# Department of History: Senior Thesis Conference #### calendar\_today Date and Time **November 3 - November 4, 2022** All day #### pin\_drop Location **Robinson Hall, 35 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA 02138 (See posting for rooms)** **\*\*Please note, this event is limited to Harvard affiliates only.\*\*** SENIOR THESIS CONFERENCE NOVEMBER 3 & 4, 2022 DAY 1: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3 **1–3 PM** Panel 1: Law, Politics, and Migration in North America *Moderator: Prof. David Spreen* Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (#125) **Julian Habermann:** “Stamped Out: Ineligibility in the Origins of the Immigration System, 1880–1920” **Sam Lowry:** “Courts, Commerce, and Child Labor: The Creation of a New Constitutional Order” **Michael Vassallo:** “A Clash of Three Governors: White Backlash, Southern Conservatism, and the Long Death of Georgia’s White Primary” **Nithyani Anandakugan:** “Turning Tides: The 1986 Sri Lankan Boat Migration to Newfoundland and Questions of Rescue in International Law” **3–5 PM** Panel 2: Society, Economics, and Culture in the Global Postwar *Moderator: Dr. Aaron Bekemeyer* Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (#125) **Mary Julia Koch:** “Going Nuclear: The American Family in the Cold War” **A.J. Dilts:** “‘Separate Sovereignty’: W. Averell Harriman and the Kennedy Administration's Intervention in Vietnam” **Dash Wasserstein:** “A Match Made in Heaven: Reconciling Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Reagan Era” **Hannah Thurlby:** “‘All Our Children’: The Impact of China’s One-Child-Policy on the American Family in the 1990s” Please join us for a celebratory reception honoring this year’s cohort of thesis writers! Robinson Hall Great Space Thursday, November 3, at 5PM \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* DAY 2: FRIDAY,NOVEMBER 4 **10 AM–12 PM** Panel 3: Capital, Energy, and the State in the Making of the Anthropocene *Moderator: Prof. Ian Miller* Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (#125) **Paige Proctor:** “Stewards of a Nation: The Political Significance of Agrarian Communities in Industrializing England” **Ua Alencastre-Galimba:** “‘Guano Land’: Native Hawaiian Interactions with the Guano Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century” **Michael Wallace:** “‘Davy Crockett in Yellowstone’: Mission 66, the National Park Service, and the Creation of Modern Environmentalism, 1954–1966” **Kailas Amin:** “Historical Perspective on the Development of the American Power Market, 1996 to the Present” Panel 4: National Ideals, Conflicts, and Struggles in the 20th Century *Moderator: Prof. Terry Martin* Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room (#B21) **Henry Bellew:** “The Impact of Political Violence and International Fascism on the Electoral Failure of the British Union of Fascists” **Andres Mendoza:** “Otherness, Isolation, Autonomy: Dissident Spanish Clergy, 1931–1939” **Charlotte Sack:** “‘An organ of social democracy’: The Rise of the Public Library in Postwar America” **Alexander Lee:** “‘We the Soviet People’: Civic Belonging and Sovetskii Narod Discourse under the Conditions of Late Socialism” **~~LUNCH~~~** **1–3 PM** Panel 5: Citizenship, Legal Personhood, and Demography Moderator: Prof. Daniel Smail Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (#125) **Alaina Harris:** “‘What’s in a name?’: An Analysis of Personal Names in Post-Conquest England, 1066–1216” **Kevin Wang:** “The Roman Law of Slavery in Late Medieval Europe” **Enrique Sanchez:** “‘Why Fear Sterilization?’: Population Control and Family Planning in Puerto Rico during the Mid-Twentieth Century” **Alexander Tam:** “To Be a Citizen: Rights, Obligation, and Belonging at the Social Margins of the Confederacy” Panel 6: Knowledge, Education, and Art in North America and Asia *Moderator: Prof. Lisa McGirr* Location:Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room (#B21) **Katherine Enright:** “From Natural History to National Heritage: The History and Politics of Displaying Colonial-Era Natural History in Singapore Museums” **Emily Axelsen:** “‘You Are Involved Unless You Stop It!’: Museum Response to Artist Mobilization in the 1970s New York City Feminist Art Movement” **Ibrahim Mammadov:** “Book Virgins: How America Came to Forget Reading and Writing” **Aiyana White:** “What was Given and What was Owed: Foreign Influence and Intervention in Japanese Women’s Education, 1930–1955” **3–4:30 PM** Panel 7: Spatial and Environmental Histories of Land, Movement, and Industry Moderator: Prof. Emma Rothschild Location: Robinson Hall Conference Room (#125) **Oliver Riskin-Kutz:** “Feral Cattle, Wild Swamps, and Ungovernable People: An Environmental History of the French and Spanish Settlement of Louisiana in the Eighteenth Century” **Tadhg Larabee:** “Sublime Histories, Historical Sublimes: Landscape, Technology, and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland” **Uday Schultz:** “Ironbound: Freight Transport, Industrial Change, and the Urban Roots of the Logistics Economy in Newark, New Jersey” **3–5 PM** Panel 8: Empire and Diplomacy: Four Case Studies *Moderator: Prof. Erez Manela* Location: Robinson Hall, Basement Seminar Room (#B21) **Joseph Kester:** “Presentation versus Reality: Comparing Portrayals of the Emperor in Rome and Byzantium” **Karina Halevy:** “Woven into War: A Computationally Augmented History of Sephardi Jewish Women in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1877–2000” **Rom Blanco:** “Philippines-China Diplomatic Relations: Lessons from the Immediate Post-War Era (1946–1986)” **Ryan Santos:** “‘The outsourcing of freedom’: Filipino Operatives in the Origins of the American War in Indochina, 1954-1962” --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf thesis\_conference\_program\_2022.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum4421/files/history/files/thesis_conference_program_2022.pdf) --- See also:- [ History Events ](/events/history) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://history.fas.harvard.edu/node/1655985/event-feed.ics) Copy link link