Recent M.A. Thesis Topics
Dustin A. Abnet, "A Union of Radicals: Gender, Personality and Politics in the Marriage of Victor and Meta Berger," 2006 (Mary Frederickson)
James Patrick Ambuske, "Minting America: Coinage and the Contestation of American Identity, 1775-1800," 2006 (Andrew Cayton, advisor)
Joshua M. Avery, "Subject and Citizen: Loyalty, Memory and Identity in the Monographs of the Reverend Samuel Andrew Peters," 2008 (Carla G. Pestana, advisor)
Beth Avila, "'On the Brink of a Precipice': Women, Men, and Relationships in the Novels of Catharine Maria Sedgwick," in progress (Andrew Cayton, advisor)
Julie Laut Barbieri, "Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya: Anti-Imperialist and Women's Rights Activist, 1939-41," 2008 (Judith P. Zinsser, advisor)
Peter Barker, "UnAmericanism in the Papers: Anticommunists and Their Use of the Press," 2009 (Allan Winkler, advisor)
Dharitri Bhattacharjee, "British Women's Views of Twentieth-Century India: An Examination of Obstacles to Cross-Cultural Understandings," 2007 (Judith P. Zinsser, advisor)
Fatuma Boru Guyo, "Historical Perspectives on the Role of Women in Peacemaking and Conflict Resolution in Tana River District, Kenya, 1900 to present," 2009 (Judith P. Zinsser, advisor)
Jessica Britton, "The Failure of Prison Reform: A History of the Ohio Penitentiary, 1834-1885," 2008 (Andrew Cayton, advisor)
Zachary A. Carmichael, "Fit Men: New England Tavern Keepers, 1620-1720," 2009 (Carla G. Pestana, advisor)
Miranda Carrell, "'I Was Not Political': The Gendering of Patriotism and Collaboration in World War II France," 2009 (Erik Jensen, advisor)
Robert Clines, "By Virtue of the Senses: Ignatian Aestheticism and the Origins of Sense Application in the First Decades of the Gesu in Rome," 2009 (Wietse de Boer, advisor)
Lindy Cummings, "'A promising little society': Kinship and Community Among the Whitewater Shakers, 1824-1850," in progress (Mary E. Frederickson, advisor)
Vanessa De los Reyes, "I Love Ricky: How Desi Arnaz Challenged American Popular Culture," 2008 (Allan Winkler, advisor)
William Dreger, "Hero, Villain, and Diplomat: An Investigation into the Multiple Identities of Commander John Mason in Colonial Connecticut," 2006 (Carla Pestana, advisor)
Andrea Edin, "Roisin," 2007 (David Fahey, advisor)
Lisa M. Elliott, "Gendering the Production and Consumption of Wine and Olive Oil in Ancient Greece," 2006 (Judith P. Zinsser, advisor)
Jennifer A. Ernie-Steighner, "Beyond the Summit: Traversing the Historical Landscape of Annie S. Peck's and Fanny Bullock Workman's High-Altitude Ascents, 1890-1915 ," 2009 (Mary E. Frederickson, advisor)
Katrina Fraley, "A dimension of sight, sound, mind, and gender?: Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone and science fiction of 1950s television and film," in progress (Mary E. Frederickson, advisor)
Katie Gray, "Flying in Formation: Creating a Place for Women in Aviation through the Ninety-Nines, the Women Airforce Service Pilots, and the Whirly-Girls," 2007 (Mary Frederickson, advisor)
Rebecca Grudzinski, "Losing Sight of Brooklyn: Identity, Nostalgia and Change in Late 19th Century Brooklyn, New York," 2007 (Allan Winkler, advisor)
Kapree Harrell, "From Revered Revolutionaries to Much Maligned Marauders: The Evolution of British and American Images in China of the Taiping Rebels," 2008 (David Fahey, advisor)
Kristel Kujawa Hawkins, "Suffering and Early Quaker Identity: Ellis Hookes and the Great Book of Sufferings," 2008 (Carla G. Pestana, advisor)
Cody Hefner, "An Evocation of the Revolution: The Paintings of John Trumbull and the Perception of the American Revolution," 2009 (Andrew Cayton, advisor)
Zachary Hoffman, "Neither This Ancient Earth, Nor Ancient Rus' Has Passed On: A Microhistorical Biography of Ivan Bunin," in progress (Stephen Norris, advisor)
Joshua Imhoff, "W. H. Hudson: Between Art and Science," in progress (Andrew Cayton, advisor)
George M. Ironstrack, "From the Ashes: One Story of the Village of Pinkwi Mihtohseeniaki," 2006 (Daniel Cobb, advisor)
Onur Isci, "Wartime Propaganda and the Legacies of Defeat: The Russian and Ottoman Popular Presses in the War of 1877-78," 2007 (Stephen Norris, advisor)
Katie Laux, "Songs in the Key of Protest: How Music Reflects the Social Turbulence in America from the Late 1950s to the Early 1970s," 2007 (Allan Winkler, advisor)
Richard McCandless, "Korean War and Vietnam War Strategies: A Comparison," 2009 (Allan Winkler, advisor)
Bradley J. Mollmann, "Seeking the Supernatural: The Exorcisms of John Darrell and the Formation of an Orthodox Identity in Early Modern England," 2008 (Wietse de Boer, advisor)
Melissa N. Morris, "Diversions of Empire: Geographic Representations of the British Atlantic, 1589-1725," in progress (Carla Pestana, advisor)
Phoebe Musandu, "Daughter of Odoro: Grace Onyango and African Women's History," 2006 (Osaak Olumwullah, advisor)
Jennifer L. Pequignot, "Creating an Engagement Tradition: N.W. Ayer & Son and De Beers' Advertising Campaigns in the United States," in progress (Mary Frederickson, advisor)
Aaron Pride, "Black Leadership and Religious Ideology in the Nadir, 1901-1916: Reconsidering the Agitation/Accommodation Divide in the Age of Booker T. Washington," 2008 (Allan Winkler, advisor)
Lindsey Reedy, "Medieval Town Seals: Creating Civic Identity in the Face of a Seal," in progress (Charlotte Newman Goldy, advisor)
Adam Ruschau, "'Fighting Mit Sigel' or 'Running Mit Howard': Attitudes Towards German Americans in the Civil War," 2007 (Andrew Cayton, advisor)
Kendall Fisher Stivers, "Meine Emanzipation: Louise Hoche Aston and the Struggle for the 'Self' in Nineteenth Century Prussia," 2008 (Judith P. Zinsser, advisor)
Marlo D. Troughton, "Moms in School: Continuing Education Programs for Women, 1960-1978," 2006 (Mary Frederickson, advisor)
J. Blake Vaughan, "'No Peace in New London: Mather Byles, the Rogerenes, and the Quest for Religious Order in Late Colonial New England," 2009 (Carla G. Pestana, advisor)
Joseph R. Wachtel, "Very Advantageous Beginnings: Jesuit Conversion, Secular Interests, and the Legacy of Port Royal, 1608-1620," 2008 (Carla G. Pestana, advisor)
Susan Williams, "The Politics of Place: Grant Park, 1968-2008," in progress (Allan Winkler, advisor)
Kevin A. Wilson, "From Memory to History: American Cultural Memory of the Vietnam War ," 2006 (Allan Winkler, advisor)
Audra Yoder,"Making Tea Russian: The Samovar and Russian National Identity, 1832-1901, 2009 (Stephen M. Norris, advisor)
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