History Honors Colloquium

On Friday, May 15, the undergraduates who wrote senior theses this year will present their work at the History Honors Colloquium in HSSB 4020. The students have produced very interesting research and all interested parties are invited to attend some or all of the sessions.
The program is as follows:

Session I (9:00-10:30): War and Suffrage

Allison Fischer (Jacobson): “Shot to the Core: Vietnam Veterans and the Disintegration of American Exceptionalism”
Discussant: Laura Kalman
Michael Hale (Lee): “The Destruction of Poleis in the Greek World”
Discussant: Jack Talbott
Risa Katzen (Harris, Miescher): “Anything to Fit in: A Comparative Study of American and South African Women’s Suffrage Movements”
Discussant: Adrienne Edgar

Session II (10:45-12:15): Education and Political Activism

Damien Mimnaugh (O’Connor): “The School is Before the Church: A History of Catholic Dissent During and Following the Great School Controversy in New York, 1840-1870”
Discussant: Patricia Cohen
Adrienne Minor (Daniels): “What’s Left of the Struggle: The Oakland Community School and the Black Panther Party”
Discussant: Megan Bowman
Craig Nelson (Westwick): “The Evolution of Environmentalism in the California Surfing Community”
Discussant: Greg Graves

Session III (2:00-4:00): Politics and Public Policy

Christopher Kindell (Tutino): “ ‘Now for the Lord and our good Queene/ To fight be not afraide’: Elizabethan Propaganda and the Spanish Armada”
Discussant: Sears McGee
Mathew Hamula (McGee): “Modernizing Medieval Medicine and the Medical Marketplace: The London Medical Establishment during the English Civil War”
Discussant: Stefania Tutino
Celine Purcell (Bergstrom): “STEP it Up: The Rise of Conservative Anti-Gang Legislation in California”
Discussant: Andrea Gill
Katyn Evenson (Woods): “Upon a Blank Slate: Reforming Public Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans”
Discussant: Randy Bergstrom

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