Honors Theses

History majors in the Honors College are encouraged to conduct a multi-semester research project, advised by Department of History faculty, culminating in a written Senior Thesis.

Honors Theses completed in the 2006 Spring Semester include:

Francesco Aimone, (Windler)  “Midwives and Midwifery in Latin American History, a Historical Survey from Pre-Conquest to the Turn of the Twentieth Century”

Lauren Bonney, (Matheson)  “Popular Adversary: Images and Perceptions of the Devil in Late Medieval England”

Ryan Gartland, (Stauter-Halsted) “Imaginations of Nationalism: the Maturation of National Imagery on the East Borderland of the Old Rzeczpospolita”

Alan Hastings, (Moch) “German and Irish Immigration between 1850 and 1900, a comparative study: How Similarities Overshadow their Differences”

Laura Hussey, (Meyering)  “The Student Band of May 1968: the Student Movement during the events of May 1968, Paris France”

James Leiby, (Stauter-Halsted) “Who are they? A Study of Nationalism and Identity among German Expellees from Poland after World War Two.” (ET)

Brendan McElmeel, (Siegelbaum) “Nationalizing the Village: Modernity, Nationalism, and Russian Village Prose”

Emmanuel Melonakos, (Stauter-Halsted) “The Birth of Uniatism and the Emergence of Ukrainian Collective Identity: the Polish Borderlands in the Early Modern Period”

Robert Murphy, (Shimizu) “The Phoenix, Eagle, and Bear: Postwar Political Intervention in Italy by the United States and the Soviet Union”

Andrew Sanak, (Knupfer) “The Prize Cases and the Fate of Presidential War Powers During the Civil War”

Shanti Zaid, (L. Dubois & Dodson) “Life in the Land of the Dead: Reynerio Perez, Vincente Portuondo Martin, and Twentieth-Century Religious Practice in Santiago de Cuba”