Harvard History Senior Thesis Conference
The History Department’s Senior Thesis Conference showcases the projects our senior thesis writers are working on this year, with topics ranging from the Classical Western Mediterranean to NGOs' Strategies for Defending Journalists against Violence in Colombia
Panel 1: Global Histories of Political Economies Lower Library
Chair: Prof. Fredrik Logevall
Theo Serlin: “Poverty and Un-British MPs: Transnational Politics and Economic Thought in Britain and India, 1885–1936”
Gilbert Highet: “When Philosophers Become Princes: Henry Kissinger's Dual Crises of 1974”
Panel 2: Policing and Law in Modern United States History Lower Library
Chair: Prof. Elizabeth Hinton
Nick Barber: “‘The Court's Gotta Eat’: Louisiana's Public Defenders and the Rise of Mass Incarceration from Gideon to Katrina, 1963–2006”
August Stover: “Integration, Carcerality, and Resistance: The Development of School Policing in 1970s Boston”
Blake Paterson: “Out of the Closet, into the Voting Booth: Gay Protest and Politics in Houston, 1975– 1985”
Helen Cummings: “The Gang Truce between the Los Angeles Crips and Bloods, 1992”
Panel 3: Histories of Extremes Basement Seminar Room
Chair: Dr. Brett Flehinger
Hannah Wexner: “Fire and Brimstone and Hydrogen Bombs: Narratives of the Apocalyptic in the Civil Rights Era”
Henry Scott: “Global Warming as Political Impasse: The Limits of Data, Visuality and Rational Discourse in the Twenty-First-Century U.S. Public Sphere”
*** DAY 2: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 *** 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Panel 4: Learning, Education, and Access Lower Library
Chair: Prof. Jane Kamensky
Theodore Delwiche: “In silvis Academia surgit: Latin Learning in Seventeenth-Century New England”
Rebecca Brooks: “The Federalist Papers and their Intellectual Influences: The Making of American Constitutional Discourse and Method”
Gemma Collins: “‘Aid the Downtrodden Sex!’: College Access and Suffrage Activity at Radcliffe College”
Alicia Hamilton: “Black Child Matters: A Historical Analysis of June Jordan's Books for Black Kids in a White World, 1969–1972”
Chair: Prof. Charles Maier
Sophie Kissinger: “‘Denizens of the Underworld’: The American Press and the War on Drugs, 1971–2001”
Ignacio Sabate: “Protecting the Press: NGOs' Strategies for Defending Journalists against Violence in Colombia, 1982–2000”
Raya Koreh: “Holocaust Collective Memory and American Jewish-Israeli Relations, 1960–1976”
Matthew DeShaw: “The Fluid City: Power and Memory in the Classical Western Mediterranean”
Panel 6: Expertise and Science in the Twentieth Century Lower Library
Chair: Dr. Shaun Nichols
Sarah Angell: “The Woman He Loved: Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and the Americanization of the Global Fight against Economic Inequality in the 1960s”
Ikenna Ugboaja: “The Astronomers’ Revolt: Project West Ford and the Polarization of the American Scientific Community, 1958–1964”
Gal Koplewitz: “In Gut We Trust: Economic Authority and Antitrust in the U.S., 1900–1914”
Matthew Crowley: “U.S. Economic Crisis in Context of the Global Economy: Analyzing the Creation of the Federal Reserve and U.S. Central Banking, 1890–1930”
Panel 7: Forging Modern Communities Basement Seminar Room
Chair: Prof. James Kloppenberg
Colleen McGovern: “Drink, Space and Nation: Nineteenth-Century Public Houses and Republican Political Movements in Ireland”
Lulu Chua-Rubenfeld: “Uptown, Downtown, and In-Between: The Fusion of Wealth and Learning in the Forging of a New Jewish American Identity in Early Twentieth-Century New York”
Madeline Lear: “To Suffer for the Love of God: Discipline and Spirituality in the Life of a Catholic Sister in Oregon, 1869–1973”
All participants, advisers, and moderators are invited to enjoy lunch on Friday from noon–1:00 PM in the Robinson Hall Great Space.
Harvard History Senior Thesis Conference
The History Department’s Senior Thesis Conference showcases the projects our senior thesis writers are working on this year, with topics ranging from the Classical Western Mediterranean to NGOs' Strategies for Defending Journalists against Violence in Colombia
Panel 1: Global Histories of Political Economies Lower Library
Chair: Prof. Fredrik Logevall
Theo Serlin: “Poverty and Un-British MPs: Transnational Politics and Economic Thought in Britain and India, 1885–1936”
Gilbert Highet: “When Philosophers Become Princes: Henry Kissinger's Dual Crises of 1974”
Panel 2: Policing and Law in Modern United States History Lower Library
Chair: Prof. Elizabeth Hinton
Nick Barber: “‘The Court's Gotta Eat’: Louisiana's Public Defenders and the Rise of Mass Incarceration from Gideon to Katrina, 1963–2006”
August Stover: “Integration, Carcerality, and Resistance: The Development of School Policing in 1970s Boston”
Blake Paterson: “Out of the Closet, into the Voting Booth: Gay Protest and Politics in Houston, 1975– 1985”
Helen Cummings: “The Gang Truce between the Los Angeles Crips and Bloods, 1992”
Panel 3: Histories of Extremes Basement Seminar Room
Chair: Dr. Brett Flehinger
Hannah Wexner: “Fire and Brimstone and Hydrogen Bombs: Narratives of the Apocalyptic in the Civil Rights Era”
Henry Scott: “Global Warming as Political Impasse: The Limits of Data, Visuality and Rational Discourse in the Twenty-First-Century U.S. Public Sphere”
*** DAY 2: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 *** 1:00 – 3:00 PM
Panel 4: Learning, Education, and Access Lower Library
Chair: Prof. Jane Kamensky
Theodore Delwiche: “In silvis Academia surgit: Latin Learning in Seventeenth-Century New England”
Rebecca Brooks: “The Federalist Papers and their Intellectual Influences: The Making of American Constitutional Discourse and Method”
Gemma Collins: “‘Aid the Downtrodden Sex!’: College Access and Suffrage Activity at Radcliffe College”
Alicia Hamilton: “Black Child Matters: A Historical Analysis of June Jordan's Books for Black Kids in a White World, 1969–1972”
Chair: Prof. Charles Maier
Sophie Kissinger: “‘Denizens of the Underworld’: The American Press and the War on Drugs, 1971–2001”
Ignacio Sabate: “Protecting the Press: NGOs' Strategies for Defending Journalists against Violence in Colombia, 1982–2000”
Raya Koreh: “Holocaust Collective Memory and American Jewish-Israeli Relations, 1960–1976”
Matthew DeShaw: “The Fluid City: Power and Memory in the Classical Western Mediterranean”
Panel 6: Expertise and Science in the Twentieth Century Lower Library
Chair: Dr. Shaun Nichols
Sarah Angell: “The Woman He Loved: Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and the Americanization of the Global Fight against Economic Inequality in the 1960s”
Ikenna Ugboaja: “The Astronomers’ Revolt: Project West Ford and the Polarization of the American Scientific Community, 1958–1964”
Gal Koplewitz: “In Gut We Trust: Economic Authority and Antitrust in the U.S., 1900–1914”
Matthew Crowley: “U.S. Economic Crisis in Context of the Global Economy: Analyzing the Creation of the Federal Reserve and U.S. Central Banking, 1890–1930”
Panel 7: Forging Modern Communities Basement Seminar Room
Chair: Prof. James Kloppenberg
Colleen McGovern: “Drink, Space and Nation: Nineteenth-Century Public Houses and Republican Political Movements in Ireland”
Lulu Chua-Rubenfeld: “Uptown, Downtown, and In-Between: The Fusion of Wealth and Learning in the Forging of a New Jewish American Identity in Early Twentieth-Century New York”
Madeline Lear: “To Suffer for the Love of God: Discipline and Spirituality in the Life of a Catholic Sister in Oregon, 1869–1973”
All participants, advisers, and moderators are invited to enjoy lunch on Friday from noon–1:00 PM in the Robinson Hall Great Space.