• Ottowomen: Picturing Women from Empire to Nation 1913-1928 

  Birkner, Joanna (2016)

  On a gloomy November morning in 1918, nervous spectators watched as fleets of grey ships entered the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul. Stately British warships led the procession, followed close behind by those of the French ...
• “The Problems in Our School”: Female Authors in Spanish Journals of Education, 1922-1936 

  Heller, Eden (2016)

  The educational reform project of the Second Spanish Republic stemmed from the educational reform movement in Spain beginning in the late 19th century. The Spanish movement was heavily influenced by foreign ideas and was ...
• Collages of Redefinition and Resistance: Scrapbooks, Memorial, and American Society during World War I 

  Gundy, Thomas (2016)

  The entry of the United States into World War I signaled a new internationalism for the American state. While the idealism of the Wilsonian era was not uniform throughout American society, the vision for which he advocated ...
• Concealed Criticism: The Uses of History in Anglo-Norman Literature, 1130-1210 

  Ristow, William (2016)

  The twelfth century in western Europe was marked by tensions and negotiations between Church, aristocracy, and monarchies, each of which vied with the others for power and influence. At the same time, a developing literary ...
• “Pas un droit, mais une faveur”: Immigration, Nationalism, and Population in 1920’s France 

  Cone, Elizabeth Sydney (2016)

  The amount of French casualties after World War One forced the Third Republic to recruit foreign labor from Europe and North Africa to replenish the economy. The government created the Société Générale d’Immigration (SGI) ...
• “Image”-ing Otherwise: the Ambivalent Politics of Asian American Visual Self-Representation in the post-1965 Era 

  Zheng, Sunny (2016)

  The post-1965 period was a time of growing Asian American visibility alongside massive sociopolitical unrest, both of which threatened the stability of the U.S. racist capitalist system. During this time, U.S. national ...
• An Analysis of Piratical Figures and Their Roles in Transforming Conceptions of Spatial Sovereignty in the Imperial Empires of the 18th Century 

  Weissberg, William (2015)

  Pirate communities have forever posed a threat to maritime activity. Prior to the expansion into the Atlantic world, pirates attacked the merchant ships in Mediterranean and Indian Ocean. As technological advancements ...
• Patrice Lumumba's Congo: Sovereignty Denied by American Interests 

  Kies, Samuel (2015)

  After the Berlin Conference of 1884-5 recognized King Leopold of Belgium's Congo Free State, he would go on to exploit the Congolese people with a violent and oppressive reign. However, the plight of the Congolese people ...
• Le Royaume de Féerie: Women's Writing and Women's Autonomy in the Late Seventeenth-Century France 

  Liu, Wei (2015)

  As a conscious literary product of their historical moment, seventeenth-century French fairy tales written by female writers explore social and political issues of the grand siècle. Seventeenth-century France was characterized ...
• Striving for Humanity or Failed Modern Liberal Democratic Imperialism: A Case Study of Woodrow Wilsons Fourteen Points Speech 

  N'Diaye, Victor (2015)

  This is an examination of Woodrow Wilson's concepts of national self-determination and his Fourteen Points Speech. Wilson's own intellectual, political development, and enthusiastic shaped the framework of his foreign ...
• The Construction of Syrian-American Identity in Abraham Rihbany's A Far Journey and Other Writings 

  Hazen, Jake (2015)

  This thesis examines A Far Journey (1914), the autobiography by Syrian-American pastor Abraham Mitrie Rihbany, and parses its relationship and reaction to American nativism and to the growing Syrian-American community. A ...
• Violence, Tranquility, and Changing Perceptions of Honor: A Close Analysis of Four Casta Paintings in New Spain: 1750-1790 

  Fuelling, Madison (2015)

  What role does violence play in visual depictions of Black women and Spanish men in late eighteenth century New Spain? This thesis concerns the portrayal of Black women (negra), Spanish men ( espafiol), and their offspring ...
• Sounding For Revolution In A New Key: Discussing Vaclav Havel's Iconic Essay, The Power of the Powerless 

  Boccellari, Brandon (2015)

  This thesis looks at rebellion and dissidence under Communism in Eastern Europe. Specifically, it examines the 1978 essay The Power of the Powerless, by Vaclav Havel, Czech playwright turned political activist. The question ...
• "So Palpably in the Teeth of the Constitution as to Shew They Mean to Pay no Respect to It": How the Oft Overlooked Republican Response to the Sedition Act Effected the Election of 1800 

  Bacharach, Barak (2015)

  This thesis examines the often overlooked local Republican newspaper network in the aftermath of the passing of the Alien and Sedition Acts and the buildup to the election of 1800. Most newspapers in the Early Republic ...
• The Long Depression: Deflation and Industrialization in 19th Century Germany 

  Colletta, Matthew (2015)

  In 1873, Germany and the rest of Europe entered a state of economic depression which lasted, by many accounts, until 1896. During this time, the peoples of the German Empire came up with a variety of responses to alleviate ...
• Finding Livingstone: An Examination of the Reputation of Dr. David Livingstone 

  Stretcher, Adalyn (2015)

  Dr. David Livingstone, a nineteenth century Scottish missionary doctor and government-commissioned explorer, is popularly known as an iconic, self-sacrificing Victorian hero who tirelessly devoted his life to working in ...
• Algeria and the World Conflict: The Development of American Imperialism and the Preface to Algerian Revolution 

  Smith, Alex (2015)

  On November 8, 1942 American and British troops poured onto the beaches of Morocco and Algeria. Representing the first joint military operation between the US and Great Britain during World War II, Operation Torch marked ...
• 'At no distant day': Shanghai, U.S. Imperial Aspirations, and the Construction of a Future Pacific Empire, 1842-1863 

  Callon, Sam (2015)

  This thesis attempts to complicate the conventional narrative of U.S. empire-that it was restricted to the North American continent before its international expansion with the 1898 Spanish-American War-by exploring the ...
• Instruments of Power: State Craft, Reciprocity, and Scientific Instruments at the Court of Queen Elizabeth I 

  Flug, Samara (2015)

  In the first year of Queen Elizabeth I’s reign over England, Sir Robert Dudley, the queen’s favorite courtier, gave Elizabeth a large, ornate astrolabe that he had commissioned from Thomas Gemini, one of the most prominent ...
• The Perils of Potsdam: American Quaker Relief Workers and the Post-World War II Expulsions of Germans 

  Rothschild, Daniel (2015)

  Between the final months of World War II and the end of the 1940s, about 13 million ethnic Germans fled and were expelled from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Although the expulsions had already ...

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