History Colloquia Fall Semester 2024
Senior Thesis Projects
Department of History Library, 121 Mason Hall at 4:15 p.m.
Thursday, October 31
Adam Osman Krinsky, “Urban Planning, Public Space, and Visions of the Sanitary City in Nineteenth-Century New York”
Colin McAfee, “Frontier Injustice: Cattle, Violence, and Vigilantism in the Nineteenth-Century American Southwest”
John Gibson, “Expectations and Convictions: The Trial of Bighohaden, Indian Law, and the Navajo Nation, c. 1900”
Eloisa Tirres, “Reaching New Heights in the Sierras: College Alpine Clubs in Postwar California”
Thursday, November 7
Dahlia Locke, “The Militarization of Honolulu’s Prostitution System During World War Two: Colonial Violence through the Imposition of Gender and Racial Hierarchies”
Jenna McMurtry, “’Play a Part in History’: How the LA84 Olympics Shaped the City’s Neoliberal Turn”
Caroline Welch, “The Making of the East Bay ‘NIMBY’: An Analysis of Contra Costa Antigrowth Movements, 1970-2000”
Lesly Lepes, “Young and Displaced: The Post-9/11 Security Paradigm and its Impact on Mexican Dreamers in California”
Thursday, November 14
Ben Brady, “Jerusalem and the New World: Abrahamic Eschatology and Columbus’ Enterprise of the Indies, 1492-1506”
Ben Cheng, “Lost Frontier: Spanish Encounters in Early Modern Taiwan”
Emma Grace Howlett, “Moving Mountains: Gender, Science, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century British Mountaineering”
Duncan James, "Paul Rohrbach and Southwest Africa: Colonial Ideology and Continuity in Germany"
Thursday, November 21
Dhani Srinivasan, “Colonial Imaginations and Realizations of Land in Pre-Mandate Palestine”
Anisa McLain, “Heavenly Gastronomy: Royal Thai Cuisine in Nineteenth-Century Siam”
Lea Wong, "Kabyle Women’s Jewelry as Resistance in the Algerian War of Independence"
Alexander Chao, “Schoolbooks, Geography, and Identity Formation in Colonial Hong Kong, c. 1930s-1950s”