Event

Please join us on April 28 as we celebrate the accomplishments of this year’s graduating Honors Thesis students! Student presentations begin at 2:30 and will be followed by a poster session. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from our bright, hard-working thesis writers, who persevered in the face of Covid and closed archives to produce truly impressive, original theses!

2022 History Honors Theses

MEMORIES OF CAPTIVITY IN THE GREAT EAST ASIAN WAR (1592-1598)
Junyoung Baik

THE ROLE OF IMF AUSTERITY POLICY IN CAUSING THE JAMAICAN FINANICAL CRISIS OF THE 1990s
Adrian Brown

THE LAW OF THE OTHER: CONVERTS AND GENTILES IN THE EYES OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ISTANBUL RABBIS
Elyakim Engelmann-Suissa

THE RECONSTRUCTION CRUSADE: REBUILDING FRANCE’S CATHOLIC CHURCHES AFTER WORLD WAR I, 1914-1939
Leo Gearin

ON THE TAILS OF THE TRADE: ENSLAVED WOMEN, SLAVE TRADERS, AND THE HOUSEHOLDS THEY SHARED
Zarina Iman

THE LEGACY OF SECTARIANISM IN THE IMAGINATION AND SELF-FORMATION OF THE RABBIS
Ayelet Rubenstein

BUILDING THE BATTLE, LOSING THE WAR: THE DEFENSE ECONOMY, INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM, AND THE COLD WAR’S FALLOUT IN ALABAMA’S ‘MODEL CITY’
Denali Sagner

ALL THE POPE’S MEN: VATICAN DIPLOMACY AND ESPIONAGE IN TUDOR ENGLAND, 1534-1570
William Andrew San Pedro

NOT A QUESTION OF “WHETHER OR NOT,” BUT “WHERE” AND “HOW”: CRISES OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND, 1968-1996
Bianca Serbin

A FRIENDSHIP BETRAYED: THE JONATHAN POLLARD SPY CASE AND AMERICAN-ISRAELI RELATIONS
Julie Sohnen

COVENANT IN CRISIS: ORTHODOX REACTIONS TO SLAVERY IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA, 1848-1861
Samuel Strickberger

BLUE-LINED COMMUNITIES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EXPANSION OF THE NASSAU COUNTY POLICE DEPARTMENT DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 1954-1971
Summer Thomas

“IT IS NECESSARY TO MAKE A COMPLETE BREACH WITH THE PAST”: HOW THE FAILURES OF THE SECOND BOER WAR SHAPED BRITISH POLICY, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY IN THE EDWARDIAN ERA
Eden Benjamin Vance

SOUTHERN HARM: THE UDC’S EDUCATIONAL CRUSADE PROMOTING LOST CAUSE IDEOLOGY IN THE PROGRESSIVE ERA SOUTH
Zoey Weisman