April 28, 2017
Photo of the undergraduate students who defended theses in 2017

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