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History Theses

Convinced that the study of history is an essential component of a superior education in the liberal arts and sciences, the Department of History offers a strong academic program in a number of areas within the discipline of history. Students who study history develop and sharpen their minds as they learn to think, to evaluate, to communicate, and ultimately to judge. They gain a fundamental understanding of the world in which they live and of the diverse forces that have shaped both past and present. Their work in history helps them to know themselves and to appreciate societies that are different from their own, and they discover how to place contemporary issues and problems within a broad historical perspective.

Theses from 2022 2022

Budding Nationalism in the Black Garden; Nagorno Karabakh and the Role of Conflict in Developing Azerbaijani National Identity, Kris Bohnenstiehl

Her World Changed: Anna Louise Strong and The 1916 Everett Massacre, CHARLOTTE NABORS

"Hungry in Three Languages": (Un)Conscious Youth Efforts at Crossing Ethnonational Divisions in Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina, Matt Roge

Theses from 2021 2021

Lyndon Johnson, The Great Society, and the Assumption of the Presidency in the Pages of The Nation 1964-1970, aidan crosby

Translating Faith and Philosophy: The Engagement of the Jesuit Strategy of Accommodation in Chinese Syncretic and Anti-Heterodox Traditions and the Reception of Chinese Ideas in Europe, Finn Kearney

Theses from 2019 2019

Tutmania: An Exploration of Western Portrayals of King Tutankhamun and Orientalism in Egypt, William Danton

The Committee Continues: Tacoma's Anti-Chinese Committee of Fifteen, 1885-1895, Dusty Gorman

"The Cornerstone and Abode of Our National Progress": New York City's Skyscrapers as an American story of Innovation and Teamwork, Meghan Hamel

THRIVING AGAINST ALL ODDS: HOW THE WRITING OF CATHERINE OF SIENA SHAPED CHRISTIANITY IN EUROPE IN THE 14TH CENTURY, Emily Harden

"No Room for Denial"?: Historical Memory and the 1995 Genocide at Srebrenica, Julia Masur

Theses from 2018 2018

The Moral Politics of Infancy: Formation of a Protestant Maternity in England, ca. 1550-1650, Katharine Etsell

"I See Genocide" - The Struggles of the Ponca Nation to Reclaim Their City From Polluters, Douglas Fournet

Memory Through Manga: Japanese Comic Book Representations of Mass Death in Hiroshima and World War II, Julianna Christine Leach

All You Knew: Twentieth Century Southern Appalachian Coal Miners and their Experience with Death and Danger, Steven M. Malachowski 2978994

An Invading Army of Rockettes: How US Military Policy on Homosexuality and the Voyeurism of the Vietnam War Era Shaped the Gay Rights Movement, 1956-1969, Marq Schuling

A Horrific Choice or Willing Complicity: Medical Ethics in Nazi Germany, Hope Schulman

Theses from 2017 2017

Pop-Culture Politics: How Cable News Created the Tea Party, Trump, and a Fake Populist Movement, Cole Souder

“You Can’t Dispose of Mercedes Lightly”: Mercedes de Acosta, Queer Women, and Queer Female Desire in the Early Twentieth Century, Katy Stehr

Theses from 2016 2016

The First Globalization: Portugal, the Age of Exploration, and Engaging the “Other” in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries, Peter Ellerkamp

Clad In Steel: The Evolution of Plate Armor in Medieval Europe and its Relation to Contemporary Weapons Development, Jason Gill

Giving the Global High Sign: Coca-Cola Advertising of the “American Way” in Life Magazine, 1941-1947, Scott Greenfield

The Exile of Assata Shakur: Marronage and American Borders, Joe Kaplan

From Britain of the South Seas to Maoriland: Tourism, Exhibition, and Biculturalism at the Turn of the Century, Walter Streeter

Sanctuary Burning: The St. Brice's Day Massacre and the Danes in England Under Aethelred the Unready, Erica Thomas

Theses from 2015 2015

A Hero for a Good War: Captain America and the Mythologization of World War Two, Ella Donnelly

Frailty thy Name is Woman: Sarah Bernhardt and Eva Le Gallienne as Hamlet, Madeleine Ruby Faigel

Woodrow Wilson the "Possessive" and Political Historian: Discovering an Identification with the American Founding, Alex Plant

Theses from 2014 2014

Steel Chrysanthemums: Feminism and Nationalist Rhetoric in Meiji Japan, Alix Bruce

Chile beyond the Transition: The Changing Nature of Public Memory 40 Years after the Pinochet Coup, Miriam Cook

Abby Williams Hill: A Case Study of Early 20th Century Environmental Thought, Neal Cooper

Coffee and the Ottoman Social Sphere, Marita Ervin

Preserving Memory in the Digital Age: Curatorial Practices of 9/11 Digital Archives, Marissa Friedman

Sovereign of the Seas: Charles I and Ship Money, 1635-1640., Morgan McKinlay

Have You Hugged a Soldier Today? Veterans Struggle With Invisible Wounds of War From Vietnam to Afghanistan, Gabe Mora

Fidel Castro’s Cultural Armament of Cold War Cuba: Developing Education, 1960 – 1969, Maya Steinborn

Theses from 2013 2013

Rethinking and Relearning Modern Warfare: The Influence of Geography and the Environment on the Process of Fighting World War II in the Pacific, Peter K. Vleck

Theses from 2012 2012

Daniel O’Connell’s Struggle to Harness Religion and Nationalism in the Pursuit of Universal Civil Rights and Home Rule in Ireland, Colin Daunt

The Calico Acts: Why Britain Turned its Back on Cotton, Peter Fisher

Bawds, Babes, and Breeches: Regendering Theater after the English Restoration, Laura Larson

Expulsion of the Sudeten Germans: Influence on the Socialization of Czechoslovakia, Andy Read

The Immigrant Woman:Jewish Assimilation in the Lower East Side Ghetto of New York City, 1880-1914, Rachael Siegel