History Undergraduate Senior Theses Defended

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2008 Senior Theses

• Michael Albrecht
  Spectre of Sedition: The Okhrana, the Cheka, and Suppression as a Means of Bolshevik Statecraft
  Advisor: David McDonald

• Taylor Anvid
  Prostitutes, Pomegranates, and Patriarchy: The Role of Contraceptives and Abortifacients in Sixth-Century Byzantine Society
  Advisor: John Scarborough

• Carolyn Arena
  The Hat Act of 1732: American Manufacture and International Competition in Atlantic Markets
  Advisor: John Sharpless

• Kerry Bryan
  No Sick Call for the Negro: How Segregation in the United States Army Negatively Affected African American Soldiers’ Health During World War II
  Advisor: William Van DeBurg

• Kristin Czubkowski
  Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Central-American Asylum-Seekers in the Post-Refugee Act Era
  Advisor: Thomas Archdeacon

• Benjamin Emmrich
  Livian Emphasis: The Role of Roman Moral Values in the Ab Urbe Condita
  Advisor: Marc Kleijwegt

• Marissa Floyd
  The Growth of Hamas: An Examination of the Sociopolitical Conditions of the Occupied Territories in the 1980s
  Advisor: Samer Alatout

• Alex Gagnon
  The Paris Agreement: The Diplomatic Joust Between Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho
  Advisor: Jeremi Suri

• William Glassman
  Royalism, Resistance and Religion in Restoration Scotland: 1660-1688
  Advisor: Johann Sommerville

• Jason Heinen
  The Federalism Argument in Civil War Wisconsin: How the State Rights Doctrine Was Debated and Used Between 1854 and 1864
  Advisor: John Sharpless

• Matthew Ho
  Chinese Students in America: The Post-Tiananmen Square Campaign of Intimidation
  Advisor: Jeremi Suri

• Lisa Hodkiewicz
  Breaking the Norms: Women and the Modern Olympic Games of Pierre de Coubertin
  Advisor: Laird Boswell

• Justin King
  Partners and Rivals: Political Economy and American Diplomacy, 1969-1974
  Advisor: Jeremi Suri

• Thomas Kivi
  Montaigne, Descartes, and the Malleable Augustine
  Advisor: Lee Wandel

• Alex Leites
  Myth and Restoration in the Axial Age: How Writers in Ancient China, Greece and Israel Preserved Oral Teachings through Sociopolitical Decline
  Advisor: Marc Kleijwegt

• Peter Lund
  Beyond Mantinea: The Theban Tactical Revolution and the Epaminondas Tradition
  Advisor: Marc Kleijwegt

• Mike Malone
  Reconceptualizing the Roman Soldier: Social Movement in the Late Republican Army as the Foundation for the Roman Revolution
  Advisor: Marc Kleijwegt

• Benjamin McCready
  From Factories to Fields: The Rise and Fall of Whitewater, WI, 1837-1900
  Advisor: Colleen Dunlavy

• Jaclyn Mich
  I Was a Suburbanite for the FBI: How the Postwar G-Man Fought Communism in Popular Culture
  Advisor: John Sharpless

• Matthew Niemet
  No Place Left for Byzantium: Diplomatic Urgency during the Reign of Emperor Manuel II Palaeologus (AD 1391-1413)
  Advisor: Michael Chamberlain

• Caitlyn Pisarski
  The Plight of Legal Immigrants: Resistance and Resilience after the 1996 Welfare Reform
  Advisor: Thomas Archdeacon

• Yolanda Purdy
  A Boat for the Lwa
  Advisor: James Sweet

• Corey Sheahan
  Byzantium in the early years of Alexius: From Crisis to Stability
  Advisor: Marc Kleijwegt

• Pavel Sternberg
  Separating Apartheid: The Division Between Rhetoric and Action Toward Apartheid South Africa in the Kennedy Administration
  Advisor: Jeremi Suri

• Jesse Zarley
  Settling the Mapuche Question: Concessionary Colonization in Chile, 1900-1912
  Advisor: Florencia Mallon

• Lisbeth Zeggane
  Beyond Barbed Wires: The Deterioration of the Japanese American Family
  Advisor: Jeremi Suri

2007 Senior Theses

• Talal Al-Rashoud
  Democracy in the Writings of the Ideologues of the Muslim Brotherhood
  Advisor: Michael Chamberlain

• Sandra Brasda
  Joseph McCarthy and the Wisconsin Republican Party, 1946-1954
  Advisor: John Cooper

• Joel Feingold
  Red (White and Blue): Communism, Finnishness, and America in the Upper Midwest, 1907-1940
  Advisor: Tony Michels

• Meryl Hoeft
  Cultural Critics and Reformers: Refining the Greek Ideal in German Education, 1870 – 1914
  Advisor: Rudy Koshar

• Michael Johnson
  Douglas MacArthur and the Fall of the Philippines, 1941-1944
  Advisor: John Cooper

• Jason Karnosky
  Nikita S. Khrushchev Visits America, September 1959:  Analyzing Khrushchev’s Time in America, and the Attempt to use Personal Diplomacy to Overcome Cold War Ideological Differences
  Advisor: Francine Hirsch

• Dan Katz
  The My Lai Massacre: Psychological Effects of Guerilla Warfare
  Advisor: John Cooper

• Patrick Kelly
  Of Pawns and Players: U.S.-British Politics vis-à-vis Jewish Refugess, 1945-1948
  Advisor: Thomas Archdeacon

• Katrina Kobor
  Transnational Rights Struggles: Aboriginal Australians and the Influence of African-American Movements, 1925-1972
  Advisor: Warwick Anderson

• John Koczela
  Behold the Man: The Western Search for Muhammad in the “Clear Light of History”
  Advisor: Michael Chamberlain

• Lee Kujava
  British Euroskepticism during the Membership Application Process for the European Community, 1969-1975
  Advisor: Jonathan Zeitlin

• Rich Langweber
  “The Sanction of Law:” The Supreme Court and Civil Rights from Plessy to Brown
  Advisor: John Cooper

• Brenna Miller
   ‘Justice for Djilas’: The New York Times, Milovan Djilas, and the Fight for Free Speech, Human Rights, and Legality in Yugoslavia
  Advisor: Francine Hirsch

• Chandra Oroszváry
  African-American Mortality in Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary
  Advisor: Steve Kantrowitz

• Eli Persky
  The Commercialization of Political Control & The Militirization of Commerce
  US Military Contracting After the Cold War
  Advisor: ?

• Liana Prescott
  To Create a New Japan: ‘National Essence’ and the Critique of Modernity, 1880-1937
  Advisor: Louise Young

• Emily Schmitt
  Rediscovering My Odyssey: An Analysis of One Creole’s Identity during the Haitian Revolution
  Advisor: Suzanne Desan

• Ann Slabosky
  COYOTE Tricksters: Humor and a New Discourse on Sex Worker Identity San Francisco 1972-1990
  Advisor: Nan Enstad

• Matthew Tallant
  They Washed Their Hands in the Sea: Origins of the Roman Navy
  Advisor: Marc Kleijwegt

• Russell Thompson
  Russia, the Jews, and National Policy in the Nineteenth Century
  Advisor: David McDonald

• Steven von Horn
  Re-conceptualizing Liberia: The Formative Period of 1800-1847
  Advisor: Neil Kodesh

• Steven M. Weber
  ‘Fighting Bob’ Stops Fighting: Senator Robert M. La Follette, Dissent, and Patriotism
  During World War I
  Advisor: John Cooper

• Jonathan Wu
  Gaining and Relinquishing the Text: Reading, Writing and Shaka
  Advisor: Neil Kodesh

• Emily Young
  The Politicization of Lebanese Shiites:  1943-1995
  Advisor: Michael Chamberlain

2006 Senior Theses

• Mei-Ling Anderson
  Situationism in May 1968
  Advisor: Laird Boswell

• Carolyn Averill
  From Remembrance to Conscience: A Study of the Goals of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
  Advisor: Rudy Koshar

• Quilen Blackwell
  Neighborhood Power: Neighborhood Organizing and Business Relations in the United States between 1940 and 1970
  Advisor: Colleen Dunlavy

• Joey Cienian
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  Advisor: Jeremi Suri

• Benjamin Dahl
  Help or Hindrance: The Role of Violence in the 1960s Student Movement in West Berlin
  Advisor: Rudy Koshar

• Daniel Deacon
  The Art of Law: Artificial Reason and Equity in Seventeenth Century English Legal Theory
  Advisor: Johann Sommerville

• Adam Diederich
  The Origins, Rise, and Transition of Conservative Ideas in American Politics: A Study of National Review Conservatism from 1955-1988
  Advisor: Jeremi Suri

• Emily Fransee
  Victim to Executioner: French Torture and Response during the Algerian Revolution
  Advisor: Lou Roberts

• Shauna Fitzmahan
  The Sixties Generation: Skepticism in Soviet Ukraine
  Advisor: Jeremi Suri

• Simon Ford
  Creating the East: Antioch and the Empire, 195-347
  Advisor: Marc Kleijwegt

• Eric Gifford
  The Unionization of Technicians during the French Popular Front, 1934-1938
  Advisor: Laird Boswell

• Dan Hudson
  Saffron in the Mediterranean World
  Advisor: Marc Kleijwegt

• Annie Kahn
  Supporting Reconstruction: Rebuilding Atlanta, 1864-1872
  Advisor: Colleen Dunlavy

• Trevor Leverson
  The Economic Impact of the ‘Holy Man’ in Byzantium 300-600 C.E.
  Advisor: Paul Stephenson

• Trevor Owens
  A Child’s Eye View of Life as a Scientist: Science, Society and Gender in the History of Children’s Biographies of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein
  Advisor: History of Science

• Mike Pangborn
  Wounded Soldier, Disabled Veteran
  Advisor: Thomas Archdeacon

• Joseph Richie
  Unintended Culture Clash: Temperance Motivations and the Resistance to Prohibition in Wisconsin, 1905-1920
  Advisor: John Cooper

• Jason Rozumalski
  Vegetable Politick: Enlightenment and English Rural Life
  Advisor: Jean Lee

• Michelle Wagner
  Six Day War: Questioning Israel’s Use of Force
  Advisor: Michael Chamberlain

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