History Department Senior Honors Colloquium

Participants in the 2009-2010 History Senior Honors Colloquium, directed by Professor Hilary Bernstein, will present their research. Each student’s presentation will be followed by a faculty comment. Refreshments will be served.

Session I (9-10:30 a.m): Literature and Politics in Italy and America

Christy Mason, “Valuing Virtue: Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the Act of Seduction, 1818-1860” (Cohen)
Comment: Professor Randy Bergstrom

Eleanor Dickson, “Uncivilized and Idealized: Depictions of the Southern Italian Peasant in the Fascist Period” (Fogu and Rappaport)
Comment: Professor Harold Marcuse

Philomen Leonelli, “Petrarchan Humor: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Irony” (Lansing)
Comment: Dr. Edward English

Break for Mid-Morning Refreshments (10:30-11 a.m.)

Session II (11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.): War, Diplomacy, and Their Effects

Joshua Madison, “Perspectives on James II and the Emergence of Jacobitism in Ireland” (McGee)
Comment: Professor Stefania Tutino

Rheannon Maxwell, “A House of Cards: U.S. State Department Policy in Nicaragua, 1909-1928” (Dutra)
Comment: Professor Salim Yaqub

Andrew Alvarado, “‘The Best Little Army In Asia:’ KMAG, the ROK Army, and the Failure of American Policy in Korea” (Talbott)
Comment: Professor Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

Session III (1:30-3:30 p.m.): U.S. Politics: Domestic and Foreign Influences

Mackenzie Weinger, “Have You Any News? How America’s First Embedded Journalists Envisioned the United States, 1846-1848” (Cohen)
Comment: Professor John Majewski

Mitchell Stewart, “Black Radicalism, the Communist Party, and the Struggle to Liberate Haiti from American Imperialism, 1918-1930” (Yaqub)
Comment: Professor Douglas Daniels

Catherine Kwon, “‘Seeds of the Contemporary New Right:’ California Young Americans for Freedom, 1964-1980” (Kalman)
Comment: Professor Nelson Lichtenstein

Shauna Woods, “Henry Spira and the SHAC 7: Comparing Animal Rights Activism in 1976 and 2006” (Kalman)
Comment: Professor Peter Alagona

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