2013 History Senior Honors Colloquium

Participants in the 2012-2013 Senior Honors Thesis seminar will present their research in this year’s colloquium. Eachstudent presenter will be followed by a faculty or advanced PhD student commentator.

This event is free and open to the public. The complete program of speakers is below.

9:00-9:30
Salina Cruz. Women of the Mills: The Lawrence, Massachusetts Strike of 1912
Commentator: Prof. Patricia Cohen

9:30-10:00
Jesse McCarthy, The Creation of English Arminianism: Richard Montagu, 1624-1629
Commentator: Tim Daniels

10:00-10:30
Heidi Graves, The Public Debate on Witchcraft in Colonial Ghana
Commentator: Prof. Mhoze Chikowero

10:30-11:00
Sean Garbutt, “Do you fellows ever talk to the Israelis?”: The United States and the War of Attrition, 1969-1970
Commentator: Paul Baltimore

11:00-11:30
Mickey Boxell, The Taciturn Revolutionary: William of Orange-Nassau and the Motivations of the Dutch Revolt
Commentator: Prof. Hilary Bernstein

11:30-12:30 LUNCH BREAK

12:30-1:00pm
Susan Reid, National Assimilation Through Racial Amalgamation: The Japanese-Brazilian Community, 1930-1970
Commentator: Prof. Kate McDonald

1:00-1:30pm
Alexa Cover, SB 813, the Hughes-Hart Education Reform Bill: California’s Expansive and Expensive Attempt at Education Equality
Commentator: Prof. Alice O’Connor

1:30-2:00pm
Morgan Stocks, Perusing the Papal Pantry: The Fasting Practices of Pope Boniface VIII, 1299-1303
Commentator: Prof. Debra Blumenthal

2:00-2:30pm
Molly Nugent, “Your tax dollars buy sex discrimination!”: The Fight for Equal Gender Representation in France and the United States
Commentator: Prof. Eileen Boris

2:30-2:50 BREAK

2:50-3:20
Elaine MacPherson, Relief Without A Roof: The Emergence of a Policy Discussion on American Homelessness 1980-1996
Commentator: Prof. Mary Furner

3:20-3:50
Jacob Owens, “A most inconvenient dilemma”: The British Motives Behind the Making of the Hoare-Laval Plan
Commentator: Prof. Toshi Hasegawa

3:50-4:20
Michael Schneider, Driving Defense: The Role of the Auto Industry in War Mobilization
Commentator: Prof. Nelson Lichtenstein

4:20-4:50
Ricardo Quezada, “Free the 13”: Contesting Legal Discrimination– The East Los Angeles Blowouts and the Chicana/o Community’s Agency, 1968-1970
Commentator: Prof. Paul Spickard