# Department of History Senior Thesis Conference #### calendar\_today Date and Time **November 9 - November 10, 2023** All day #### pin\_drop Location **Robinson Hall, History Department Conference Room (#125) and Warren Center Conference Room (#B21)** **DAY 1: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9** 10–11:30 AM Panel 1: Organization’s Effects: Belonging and Transformation at Home and Abroad Moderator: Prof. Lizabeth Cohen Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room **Cara Chang:** “Organizing the Union Teacher: Examining Race Within the Boston Teachers Union, circa 1963–1983” **Dekyi Tsotsong:** “Persecuted in their Motherland: The History and Politics of the 2008 Uprising in Tibet and its Effect on the Diaspora” **Walter Goldberg:** “Brownstone Frontier: Pioneers, Homesteaders, and the Growth Machine in the Battle for Pre-Gentrification Brooklyn” 1–3 PM Panel 2: Knowledge Creation: Educational Institutions and Political Change Moderator: Prof. Ann Blair Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room **Tobias Benn:** “Scholars in the Nation’s Service: The Rise and Fall of Academic Engagement with Strategic Intelligence” **Aldo Aragon:** “A Twentieth-Century Intellectual History of the Polynesian Question, 1916–1976” **Grace Coolidge:** “Unveiling Harvard: Navigating Change and Student Activism in the Campaign Against the Vietnam War (1968–1970)” **Henry Haimo:** “Rewriting History: Education, Publishing, and Mass Media in Ghana, 1945–1966” 3–5 PM Panel 3: Science as Historical Subject, Science as Historical Method Moderator: Prof. Michael McCormick Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room **Anna Farronay:** “State of Aesthetics: Pathologized Prosthetics during the Argentine Great Depression (1998–2002)” **Sophia Charles:** “Ice Cores, Tree Rings, and Early Slavs: Climate and Migration in Sixth- to NinthCentury Central Europe” **Mira-Rose Kingsbury Lee:** “The Forgotten Microbes and Their Environmental Agency: Pasteur’s Turn to Pathogens and Microbiology’s Long Winter” **Charlotte Nickerson:** “The Licit Drug Trade: Regulating Secret Remedies in the Early Modern Western Mediterranean” **DAY 2: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10** 10:30 AM–12 PM Panel 4: Interests Abroad: Domestic Priorities in a Global Context Moderator: Prof. Arunabh Ghosh Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room **Duncan Edwards:** “Power, Prejudice, and Politics: Human Rights Concerns and Cold War Geopolitics with South Africa During the JFK Administration” **William Goldsmith:** “The Greatest Decision in \[US\] History:” George Marshall & Postwar Public Discourse Surrounding the European Recovery Program” **Gabrielle Pesantez:** “Preserving the Imperial Family: Queen Elizabeth II’s Early Guardianship Over the Commonwealth of Nations” 10 AM–12 PM Panel 5: Economic and Spatial Histories of the Modern U.S. Moderator: Prof. Lisa McGirr Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room **Cooper Wolff:** “From Boom to Bust: Unraveling the Real Estate Bubble of the Roaring Twenties and Its Impact on the Great Depression Housing Crisis” **Augustus Richards:** “Selling Glyphosate: The Evolution of Pesticide Marketing in the Twentieth Century” **Madison Barkate:** “Prime Time: Why, How, and How Much NFL Players Were Paid” **Zing Gee:** “From the Tavern to the Biergarten: German Immigration’s Impact on Drinking Spaces and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America” **~~~~~~ LUNCH ~~~~~~** 1–3 PM Panel 6: Power and Control? Twentieth-Century Military Histories Moderator: Prof. Derek Penslar Location: Robinson Hall Conference **Room Ruby Huang:** “The New Harvard Man: The Department of Military and Naval Science and Tactics at Harvard” **Brendan Kiely:** “The Harvard Volunteers of World War I, 1914–1917” **Oscar Berry:** “Drowning in the Embers of Defeat: The Strategic Mentality of Loss, Fear, and Ambition in the Power Struggle for French Collaboration in 1941” **Collin Bergstrom:** “The U.S. Atomic Monopoly: Attitudes and Arguments for an International Approach to the Issue of Atomic Weapons” 1–3 PM Panel 7: Libel and Lacunae: Narratives of U.S. History Moderator: Prof. Jane Kamensky Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room **Meimei Xu:** “Largely Unknown, Not Forgotten: The Lives of Enslaved Individuals Connected to Boston’s King’s Chapel in the Eighteenth Century” **Andrew DeGennaro:** “A Complicated Legacy: Yellowstone National Park & the Displacement of Indigenous Peoples” **Marbella Marlo:** “A Provocative Press: Libel and Sensationalism in New York City Newspapers, 1880–1920” **Emmy Cho:** “Walt Whitman: Man of Letters” 3–5 PM Panel 8: Studies in Solidarity: The Impacts of Organization Moderator: Prof. Rosie Bsheer Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room **Simon J. Levien:** “Rogue Foot Soldiers of Civil Rights: How SNCC Recruited White Northerners, 1959–1965” **Madison Stein:** “Reinforcing Revolutions: The Dhofar Rebellion and Global Solidarity Networks, 1965–76” **William Marsh:** “Rust-Belt Resentment Gone Rogue: Concepts of Citizenship and the Ideological Underpinnings of Michigan's Far-Right Militia Movements, 1968–2012” J **Justin Hu:** “Studying with Césaire: Caribbean Counter-Pedagogies in Martinique during the French Third Republic” 3–4:30 PM Panel 9: Rebuilding Communities after Change Moderator: TBA Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room **Matylda Urbaniak:** “To kaszebska stolëca: The Creation of a Kashubian Identity in Reclaimed Poland, 1945–1957” **Julia Tellides:** “Reform and Resistance: The Jewish Community and Greek Government in Interwar Thessaloniki” **Ryan Goldfarb:** TBA **Please join us afterwards for a celebratory reception honoring this year’s cohort of thesis writers! In the Robinson Hall Great Space, Friday, November 10, at 5PM.** --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf thesis\_conference\_program\_2023.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/history/files/thesis_conference_program_2023.pdf) --- See also:- [ History Events ](/events/history) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/node/1772566/event-feed.ics) Copy link link