2018 Senior Honors Theses
Name: Jacob Bell
Thesis Adviser: Louise McReynolds
Title: “The Autocrat and the Revolutionary: Catherine the Great, John Paul Jones, and the Enlightenment’s ‘Woman Question’”
Name: Mary Grady Bell
Thesis Adviser: Lloyd Kramer
Title: “The Nationalist Meanings of 20th Century Olympic Games: Conflicting National Identities and Memories in Mexico, Germany, and America”
Name: Sydney Bezanson
Thesis Adviser: Malinda Maynor Lowery
Title: “The ‘C’ in the Name: Religion and Student Activism in the Campus Y at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1930-1990”
Name: Katherine Frances Cayton
Thesis Adviser: Karen Auerbach
Title: “A ‘Third Possibility’ Revolution: The Success of Émigré Reporting Networks at Radio Free Europe During Poland’s 1956 Thaw”
Name: Rebekah Cockram
Thesis Adviser: Michael Morgan
Title: “Cession and Retreat: Negotiating Hong Kong’s Future 1979 – 1984”
Name: Olivia Holder
Thesis Adviser: Michelle King
Title: “Possessions of Empire: The Construction of Imperial Identities in Britain and China”
Name: Jeremy Howell
Thesis Adviser: Lauren Jarvis
Title: “The Dethroning: Prester John’s Demise and The Shaping of Modern Ethiopia”
Name: Lacey Hunter
Thesis Adviser: Wayne Lee
Title: “An Expansive Subjecthood in Eighteenth-Century British North America: The Life and Perspectives of Sir Guy Carleton”
Name: Matthew McKnight
Thesis Adviser: Molly Worthen
Title: “’Not a Square Inch’: Abraham Kuyper and the Role of Epistemology in Shaping the American Evangelical Response to Modernity”
Name: James Messmer
Thesis Adviser: Brett Whalen
Title: “The Final Judgement: John Bale and an Apocalyptic Justification of English Protestantism”
Name: Alexander Peeples
Thesis Adviser: Lauren Jarvis
Title: “Relearning Ujamaa: Education in Tanzania from 1954 to 2002”
Name: Michael Purello
Thesis Adviser: Tobias Hof
Title: “Protesting the ‘Condonation of Savagery’: American Catholics and Non-Involvement in the Spanish Civil War”
Name: Sophie Rupp
Thesis Adviser: Flora Cassen
Title: “The Man Who Meant Too Much: Domestic and International Implications of the Beilis Case”
Name: Michael Sanders
Thesis Adviser: Lloyd Kramer
Title: “Voltaire’s Use of the Other to Reform France: A Philosophe’s Critique of Society”
Name: Emma Watts
Thesis Adviser: James Leloudis
Title: “The Wimmin Are With Us to Stay’: Women’s Social Activities at the University of North Carolina from 1897-1946”