Undergraduate Good News - Fall 2009

The Department of History is pleased to announce that eight undergraduate majors received Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURFs) to pursue original research questions during the past summer. Overall, the Office for Undergraduate Research (OUR) received 190 student proposals from across the disciplines and made 75 awards.  Following are the names of the students, their research project titles, and their faculty advisors. 

Samantha Estevez, "Western Missionaries in Japan in the Meiji and Taisho Periods"                               Daniel Botsman, History

Whitney Garrison, "Testing Black & White Loyalties: Antebellum Political Action of Enslaved Individuals"                                                                                                                                            Heather Williams, History

Alexa Revord, "An Analysis of Interracial Cooperation between White and Black Women in Anti-Rape      Movements"                                                                                                                                          Crystal Feimster, History

Robin Coulter, "Rape and Prejudice: Rethinking North Carolina’s Racial Climate 1800-1830"                   John W. Sweet, History

Katherine Demby, "Remembering Rebecca Clark"                                                                              Reginald Hildebrand, African and Afro-American Studies/History

Charlotte Egerton, "Exploring Race Relations in Wilmington, NC 1855-1875"                                         James Leloudis, History

Steven Lin, "Unit 731 and Biological Warfare during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1945"             W. Miles Fletcher, History

Kevin Miller, "Labor in Exile: Evacuated Workers and Wartime Production in Tomsk, 1941-1945"             Donald Raleigh, History

These students will present the results of their research at the Undergraduate Research Symposium scheduled for Friday, April 23, 2010, from 1-3 p.m.