Senior Thesis Topics

Following is a list of students and their thesis topics from past years:

2010

Alison Channon, "From Conjugal Rights to Bodily Self-Possession: Confronting Marital Rape in Nineteenth-Century America"

Nora Epstein, "Images in Conflict: Iconoclasm during the Early English Reformation"

Tegan Kehoe, "Female Education, Gender and the Public Eye in the Literary Careers of Sarah Wentworth Morton and William Hill Brown"

Matthew Lawrence, "The Trauma of Modernity and the Therapy of History: Medievalism Before and After the World Wars"

Daniel Orkin, "The Company of Scotland and the Failure of the Darien Scheme in the Atlantic World"

Benjamin Serby, "The Scientific Ideologist: Lewis Feuer and the marxist Roots of Neoconservatism"

Michael Stars, "'Remember the Maine?' Lessons from a Historiography of the Spanish-American War"

2009

Alex Braver, "'The Great Questions Which Have Agitated This Country' Henry Clay and Abraham Lincoln on Whig Political sand Economic Philosophy"

Mallory Cole, "Farming Along the Concord Battle Road: From Market Gardens to National Park, 1860-1960"

Michael Dube, "John Lilburne's Role as a Secular Saint and the Rise of the Leveller Party"

Emily Pope-Obeda, "The Boston Police Strike of 1919"

Adam Ross, "From Darkness to Light: How the Black Death Changed the Practice of Medieval Medicine"

Danielle Ross, "Jonathan Dayton: Soldier, Statesman, Traitor? A Look at Politics in the Early Republic"

Anna Rothman, "Monuments to Empire: The Fate of British Cemeteries in India Since Independence"

Jordan Rothman, "'A Pledge of a Nation': Charting the Economic Aspirations, Political Motivations, and Consequences of Confederate Currency Creation"

Michael Schwartz, "The Normans"

Emily Stoeth, "The Struggle for Educational Equality at the University of Texas School of Law"

Sarah Wolf, "Policies, Propaganda, and Parlilament: The Means and Ends of Royal Power During the Reign of William III"

2008

Rebecca Cohen, "'Many Are in Tears': Combat Stress in the Civil War"

Noah Bein, ""Watch City Neighbors: A Social History of Family Public Housing in Waltham, Massachusetts"

Michael Dax, "Red Cloud: From Warrior to Statesman"

David Feingold, "Shifting Interest: The American Press' Response to Pogroms in Late Imperial Russia"

Ari Fertig, ""Pamphleteer in the Blogosphere: The Stamp Act Crisis, Blogs, and the American Polemical Tradition"

Emily Kadar, "Make the Struggle: Black Female Leadership and Grassroots Organization in the Civil Rights Movement"

Amelia Liebhold, "Three Perspectives on Richard Nixon's Visit to China: The Nation, National Review, and the New York Times"

Meghan Kawka, "The North of England and Its Lords: The Benefits of Association with Richard III"

Kaitlyn Millerick, "'Clear and Present Danger': The Shift in the United States Government's Approach to Freedom of Expression from World War I to World War II"

David Miyashiro, "And Justice for All: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War and Its Influence During the American Civil War and Beyond"

Joshua Nudell, "Champions, Friends, Soldiers: The Macedonian Aristocracy, the Officers of Alexander and the Creation of Hellenistic Kingdoms"

Joseph Pincus, "A Tale of Two Temples: The Migration of Mishkan Tefila and Temple Israel in the Boston Area"

Matthew Schutzer, "The Media's Role in Perpetuating Criminal Stereotypes and Wrongful Convictions"

Kaila Schwartz, "Invention and Convention: A Genealogical Approach to Massachusetts Onomastics"

Andrew Schwartz, "Man of Vision: Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Naval, Maritime and Air Preparations for World War II"

Lauren Stein, "'V' for Victory: Colonel Britton's Radio Campaign against Nazi Germany"

Ari Tessler, "Innovations of the Marshall Plan: With Special Regard to the Reconstruction of Germany"

2007

Charlotte Benham, "The Nepali Maoist Movement: Constructing a People's War"

Frederick Daley, "Nuclear Bluff: The Role and Effectiveness of Nuclear Weapons in Containing the Soviet Union from 1945-1962"

Gina Dierkes, "Tensions in the American Civil War Military and Political PRison Systems: Humanity, Justice, and Necessity"

Janine Evans, "Erotic Morbidity and the Female Dichotomy in 19th Century British Thought and Culture"

Joshua Frankel, "The Trials by Fire of Medical Research"

Julia Gordon, "Illusory Independence: An Analysis of the Evolution of Pre-marital Relations within the Working Class with Respect to Female Autonomy"

Leah Goudsmit, "The Mafia, An Allied Force in Sicility During W W II:? Revisiting Historical Evidence, Political Context and Public Perception"

Harold Grossman, "Historians of the Gothic War (AD 535-552)"

Hadassah Holmes, "Regulationism or Abolitionism? The Struggle to Control Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century France"

James Kahler, "Originality and Inspiration: The Roots of T.E. Lawrence's Military Success"

Philip Keisman, "Applying the British Model to the German Road: German Exceptionality and the Sonderweg in British Scholarship"

Rebecca Reiman, "An 'Amreican' Education: Cultural Conotext and Public Schools"

Mark Samburg, "The Revolution of Veterans' Educational Assistance: The Miraculous Coalition and the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944"

Michael Soffer, "From Armbands to 'Bong Hits': Students' Rights to Free Expression and the Supreme Court's Debate Over How to Instill Democracy in Public School Children"

Caryn Steiger, "Extra, Extra: The Press in Great Britain in 1939"

Peter Vigneron, "Guardians of American Power: The Emergence of a Neoconservative Foreign Policy, 1973-1980"