Honors Projects from 2024
Radical and Liberal Approaches to Gay Rights Organizing from Stonewall to AIDS, Sophia Blaha
The French Official Mistress: Fashioning Female Political Power in the Ancien Régime, Samantha Brown
The Ethiopian Student Movement and the Dilemma of Eritrean Sovereignty, Liat G. Tesfazgi
Prescriptions of Identity: Jewish identities defined, questioned, and remembered in Early Modern Spain and early colonial America, Juliana Keyes Vandermark
Honors Projects from 2023
"Know-Nothingism, Abolitionism, and Fanaticism:" An Analysis of the Collapse of the Second Party System in Maine, Justis Dixon
Student Activism and Malaysian Politics, 1955-74: Revising the History of the Malay Language Society (PBMUM), Song Eraou
The Shah Bano Case: An English-Language Democratic Practice in Post-Colonial India, Hafsa Hossain
Honors Projects from 2022
A Conscious Image of Liberation: Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) in the Late Franco Regime, Through the Lens of the Press, Sebastian de Lasa
Greening the Market: Natural Groceries from the Countercuisine to Whole Foods, Livia Kunins-Berkowitz
Sexual Knowledge in Late-Colonial Bombay: Contested Authority, Politicized Sciences, Rahul Prabhu
A Time for Every Purpose: Race, Medical Professionalism, and the Physicians’ Dilemma, Reuben Mindlin Schafir
Building Home in Diaspora: New York’s Jewish Left and the History of the Bronx Housing Cooperatives, Micah Benjamin Wilson
Enlightenment as Global History: The Reception of Confucianism in Eighteenth-Century France, Rachel Yang
Honors Projects from 2021
Site, Power, and Experience: Three Contemporary Installation Works on Global Mobility, Xiyin Sabrina Lin
Promises Unfulfilled: Integration and Segregation in Metropolitan Philadelphia Public Schools, 1954-2009, Nina Nayiri McKay
Brutal Encounters: Primitivity, Politics, and the Postmodern Revolution, Archer Thomas
Honors Projects from 2020
Survival Strategies: Historic Preservation, Jewish Community, and the German Democratic Republic, Emily Ann Cohen
“One of Folly’s Failures”: Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and the Decline of the Thirteenth Amendment, Grace Ann Fenwick
Traders and Troublemakers: Sovereignty in Southern Morocco at the End of the 19th Century, Joseph Campbell Hilleary
Narrative, Identity, and Holocaust Memorialization in the United States, Alexander Noah Kogan
“The Spirit of Turbulence”: East Indian Political Imaginaries in Early 20th Century British Guiana, Faria A. Nasruddin
Sex Sells: The Iconography of Sex Work in Contemporary Art Since 1973, Mackenzie Philbrick
Duty and Distinction: Scientists as Intellectuals in Modern China, Helen Wang
Hermeneutic Encounters: Hans-Georg Gadamer in North America, 1968-1986, Ian Ward
Honors Projects from 2019
Shaping Canons and Building Legacies: Collectors and the History of African American Art, Kinaya Hassane
The Politics of Land Rights in the Transition to Democratic South Africa: The Rise and Fall of the Constitutional Property Clause, Anna Louisa Roosevelt Lennon
"I Deny Your Authority to Try My Conscience:" Conscription and Conscientious Objectors In Britain During the Great War, Albert William Wetter
Honors Projects from 2018
Urban Modernity and Turbulent Water: Toward a Transnational History of Expansion in Northern Japan, 1866-1882, Ethan Barkalow
Women’s Bodies Between Market and State: Lineages of the Transnational Indian Surrogacy Industry, Shea Cristina Necheles
Honors Projects from 2014
A "Peculiarly American" Enthusiasm: George Bellows, Traditional Masculinity, and The Big Dory, James W. Denison IV
Reconsidering Operation Condor: Cross-border Military Cooperation and the Defeat of the Transnational Left in Chile and Argentina during the 1970s, Georgia C. Whitaker