Honors Theses from 2023
1973: A Crossroads in British and International Energy Policy, Davis Little
Comedy Laughter Tragedy: The AIDS Epidemic Through The Camera Lens of The American Sitcom, Natalie Wexler
Entangled Agencies, Economic Contingencies, and Competing Ideologies: Williamsburg’s Complex Origins as a Place of National Historic Interest, Maximilian Kim
“I Maintained My Authority:” Gender and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Virginia Home, Maddie Cross-Kaplan
Keeping Ordinary: Licensing and Respectability among Loyalist Women Tavernkeepers in Revolutionary America, Katarina Bromkamp
"Lepers for Show": The Performance of Medical Authority and the Illusion of the Chinese Medical Threat in Nineteenth-Century America, Claire Wyszynski
“Pass the Pickles”: Viewing Class and Dining in Virginia City, Nevada through the Pickle Castor, Sage Boucher
Peace Discourse in Postwar Japan: Emergence, Continuity, and Transformation, Xiuyu Li
Popular Culture, Politics, and the Papacy: The Alignment of Anglo-American Popular Music and the Modernizing Catholicism of John Paul II, 1979-1989, Isabella Maria Stark
The President's Pawn: Racism, Discrimination, and Diversity in the Nation's Civil Service, Astrid Garcia
"The Unlucky Rebel": William Claiborne and the Evolution of the Kent Island Dispute, Adam Pleasants
To Have Sex or Not to Have Sex: An Exploration of Medieval Christian and Jewish Sexual Values, Rachel Zaslavsky
Winston Churchill and the United States: The 'Wilderness Years', Grace C. Brooks
Honors Theses from 2022
And the Band played On...But Should It?: Educational media and the AIDS crisis, Jillian Murphy
Disappearing Smoke: Why Black Pitmasters Are Being Left Behind by Commercialization within North Carolina Whole Hog Barbecue, Charlotte Lucas
Divided We Stand: An Investigation of America’s Dual Psyche and the FBI’s War on Anti-Americanism, Laura Mills
'Don't You Know What a Lesbian Is?': The Political Roots of 1950s Lesbian Pulp-Fiction, Allyson Cook
Just Two Lands? Language and Identity in Ancient Egypt, Annemarie Wolf
Paradoxical Toleration: Southern Antisemitism in the Nineteenth Century, Jason Blau
Honors Theses from 2021
A Voice from the Convent: Arcangela Tarabotti in Tridentine Venice, Zoe Connell
"Epic Poems in Bronze": Confederate Memorialization and the Old South's Reckoning with Modernity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Grace Ford-Dirks
John Dickinson: The Development and Deployment of a Legal Mind: 1754-1774, Sophie Rizzieri
Revisiting British Zionism in the Early 20th Century, Benjamin Marin
Solidarity and Solitude: Disrupted Memories of AIDS in the Hemophilia Community, William Hubbert
"Summer's Gone:" Rethinking the History of the Beach Boys, 1961-1998, Grant Wong
The Enslaved People and the Tylers Too: Why It Is Imperative to Discuss Slavery in Public History, Meredith Jackson
The Female Kirk: Women's Participation in the Early Scottish Presbyterian Church, Lydia Mackey
The Myths of War: The Impact of the Falklands War on British Politics, Decolonization, and National Identity, Lindsey Rogers
The Republic of Happiness: James Wilson, Political Thought, and the American Revolution, Kevin Diestelow
Unmasking Murder: Reconciling the Twin Depictions of Viscount Castlereagh, Robert Warrick
Honors Theses from 2020
A Space of Their Own: Women's Political Involvement in 1790s United States Capitals, Tessa Payer
Changing Notions of Identity: Transformations in Jewish Self-Identification Before, During, and After the American Civil War, Heather Byrum
Imperial Professionals: American Protestant Female Medical Missionaries to China, 1880-1930, Yutong Zhan
In the Cathedral of the Devil: Young Witches of Navarre, 1608-1614, Olivia Louise Vande Woude
Jefferson’s “Marble Mausoleum”: Incongruence in the Historical Memory of Thomas Jefferson, 1936-1943, Meredith Barber
Terra Nullius and the Svalbard Question: Exploring an Anomaly in International Law, Luke H. Campopiano
The 'Rabbits' of Ravensbrück: Medical Experimentation at the Nazi Concentration Camp for Women, Jenna Galberg
The Rise and Fall of ‘New Ulster’: Northern Irish Politics in Flux, 1963-1969, Aaron Higgins
Worthy Widows, Feckless Fathers, and Innocent Babes: Experiences of Poverty in Early Industrial England, Emma Diduch
Honors Theses from 2019
A Return to Camelot?: British Identity, The Masculine Ideal, and the Romanticization of the Royal Flying Corps Image, Abby S. Whitlock
Atlanta's Curtain Call: AIDS Activism on the Southern Stage, Matthew Kowal
Jumping through Hoops: The Rise and Demise of the Hoop Petticoat in the Eighteenth Century, Charlotte Engel
Pre-Modern Japanese Proto-nationalism: A Study of Japanese Confucianism’s Intellectual History, Zhengyuan Ling
"The Celebrated Madame Campan": Educating Republican Mothers à la Française in Nineteenth-Century America, Lydia Heaton
Honors Theses from 2018
Althea Hunt: Behind the Curtain, Samantha Ryan
"Back to Batoche: Métis History and Memory 1885-2015", Brendan Thomas
The Devil's Café au Lait: the Métis Question in Colonial French West Africa, 1870-1940, Rose Olwell
The Women of the PWA: The Politics and Writings of Rashid Jahan and Qurratulain Hyder, Mehr Ali
Honors Theses from 2017
"A Corps of Much Service:" The German Regiment of the Continental Army, John B. Weaver
American Education Reform and the Humanism of Mathematics, 1890-1940, James Leach
Community Radio in Guatemala: A Half-Century of Resistance in the Face of Repression, Polly W. Lauer
In Between and Nowhere at all: How an Autobiography Reveals Hybridity, Francesca H. Maestas
Is Q Necessary? A Source, Text, and Redaction Critical Approach to the Synoptic Problem, Paul S. Stein
Jimmy Carter’s Human Rights Diplomacy and the Democratization of Taiwan, Cody A. Grogan
“No Great Mischief if They Should Fall”: Scottish Highland Soldiers in the French and Indian War, Douglas Breton
Oscar Micheaux’s Cinematic Legacy: Through the Eyes of Contemporary Black Newspapers, Rachel E. Rosenfeld
The Myth of Egalitarianism in Wartime and Austerity Britain, Sloane H. Nilsen
U.S. Combat Morale in the World Wars: The European Theater of Operations, Monica J. Cronin
Honors Theses from 2016
Civil Patrols, Race, and Repression in Guatemala, 1982-1996, Jeremy Ross
Group Discipleship and Individual Spirituality: Challenging Models of False Sanctity in Early Modern Italy and Spain, Mary Andino
History Influencing History: Changing Perceptions of the Starving Time at Jamestown, Kelsey Fenske
Textiles and Trade: Williamsburg's Material Culture, 1699-1815, Evelyn M. Strope
“The Internal Conflict:” Navigating Transitional Education in Postwar Guatemala, Brenna Michelle Ferris
Theobald Wolfe Tone as a Politician and Diplomat, Abigail Clancy Trevor
Thinking through the Monarchy in Sixth-Century Visigothic Spain, Cade Meinel
Honors Theses from 2015
“Among the Graves”: Constructing Community, Resistance, and Freedom on Nineteenth Century Plantation Burial Grounds, Whitney N. Fields
A Smoking Structure: Firm Organization in the Transatlantic Tobacco Trade, Hannah K. Tucker
Black Slaves, Christian Servants: Race and Legal Identity in Northampton and Middlesex Counties, Virginia, 1632-1705, Timothy A. Courtney
Disaster and Discourse: Reactions to the 1906 Courrières Colliery Mine Disaster, Jacob Abrams
Foundations of Empire: The American Military Government in the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902, Luke Frerichs
Historical Precedents and Early Modern Interpretations: English Histories of America, 1500-1700, Madeline H. Grimm
Narrativity in French Depictions of the Crusades, Sydney Morgan Weaver
The Case of Charles Horman Revisited: Complication and Conflict within Declassification, Jacob Jose
"We Made You": The Contrived and Contested Nature of Authenticity in American Folk and Hip Hop Subcultures, Kathryn E. Plunkett
Honors Theses from 2014
A Framework for Understanding the US Air Bombing Campaign in Korea, 1950-51, Yonsoo P. Kang
"Infallible Proofs": Math, Knowledge, and Religion in the Medieval Islamicate World, Deborah Wood
Keep Calm and Carry On?: Examining WWII Great Britain through the Lens of Overseas Evacuation, Amy Schaffman
The Internal Foe: Rethinking Slave Resistance in Antebellum America, Bryan Casey
"To Thine Own Self Be True": Robert F. Kennedy, The Inner Cities, and the American Civil Rights Movement 1963-1968, Dwight A. Weingarten
When George Washington's Ghost Turned Handsprings: South African Conflict and American Identity, 1899-1902, Robin K. Crigler
Honors Theses from 2013
Community and the Site of Memory: The Effect of Internationalization on Community-Museum Relations, Chelsea Bracci
Creating an American Identity--Propaganda During the Second World War, Sarah K. Higgins
Exhibiting Slavery: How Plantation Museums in Virginia Represent Slavery, Jill Found
'For A Woman': The Fight for Pensions for Civil War Army Nurses, Hannah Metheny
"kind of armour, being peculiar to America" The American Hunting Shirt, Neal Thomas Hurst
Redefining the "Women's Movement" in Modern Japan, Allison Elizabeth Kennington
The Enemy Within: Internecine Conflict in the Second Kingdom of Kush, Sophia Farrulla
The Origins of Hatred: An Analysis of Antisemitic Political Cartoons in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Meredith Lee Duffy
"The Ornament of Human Society": Anti-Southernism in New England Common Schools, Zack Quaratella
The Personal of the Event: Subjectivity and the English Civil War, Henry Joseph Ware
