Senior Thesis Presentations

History Department Senior Thesis Presentations

Monday, May 1, 2023
1:30-4:30 PM
Pyle Center, Room 226

GROUP 1: 1:30 – 2:10PM, THE STATE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

• Maddy McGlone: “Something Wonderful and Beautiful: Conflict and Collaboration in the Founding of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum”
• Andrea Lyne Corro: “Colonial Jim Crow: The Perpetuation of the Gold and Silver Payroll System in the Panama Canal Zone”
• Cole Roecker: “Restoration or Cattail-ization? The Drainage of Horicon Marsh and the Shortcomings of ‘Restoring’ Land”
• Kylie Hollenstein: “Druid Tycoons, A Look at the Development of Hilton Head Island”

GROUP 2: 2:10 – 2:50PM, INEQUALITY AND OPPRESSION IN THE UNITED STATES

• Josh Kobussen: “Contradictions of the American Dream: Victor Berger and Censorship During WWI”
• Isaac Owen: “Forging Alliances in Post-Civil War Kentucky: How Clubs and Conversations Led a Kentucky Business Class Towards a Commercial Future in the Gilded Era”
• Ruoshui Liu: “Following the Money: Currencies and the Financial Infrastructures of the Yunnanese Tin Trade, 1905 – 1949”
• Robert Hall: “Information Wants to Be Free: How Public Universities Contributed to Mass Incarceration”

BREAK: 2:50 – 3:10PM

GROUP 3: 3:10 – 3:50PM, TRAUMA AND MEMORY

• KJ LeFave: “How the French Fur Trade and Resulting Religious Colonialism Among Midwestern Anishinaabe Communities Informs the MMIWG Crisis”
• Danielle Lennon: “History of Diagnosis and Treatment of Trauma: An Analysis of the Influence of the Vietnam Wars and a Case Study on Cambodian American Refugee Communities Relationship with Trauma from 1975 to 2021”
• Ayuka Sinanoglu: “Colonial Conquests: Soviet Subjugation of the Kalmyk Nomads”
• Reilly Coon: “From Mother to Monster, Protector to Perpetrator: Framing Pauline Nyiramasuhuko’s Antithetical Identities at the ICTR”

GROUP 4: 3:50 – 4:30PM, THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD

• Charles Pei: “World Wanderers: Organized Crime in a Post-Socialist Factory Town”
• Karlsson Qingze Zhao: “Hu Shi and May Fourth – A Dialogue with Revolution”
• Tyler Hengst: “Unreformed and Unwelcomed: The Growth of Calvinist Intolerance towards Catholics during the early Eighty Years’ War”
• Rachel Lynch: “From Cold War to Hot War: The Geopolitical Influence of Zbigniew Brzezinski on American Posture towards Afghanistan, 1978-1998”

RECEPTION TO FOLLOW