Student Work
Senior Project 2019
SEBASTIAN CARRASCO Santa Monica, California
Historical Studies: “‘Who Was the Man in Mexico?’ The Degree to Which the Mexican State Enjoyed Autonomy and Sovereignty with Respect to Its National and International Relationships from 1958 to 1964”
Project Adviser: Miles RodríguezViolin Performance (BMus): Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio; Berg: Violin Concerto, first movement
Principal Teacher: Daniel PhillipsDANHUI CHEN Nanning, China
Asian Studies and Historical Studies: “Manga in China’s Reform Era: Transformation, Assimilation, and Imagination of Popular Culture”
Project Adviser: Robert J. CulpSHANE TIEGER CIANCANELLI Catskill, New York
Historical Studies: “Pharsalus: Fall of the Roman Alexander”
Project Adviser: Sean McMeekinWILLIAM WARREN CROWDUS Washington, District of Columbia
Historical Studies: “United States Involvement in the Winter War of 1939–40: Successes of a Restrained Policy”
Project Adviser: Sean McMeekinSAMUEL JOSEPH DICKSON Red Hook, New York
Historical Studies: “Shekomeko: The Mohican Village That Shaped the Moravian Missionary World”
Project Adviser: Christian CrouchCELIA JOAN FAUX Urbana, Illinois
Historical Studies: “She Makes of Man a Beast, of Woman a Martyr: Absinthe in France, 1908–22”
Project Adviser: Tabetha EwingCHRISTA ROSE GAMMAGE New York, New York
Historical Studies: “‘Freedom Now’: The Function of Jazz in the Civil Rights Movement”
Project Adviser: Christian CrouchMINGZE LINGHU Beijing, China
Historical Studies: “CIA in Laos: A Secret Collaboration of CIA and Hmong”
Project Adviser: Robert J. CulpJON PETER LUSTIG Washington, District of Columbia
Historical Studies: “‘Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea’: South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement and ‘Thinking at the Limit,’ 1968–77”
Project Adviser: Drew ThompsonANGELA LAURA PAQUETTE Walkill, New York
French Studies and Historical Studies: “A Translation of Letters by Louis-Antoine de Bougainville: The Seven-Years War”
Project Adviser: Odile S. ChiltonERIC JAMES RAIMONDI Groveland, Massachusetts
Historical Studies and Middle Eastern Studies: “America’s Forgotten Project: TAPline and the Rise of a New Capitalist Order in the Levant, 1945–50”
Project Adviser: Omar ChetaEVAN RICHARDSON Jupiter, Florida
Historical Studies and Political Studies: “Still Sitting on Men: Understanding the Continuities of Indirect Rule through Precolonial Forms of Female Resistance, Ethnic Politics, and Economic Violence in Southeast Nigeria”
Concentration: Science, Technology, and SocietyProject Advisers: Sanjib Baruah and Wendy Urban-MeadSIDNEY BAYLIES SMITH Williamstown, Massachusetts
Historical Studies: “Another Massacre in Mexico,” an analysis of the PRI machine, repeated violence, and collective memory through Mexico’s Corpus Christi Massacre
Project Adviser: Miles RodríguezWESTON COHL ROBERTSON TOUNTAS Los Angeles, California
Historical Studies: “Reimagining Greece: European Philhellenism in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries”
Project Adviser: Christian CrouchALEC HOPPER WATERS Concord, Massachusetts
Chemistry and Biochemistry: “Shining light on cyclobutane synthesis: Ir catalyzed [2+2] cycloadditions of vinylogous esters through energy transfer”
Project Adviser: Emily McLaughlinHistorical Studies: “Privileges, Protestantism, Money, and Masts: Béarn and the Crown in 17th-Century France”
Project Adviser: Tabetha Ewing ’89SAMUEL HUGO WILLNER Brooklyn, New York
Historical Studies: “The Development of the German Jewish Institution as a Tool of Political, Communal, Physical, Religious, and Moral Regulation through Assimilation in the American Context”
Project Adviser: Cecile E. Kuznitz
Senior Projects 2018
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TIANPEI AI Nanjing, China
Historical Studies: “Chiang Kai-Shek and China during the Process of the Battle of Shanghai in 1937”
Project Adviser: Robert Culp
KATHERINE ANN ALBERT Pittsford, New York
Anthropology and Historical Studies: “No Longer a ‘Silent Remembrance’: Excavating 18th-Century German American Identity in the Hudson Valley”
Project Adviser: Christopher Lindner
BENJAMIN MAXWELL ALTER Fairfax, Virginia
Historical Studies: “Losing Hearts and Minds: Development, Dislocation, and the American Failure in Vietnam”
Project Advisers: Mark Lytle and Sean McMeekin
YI CHEN Zhejiang, China
Economics and Historical Studies: “From Lucky Strike to Chunghwa: The Development of China’s Tobacco Industry in the 20th Century”
Project Advisers: Robert Culp and Sanjaya DeSilva
JASMINE NICOLE COLLINS Atlanta, Georgia
Historical Studies: “Pageantry: From Medieval to Modern”
Concentration: Medieval Studies
Project Adviser: Myra Young Armstead
CALEB JOSEPH CUMBERLAND Bennington, Kansas
Historical Studies: “Colonial Control and Power through the Law: Territoriality, Sovereignty, and Violence in German South
JULIA PANIAGUA DERBY New York, New York
Environmental and Urban Studies and Historical Studies: “Troubled Waters: Drinking Water Quality, Environmental Injustice, and the Politics of Permissibility in Newburgh, New York”
Project Adviser: Robert Culp
ZACHARY BENJAMIN GOLDBLATT Raleigh, North Carolina
Historical Studies: “Beyond the Pale: The Development of Yiddish Socialism”
Project Adviser: Cecile Kuznitz
MAY EMILY GRZYBOWSKI Erving, Massachusetts
Historical Studies: “Knowledge and Power in Occupied Japan: U.S. Censorship of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
Project Adviser: Robert Culp
MALACHI ZACHARY HAYES Chicago, Illinois
Historical Studies and Literature: “South Side, Worldwide: The Fusion of History and Literature in Richard Wright and James
T. Farrell’s Chicago”
Project Adviser: Matthew Mutter
MAXIM KLOSE-IVANOV Washington, District of Columbia
Historical Studies: “Wargames: A Nonlinear Experiential Mode of Historical Knowledge”
Project Adviser: Robert Culp
CHASE SULLIVAN KRUEGER La Jolla, California
Historical Studies: “The Gendering of Children’s Dress in the United States: 1890–1910”
Concentration: Gender and Sexuality Studies
Project Adviser: Alice Stroup
ADRIAN RAMOS Catskill, New York
Historical Studies: “Chinggis Khan’s Syncretic Steppe: How Tradition and Innovation Combined to Form the World’s Largest and Most Diverse Nomadic Empire”
Concentration: Medieval Studies
Project Adviser: Robert Culp
STEPHEN ANDREW RICHARDSON Atlanta, Georgia
Historical Studies: “The Cultivation of Black Eloquence by Means of Cultural Capital and Speech Training”
Project Adviser: Myra Young Armstead
JEREMY PAUL WOLF Winchester, Massachusetts
Historical Studies: “And in War Brings Honor”
Project Adviser: Alice Stroup
Senior Projects 2017
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NORA CAYSIE COOPER Abilene, Texas
Historical Studies: “Transmitting Power: Radio and Organization in Maoist China”
Project Adviser: Robert J. Culp
JENNIFER ANN DUFAU White Hall, Maryland
Historical Studies: “Tainted Ideals: The Rise and Fall of the Tupamaros”
Project Adviser: Miles Rodríguez
WYLIE MILTON EARP Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
Historical Studies: “Fundamentalism and Cultural Anxieties: Scott Lively and the Ugandan Christian Right”
Project Adviser: Myra Young Armstead
NICOLAS SANDY ENGST MATTHEWS Pau, France
Historical Studies: “Michael Faraday’s ‘Lines of Force’ and the Role of Heuristic Models in Early Electromagnetic Field Theory”
Concentration: Science, Technology, and Society
Project Adviser: Gregory B. Moynahan
ORSON FRY London, United Kingdom
Historical Studies and Literature: “‘A Most Splendid Soldier’: The Life of My Great-Grandfather Major General George Bruce”
Project Advisers: Richard Aldous and Marina van Zuylen
MADI E. GARVIN Cheltenham, Pennsylvania
Historical Studies: “Vast Sources of Productive Power Lying Unnecessarily Idle: Occupational Therapy and the Imperative of Work, 1900–30”
Concentration: Experimental Humanities
Project Adviser: Myra Young Armstead
AVA GERTRUDE LINDENMAIER Lenox, Massachusetts
Historical Studies: “Unraveling the Origins of Blue Jeans in American Fashion: The Significance of the Denim Costume on Dude Ranch Vacations in the 1920s and ’30s American West”
Project Adviser: Gregory B. Moynahan
YOURUO MA Beijing, China
Historical Studies: “Is Language a Cage or a Gate? Examining Students’ Adoption of Political Language during the Cultural Revolution”
Project Adviser: Robert J. Culp
PETER JAMES MCCORMACK Lake Bluff, Illinois
Historical Studies: “From New York to Hollywood: Advertising, Narrative Formats, and Changing Televison Space in the 1950s”
Concentration: Experimental Humanities
Project Advisers: Maria Sachiko Cecire and Gregory B. Moynahan
CONNOR BARTLETT MCDERMOTT Lyle, Washington
Historical Studies: “An Ghaoth a Chroithfidh an Eorna: The Moral Economy of Ireland’s Whiteboys, 1761–87”
Concentration: Irish and Celtic Studies
Project Advisers: Gregory B. Moynahan and Michael Staunton
MAEVE EMMA MCQUEENY Mahwah, New Jersey
Historical Studies: “Does Russia Love the Whip? A Study of State-Sponsored Violence and Its Impact on Russian Life”
Project Adviser: Sean McMeekin
AVERY MATTHEW MENCHER Florence, Massachusetts
Historical Studies: “Memorializing Absence: The Ambiguous Place of Holocaust Legacy in the Memorials, Countermemorials, and Museums of Berlin”
Project Adviser: Cecile Kuznitz
NICHOLAS MICHAEL RIMIKIS Athens, Greece
Historical Studies: “Filiki Etaireia: The Rise of a Secret Society in the Making of the Greek Revolution”
Project Adviser: Tabetha Ewing ’89
XOCHITL TARCILA SALAZAR McKinleyville, California
Historical Studies: “Reframing the Ofrenda: An Analysis of Material Culture through the Death Cult of Mexico”
Concentration: Latin American and Iberian Studies
Project Adviser: Miles Rodríguez
DARIEL VASQUEZ Harlem, New York
Historical Studies and Sociology: “Black Education Reform and Community Schools”
Project Adviser: Tabetha Ewing ’89
Senior Projects 2016
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ETHAN MOON BARNESS New York, New York
Historical Studies: “Mob Rule vs. Progressive Reform: The Struggle between Organized Crime, Machine Politics, and the Progressive Reform Movement for Control over New York City Municipal Politics from 1900–35”
Project Adviser: Myra Young Armstead
DAVON MICHAEL BLANKS Brooklyn, New York
Historical Studies: “Black Diasporic Memories in the Soviet Union,” an analysis of the impact that the Soviet Union had on black Americans and their political positions during the Cold War
Project Adviser: Tabetha Ewing ’89
ELEANOR BUSE New York, New York
Historical Studies: “Between Myth and History: Goethe, Spengler, and the Faustian Legend”
Project Adviser: Gregory B. Moynahan
ALEXANDER ESTEBAN CRUZZAVALA Morgantown, West Virginia
Historical Studies: “José Martí, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and the United States: The Four Fathers of the Cuban Revolution”
Concentration: Latin American/Iberian Studies
Project Adviser: Omar Youssef Cheta
SHALEA ATHENE DEL VILLAR Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Historical Studies: “Preaching Prosperity: Christian Missions to Jamaica in the Early to Mid-19th Century”
Project Adviser: Tabetha Ewing ’89
MORGAN VIVIANE DISANTO Venice, California
American Studies and Historical Studies: “Smoking Out the Truth: An Early History of Southern Barbecue,” a study of the issues of gender, race, and class throughout the history of Southern barbecue
Project Adviser: Christian Crouch
FAYE N. FORMAN Sound Beach, New York
Historical Studies and Human Rights: “The Unintended Consequences of the International Women’s Movement: Medicalizing Rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo”
Concentration: Africana Studies
Project Adviser: Peter Rosenblum
MICHAEL HEARD JOHNSON San Antonio, Texas
Historical Studies: “El Valle de los Caídos: Spain’s Inability to Digest Its Historical Memory”
Project Adviser: Cecile E. Kuznitz
ELA MEGAN KAPLAN Istanbul, Turkey
Historical Studies: “Leibniz on China and Christianity: The Reformation of Religion and European Ethics through Converting China to Christianity”
Concentration: Science, Technology and Society
Project Adviser: Gregory B. Moynahan
NAOMI RUBEL LACHANCE Williamstown, Massachusetts
Historical Studies and Written Arts: “It Happened at El Mozote: How Two Reporters Broke the Story That Washington Refused to Believe”
Project Adviser: Daniel Mendelsohn
KA PO LEUNG Diamond Bar, California
Historical Studies: “The Fallen, the Broken, and the Resilient”
Project Adviser: Sean McMeekin
THEO NOONAN LOWREY Denville, New Jersey
Historical Studies: “An Ancient City for the Future: Reconstructing Physical and Intellectual Narratives in Beirut in the 1990s”
Concentration: Middle Eastern Studies
Project Adviser: Omar Youssef Cheta
Music: “Music for the Unloved: Compositions for Cheap and Discarded Instruments” and “Syntax”
Concentration: Middle Eastern Studies
Project Adviser: Alexander Bonus
CHARLES WILLIAM MCFARLANE New York, New York
Historical Studies: “Designed for Combat, Worn for Vogue: Social History of the Field Jacket”
Project Adviser: Christian Crouch
JACOB HENRY PRESCOTT Schenectady, New York
Historical Studies: “A Cape Full of Holes: Courtliness as Political Theory within the Angevin Empire”
Concentration: Medieval Studies
Project Adviser: Karen Sullivan
BRANDON JAMEL RICHARDSON Atlanta, Georgia
Historical Studies: “Black Internationalism and Nationalism in Atlanta: Through the Lens of the Political Career of Andrew Young”
Project Adviser: Tabetha Ewing ’89
DESTINY RIVIELLO Flushing, New York
Asian Studies and Historical Studies: “Gender, Sexuality, and Marriage as a Site of Socialist Production in Mao-Era China”
Project Adviser: Li-Hua Ying
SAMANTHA JANE SCHWARZ Weston, Connecticut
Historical Studies: “Incompatible Cultures: American Indians and the American Education Narrative”
Project Adviser: Cynthia Koch
WITAWIN SIRIPOONSAP Hat Yai, Thailand
Historical Studies: “War against Allies”
Project Adviser: Sean McMeekin
COE WILLIAM WALKER Birmingham, Alabama
Historical Studies: “Venetian-Ottoman Relations: 1453–1550”
Project Adviser: Tabetha Ewing ’89
Senior Projects 2015
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GOULED ABDISHAKOUR AHMED Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Historical Studies: “Black Dandyism: A Survey of Its Historical Presence and Its Modern Day Reality”
Project Adviser: Drew Thompson
BRIA LA TONYA BACON Atlanta, Georgia
Historical Studies: “The Aesthetics of Hair on Identity and Community: A Historical Study of African American Women”
Project Adviser: Drew Thompson
ALEXANDER AMIR D’ALISERA Fayetteville, Arkansas
Historical Studies: “Romanus Sum Ergo Sum: Claims to Romanitas from Late Antiquity to the Dawn of Humanism,” a joint Senior Project with Classical Studies
Project Adviser: Karen Sullivan
CASPER ANDRE DAVIS Brooklyn, New York
Historical Studies: “What Happened to Mine? A History of Black Reparations in the United States”
Project Adviser: Christian Crouch
MAX GUISBOND DOYLE Brookline, Massachusetts
Historical Studies: “Rewriting the Course: Al-Banna, Qutb, and the Muslim Brotherhood’s Fight for the Elevation of the Islamic Nation”
Concentration: Middle Eastern Studies
Project Adviser: Omar Youssef Cheta
ALEXANDER EREZ ECHELMAN Pelham, New York
Historical Studies: “A Contested Future: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, Native American Performers, and the Military’s Struggle for Control over Indian Affairs, 1868–1898”
Project Adviser: Christian Crouch
LUCAS VISCO FEITH Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Historical Studies: “A Study on the Significance of the Cultural Impact and Legacy of Monty Python’s Flying Circus on British Mainstream Comedy, or, And Now for Something Completely Different”
Project Adviser: Richard Aldous
LUCY MUNSAT FLAMM Cambridge, Massachusetts
Historical Studies: “Iranian Islands? Bahrain, Abu Masa, and the Tunbs in the Persian Gulf”
Concentration: Middle Eastern Studies
Project Adviser: Omar Youssef Cheta
BRIAN CHRISTOPHER HARRIS Greenbrae, California
Historical Studies: “Marius Barbeau: Doyen of Canadian Folklore”
Project Adviser: Gregory R. Moynahan
CHARLOTTE PETRI HELTAI Brookline, Massachusetts
Historical Studies: “Spontaneous Priesthood: An Exploration of Natural Law and the Temple in the Theology of Philo Judaeus”
Project Adviser: Gregory R. Moynahan
EIMILE ANNE JOYCE Chicago, Illinois
Historical Studies: “Transcribed in Black and White: Black Women on Trial in the 19th and 20th Centuries”
Project Adviser: Christian Crouch
CLAYTON ARTHUR KALEDIN Niskayuna, New York
Historical Studies: “The Art of Othering: Soviet Cultural Politics and the West”
Project Adviser: Gregory R. Moynahan
LEYA MARY KAYAS New York, New York
Historical Studies and Written Arts: “Books of Contemplation: Identity through the Chronicle Form,” a historical analysis of the period of the Second Crusade and a personal historical and fantastical fiction/memoir piece; a joint Senior Project with Middle Eastern Studies
Project Advisers: Christian Crouch and Neil Gaiman
JAMES BRIAN MCGURK Beverly Hills, California
Historical Studies: “Political and Economic Relations between Cuba and the United States: A Global Context to the Bay of Pigs”
Project Adviser: Miles Rodríguez
ALEC THOMAS NEWELL Latham, New York
Historical Studies: “Blast England! World War One, the Great English Vortex, and the Avant Garde in Great Britain”
Project Adviser: Richard Aldous
DAM LINH NGUYEN Warsaw, Poland
Combined plan (3+2) dual-degree program at Columbia University’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
JILLIAN SUZANNE NICOLS Titusville, Pennsylvania
Historical Studies: “Egyptian Collective Memory of Gamal Abdel Nasser”
Concentration: Middle Eastern Studies
Project Adviser: Omar Youssef Cheta
JONIAN RAFTI Staten Island, New York
Economics: “Roosevelt’s Recession, 1937: Lasting History and Contested Policy,” a joint Senior Project with Historical Studies
Project Advisers: Olivier G. Giovannoni and Myra Young Armstead
NOAH PARK RICHMOND New Haven, Connecticut
Historical Studies: “From Guadalcanal to Okinawa: An Evolution of American Warfare in the Pacific Theater”
Project Adviser: Sean McMeekin
JAMES NICHOLAS ROGERS-GAHAN New York, New York
Historical Studies: “Flavius Josephus: His Influences, Work, and Later Reception”
Project Adviser: Carolyn Dewald
JESSE GEORGE VERVEN Germantown, New York
Historical Studies: “A Pox upon Thy House No More: Humankind’s Struggle against Smallpox”
Concentration: Global and International Studies
Project Adviser: Alice Stroup