History Honors Thesis Presentations

Please join the Department of History for this year's History Honors Thesis Presentations April 19-26, 2023.

Please join the Department of History for this year's History Honors Thesis Presentations. View the schedule below. All presentations will be approximately 45 minutes with a 15 minute break between presentations.

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 | Wren Room, Sanborn 104
2 p.m.: Eric Lee
    "Without Knowing Either His Crime or Accuser:" The Prosecution and Persecution of the New York Loyalists
3 p.m.: Sarah McClanahan
    Exploring the Drive for Electoral Reform: The Introduction of The Australian Ballot in Massachusetts, New York, and Alabama
4 p.m.: Bryanna Entwistle
    After the Fall: Human Rights and US Policy on the Cambodian Genocide

Thursday, April 20, 2023 | Wren Room, Sanborn 104
12:15 p.m.: Ashby Shores
    "The third great scourge of the world": British Drug Cultures and Regulation, 1918-1926
1 p.m.: Maud McCole
    Information lost in prescription: the rise of neoliberalism in the defense of the pharmaceutical industry

Monday, April 24, 2023 | Wren Room, Sanborn 104
1 p.m.: Jack Maling
    Common Wealth to Commonwealth: The Muscovy Company's Influence on Joint-Stock Corporate Structure, 1550 - 1650
2 p.m.: Lucas Gatterman
    The Paper Water is Drying Up: The Rio Grande Compact and Local Communities from 1938 to 1968
3 p.m.: Emilie Bowerman
    The Cult of the Cross in the Hispanic Rite, Fourth to Eighth Centuries 

Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | Wren Room, Sanborn 104
12:15 p.m.: Sarah Engelman
    "We Women Judge War Differently From Men": Discourses of Pacifism and Feminism at the 1915 International Congress of Women
1 p.m.: Maya Kempf-Harris
    "Hostile to this New Plantation": Undermining the Region Myth of the Colonial Chesapeake

Wednesday, April 26, 2023 | Wren Room, Sanborn 104
2 p.m.: Hatley Post
    From Dominion to Conservation: Natural Resource Management in Barbados and Bermuda, 1600-1800
3 p.m.: Natasha Raman
    The Influence of Sun Yat-Sen's Ideas on Foreign Investment in China's Republican Era and Beyond
4 p.m.: Arabella McGowan
    Politics and Country Music in the Careers of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson