On April 20, eleven undergraduate history majors presented their senior theses to a packed room full of family, friends, and faculty members. Congratulations to our graduating seniors and well done on a set of amazing and educational topics.
A special thanks to the faculty members who took time to advise our students; Audrey Altstadt, Jennifer Fronc, Jennifer Heuer, Marla Miller, Emily Redman, Anna Taylor, and Kevin Young.
You can view pictures from the event on our Facebook page.
Our Senior Thesis presenters and their paper titles were:
Hallie Dunlap, “The Evolving Carceral State: The New Faces of Mass Incarceration”
Advisor: Professor Jennifer Fronc
Kelsey Furey, “Envisioning a Secondary Education History Curriculum through a Decolonized Intersectional Feminist Lens”
Advisor: Professor Jennifer Fronc
Chloe Geshwind, “Connections Between Russian Relations with Muslim Populations and the Russian Intervention in Syria”
Advisor: Professor Audrey Altstadt
Aibhlin Hannigan, “Flowers of the Gutter: Sexuality, Class, and the Danseuses of the Paris Opera Ballet 1830-1880”
Advisor: Professor Jennifer Heuer
Emma Hodges, “Artifact Stories Redux: The Untapped Potential of History Museums to Serve Older Adults”
Advisor: Professor Marla Miller
Elizabeth Kapp, "Building on a Legend: Saint Severus and his Beatus Map"
Advisor: Professor Anna Taylor
Andrew Marton, “The Dark Horse: James Michael Curley's Unlikely Bid for Boston Mayor, 1914”
Advisor: Professor Jennifer Fronc
Morgan McDonough, “An Imperfect System: Policy, Pensions, PTSD, and the US Civil War”
Advisor: Professor Emily Redman
Abigail Norwood, “Medical Walls: How Public Health Informed our Immigration Policy”
Advisor: Professor Jennifer Fronc
Rebecca Shailor, “The Songs of Paper Dolls: Understanding Estonian Cultural Identity in the Context of Their Long-Term Struggle for Independence”
Advisor: Professor Audrey Altstadt
Graham Steele-Perkins, “Origins of the Phoenix Program: Building an Instrument of Terror”
Advisor: Professor Kevin Young