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Recent Senior Projects in Historical Studies

  • “‘Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea’: South Africa’s Black Consciousness Movement and ‘Thinking at the Limit,’ 1968–77”
  • “CIA in Laos: A Secret Collaboration of CIA and Hmong”
  • “Pharsalus: Fall of the Roman Alexander”
  • “Shekomeko: The Mohican Village That Shaped the Moravian Missionary World”

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Complete version of Historical Studies senior projects at the library's Digital Commons linked below.

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Senior Projects 2018

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

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


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


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

Senior Projects 2014

REBECCA CLAIRE BUNSCHOTEN                                                                    Oak Park, Illinois
American Studies and Historical Studies: “As American as Apple Pie: The History of American Apple Pie and Its Development into a National Symbol”
Project Advisers: Christian Crouch and Mark Lytle

JUSTIN PATRICK DEMPSEY                                                                    Germantown, New York
Historical Studies: “Civil War and American Education: A Changing Curriculum?”
Project Adviser: Myra Young Armstead

BENJAMIN D. FIERING                                                                     Fort Montgomery, New York
Historical Studies: “Evgeny A. Preobrazhensky’s New Economics: Primitive Accumulation and the Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Peasantry”
Project Adviser: Gennady R. Shkliarevsky

CHELSEA ROSE FRANKEL                                                                       Tewksbury, New Jersey
Historical Studies: “A State of Perpetual Politics: When Private Interests Protect the Precedent of Privilege in New Jersey’s Public Schools”
Project Adviser: Robert J. Culp

CLEO HELEN UTTAL GOLD                                                                             Venice, California
Historical Studies: “Homework for Housework: The History of Domestic Education from Domestic Economy to Home Economies, 1841–1960,” as study of the evolution of advice, proposals, school curricula, and public policy on household practices and domestic science in the United States
Project Adviser: Myra Young Armstead

PERCEVAL JACK INKPEN                                                                      Kimberton, Pennsylvania
German Studies and Historical Studies: “‘At Once Everyone Seemed to Come Alive’: Hessian Mercenaries Gain Autonomy and Self Define during the American Revolution, 1776–1783”
Project Advisers: Franz R. Kempf, Christian Crouch, and Gregory B. Moynahan

MATTHEW STEVEN KEENE                                                                        Mt. Juliet, Tennessee
Historical Studies: “Command in the Sand: General George S. Patton Jr. and the North African Campaign of World War II”
Project Adviser: Mark Lytle

CAREY GUIDRY MANN                                                                                       Eugene, Oregon
Historical Studies: “Operation Red Hat,” an exploration of a new context for chemical weapons discourse
Project Adviser: Mark Lytle

MORAIMA ORTIZ                                                                                             Bronx, New York
Anthropology and Historical Studies: “Trudeau, Tuberculosis, and Trails: The Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium and the Social Dimensions of TB”
Concentration: Science, Technology, and Society
Project Adviser: Gregory B. Moynahan

FRANCES SLOTE                                                                                        Lenox, Massachusetts
Historical Studies: “Early American Capitalism, the Rural Workforce, and the American Agrarian Ideal,” an analysis of postrevolutionary economic development and the idealization of agriculture
Project Adviser: Gregory B. Moynahan

PENELOPE ROSE WEBER                                                                    Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
Historical Studies: “A Woman’s Voice: Female Autobiography in the 19th Century”
Project Advisers: Richard Aldous and Christian Crouch

BENJAMIN LINTON WHITLEY                                                                            Atlanta, Georgia
Historical Studies: “Blue Skies: The Success and Failure of Cable Television”
Project Adviser: Robert J. Culp

Senior Projects 2013

JAMES H. BLACKBURN                                                                             Tuckerton, New Jersey
Historical Studies: “The Roosevelts and the Memory of Dutch New York,” an exploration of early modern and colonial American
history through the ancestry of the Roosevelt family
Project Adviser: Christian Ayne Crouch

AMRITA KAUR DHILLON                                                                                  New Delhi, India
Historical Studies: “The Everyday Hero: Police Policy and Political Violence in Weimar Berlin, 1918–1929,” an exploration of the Berlin police’s battle against political extremism for control of the streets
Project Adviser: Gregory B. Moynahan

WILDER EMMONS FICHTER                                                                             Putney, Vermont
Historical Studies: “Drastic Times. Drastic Measure: How World War II Transformed Hollywood, the American Military, and the Mafia”
Project Adviser: Mark Lytle

GEORGE EDWARD GLEASON                                                                         Bangkok, Thailand
Historical Studies: “Maoist Chinese Revolutionary Foreign Policy in East Africa,” a study of revolutionary engagement and anticolonial solidarity in the Third World
Project Adviser: Robert J. Culp

ARTHUR DAVID HOLLAND MICHEL                                                                        Cusco, Peru
Historical Studies: “The Peruvians in Paterson, 1956–1970,” a study of how two histories intersect and a community germinates in northern New Jersey
Project Adviser: Gregory B. Moynahan
Written Arts: “Four Stories”
Project Adviser: Mona Simpson

ALYSSA ANN MAYER                                                                           Warrington, Pennsylvania
Historical Studies and Russian and Eurasian Studies: “Russian Women’s Liberation Movement: Radicals, Liberals, and the Perception of Self,” a study of why the women’s movement in Russia failed
Project Adviser: Gennady L. Shkliarevsky

DEVON RUTTAN MOFFAT                                                                       Los Angeles, California
American Studies and Historical Studies: “Deep Cleaning the Home with Ma Perkins: A Cultural History of America’s Most Trusted Radio Soap Opera”
Project Adviser: Christian Ayne Crouch

ISAAC DANIEL MOORE                                                                                Lame Deer, Montana
Historical Studies: “Jews as Political Pawns in Spanish Politics, 1936–1945,” an exploration of how Jews factored into Spanish society and politics during the Spanish Civil War and World War II
Project Adviser: Cecile E. Kuznitz

KASRA SARIKHANI                                                                               London, United Kingdom
Historical Studies and Human Rights: “Politics by Other Means: Authenticity as Dissent in Post-1968 Czechoslovakia”
Project Adviser: Gregory B. Moynahan

ILYA SERGIIVICH SMIRNOFF                                                                 San Francisco, California
Historical Studies: “The Magnificent Procession of Grand Duke Alexei: Alexei Romanoff in the United States, 1871–1872”
Project Adviser: Richard Aldous

JACKSON BERNARD SMITH                                                                        Northport, New York
Historical Studies: “A Double Delirium: French Memory of Nazism during the Algerian War, 1954–1962,” an examination of thehistorical analogies of Nazism and French colonial policy in Algeria through the works of Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Chris Marker
Project Adviser: Gregory B. Moynahan

SHANNON PAUL THOMAS                                                                        Rutherford, New Jersey
Historical Studies: “Transmission Impossible: U.S. Cultural Diplomacy, Radio Free Europe, and the Crisis in Hungary 1956”
Project Adviser: Richard Aldous

ERIC STEPHEN YOUNG                                                                               Dix Hills, New York
Historical Studies: “The Wrong Way Kids: Hardcore Punk as a Political Force,” an analysis of hardcore punk in the early 1980s as a political movement
Project Adviser: Mark Lytle

Senior Projects 2012

NOAH EMET JACOB BLAICHMAN                                                              New York, New York
Historical Studies: “Unfamiliar Homeland: The Global Historic Context of the Destruction of Jewish-Iraqi Relations,” a redefinition of the causes for the exodus of some 200,000 Jews out of Iraq
Project Adviser: Jennifer Derr

YI-CHING CHEN                                                                                                   Taipei, Taiwan
Historical Studies: “A Strategical Friendship: The Sino-American Relationship during World War II”
Project Adviser: Robert J. Culp
Tuba Performance (B.Mus.): “Yi-Ching and Friends: Time Travel on Tuba”; Bach: Sonata for Viola da Gamba in G minor, BWV 1029; Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70; Koetsier: Brass Quintet, Op. 65; Penderecki: Capriccio for Solo Tuba; Horovitz: Tuba Concerto
Principal Teacher: Alan Baer

LOLA SOPHIA DALRYMPLE                                                                        New York, New York
Historical Studies: “The Unsolid South: Challenges to Democratic Ascendancy, and the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898”
Project Adviser: Myra Young Armstead

THOMAS GOODWIN FRASER                                                                    Riverside, Connecticut
Historical Studies: “What Are You Going to Do with Your Boy? Camp Dudley and the Beginnings of Organized Camping in America, 1885–1918”
Project Adviser: Gennady L. Shkliarevsky

FARIS GIACAMAN                                                                                      Ramallah, West Bank
Historical Studies: “From Fida’i to Representative: The Founding History of the Palestinian Political Representation”
Project Adviser: Joel Perlmann

JESSICA LYNN KIM                                                                                     Brooklyn, New York
Film and Electronic Arts: “Did You Mes Cheveux?”
Project Adviser: Ed Halter
Historical Studies: “My Word is Your Words and Your Words are My Word: Royal Kabary, Rumors, and Markets”
Project Adviser: Robert J. Culp

IAN JESSE LLOYD                                                                              New Bedford, Massachusetts
Historical Studies: “Empowering the Individual: Rudolf Steiner, Social Threefolding, and the Failure of American Politics”
Project Adviser: Alice Stroup

KATHERINE LEIGH MCINNIS                                                                Columbia, South Carolina
Historical Studies, Sociology, and Gender and Sexuality Studies: “Maternity Papas and the Muslim Other: The Creation of Sweden’s Ideal Citizenry through Parental Leave Policy”
Project Advisers: Gregory Moynahan and Allison McKim

IRINA ROGOVA                                                                                            Brooklyn, New York
Historical Studies: “The Professional Cherokee: Elias Boudinot and the Negotiation of Indian Political Identity, 1817–1839”
Project Adviser: Christian Ayne Crouch

NICHOLAS GEORGE SEIBERT                                                                  Short Hills, New Jersey
Historical Studies: “The Rise and Fall of Salomon Brothers: Leadership, Greed, and Self-Preservation on Wall Street in the 1980s”
Project Adviser: Mark Lytle

MATTHEW BRYANT SHUBERT                                                         West Chester, Pennsylvania
Historical Studies: “A National Police Agency Is Born: The Roles of J. Edgar Hoover, the Massacre at Kansas City’s Union Station, and America’s War on Crime in the Creation of the F.B.I.”
Project Adviser: Mark Lytle

TRISTAN THOMAS SIEGEL                                                                          Scarsdale, New York
Historical Studies and Environmental and Urban Studies: “The Environmental and Cultural Effects on the Conquest of Mexico”
Project Adviser: Alice Stroup

TARUN SINGH                                                                                                   Bangalore, India
Economics and Historical Studies: “Nehru’s Economic Policy: Nationalism and the Postcolonial State,” an exploration of Indianeconomic policy from 1947–1964, as a development strategy and a means to solidify the nation state
Project Advisers: Sanjaya DeSilva and Robert J. Culp

ASHLEY LYNN STEGNER                                                                             Kingston, New York
Historical Studies: “The Making of Peace: From the Cuban Missile Crisis to the Limited Test Ban Treaty,” an examination of how decisions and actions during and after the Cuban Missile Crisis led to the Limited Test Ban Treaty
Project Adviser: Mark Lytle

RENDER ELVIS STETSON-SHANAHAN                                                       Rhinebeck, New York
Historical Studies: “Burning the Fat from their Souls: An Illustrated History of the Early American Whaling Industry on Nantucket Island and in the Eastern Colonies, 1640–1775”
Project Adviser: Gennady L. Shkliarevsky

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