the Nineteenth Century and Their Importance in Submarine Telegraph Financing

Henri Minion, Community in Diversity: A History of International Students at Georgetown University, 1789-1860

N. Blair Munhofen, The Origins of Hizbollah: Lebanon’s Islamic Resistance to Israeli Occupation

Dana Patton, “I Gave Them a Sword:” How the Watergate Scandal Contributed to the End of Détente

A.E. Talarico, Educating Christianity in Saint Basil’s “Address to the Young Men”

Nathaniel Weisenberg, The Unraveling: Seville, the Jews of Castile, and the Road to the Riots of 1391

Kevin Windels, The Revolutionaries Who Never Got to Play: An Examination of the Perspectives of Abigail Adams and Madame de Staël on the Aims and Leadership of the American Revolution and the French Revolution

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