History Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium

Panel I: War and International Relations8:45 Andrew Haney, The Cossack and the Elephant: The Court-Martial of John Basil Turchin and Military Necessity in the American Civil War (Majewski)
Commentator: Prof. JohnTalbott

9:15 Dominic Moretto, There Are Few Heroes Here: Understanding the Devastation of the Paraguayan War (Méndez)
Commentator: Prof. David Rock

9:45 Paul Pham, Assured Commitment: Ngo Dinh Diem’s Official State Visit, 1957 (Kalman)
Commentator: Prof. Salim Yaqub

10:15 Break

Panel II: Identities and Religious Reform
10:30 Roxanne Houman, “Sorry, Mom”: A History of Jewish Intermarriage in the United States since 1880 (Spickard)
Commentator: Prof. Laura Kalman

11:00 Emily Rebecca Megan Stierwalt, Crossing a Bridge over Troubled Water: The Effects of the Holocaust on the Children of Survivors (Marcuse)
Commentator: Prof. Paul Spickard

11:30 Chelsea Simpson, The Hidden Work of the “Bloody” Queen: Innovation and Reform during England’s Counter-Reformation (McGee)
Commentator: Prof. Hilary Bernstein

12:00 Lunch

Panel III: Empires
1:00 Katherine Thompson, Cultural Autonomy and Provincial Rebellion in the Achaemenid Empire (Lee)
Commentator: Prof. Beth DePalma Digeser

1:30 Meredith Inman, “And What a Place for a Shopman!” Liberty’s, Regent Street, and the Intersection of Empire and Commercialism, 1875 – 1927 (Rappaport)
Commentator: Prof. Kate McDonald

2:00 Rehan Bholat, “An Entertainment in Imperialism”: The Uganda Railway and the East African Interior, 1896 – 1903 (Miescher)
Commentator: Prof. Mary Hancock

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