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)

Vuslat Devrim Altinoz, "The Ottoman Women's Movement: Women's Press, Magazines, Journals and Newspapers from 1875 to 1923," 2003 (Matthew Gordon, advisor)

James Patrick Ambuske, "Minting America: Coinage and the Contestation of American Identity, 1775-1800," 2006 (Andrew Cayton, advisor)

Leigh Andrews, "Reactions to Brown v. Board of Education," 2005 (Mary E. Frederickson, 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)

Rebecca Balduff, "The Economist and the Continuity of British Imperial Expansion, 1843-1860," 2005 (Judith P. Zinsser, advisor)

Julie Laut Barbieri, "Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya: An Indian Feminist in America, 1939-1941," in progress (Judith P. Zinsser, advisor)

Dharitri Bhattacharjee, "British Women's Views of Twentieth-Century India: An Examination of Obstacles to Cross-Cultural Understandings," 2007 (Judith P. Zinsser, advisor)

Jessica Britton, "Prison Reform in Nineteenth Century Ohio," in progress (Andrew Cayton, advisor)

Audrea Michelle Bullock, "Child Testimony and the Legal Definition of Childhood in Eighteenth-Century London," 2004 (David M. Fahey, advisor)

Vanessa De los Reyes, "I Love Ricky: How Desi Arnaz Challenged American Popular Culture," 2008 (Allan Winkler, advisor)

Andrew Dinovo, "One Man's Struggle: Pius IX and the Change in Papal Authority in the Nineteenth Century," 2004 (Sheldon Anderson, 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. Faber, "Holocaust Memory and Museums in the United States: Problems of Representation," 2005 (Allan M. Winkler, advisor)

John L. Fortner, "'Much More Ours Than Yours': The Figure of Joseph the Patriarch in the New Testament and the Early Church," 2004 (Edwin Yamauchi, advisor)

Gary L. Garrison," Federalism, Anti-Federalism and the Role of the Ninth Amendment in Constitutional Discourses," 2005 (Andrew Cayton, 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, "British and American Foreign Relations in China during the Taiping Rebellion," in progress (David Fahey, advisor)

Jennifer Huck, "Poisoned Poppies: Popular Images of the Witch in the United States," 2005 (Judith P. Zinsser, advisor)

Jason F. Hulvat, "A Gendered Analysis of the Historical Locke: Rethinking Locke's Second Treatise on Government," 2003 (Judith P. Zinsser, 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)

Justin B. Keiser, "'Where did the band come from': Student Protest at Miami University in the Spring of 1970," 2003 (Jeffrey Kimball, advisor)

Kristel M. Kujawa, "Suffering and Early Quaker Identity: Ellis Hookes and the Great Book of Sufferings," 2008 (Carla G. Pestana, advisor)

Michele Langford, "Deconstructing Glimpses of World History: An Analysis of Jawaharlal Nehru's Letters to his Daughter," 2005 (Judith P. Zinsser, 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)

Shaun Chandler Lighty, "Gaining Legitimacy Through Popular Culture: The Fall and Rise of Lew Wallace," 2005 (Mary Kupiec Cayton, advisor)

Eric J. Morgan, "The Sin of Omission: The United States and South Africa in the Nixon Years," 2003 (Jeffrey Kimball, advisor)

Phoebe Musandu, "Daughter of Odoro: Grace Onyango and African Women's History," 2006 (Osaak Olumwullah, advisor)

Eva N. Mwanika, "Ancient Egyptian Identity," 2004 (Edwin Yamauchi, advisor)

Neil Douglas Prendergast, "Life in the Land: The Story of the Kaibab Deer," 2005 (Marguerite Shaffer, advisor)

Aaron Pride, "Monroe Trotter," in progress (Allan Winkler, advisor)

Yaroslav Prykhodko, "Performing the Self in the Discourse of History: The American Revolution and Memoir Writing, 1770s-1840s," 2005 (Andrew Cayton, advisor)

Lara McCoy Roslof, "The Political, Economic and Social Activities of the Russian Orthodox Church, 1991-2003, and the Reintegration of Russian Orthodoxy into Post-Soviet Russian National Identity," 2004 (Robert Thurston, advisor)

Adam Ruschau, "'Fighting Mit Sigel' or 'Running Mit Howard': Attitudes Towards German Americans in the Civil War," 2007 (Andrew Cayton, advisor)

Ryan Stockwell, "Growing a Modern Agrarian Myth: The American Agriculture Movement, Identity, and the Call to Save the Family Farm," 2003 (Allan Winkler, advisor)

Eugene R.H. Tesdahl, "Bonds of Money, Bonds of Matrimony?: French and Native Intermarriage in 17th and 18th Century Nouvelle France and Senegal, 2003 (Andrew Cayton, advisor)

Lisa Toland, "Resurrecting the Dead: The Language of Grief in a Seventeenth-Century English Family," 2003 (P. Renee Baernstein, advisor)

Marlo D. Troughton, "Moms in School: Continuing Education Programs for Women, 1960-1978," 2006 (Mary Frederickson, advisor)

Elizabeth M. Troy, "Legally Bound: A Study of Women's Legal Status in the Ancient Near East," 2004 (Edwin Yamauchi, advisor)

Joseph R. Wachtel, "Very Advantageous Beginnings: Jesuit Conversion, Secular Interests, and the Legacy of Port Royal, 1608-1620," 2008 (Carla G. Pestana, advisor)

Brandon T. Walker, "Decent and in Order: The Pagan Stigmatization of Eusebius' Polemics against the New Prophecy," 2005 (Edwin Yamauchi, advisor)

Kevin A. Wilson, "From Memory to History: American Cultural Memory of the Vietnam War ," 2006 (Allan Winkler, advisor)

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