Award-Winning Theses

History Theses Awarded Distinction

Gia A. Curatola: The Lady of the South Sea: Women's Participation and Its Consequences

Emily Eckert: Home Fires Burning: The London Fog of 1952 and the Movement to Clean Air

Leah Fine: Colorblind Colonialism? Lustotropicalismo and Portugal's 20th Century Empire in Africa

Sheli Paige Frank: Rescuing Childhood: Representing the Orphan Trains in U.S. Popular Media, 1930-2013

Barrie Robyn Jakabovics: Displaying American Abundance Abroad: The Misinterpretation of the 1959 American National Exhibition in Moscow

Hadassah Karp: A Beautiful Scheme: Christine Ladd-Franklin and the Expansion of Logical Methodology

Tamar Rabinowitz: Reexamining Betty Friedan's Critique of Post-War Women's Educators

Clare J. Richfield: The Suburban Ranch House in Post-World War II America: A Site of Contrast in an Era of Unease, Uncertainty, and Instability

Jill Rosenthal: Enduring Ethnicities: An Examination of Government Efforts to Erase Ethnic Tensions from the Public Sphere of Rwanda: 1994-2004

Hannah Rubashkin: Immigration and National Belonging: How Algeria Influenced the Evolution of French Citizenship Law, 1870-1889

American Studies Theses Awarded Distinction

Rachel Aliza Ames: The Private School Voucher Debate in the Jewish American Community: A Window into a Greater American Question

Rebecca Davis: Rip "Her" to Shreds: How the Women of 1970s New York Punk Defied Gender Norms

Kirsten Hansen: Hair or Bare?: The History of American Women and Hair Removal, 1914-1934