On Thursday, April 30, 2015, the history thesis writers presented their research findings to the department and other guests. For more than a year, five students have been researching and writing and, in the process, forging bonds of friendship among each other and mentorship relationships with history professors. Their research projects explored a variety of themes, and served as critical interventions in the study of American slavery, Nazism and the Third Reich, Mediterranean city-state formations, the U.S. and World War II, and international travel and literary production.

The names of the students, the titles of their projects, and the names of their advisors are as follows:

Tyler Green, “A Connecticut Yankee in London: Mark Twain’s Rise fromd Humble American Humorist to Literary Great”
Thesis Advisors: Profs. Lefebvre & Hedrick

Duncan Grimm, “Forging an Alliance of Purpose:  John Gilbert Winant, Edward Roscoe Murrow, and Creating an Anglo-American  Worldview”
Thesis Advisors: Profs. Regan-Lefebvre & Hedrick

Codyann Patrina, “Food and Slavery: Power Structures in the South, 1830-1860”
Thesis Advisors: Profs. Wickman & Greenberg

Zack Topkis, “Enduring City-States:  The Struggle For Power and Security In The Mediterranean”
Thesis Advisors: Profs. Cocco & Reger

Haley Woodenshek, “Ordinary Women: Female Perpetrators of the Nazi Final Solution”
Thesis Advisors: Profs. Rodriguez & Kassow