Coming up over these next few weeks, senior history majors will be presenting their research conducted in the capstone course. These European-focused theses deal with a wide variety of subjects and material, and all of them sound eminently interesting.
All thesis presentations will be held from 3:30 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. in Wyatt 109.
Tuesday April 13, 3:30-4:50 p.m.
Panel I: Cultures of Imperialism in the British Empire
Staci Elliott: The Nineteenth Century Opium Trade and British National Identity
Sarah Meister: Mistaken Snowflakes: Modern Feminism and Nationalism in Ireland, 1898-1937
Thursday April 15 3:30-4:50 p.m.
Panel II: The Early Modern Military Revolution Reconsidered
Michael Harbaugh: Spanish Military Evolution and the War of Granada, 1481-1492
Stephen Blocklin: Zweihander: Swiss Army Knife of Renaissance Warfare
Tuesday, April 20 3:30-4:50 p.m.
Panel III: Political Discourses and Identities in Pre-Modern Europe
Amy Woods: The Multiple Purposes behind the Use of Jews in the Writings of the Reformation
Sarah Hill: Braveheart's War: Robert the Bruce and the Scottish Succession Crisis
Thursday April 22 3:30-4:50 p.m.
Panel IV: Missionaries and Cultural Frontiers
Alex Coverdale: Legitimizing Empire: The Civilizing Mission of the East India Company
Annie Maggio: Understanding the Indian-Christian Convert: A Comparison of the Writings of Franciscans Toribio de Motolinía and Bernardino de Sahagún Concerning the Evangelization of New Spain, 1521-1600
Tuesday April 27 3:30-4:50 p.m.
Panel V: Confronting Nazi Germany in Western Democracies
Foster Hill: The Fight for Berlin: “Examining the Struggle over American Participation in the 1936 Olympic Games
Chris McCarthy: Morale Bombing: How Bombing was used as Propaganda by the British during World War II
Thursday April 29 3:30-4:50 p.m.
Panel VI: Elite Politics in Twentieth-Century Dictatorships
Amelia Kurashige-Elliott: Limitations of Soviet Foreign Policy during the Polish Crisis of 1980-1981: The Eclipse of the Brezhnev Doctrine and the End of the Old Regime
Niko Wacker: Friends with Enemies: Hitler's Rise to Power and How He did It
Tuesday May 4 3:30-4:50 p.m.
Panel VII: Psychology and Literature in Nineteenth-Century Russia
Emily Wiecki: Literary Madness and Psychiatry in 19th Century Russia
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