Senior Honors Thesis Colloquium

This Friday from 9:30am to 2:45pm nine students from the 2017-18 History Senior Honors Seminar will present the results of their research in a conference-panel format, with professors commenting afterwards. Everyone is invited!

Program:

Panel 1, 9:30-11am: Public Policies’ Effects on People’s Lives

• Halley Thiel, “’There is Power in the Blood:’ The Growth of the California Oil Industry and Its Resistance to Standard Oil”
  Mentor: Dr. Graves; comment by Dr. Martin
• Penelope Fergison, “Head for the Hills: Race and Property Value in Oakland”
  Mentor: Prof. Perrone; comment by Prof Lichtenstein
• Sasha Bates, “Ignoring Atrocities: The Reagan Administration Funding the Salvadoran Government, 1981-1984”
  Mentor: Prof. Yaqub; comment by Prof. Bergstrom

Panel 2, 11:15-12:45: Individual Agency in Policy Formation

• Milo Schaberg, “Nuclear Semiotics: Thomas Sebeok and the ‘Atomic Priesthood’”
  Mentor: Prof. Aronova; comment by Prof. McCray
• Avery Barboza, “A Sixteenth Century Cold War: England, Spain, and John Hawkins”
  Mentor: Prof. McGee; comment by Prof. Covo
• Amanda Krstic, “Age of Quarrel: Slavery and Diplomacy in Maryland in the
  Age of Atlantic Revolutions”
  Mentor: Prof. Covo; comment by Prof. Perrone

Lunch break, 12:45-1:15 (will be provided for all participants)

Panel 3, 1:15-2:45: Culture’s Effects on Life and Politics

• Megan Lucas, “Bluestockings on Campus: Women at Smith College and Vassar College in the Nineteenth Century”
  Mentor: Dr. Case; comment by Prof. Chavez-Garcia
• Jessica Kanter, “Historiographies of Colonial Rule: Italian Fascists in Libya and the British in Zimbabwe”
  Mentor: Prof. Chikowero; comment by Ross Melczer
• Zingha Foma, “The Origin of Dutch African Prints: Tracing African Culture, Politics and History through Textile and Dress Practices”
  Mentor: Prof. Spickard; comment by Prof. Miescher