Research Theses of Honors Seminar History/IHIS Majors
2023-24
Christian Baldari: “Shattered Dream”: Ever-changing Ideologies of A French Resistance Movement During World War II
Ella Castanier: Psychiatry of the Oppressed: An Intellectual History of Black Psychiatrists in the United States During the Long 1960s
Maanasi Chintamani: Out of the Lineup: How Women Fueled the Rise of the National Football League, 1950s-1970s
Juan Pablo Espinosa Unlikely Messiahs: The Missionary Church and Indigenous Conversion in the Early Years of New Spain
Elias Ferguson: Hammer of Heretics: Far-Right Conceptions of Spanish Identity During the Franco Regime and Today
Dami Kim: Harriet Hayden: 19th-Century Black Womanhood, Respectability Politics, and Material Culture
Hugh McKelvy: Equally Visionary and Nefarious: The Story of the South Sea Bubble in the Industrial Century 1770-1850
Caitlin McLean: “Half ally, half-untouchable:” American and British Press Coverage of Apartheid
Jackson Metzger: Between Bureaucracy and Sensationalism: the Dichotomy in Australian DEA Reports and Newspaper Portrayals of the PKI
Austin Nellessen: Resisting a Melting Pot: Mongols and Ethnic Minority Policy in Inner Mongolia
Angela Nguyen: Hail Mary: Our Lady of Fátima as a Vietnamese and Vietnamese American Anti-Communist
Thea Oberman: Al-Andalus on the Road: Understanding the Legacy of Andalusi Culture on Its Jewish Community
Julia Staley: Clerical Collusion: How the Catholic Church supported Francisco Franco’s Spanish Regime
Daniel (Robby) Turner: Ink That Cannot Dry: Changing Narratives of the 1654 Treaty of Pereiaslav
2022-23
Jacob Adams – Claiming Our Deepest Interest: The Witness and Zionism
Caroline Coopersmith – One Nation Under God, Divisible: The Public Relations Trial of Dorothy Sheridan and Christian Science
Charlotte Cromack – Damsels in Dissent: Gender Performance as a Political Tool in Late Imperial Russia
Soumil Dhayagude – A Decolonization of Capital: Money and the Global in 20th Century Indian Thought
Kelvin Doe – Rewriting Inconvenient Truths: How Charlemagne Rewrote his Ancestry to Justify his Leadership
Jimmy FitzPatrick – “Irish, Rally to the Rescue!”: The 6th and 17th Wisconsin’s Diverging Wartime Experiences During the American Civil War
Ian Gould – Streetcars on the Santa Fe Trail: The Strang Line and Suburbanization in Johnson County, Kansas, 1906-1940
Jack Grier – Development Diplomacy and Dialectical Diaries: Unveiling the Impact of Joseph E. Davies and Progressive Politics on U.S. Foreign Policy
Katie Hawkinson – Reframing Citizenship and Social Class: Christine de Pizan’s Political Thought in Sixteenth-Century English Translation
William Shaw Jacobson – You Will Fight and be Killed: Islamic State Small Unit Battle Tactics in Iraq and Syria
Kiely Johnson – The Local Contains Multitudes: East Somerville, Massachusetts and the Experiences and Impacts of the Irish and Salvadorans in an “Immigrant City”
Sophia M. Kloncz – Sounds of Struggle: Uncovering the Complexities of the Enduring Legacy of New Orleans Jazz in the Context of Racism, Drugs, and Urban Renewal
Tina Ma – A Study of Kyowa-go in Manchukuo
Paneez Oliai – The Price of Freedom: Examining Programs, Policy, and Thought in the History of American Bail
Gabriel Panuco-Mercado – Quehaceres Between Cane and Maize: Gendering the Green Revolution and its Social Outcomes in a Jalisco Town, 1943-2001
Axel Leon Opwis Soares – A Reluctant Embrace: The Rise of the Department Store and Consumer Society in Germany 1882 to 1938
Irmak Şensöz – Settling the Countryside: Pastoralists, Migrants, and the Tanzimat Era in Central Anatolia
Michael Skora – “America Should Take Her Share”: Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and U.S. Imperial Ambitions, 1915-1929
Annika Wang – A History of Advanced Placement United States History: A Look into the Pushes and Pulls of Educational Reform in American High School History Classrooms
Ethan Williams – Bye Confucius: The History of Social Transformation in the Chinese Province of Shanxi During the 20th Century
Xin Zheng – Constructing an Ideal Renaissance Persona: A Study of Italian Renaissance Portraiture of Rulers and Their Underlying Political Messages
2021-22
Will Bartlett – “Edat Hispania Sententiam Suam”: Orosius’ Hispanic History
Tommy Batterman – The Plague That Didn’t Happen: Yersinia Pestis and the Lombard Conquest of Italy, 565-572 (Morris Prize Winner)
Will Cromarty – The Rise of Conservatism in Orange County, CA, ca. 1945-1980
Henry James – Working-Class Liberal: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Changing Democratic Party, and the Politics of Poverty
Helena Jensen – Precursors to Precarity: Gender and Resistance to Changing Employment Structures in the 1970s in the United States
Amanda Kenn – To Tear Off the Veil: Frustration, Fantasy and (in)Flexibility in French Perceptions of l’Algérienne, 1830-1962
Mike Kim – Colonial Memory and Nationalism: An Analysis of Chinese and Korean History Education Concerning the Island Disputes in East Asia
Amanda Lin – Constructing the Citoyenne: The Rise and Fall of the Political Woman in the French Revolution
Nicole Marion – Short Skirts, Strong Boots, and Revolvers: Unveiling the Hidden History of Paramilitary Women in Northern Ireland during the Troubles
Kia Muleta – How to Justify and Demand Secession in the Era of African Nationalism: The Case of Oromos and Igbos, 1960-1980
Susan Rahimzadeh – On Resistance: Conflict and Collaboration in Les Visiteurs du Soir
Oliver Ritter – Louis XVI Before the Revolution
Daniella Sanchez – Salvadoran Women as the True Builders: The Development of the Transnational Culture of El Salvador and Los Angeles, 1980-2000
Derek Tassone – “Yesterday’s Liberalism is Today’s Conservatism”: The Jewish Roots of Neoconservatism, as Shown by the Rise and Evolution of Commentary
2020-21
Liam Giombetti – The Forgotten Republic: Renaissance Florence Without the Medici, 1494-1512
Ojus Jain, Radicalism & Mass Politics: Revolution in Colonial India 1905 – 1928
Michael Keeler – Interrogating the Original All Blacks: An Investigation into the Colonial Legacy and Mythology of the 1905-1906 New Zealand Men’s National Rugby Team
Sarah Laird – If Pachacuti Ran Your Hospital: What Inca and Andean Healing Practices Reveal About the Role of Rituals in Medicine
Chau Le – The Stateless: French Colonists as Apostates and Traitors in the Parti Communiste Algérien, 1936–1954
Hannah Levine – Between Colonizer and Colonized: African Policemen in French Equatorial Africa, 1910s-1930s
Marie Luca – History in the Happiest Place on Earth: Perception, Deception, and the American Dream as Told by Disney
Sarah Mendelsohn – “To The Women For Pulchritude; To The Men For Jazz”: Sexism in Post-World War II Jazz
Maya Moretta – Sustaining Community in The Pursuit of Freedom: The Greater Shirley Communities’ Journey through Enslavement, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Freedom
Kristen Pavlounis – Fashioning Industry Trends: Piracy, Celebrity, and Femininity
Angelica Rossi Hawkins – Raimondo Tulli: Continuity and Collusion from Fascist to Democratic Italy (Morris Prize Winner)
Richard Schofield – The Virgin Mary’s Journeys South: Vietnamese Catholic Refugee Resettlements, 1954-1988
Rachel Singer – “Scandal” in Poitiers? Three Perspectives on a Medieval Nuns’ Rebellion (Morris Prize Winner)
Isabella van der Meulen – Through the Lens of Biafra: Continuity and Change in Postcolonial Humanitarianism (Davids Award)
2019-20
Jeremy Cohen – Of Khans and Caravanserais: Travel Literature in the Age of the Russian Conquest of Central Asia
Georgia Kamm – Refuge and Resistance: The Creation, Division, and Unification of the Sanctuary Movement, 1980-1986
Sean Lee – At the Helm of the Republic: The Origins of Venetian Decline in the Renaissance
Gabriel Mielke – Orientalist Legacies, State Security, and Urban Planning in Amman, Jordan (1850-1968)
Sonali Mirpuri – Mahaboob Ben Ali and His Chili Bowl: A Story of Family and Identity in the U Street Corridor
Jackie Nowakowski – Merovingian Queens: Status, Religion, and Regency
Nicholas E. Peang-Meth – “The Property-holders shall rule this town!” The Danville Massacre and the White Reactionary Campaign against Biracial City Government 1882-84
Felix Pilkington – Revolutionary Music: How Kansas City Jazz and Los Angeles Gangster Rap Redefined American Art
Aidan Poling – Beyond Pater Patriae: The Many Faces of George Washington
Paul Rochford – The Origins of Soviet Ethnic Terror: The Repression of Ethnic Minorities in Stalin’s USSR, 1937-1953
Ross Snyder – “The Window Through Which the World Looks into Our House”: The Impact of US Foreign Policy on Supreme Court Rulings on Race, 1920-1960
Isaac Stone – Downton Abbey Socialism: Stalin’s Sympathizers in the British Establishment
Jennifer Sugijanto – Beyond, Within, and Outside the U.S. Nation-State: Shifting Boundaries of Asian American Panethnic Identities and Solidarities
2018-19
Reilly Barry – To “Try Hard to Seem Turkish”: Turkish State Formation and the Sephardic Community
C. C. Borzilleri – The Litchfield Effect: The Legacy of Miss Sarah Pierce’s Litchfield Female Academy
Jacqueline Crispino – Leaving the Empire Behind: A Transnational History of Russian-Jewish Immigration Beginning in 1881
Meredith Duflock – Security in an Insecure Age: Cybersecurity Policy and the Cybersecurity Community, 1967-1986
Brynlee Emery – Those who Admit Their Belief: Latter-Day Saint Immigrants and the Polygamy Restriction in U.S. Immigration Law
Caroline Genster – Conscious Motherhood: Gender and the Birth of Family Planning in 1960s Chile
Harrison Goohs – A Funeral Pyre or a Comforting Shimmer of Peace? The World of the Congress of Rastatt (1797-1799) and the End of the First Reich
Evanthea Hammer – “Masterpieces of Horror”: Arthur Szyk’s One-Man Quest to Fight the Axis through Art
Jonah Langan-Marmur – Confucianism with Chinese Characteristics: The Confucian Origins of Modern Chinese Internationalism
Jonathan Lanz – “Shattered Childhoods”: A Children’s History of the November Pogrom
Marcus Lustig – Blacking Up the Ivory Tower: Blackface Minstrelsy in College Life at Georgetown
Kenneth Marrs – The Enemy of My Enemy: Rivalry, Cooperation, and the Restoration of Poland
Aliyah Quereshi – Independence-Era Feminism and Nationalism: Envisioning Women’s Role in India
Sydnie Sousa – Perception and Actuality: Migrant Children in California’s Kern County 1935-1940
Brett Voyles – Transformations in Blackness: “Revolutionary” Afro-Cuban Identity, 1959-1966
Samuel Zaroff – A Moment in the Sun: Music, Culture, and the Rise and Fall of the Haight Ashbury Counterculture
Mateusz M. Zezula – Culture, Currency, and Kiełbasa: Polish Immigrant Finance in the United States, 1850-1940
2017-18
Katherine Cienkus – The “Woking Gang”: Political Activities of British Muslims, 1905-1920
Camden Elliott – “Through Death’s Wilderness”: Environment and Warfare in the American South, 1835-1865
Jemma Fagler – The “Picture Bride Problem”: Experiences of and Attitudes Toward Japanese Picture Brides in California, 1908-1920
Isabella Goonetillake – From Salons to Convents: Female Emancipation in Seventeenth-Century Paris, 1600-1670
Melina Hsiao – “Educating the Unreached”: The Rise and Decline of Frelinghuysen University, 1906-1964
Xinlan Hu – Danger and Opportunity: The Sino-U.S. Rapprochement as a Domestic Political Crisis in Both Countries, 1971-1972
Rebecca Kuang – Nanjing Remembered: China’s Public Commemoration of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre
Simon Mairson – Nationalism, Activism, and Moralism: The Atomized Politics of Frédéric Joliot-Curie
Jonathan Marrow – “Let us form a bodyguard for Liberty”: Conceptions of liberty and Nation in Georgetown College’s Philodemic Society, 1830-1875
Ari Shapiro – “The Spirit of Love for Our Holy Land”: Sephardi Zionism in Hamidian Jerusalem
2016-17
Noah Buyon – Cold Warriors, Cold Feet? America’s Uneven Response To Regime Change in Hungary, 1989
Olivia D’Aliberti – Food for Thought: Dining and Discipline at Georgetown College, 1889-1928
Patrick Gage – Georgetown at Nuremberg: Edmund Walsh and the Curious Case of Karl Haushofer
Matthew Hinson – Crimes on Sacred Ground: Massacres, Desecration, and Iconoclasm in Lebanon’s Mountain War 1983-1984
Ryan Kuchinski – Yes on Death: California’s 1972 and 1978 Death Penalty Initiatives
Andrew Meshnick – A Morbid Disconnect: The Battle Over Slave Health in the Early American Tobacco Industry
Madeleine Moore – Red Blood and Red Tape: Building the Collections of the National Zoological Park, 1887-1908
Daniel Paradis – The Christianization of the Roman Empire under Constantine
Nicholas Pavlovic – Strange Coalition: Iran’s Resistance Movement Between Coup and Revolution
Matthew Raab – William Walker and the Public Imagination: Cultural Manifestations of American Filibustering in Latin America
Katherine Randazzo – Convivencia Contested: Papal and Monastic Influence on Castilian Royal Policy Toward Religious Minorities
Alyssa Russell – Cleaning Up the Service Sector: The Justice for Janitors 1990s Campaigns in Washington, DC, and Atlanta, GA
Zack Saravay – The National Monetary Commission: American Banking’s Debt to Europe
Kyu Won Shim – What They Said and What We Remember: The role of Personal Testimony in National Memory
Nicholas Simon – Georgetown in Gray: The Confederate Students of Georgetown College
Taylor Tobin – Nationalism Can’t Be Built: The Story of Abuja’s Creation
2015-16
Daniel Aherne – Trouble Brewing: Brewers’ Resistance to Prohibition and anti-German Sentiment
James Constant – The Day We Lost the Beat: Techno’s Journey from Detroit to Berlin
Michael Donnay – Under One Management: The Jesuit Colleges in the Maryland-New York Province, 1879-1926
James Gadea – Regional Ostracism and Outcast State-Bonding: The Crystallization of Diplomatic Relations between Israel and Communist Romania, 1948-1989
Emily Kent – Making French: Redefining the Language of Intellectualism in Sixteenth-Century Paris
Samuel Kleinman – State’s Spies: The Bureau of Secret Intelligence and the Development of State Department Bureaucracy in the First World War
Caleb Morell – Radically [In]tolerant: How English Baptists Changed the Early Modern Toleration Debate
Edward Percarpio – Building Glass Castles: Rethinking Privacy andSurveillance from the Pantheon to the Panopticon
Matthew Quallen – Making Animals, Making Slaves: Animalization and Slavery in the AntebellumUnited States
Emma Schaff – A Fair to Remember: The Gilding of Chicago at the 1893 World’s Fair.
Lauren Wyszomierski – “He Killed My Ma, He Killed My Pa… I’ll Vote for Him”: The Narratives of Liberia’s Warlords, and Where the World Stopped Listening
2014-2015
Molly DePippo – “We will be the Sufferers if We Let Great Wrongs Occur without Exerting Ourselves to Correct Them”: Evaluating the Roosevelt Administration’s Response to the Jewish Refugee Crisis from 1933 to 1945
William Halle – Establishing the Federal Reserve: A Product of Changing Public Sentiment
Philip Heyward – The Boycott and the Early Palestinian National Movement: From Non-Cooperation to Nationhood?
Philip Layfield – Jihad and Jihadn’t: Emerging Parallels in Twentieth-Century Holy War Propaganda
Allison Liotta – Community Action toward the Desegregation of the DC Public Schools, 1947-1954
Benjamin Maher – “Every Swamp a Citadel”: The Landscape of Resistance and Removal in the Seminole War
Sophie Siebach – “I Will not Feed the One I Fight”: Genocide and the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970
Brian Wagner – Legionaries Living in Lutetia: A Study of the Socio-Economic Effects of the Roman Army during the Principate
Cody Williams (RCST) – Popular Rhymes of Resistance and the Rhythm of Agrarian Reform: Brazil, Cordels, and the National Plan for Agrarian Reform from 1986 to 1988
2013-2014
Mary Borowiec – Women and the Welfare State: Deconstructing Women’s Relationship to the State in Ecuador from 1925-1938 from the Perspective of Carol Pateman’s The Wollstonecraft Dilemma
Alexander Boudreau – What Kind of Example? Elite and Activist Perceptions of the US Reconstruction Period in Subsequent Reform Movements
Dwight “Sam” Brothers – The Enemy of My Enemy: The Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979 and the Evolution of the Sino-American Covert Relationship
Victoria Edel – God Save the Queen: British Pop Culture and Shifting Perceptions of Monarchy
Edward Hocter – The Seeds that Grew: The Rise of Political Theology in El Salvador, 1968-1992
Kathleen Kokensparger – Les Mécontentes: Gender and Profession in Third Estate Women’s Cahiers de Doléances on the Eve of the French Revolution
Mark Lipschultz – The IRCA Experiment: A Failure To Solve America’s Immigrant Problem
Kevin Magana – From White to Brown: Top-Down Political Messaging and the Civil Rights Movement in Texas
Andrew Markoff – Composing Identity: Richard Wagner’s Legacy in Divided Germany
Hannah Miller – Keeping a Nation’s Gates: William Williams, Ellis Island, and Immigration Policy in Early 20th Century America
Evan Monod – Société de Liberté: Slavery, Enlightenment, and Revolution, 1788-1802
Peter Prindiville – Catholics, Carter, and the Canal: Transnational Religious Identity and Domestic Engagement on Issues of Foreign Policy, 1964 – 1979
Clare Southern – From Forest to Table: The Columbian Exchange and the Changing Marketplace
Evan Tarte – The 1970s Arab Oil Embargo: Crisis, Response, and Aftermath
Roland Templeman – Gold, Garibaldi, and the Italian-American Experience in the Years of Risorgimento
Peter Vale – Remembering “Koevoet”: How South Africa has Come to Understand the Covert Police Operations in Angola and Namibia during the 1980s
Yongle Xue – Oil for the Engines of China: The Standard Oil Company and the Early Mechanization of China, 1927-1953
2012-13
Bridget Ansel – From “Money Power” to “Slave Power”: The Threat to Thomas Hart Benton’s Jeffersonian Vision
Kathleen Bush-Joseph – Ibn Jubayr: The Rihla
Carolyn Carson – Sanitizing Africans: Health, Hygiene, and Women’s Work in French West Africa’s Civilizing Mission 1819-1960
Jonathan Coumes – Artful Intrigues: Cuban Culture in Times of Peace
Joshua Donovan – Becoming God’s Cold Warrior or Destroying an Ideal? John Foster Dulles and the Middle East (1919-1959)
Gina Falaschi – Thomas Jefferson’s Table
Samuel Gerstle – Pawns in the Cold War: The Indoctrination and Repatriation of Japanese POWs in Siberia, 1945-1949
Amanda Lanzillo – Exile and the Mughal Harem: Timurid Cultural Continuities and Adaptations in Early Mughal Imperial Domestic Space
Margaret Luther – The Order: The Dawn of a New White Supremacy in America
Alexander Miller – Worth a Dime: Edward Wheeler’s Critical and Celebratory Portrayal of Black Hills Mining in the Deadwood Dick Dime Novel Series, 1877-1884
Roxanne Salas – The Holy See and Cuñadísimo Ramón Serrano Súñer: The Formation of Spain’s Neutrality in World War II between 1939 and 1942
Brandon Sharp – Cooperation and Sacrifice: How Divergent Allied Objectives, Interests, and End States Sowed the Seeds of Failure in the China-Burma-India Theater
Oliver Silsby – Dogs of War, Knights of Bronze: Reflections on the Condottieri’s Sociopolitical Evolution in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Cole Stangler – From Revolution to Rights: The Politics of Immigrant Activism in France (1968-1983)
Peter Stanton – Lingít ḵa Waashdan Ḵwáan, the Tlingit and the Americans: Interactions and Transformations, 1856-1896
Mark Stern – Speaking with Fire: Evolving Protections for Symbolic Speech in Twentieth-Century American Jurisprudence
Charles Tiblier – “Ya la Isla no es la Isla como era de primero”: The Trade Winds that Washed Away Isleño Culture
Mary Willis – “The Scandal Greater than Teapot Dome”: Huey P. Long’s Win or Lose Corporation and the Limits of Corruption in Louisiana
2011-12
Kevin Baird – Interests and Ideals: Sources of British Worker Opinion on the American Civil War
Clark Bakewell – The Development of American Intellectual Property Policy in East and Southeast Asia, 1868-1994
Emily Bierman – David and Goliath: How the McClellan Committee Inspired Robert F. Kennedy’s Fight to Bring Down Labor Giant James R. Hoffa
Alexander Bodaken – Reimagining Nixon’s Civil Rights Legacy: A Re-Evaluation
Cyrus Bordbar – A Laboratory of Labor Ideology: The International Workingmen’s Association in the United States
Michael Boyajian – The Dangerous Pattern of Genocide and the Armenian Precedent
Kinne Chapin – “Good Taste and Delicacy”: Female Sexuality in the Production Code Era, 1930-
Tucker Fross – Imperial Disposition: The Impact of Ideology on French Colonial Policy in Madagascar from 1883-1895
Robert Kaminski – The Military in the Relationship Between the Transcontinental Railroads and Congress, to 1880
Satinder Kaur – Equating the Indigène and the Ouvrier: French Communist Party Relations with Native Algerians and French workers in Light of a Saint-Simonian Past
Benjamin Kirschenbaum – The High Priest of Nature [Isaac Newton]
Taylor Lescallette – “Vietnam is the Auschwitz of Our Generation”: National Socialism, the Holocaust, and the Cold War in the Writings of the Red Army Faction, 1968-1977
Rebecca Moses – A Queen, and a Queen of England Too: The Intersection of Gender and Nationality for Mary and Elizabeth Tudor
Carolyn Shanahan – Bridging the Gap: Yuri Norstein, Tale of Tales and the Great Russian Cultural Divide
Zoe Walder-Hoge – Watching a River Flow to the Sea: How Three Greco-Roman Cities on Asia Minor’s Western Coast Adapted to a Shifting Natural Environment
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, Absolute Values in the Philosophical Thought of Petr Struve, Semën Frank, Nikolai Berdiaev,
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 the Calm are Neighbors]: The Colonial Period in Western Samoa, 1900-1935
Julia McCarthy – Japan and the International Labor Organization’s Emerging Relationship, 1919-
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 Policy 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 Integration, 1951-1956
Jordan White – Young Europe: Mazzini’s Role in the Development of European Nationalisms