Past Theses

2010

Ashley Dotterweich, 'Forming the Franks: the construction ofChristian Identity in Ten Books of Historiesin Merovingian Gaul,' advised by Jason Glenn.

 Sammy Goldenberg, 'Rejecting Futurama: Los Angeles InternationalAirport and the American turn against growth,'advised by Vanessa Schwartz.

Elizabeth Gustafson, 'The Fightin' Side of Country Music: debateand diversification in the 1960s and 1970s,'advised by Robin Kelley.

Jack Hagel, 'Political Lives Entwined: Ethel Annakin Snowden'sinfluence on Philip Snowden's political support of women'senfranchisement in Britain, 1903-1918,' advised by Lois Banner.

*Stephen Lamb, '"Wicked and Diverse Opinions": controlling heresyin the Henrician Reformation,' advised by Cynthia Herrup.

 Sean Yetter, 'Hindenburg and the origins of the Fuhrer state,'advised by Paul Lerner.

*awarded High Honors

2009

Mark Brennan, “A Wall of Anxious Words — Race Science, the Rhetoric of Anti-Asian Nativism and the Protection of California’s Manifest Destiny, 1880-1910”

Caitlin Koford, “Christianities of the Fourth and Fifth Centuries: The Christian Narratives of Augustine, Sulpicius Severus and Patrick”

Ray M. Martin, “No Extinct — A History of the Tongva/Gabrieleno People of Los Angeles”

Garrett Mott, “The Great War: The Greatest Error of Modern History — Principles, Practices, and Decision Making, 1914-1918”

Megan O’Dell, “Births?  A Discussion of Eugenics and the Pro-Contraceptions Movement in Edwardian England”

Angela Vimuttinan, “Rene Decartes’ Correspondence with Three Learned Women and Its Influence on 17th Century Attitudes towards Women’s Education”