2012 History Honors Theses

Name: Gwendolyn Bellinger
Thesis Adviser: Jay Smith
Title: An Examination of New Political Roles in the Centralization of English and French Witch Trials, 1580–1620

Name: Kelsey Blake
Thesis Adviser: Marcus Bull 
Title: The Perceptions of British History and Welsh Identity in the Twelfth Century

Name: Molly Cunningham
Thesis Adviser: Donald Reid
Title: “You Can’t Go Home Again”: Exile from Communist Central Europe after 1968

Name: Ameila Kennedy
Adviser: Marcus Bull
Title: Bodies Breaking Down: Pain, Suffering, and Christian Identity in Merovingian Gaul, c. 481–751

Name: Abigail Lewis
Thesis Adviser: Donald Reid
Title: Fifty Years of Return: Accounts of Jewish Holocaust Survivors to France, 1945 to Today

Name: Jessica Malitoris
Adviser: Karen Hagemann
Title: “Equal but Different”: Women and the “Women Question” in the United Nations, 1945–1975

Name: Cassandra McGuire
Thesis Adviser: Zaragosa Vargas
Title: Lost Daughters of the Confederacy: Common White Women in Civil War Era North Carolina

Name: Paul Rosser
Thesis Adviser: Heather Williams
Title: Breaking Barriers: Turning Obstacles into Motivation to Escape