• Etched in Metal and Stone: The Local Contexts of Holocaust Remembrance at Three Memorials 

  Stern, Trevor (2022)

  Holocaust memorials' physical structures and interpretations are necessarily mediated and shaped by local contexts, including place and the particular time of construction. Three monuments from across a wide geographic and ...
• The Third Rome Besieged: The Persecution, Division, and Revival of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1917-1943 

  Haines, John Reed (2022)

  This thesis discusses the status and the use of the Russian Orthodox Church by both the invading Nazis and the Soviet Union in the opening two years of World War II. While the Russian Orthodox Church was once a significant ...
• "Hamburgers over pupusas?… Never!" : Tracing Personal Rebukes of American Imperial Intervention in the Salvadoran Civil War 

  Jovel, Rafael (2022)

  Since the 19th century, the United States has embarked on various interventions around the world to maintain an empire of influence and elevate its status to that of a global superpower. This was especially common in Latin ...
• Guiding Timid Reason: The Politics of Revolution and the Public Sphere in Late Eighteenth-Century America 

  Gaba, Jacob N. (2022)

  The American, French, and Haitian revolutions would not have been possible without the force of public opinion. Wrought by Enlightenment notions of the rational individual citizen, natural rights, and liberty, both rational ...
• From Orphan, to Citizen, to Transnational Adoptee: The Origins of the U.S.-Colombian Adoption Industry and the Emergence of Adoptee Counternarratives 

  Kawan-Hemler, Collin (2022)

  Roughly 1.2 million residents of the United States trace their ancestry to Colombia. They constitute one of the largest communities of South Americans in metropolitan areas like New York City and Miami. Accounts of this ...
• A Contradictory Subject: Reform, Resistance, and Holy Women in Early Modern Spain 

  Scully, Kathleen (2022)

  In 1517, Martin Luther, a German priest, nailed a document to the door of All Saints Church. This document, entitled Ninety-Five Theses, laid out corruption within the Catholic Church, and caused an immediate uproar across ...
• "We Drive Tanks, Why Not Trolleys?": Technology, Civil Rights, and Spatial Systems in Philadelphia's 1944 Transit Strike 

  Harris, Conor (2022)

  Using a 1944 transit strike as a lens, this thesis attempts to explore racial tensions in Philadelphia during the long civil rights movement as it relates to the city's trolley public transit system. The streetcar system ...
• Imagining Islam: Early Republican Literature and the Barbary Crisis 

  Allen, Jeffrey Carl (2022)

  In 1794, the United States Congress officially authorized the creation of a national naval force and just ten years later pushed back Tripolitan soldiers on the coast of North Africa. Yet for decades prior to the First ...
• Three Jews at a Time: A History of Antisemitism and Exclusion at Haverford College, 1887-1945 

  Weisberg, Joseph M. (2021)
• Internationalizing Labor Relations: Japan, the ILO, and the Post-Versailles Order, 1919-1938 

  Sudo, Jonathan (2021)

  The International Labor Organization (ILO) was founded in 1919 at the Paris Peace Conference with the aim of promoting the universal improvement of working conditions via structured cooperation between the state, workers, ...
• Sunshine on Leith: Art, Architecture, and Film in Scottish Nationalism and Culture, 1945-1999 

  Lummus, Andrew (2021)

  Scottish nationalism is a current and pressing issue, with the nation poised for another vote on independence after the failed 2014 referendum and the consequences of Brexit in 2016. In a long history of wars and rebellions ...
• Ojos en la espalda, vigilándome: Carpeteo, Police Surveillance, and the Negative Space of Colonial Liberalism in Mid-Twentieth Century Puerto Rico 

  Ojeda Rexach, Claudia Sofía (2021)

  From the late 1940s until 1987, the Intelligence Division of the Police of Puerto Rico compiled files on individuals tied to pro-independence and nationalist movements. These files, known as carpetas, held personal information ...
• The Right Man For The Job: Why Oscar Robertson Was the Ideal NBPA President 

  Primosch, Tom (2021)

  This thesis aims to showcase why Oscar Robertson was the ideal person to take over as president of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) in 1965. It also argues that the current state of NBA free agency would ...
• No More Hiroshimas: Historical Memory of the Atomic Bombing and Preservation of Post-War Japanese Pacifism 

  Feng, Yifan (2021)

  The atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, marked the first use of nuclear weapons in a conflict in history. As one of the tragedies marking the conclusion of the Second World War, its social and political impact ...
• In Pursuit of Poetic Community: Alternative Imaginations of Architectural Politicality and Identity at the Open City, Chile 

  Hall, Allison (2021)

  In 1965, a group of ten architects, poets, artists, and philosophers set out from Punta Arenas, a town deep in Chilean Patagonia, with the intention of traversing the South American continent to find poetic inspiration for ...
• Displaying China: The Impact of Chinoiserie in Shaping British Identity and Culture in the Eighteenth Century 

  Burns, Ellie (2021)

  This thesis explores Sino-Western exchanges in eighteenth-century England, from the 1740s-1760s, to investigate the material culture side of Chinese porcelain and ceramic goods within the context of the English fascination ...
• "An Acquaintance with that Dear Country: "Emma Willard on American History, Womanhood, and Nationalism 

  Denegre, Mathilde (2021)

  Emma Willard published the first two editions of her bestselling textbook History of the United States in 1828 and 1829. Willard had already gained fame as an educational reformer and advocate for female education. She was ...
• Homosexual-adjacent figures: Re-producing deviant sexuality in 18th-century France 

  Baker, Brian (2021)

  In the mid-18th-century, sexuality, as it related to gender, became increasingly convoluted. Men who slept with men were not properly represented by terms such as "sodomite" and "pederast." Instead, they occupied a new ...
• To Drown on Dry Land: Blackness, Jim Crow Modernity, and Counter-Modernities on the Levees of the Southern Mississippi River 

  Bond-Ashpole, Raynor (2021)

  As a historical site of labor and race-making, the levee—ubiquitous along the southern Mississippi River on account of the plantation class's desire to protect their productive land from flooding—was integral to defining ...
• The Pitiful King: Tears, Blood, and Family in Revolutionary Royalism 

  Murano, Victoria (2020)

  When the French Revolution erupted in 1789, revolutionaries strove to foster a sense of freedom of expression, guaranteeing a brief freedom of the press. The eleventh article of the 1791 Declaration of the Rights of Man ...

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