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Karen Ixmata Aguilar, "Mujeres Por La Raza": The Brown Berets and the Women in It (advisor: Orleck)*

Robert Earnest Wen-En Boxwell, Politics and Identity Among the Straits Chinese Elite in British Malaya, from 1895-Onward (advisor: E. Miller)

Beatrice Burack, "Don't Ever Tell Anyone You're Jewish": Radical Assimilation in One Jewish-American Family (advisors: Fraser and Orleck)

Gabriel Chang-Deutsch, Nā Palapala Hoʻopiʻi: Petitions in the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1868-1887 (advisor: Calloway)*

James Donald Eiler, International Institutionalism: A Comparative Historicist Study of German Influence on the United States, India, and Japan (advisor: Link)

Kayla Entwistle, Situating Solidarność: Transitional Justice and the Evolution of Rights in Post-Communist Poland (advisor: Petruccelli)

Kelby Greene, Selling Power: Energy and Democracy at the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933-1986 (advisor: Moreton)*

Marta Hulievska, Specters of Babyn Yar: Holocaust Commemoration and Nation-Building in Ukraine (advisor: Petruccelli)*

Rachel J. Kahng, Fragments of the Line: Border Logics in the Birth of the Korean DMZ, 1945-1960 (advisor: J. Miller)

Matt Koff, Shattering the Glass Closet: Visibility, Activism, and Queer Life at Dartmouth College, 1920-1991 (advisor: Orleck)

Caleb Liu, Creating Racial Canons: Race in the Epistemology of Modern South Africa (advisor: Zeinstra)*

Luis Lutfi, Public Figures, Private Thrones: Edward VIII, George VI, and the British Monarchy in the Age of Celebrity (advisor: McMahon)

Zoe McGuirk, Thinking Property, Seeing Humanity: Infanticide, Race, and Justice in the Antebellum South (advisor: Butler)*

Michelle Mulé, Harrying English Shores: The Evolution of a Scandinavian Community in England During the Viking Age, c. 793-1066 (advisor: Gaposchkin)*

Alexandra Kaʻōnohiokalani Perry, An Independent Kingdom Within: Diplomacy, Autonomy and the Politics of Kaua'i's Independence (advisor: Mercado Montero)

Gabriel Quealy, "Swerved from Feminine Delicacy": Female to Male Crossdressing in the Early American Military, 1782–1865 (advisor: J. Miller)

*Received High Honors

Jessica Chiriboga, Mexicans during the San Gabriel Mountains' 'Great Hiking Era' (1880-1938) (advisor: Orleck)

Kaya Çolakoğlu, Time, Structure, and the State in the Turkish Years of Lead (1950-1980) (advisor: Nikpour)*

William Spencer Dougan, Tongues as of Fire: Sermons, Radicalism, and Ideology in the Interregnum Empire (advisor: Musselwhite)*

Clare Downey, Borders of Identity: The Construction and Deployment of Definitions of Queerness in U.S. Immigration Law Since 1952 (advisor: Orleck)*

Jason Acosta Espinosa, "Hermanas en Armas!" The Women of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, 1979-1992 (advisor: Voekel)

Sebastian Fernandez, "Hear this, oh slovenly man": Masculine Self-Fashioning in Victorian Britain, 1820–1914 (advisor: Estabrook)*

Lilian Hemmins, "There is No Mississippi, There Is Only America": Late Twentieth-Century Federal Policy in the Maintenance of Racial Inequality in the Mississippi Delta (advisor: Moreton)

Marcos Jimenez, "Young, in Love, and Angry": Gay Activism During the AIDS Crisis in the US and UK (advisor: Orleck)

Blake Rouzie, The British Conservative Party in the Age of Mass Politics, 1880-1914 (advisor: Estabrook)

Sara Pickrell, The Wives that Bind: 13th Century Political Marriages In and Around the Levant (advisor: MacEvitt)

*Received High Honors

Emilie Lucia Bowerman, The Cult of the Cross in the Hispanic Rite, fourth to eighth centuries (advisor: Prof. Gaposchkin)*

Sarah Engelman, 'We Women Judge War Differently from Men': Discourses of Pacifism and Feminism at the 1915 International Congress of Women (advisor: Prof. Greenberg)*

Bryanna Entwistle, After the Fall: Human Rights and U.S. Policy on the Cambodian Genocide (advisor: Prof. E. Miller)

Lucas Gatterman, The Paper Water is Drying Up: The Rio Grande Compact and Local Communities from 1938 to 1968 (advisor: Prof. Rabig)

Maya Kempf-Harris, 'Hostile to this New Plantation': Undermining the Region Myth of the Colonial Chesapeake' (advisor: Prof. Musselwhite)

Eric Lee, 'Without Knowing Either His Crime or Accuser': The Prosecution and Persecution of the New York Loyalists (advisor: Prof. Musselwhite)*

Sarah McClanahan, Exploring the Drive for Electoral Reform: The Introduction of the Australian Ballot in Massachusetts, New York, and Alabama (advisor: Prof. Butler)*

Maude McCole, Information lost in prescription: the rise of neoliberalism in the defense of the pharmaceutical industry (advisor: Prof. Moreton)*

Jack Maling, Common Wealth to Commonwealth: The Muscovy Company's Influence on Joint-Stock Corporate Structure, 1550-1650 (advisor: Prof. Link)

Arabella McGowan, Politics and Country Music in the Careers of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson (advisor: Prof. Orleck)

Hatley Post, From Dominion to Conservation: Natural Resource Management in Barbados and Bermuda, 1600-1800 (advisor: Prof. Estabrook)

Natasha Raman, The Influence of Sun Yat-Sen's Ideas on Foreign Investment in China's Republican Era and Beyond (advisor: Prof. Link)

Ryan Ashby Shores, 'The third great scourge of the world': British Drug Cultures and Regulation, 1918-1926" (advisor: Prof. Greenberg)

*Received High Honors

Benjamin Citow, To Flee, or Not to Flee: Refugees and Religious Mobility in Early Modern Tuscany (advisor: Prof. Pirillo)*

Londyn Crenshaw, Growing Gardens of Resistance: An Intergenerational and Transregional Exploration of the Struggle, Skill, and Resistance of Black Southern Farmworkers from the Antebellum Period to the Early 21st Century (advisor: Prof. Orleck)*

Grace Hammarskjold, The Question of How-to Best Design Housing for the Middle Class: Three Planners and their approaches to Urban Residential Design (advisor: Prof. Rabig)

Katherine Hoover, The Life and Music of Emma R. Steiner: Genre, Legacy, and Canonization in American Music (advisor: Prof. Orleck)

Maya Khanna, Reimagining Pristine Wilderness: Examining 175 Years of Genocide in America's National Parks (1848-Present) (advisor: Prof. Orleck)*

Matthew Krivan, Colonization Under the Guise of Conservation: The American Bison Society's Marginalization of American Indians at the Turn of the 20th Century (advisor: Prof. Calloway)

Mary Winters, "These Religious Art Poems of France": The Creation of the Cloisters Museum and Medieval Memory Making in Early 20th Century America (advisor: Prof. Gaposchkin)

* Received High Honors

Jonathan Briffault, A Tale of Two Titans: William Randolph Hearst, Lord Northcliffe, and the Power of the Press in the Transatlantic Age of Reform (advisor: Prof. Link)

Daniel Bring, The American Reception of Rousseau, 1760-1850 (advisor: Prof. McMahon)

Jenna Gallagher, Anti-Circumcision Discourses in Sudan (1979-2003): Political Contexts and the Growth of a Movement (advisor: Prof. Sackeyfio-Lenoch)*

Natalia Henry, Shifting Means and Constant Ends: the Carter Doctrine and the Evolution of President Carter's Foreign Policy in the Persian Gulf (advisor: Prof. Nikpour)

Womsikuk James, The Shiv Sena: The History of a Political Movement and its Transitional Phases (advisor: Prof. Haynes)*

Lily Johnson, Family Ties and Revolutionary Spies: The Culper Spy Ring's Use of Personal Networks and Long Island's Rebellious History to Gather Accurate Intelligence (advisor: Prof. Musselwhite)

Jacob Maguire, Towards an Understanding of Hispanophone Relations in the Age of the "Neoliberal Paradigm": Socialist Spain's Promotion of Democracy, Markets, and Free Enterprise in Argentina and Cuba, 1982-1996 (advisor: Prof. Voekel)

Maryfer Mendoza, Tijuana La Zona Norte, An In-Between Zone: The Evolution of Vice-Industry and Policy on the U.S.-Mexico Border (advisor: Prof. Orleck)*

Fionnuala Murphy, Un Sueño Para Vender: The Economics of Memory and The Malvinas War in Argentinian Political Discourse, 1989-2015 (advisor: Prof. Meléndez-Badillo)*

Annie Ogden, Corporate Charter Schools: The New Vision of Urban American Education (advisor: Prof. Orleck)

Owen Ritz, The Golden Age of Free Trade: Richard Cobden and Michel Chevalier's Nineteenth-Century American Bildungsroman (advisor: Prof. Link)

Olivia Scott, (Re)Fashioning the Puritan: The Evolution of the societal and Sartorial Landscape of 17th-Century Massachusetts (advisor: Prof. Musslewhite)*

David Velona, Provocation, Weaponized Irony, and the Distortion of Discourse: A Case Study of The Dartmouth Review (advisor: Prof. Moreton)

*Received High Honors

Zachary Cherian, The Scottish Enlightenment's Effect on the City of Edinburgh

Alexandrea Keith, An Act of Iberation: An Intellectual Biography of Errol Hill

Ethan Klaris, Military Ethics and the Laws of War in Indian Wars

Ariela Kovary, Caribbean Immigration to New York City and England in the Twentieth Century: How the Migratory Waves of Kittians and Jamaicans Influenced Identity Formation in New York City and England

Sarah Le Han, Later Medieval Women Travelers: Gender and Pilgrimage, Migration, and Political Movement, 1200-1550

Hugh MacNeil, Building Log Cabins: The Making of the Modern Gay Conservatism

Anne Pinkney, Neoliberal Mobilizations of Human Rights Ideology Under the Alberto Fujimori Regime, 1920-2000

Rushil Shukla, Bankers, Dollars, and Diplomats: J.P. Morgan & Co. in China, 1909-1922

Courtney Stump"For the Public Good": Women's Political Engagement in Revolutionary-era Boston

Majorie Susman, The Role of the Pope(s) During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I

Joseph Balaban, "A Carpetbagger and a Scalway": The Rise and Resignation of Amos T. Akerman in the Cabinet of U.S. Grant

Ashley DuPuis, A Great Wrong: The Emergence of and Opposition to the Eugenics Movement and the Compulsory Sterilization Law in Oregon from 1901-1983

Daniel Fishbein, An American Soul: Eldridge Cleaver's Circuitous Question for the Community

Rachel Kesler, New Pioneers: Native American Women at Dartmouth, 1972-1982

Walker Schneider, Criminals and New York: How Organized Crime Modernized the City

Marcus Thompson, The Military History of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1638

Yoojin Chae, The 1967 Russell Tribunal: An Early Examination of Human Rights Advocacy?

Riley Collins, United States NGO Aid to China During World War II

Anmol Ghavri, Quieting Quit India: Political and Press Censorship from Jalianwala Gagh to Indian Independence, 1919-1947

Elle Macapline, The Birmingham Triennial Music Festival

Parker T. Richards, "It was a For Our Republic King": Jacobitel Ideology Through Lyric Voice, 1689-1800

Leigh Steinberg, Busing in Boston: The 1974 Crisis and the Women Who Led the Debate

William Sandlund, Suicide, Romance, and the "Modern" Women: Shenboa Advertising's Use of Gendered Suicide Tropes

Claire Votava, Creation of Legacy and Memory: The Mechanisms of the "Matilda Effect" on Three Women of Science

Kohar Avakian, "Yankees of the East": The Racial History of Twentieth Century America Through the Eyes of Worcester Armenians and Their Descendants

Emily Burack, We Are Speaking of Jewish Survival": The Emergence of the Jewish Defense League

Maria De Guardiola, Blood has told': The Pursuit for a Eugenical Solution in the Green Mountain State

Caroline Hansen, MICCO's "Great Society"—Community Urban Development in 1960s Washington, D.C.

Pakdee Rojanasopandist, Trustbusting in Occupied Japan: Zaibatsu Dissolution, Economic Deconcentration, and the Japanese Textile Industry

Benjamin Weinstock, Writing History with the Voice: Godric of Finchale's Songs

Madeline Cooper, A Progressive Tradition: Three Generations of American Jewish Political Radicalism, 1880-1980

Pascal Croak, Christ in Nazi Germany: A Battle for Identity

Nicholas Duva, Mayor Frank Hague and American Democractic Anxieties, 1938

Kelly Emery, Memory of Holy War: World War I and the Crusades

Timothy Harrison, Divided College, Divided Nation: Left, Right, and President Clash at Dartmouth, 1986

Carson Hele, An American Town Inside Japan: The Making of Wasington Heights in Tokyo and the Everyday Life of its Residents, 1946-1962

Lewis Lee,  Olyphant and Co.: An Exception to the ChinaTrade

Roger Lu, The American Aid Responsse to the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923

Myles McMurchy, Black, White, and Red All Over: Media Coverage of the Scottsboro Boys

Christine Mozer, Eccles and Keynes: Forward Thinkers in the Great Depression

Vivien Rendleman, Daughters of Freedom, Daughters of War: Practicing Citizenship in Richmond, Virginia, 1865-1902

Margaret Shields, Leading Ladies: Experiences of Co-Education at Dartmouth College

William H. Baird, The Evitable Reserve: Overcoming Opposition to Central Banking in America

R. Alexander Becker, Journalism's Innovation Decade: The Impact of the 1890s on American Newspapers in the 20th Century and Beyond

Frances E. Buren, Comparative British Colonial Education Policy in Nigeria and Sudan

Michaela K. Conway, The Indian Health Service and Indian Health: Development and Treatment of Heart Disease in Native Communities since 1955

Blaze L. Joel, One People, One Nation, Two Wars: Nationalism and Memory in Croatia and the Breakup of Yugoslavia

Casey M. Lewis, The Comparative History of Community Development in Public Housing Projects in Chicago and Boston since 1938

Allison N. Puglisi, Bread and Justice: Black- and Chinese American Women Organizing for Welfare and Workers' Rights, 1963-1983

Kevin A. Schorr, Occupation of the Ohio Territory: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis of the Trans-Atlantic Story

Aditya R. Shah, The Transnational Musicological Evolution of Indian Raga Music

Natalie G. Shell, Gallipoli, A Question of Representation: The Role of the War Correspondent in the Creation of the Anzac Legend

Joseph A. A. Tahbaz, The Origins of the LGBT Movement in Cuba, 1959-Present

Emma P. Willems, Teaching History in Soviet Latvia: Latvian SSR Students' Experiences under Stalin and Khrushchev

John Descalzi, The Oil Crises and U.S.-Japan Economic Relations in the 1970s:  Implications for U.S. Hegemony

Maria Fernandez, Cultural Politics and Marxist Aesthetics in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1965

George Helding, 'Curing the Ills of Democracy': Party Reform and the Emergence of the Modern Democratic Party After the Fall of the Liberal Consensus (1964-1972)

Ellen Nye, 'Crown and Company: Royal Favor and Nascent Corporate Autonomy in the Anglo-Iranian Silk Trade, 1580-1640

Andrew Shanahan, Nation Building and Violence in the Creation of the Northwest Territories

Louis Wheatley, Matriotism: American Motherhood in Protest Against World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War

Diandra Wong, Emerging State, Shifting Identities: The Overseas Chinese, Ngo Dinh Diem, and Citizenship in South Vietnam in the 1950s

Chidi Anyadike, Political Representations of North African Youth Populations in Late 20th and Early 21st Century France

Bobby Arao, The Education of Interned Japanese Americans, 1942-44: Citizenship and Identity

Jacqueline Donohoe, Gender Perceptions in the Pre-Raphaelite Medieval Revival

Maura Farley, Providing Knowledge as a Common Good: The Emergence of the Public Intellectual in Europe (15-16th Centuries)

John Finkelberg, Innocent, Innocent! Vive la France! Vive l'Armée. The Dreyfus Affair: The Impetus for Ideological Civil War in the Press

Kelsey Heinen, The Conflicts and Controversies Surrounding the Formation of Nicaragua's National Guard

Hannah Kuhar, Challenging the Boundaries of Gender through Medicine: Western Medical Initiatives and the Development of the Indian Female Doctor in Colonial India

Paul Lazarow, The United States and Israeli-Japanese Foreign Relations, 1973-1992: From Boycott to Normalization

Laura McFeely, The Crack "Epidemic":  Media Coverage of Crack Cocaine in the 1980s

Adam Pastrich, Arnold J. Toynbee's Evolving Views on Zionism and the Arab-Israeli Conflict and His Impact on British Foreign Policy

Eliza Relman, Feminist Journalism and the American Women's Movement

Edita Robinson, Gender and "First Wave" Cuban Migration to the United States

Rachel Rosenberg, The Successes and Failures of Aboriginal Reconciliation: A Look at Legal and Social Change from the 1950s Onward

A. Rachel Sands, "Leave the Mother Country, You are no longer welcomed here": British Immigration Policy and Race Politics, 1948-1962

Katherine Taylor, The Invisible Working-Class Woman: Intersections of Class and Gender in the Movement to Repeal the Contagious Diseases Acts

Emily Tomlinson, Examining the Relationship Between the Welfare State and the Individual: State-Funded Sex and Marriage Counseling Clinics in Weimar Germany

Rachel S. Pallin, Bloody Deeds and Britain's Body Economy: Dissecting the Anatomy Act of 1832

Paul E. Jarvis, Dismemberment and Disenfranchisement in East Africa: The Ogaden Region

Anastassia B. Radeva, Making Public Memory: Truth and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Lucy M. Zuraw, The Lawless Law: Contradictions and Controversies over the 1919 Rowlatt Act in Britain and India

William N. Lehmann, Muslim Identities in Britain: Postwar to Present

James C. Reed, Mythic Redemption: The 'Lost Cause' in the Democratic Party of the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1915

Cody Curran, The Voice of the Party: Vietnamese Communist Radio Broadcasts and the Build-up of the Tet Offensive, 1967-68

Alyssa G. Penick, Remaking a Faith: Baptists in Virginia, 1790-1840

Gregory J. Challener, Black Loyalists, Haitians, and Emancipated Slaves: The Emergence of a Transnational Black Community in the British Bahamas

Peter Sutoris, State-Sponsored Documentary in India, 1948-1970: Themes of Development through the Lens of the Colonial Film Tradition

Jessica A. Drazenovich, Fighting for Space and Recognition: Welfare Rights Activism in Washington, DC, 1966-Present

Caitlin O'Neill, Robert Havighurst, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Re-education of Germany: A Case Study in Cultural Diplomacy

Elizabeth M. Faiella, Acts of Peace: World War II Conscientious Objectors as Medical Research Subjects

Emily Ulrich, Rauner Codex MS 003183: Marginalia in the Brut at Dartmouth College

Georgiana Smyser, The Making of a Historian: Catherine Macaulay and the Revolution

Sarah Frostenson, Beyond the 1984 Famine in Ethiopia: Addressing Issues of Chronic Food Insecurity

Kevin Mallen, Joan of Arc, Charles VII, and the Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval France

James Shinn, Imagining Spanish America: U.S. Attitudes, 1800-1850

Ellen McDevitt, Outside the Boundaries of Empire: Everest Expeditions in British Popular Culture, 1920-1954

John Burden, Clerical and Monastic Perceptions of Religious Skepticism (1200-1500)

Daniel Hochman, The Shifting Status of Reserve Currencies during the Interwar Period

Matthew Forman, Science and Skill: Artisans, Natural Philosophers, and their Knowledge in Restoration London

Charles Quincy, Marketing of US Bonds during WWII

Maya Granit, Out of Invisible: The Kensington Welfare Rights Union and Homeless Antipoverty Activism at the turn of the 20th Century

Henry Yan, Furnace and Kiln: The Retreat of Iron and the Advance of Porcelain in Late Ming China

Kimberly Waters, The Media's Role in the Destruction of Black Wall Street

David Mainiero, Iran: One Nation, Competing Nationalisms

Hillary Mimnaugh, Strawberry Fields Forever? A Case Study of the Japanese American Community in Florin, California, 1895-1995

Lauren Bowman, Democratizing the Boston School System: An Assertion of Black Personhood and a Quest for Citizenship 1954-1972

Zachary Lim, The Creation of Sima Quian's China: Imperial China Conceived by a Historian

Rebecca Wall, Chieftancy and Political Legitimacy in the Accra Daily Graphic, 1952-1966

Nadine Moezinia, Wicked Plots, and Perfidious Practices": Did the Armada's Defeat Matter" Anglo-Spanish Relations during the Reign of James I

Taja Braggs, The Legacy of Post-World War II Racial Violence and London's Black British

Marcus Gadson, Reagan vs FDR and LBJ: Inside the Gipper's War on Welfare

Nathaniel Obler, Modernity's Jews: Benedict Spinoza in Maimon, Hess, and Freud

Christine Tian, Thatcherism and Health Care Reform in the United Kingdom, 1979-1991

Cynthia Kahlenberg, Same Goal, Different Game Plan: How the UK and the American Health Care Systems Responded to the Outbreak of AIDS in New York and London, 1981-1996

Uma Mullapudi, Thirty Years Later: Delayed Justice and the Cambodian War Tribunal

Julia Cheng, Constructing an Alliance: Islam and Catholicism at the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development

Connie Lam, Russell & Company: The Lost Voice in Early Sino-American Diplomacy

Allyson Bennett, London Newspapers and the French Revolution: Partisan Politics and the British Press

Lucy Pollard, Johny Cakes and Cider Mugs: History, Memory and the Culture of Food over New England's Long Nineteenth Century

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