Congratulations to our 2024 and 2025 seniors for completing their honors theses! The Department of History's Honors Program provides outstanding students with a high level of faculty and peer support and offers them numerous opportunities to present their work in public and to be recognized for their excellent scholarship.
2024
Nic Brandon, "The Limits of ‘Friendship’: Imperialism and Continentalism in British-Ottoman Relations, 1908-1914"
Chris Gimbel, "The Self-Confirming Coalition: Ultraconservatives’ Guiding Hand on the Modern American Conservative Movement"
Kevin McDonald, "Set in Stone: A Bulk Study of Latin Epitaphs from the Roman World"
Julie Matuszewski, "Hexing Histories: Race in the Salem Witch Trials"
Ethan Cooper, "Calibrating the Compass: Analyzing the Development of Collective Security Policy in the Postwar Senate"
Devin Manley, "Transgressing Normativity: Global Indigeneity, Gender Presentations, and Sexual Practices in Colonial Mexico, 1519-1670"
Sasha Rushing, "After 'Desperate Need': Russian National and Maritime Policy in the Baltic Following Tsushima"
2025
Katelyn Barbour, “‘What Else Could Any Girl Do?’: The White Slavery Scare in Chicago in the Early Twentieth Century”
Caroline Da Rocha Birnfeld, "Faces of Zumbi: Legacies of a Name"
Will Doty, "Connecting School with Life: Georgians' Responses to Khrushchev's 1958-59 School Reform"
Anthony Erkan, “Embers of Eastern Question: The Turkish Security Dilemma and Great Power Strategy”
James Perkovich, “Inclusive Imperialism: ‘Assimilable’ Chinese Americans and American Imperial Hegemony during the Cold War”
Isabella Reyna Sauer, “‘It is all one struggle’: The 1981 Brixton Uprisings and Black Women’s Organizing Against the British Welfare State, 1973-1985”
Justin Wytmar, "The Italian Expositions: National Identity and Cultural Modernism on Display during the Fin de Siècle"