Presentations
Lyndon Johnson and the Atlantic Alliance, Nicholas Adell
Death was Creeping Through the Air: Post-War American Politics and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic, Emma Baker
Land Reform and Democratization in Rajasthan State, Jason Bent
Ethnic and National Identities in Jewish and Israeli Minority Literature, Hadas Binyamini
Contested Land, Contested Representations: Re-visiting the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine, Gabriel Brown
Between Force and Law: The Early Years of the Pinochet Regime, Lily Bryant
Searching For Utopia in Postwar British Urban Planning, Julia Butterfield
Judaism Despite Modernity: Schoenberg and the German Tradition, Maurice Cohn
Black September and Jordanian Nationhood, Sarah Cole
Access and Activism: Reproductive Health at Oberlin College, 1960-1980, Brittany Craig
Ninety Seconds in Charleston: How Historical Memory and Myth Sustain Racial Inequality in America, Kaia Diringer
The Left Wing of the Possible: Building an American Labor Party in the Shadow of the New Deal: 1936-1947, Jesse Docter
Ash Loss in an Era of Climate Change: Examining the Growth and Distribution of Understory Trees in High-ash Mortality Areas, Sophie Everbach
The Effects of the Munich Visiting Program on German-Jewish Memory of the Holocaust, 1960-1972, Jesse Gamoran
Norman Jacobson’s Search for Authenticity, Kai Gardner
The Underground Soviet: Shaping Soviet Culture in the Leningrad Metro, Ian Gilchrist
Consider the Mantis Shrimp: Semiotics and Authorship in Italo Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler, Zoe Ginsberg
"A Spectacle of Vice": Sex Work and Moralism Under the Paris Commune, Eliza Guinn
“Overrun all this country…”: Two New Mexican lives through the U.S. Civil War, Izzy Hannigan
Soundin’ National Cultcha: Creolization, Migration, and Jamaican Music, Warren Harding
Using Filipino American National Democratic Activism as a Lens for Redressing American Empire in the Philippines, Melissa Harris
“Music-making in a Joyous Sense”: Community and the Dangers of Modernity at Benjamin Britten's Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts, Daniel Hautzinger
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Approaching Music Education with a Cultural Lens, Daniel Huerta
A Libertarian Idea: Redistributive Taxation as a Violation of Property Rights, Shizhe Hu
The Fragile Sovereign? Sovereignty, Citizenship, and Conscription in Northern Ireland, 1938-1946, Connor Jerzak
"God Knows What I Know": Trans-Eurasian Influence on the Sacred-Secular Conflict in 13th Century Europe, Matthew Kendrick
The Funding of Education in Ohio and the Perpetuation of Inequality, Roger Kligerman
The Reinvention of Britain: British National Identity and the European Community, 1967-1975, J. Meade Klingensmith
The Life of John Laurens, Alex Kohn
Teaching People to Listen: Nadezhda Briusova and Mass Music Education in Late-Imperial and early Soviet Russia, Annika Krafcik
Evangelical Protestants and Political Trust, Phil Lee
A Biological-Historical Narrative of the Bengal Famine of 1943-44, Joseph Leffler
Lo que el carro cambio: Changing the Performance of Tradition in A Transnational Community, Rocio León
Sí, Me Afectó: The Women of Bracero Households in Michoacán, 1942-1964, Eleanor Lindberg
Healing and Restoration Under Slavery, and The Public Memory That Lets Us Remembers, Muntaha Mohamed
On Objects and Voices: The Intersection of Oral History and Archaeology in the Case of Shule Ya Kujitambua, Ella Murray
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo: Motherhood as a Tool to Undermine the Patriarchy, Tal Netter-Sweet
Different Paths to the Same Failure: American and French Military Involvement in Vietnam from 1945-1973, Samuel Paul
A Reevaluation and Reinterpretation of the Association for the Advancement of Women, 1873-1897, Claire Payne
Phylogenetics and Phylogeography in a Gypsum Endemic Clade: Haploësthes and Sartwellia, Rachel Plumb
"And There in the Postwar Silence": Olga Berggolts and Postwar Soviet Subjectivity, 1945-1954, Lillian Posner
Canon, Code, and Cloister: A Legal History of the Nuns' Revolt at Sainte-Croix, 589-591, Jake Purcell
Harrowing the Church: Gregory VII, Hugh of Die, and Religious Transformation of France in the 1070s, John Schechtman-Marko
"We Need Not Weep Alone": Evelyn C. White's Vision of a World Where Black Women are Free, Natalia Shevin
In the Eyes of the Beholder: The Radicalization of the Virgin of Guadalupe Within Latine Spaces, Stephanie Celina Shugert
Re-membering, Re-telling and Re-surfacing Histories: An Examination of Memory in Post-Dictatorial Chilean Society, Elise Shulman-Reed
"An Island Reborn": Imagery of Japan in Mid-twentieth Century American Magazines, Alexander Somogyi
America in Wonderland: Defining the Nation in the Early Amusement Parks of Minneapolis/St. Paul, Kathleen Thornton
Freewheeling Women? The Conservative Normalization of American Women’s Cycling, 1890-1900, Hanna Van Reed
Flying Tigers: Transnational Memories of a World War II Collaboration, Shang Yasuda
Theses - Oberlin Community Only
Why Do Ideas Fail? Harry Haywood and the Black Belt Nation Thesis, Sam Beesley
Changelings– Turn and Face the Strange: Folklore, Identity, and Imperialism in 19th Century Ireland, Natalie Ivy
"Here Comes Trouble!" An Exploration of Digital Technology in History, Gunja Sarkar
“This Here is a Lesbian Museum”: Exploring Queerness Narratives in U.S. Historic House Museums, 1932-Present, Meredith Warden
Theses - Open Access
Giving Meaning to Martyrdom: What Presidential Assassinations Can Teach Us About American Political Culture, Aliza Alperin-Sheriff
Studies in the Comunero Revolution 1520-1521, James S. Amelang
An Analysis of Voter Turnout in Cuyahoga County, 1840-1860, Jean M. Anderson
Napoleonic Tactics, Thomas F. Arnold
Boss Rule: Charles F. Murphy and the New York City Mayors, 1902-1924, Jeffrey A. Auerbach
The Politics of Destruction: The Emergence of Joseph R. McCarthy, Michael H. Barr
Transient Bodies and the Whiteness of Memory: The “Nature” of Permanence in Big Sur, CA, 1862 - 1937, Rusty Bartels
The Development of Dante's Political Thought: A Quest for Italian Unity, Ronald Henry Bedard
Austrian National Socialism and the Anschluss, George R. Bent
American Intellectuals and the Problem of Ideology, Steven Betensky
The Evolution of Women's Intercollegiate Athletics at Oberlin College, Leland J. Brandt
From Social Reform to Social Science: The Women's Educational and Industrial Union of Boston, 1877-1912, Charlotte H.L. Briggs
Patterns of Disenchantment: The Position of the Liberal and Labour Party: 1910-1914, Jonathan Broder
After the Fact: El Mercurio and the Re-Writing of the Pinochet Dictatorship, Julia Brown-Bernstein
Contested Land, Contested Representations: Re-visiting the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine, Gabriel Healey Brown
Cuban Race Relations and Afro-Cuban Political Activity, 1933-1959, Steve Burkholder
The Gambler's Throw: The German Spring Offensive, 1918, Lorin Mark Burte
Memoirs of Wehrmacht Soldiers —— From Survival to Victimhood, Jiahao Cao
The Nigerian - Bifran Civil War and the American Press: Images and Realties, Linda J. Chiswick
Jewish Women Reformers and Jewish Immigrant Women: The Columbian Council of Pittsburgh, 1893-1920, Eileen Chotiner
The Euclid Avenue Elite Cleveland, Ohio, 1860-1910: Work, Life, and Architecture, Jan Cigliano Hartman
An Antislavery Mission: Oberlin College Evangelicals in "Bleeding Kansas", John Edward Clayton
Finding Music’s Words: Moses und Aron and Viennese Jewish Modernism, Maurice E. Cohn
John F. Kennedy and the Black Press: 1960 and 1961, Laura D. Coleman
George Frederick Wright and the Harmony of Science and Revelation, Peter Sachs Collopy
Community, Connection, and Conflict; The Liminal Spaces of the Regents Canal and the Industrial Transition of London (1812-1900), Maya Pearl Colman
Ricardian Socialism and Its Impact on the Formation of the British Working Class, Gale Connor
"The Fountain Pen and the Typewriter": The Rise of the Homophile Press in the 1950s and 1960s, Elizabeth A. Coretto
Tom L. Johnson and Progressive Municipal Reform, 1901-1909, Steven J. Davis
I Love Lucy, That Girl, and Changing Gender Norms On and Off Screen, Emilia Anne De Leo
Occupational and Geographic Mobility in San Francisco, 1870-1890, Jill Siegel Dodd
Fin de rêve: Reactions in the British, French, and American Press to the 1900 Exposition Universelle, Patrick Donovan Doherty
Agents of Soviet Decline: Mass Media Representations of Prostitution During Perestroika, Emma C. Downing
The Secret War of British Intelligence: A Retrospective Study, Frederick S. Downs
From Trusteeship to Containment: American Involvement in Vietnam 1945-1950, Sarah E. Dranoff
Putting On Her Man Pants: Social Reaction to Female Cross-Dressing and Gender Transgression in America 1850-1880, Kathryn L. Eichenlaub
Oberlin College and World War I, Todd Isao Endo
American Women's Intellectual History in the Revolutionary and New Republican Era: Charting a Shift in Feminist Theory, Holly B. Fechner
Virginia Woolf's Feminism, Laurel A. Fields
Mexican Migration to the United States: An Historical and Contextual Analysis, Jonathan H. Fischer
The Three Frances: 1940-1944, Sarah Fishman
The Charleston Convent Riot of 1834, Timothy M. Flynn
Classes and Masses in English Education, Alex Franklin
