Undergraduate Research
The Corcoran Department of History at University of Virginia is proud of its Undergraduate Majors who successfully completed their theses. Listed below are their papers organized by year.
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| Altman, Victoria | The Salt and the Pomegranate: The Roots and Meaning of the Mutiny of 1857 | |
| Anderson, William | History of Alcohol in Virginia | |
| Armstrong, Shannon | The American Colonization Society | |
| Austin, Thom Mitchell | Effectiveness of Allied Strategic Bombing of Germany during World War II | |
| Baber, Jordan | The Hiroshima Legend: The Dropping of the Atomic Bombs and the Narrative that Arose from Its Ashes | |
| Bane, Will | Southern Reconstruction as an Issue in the Northern Elections of 1870 | |
| Batalla, Tomas | A Veiled Controversy: France and the Ban on Headscarves in Public Schools | |
| Bedenbaugh, Sarah | Inquisitional Policy and Practice towards Moriscos in Granada, 1566-1571 | |
| Bensouda, Nuhad | The Execution Methods of England and France | |
| Bolen, Jacquelyn | The Motivations for Abolition: A Recourse on the Moral and Economic Theories of British Antislavery | |
| Bolling , Tiffany | Jewish Witches to New World Cannibals: A Historical Context Set By Ritual Murder Accusations Against Jews | |
| Booth, Whit | Preserving The Social Hierarchy: Social Motivations behind The Creation of Colonial “Otherness” in Nineteenth-Century Britain | |
| Bouldin, Kristin | Defending Home, Hearth, and the Sacred Cause: Resistance by Confederate Women in New Orleans, Winchester, and Williamsburg | |
| Bourassa, Kyle | Heretics and Infidels: A Comparison of the Albigensian Crusade to the Crusades of the Holy Land | |
| Brickates, Anne | The Colonization of God: The Crusader States as Catholic Colonies | |
| Brubaker, Bob | Between Athens and Jerusalem: Finding Room for Natural Right in Strauss” | |
| Burnett, Blair B. | Free Blacks in Maryland | |
| Cali, William | The Gunfighters of Dodge City | |
| Catan, Christie | The Industrialization of National Parks, 1870-1920 | |
| Cavanaugh, Erica | Christian Art and Architecture of Crusader Jerusalem | |
| Chekan, Sally | Trial Records of the Spanish Inquisition: Illuminating Debate within Scholarship | |
| Chesnoski, V. | The Roman Emperors and Enhanced Status Through Religion | |
| Clements, Chris | Robert E. Lee: The General with an Impeccable Image | |
| Coogan, Anna | Untouchability, Dr. Ambedkar, and the Founding of India | |
| Coogan, Anna | Technology and the First American Army at the Battle of St Mihiel | |
| Craig, Johnny | The Harrison Act and Its Aftermath: When Legislators Became Doctors and Patients Became Criminals | |
| Danvers, Camille | The Kashmir Insurgency: Descent into Fundamentalism | |
| Davis, Spencer | From the Arcades to the Grands Boulevards: the development of the flâneur and urban space in nineteenth-century Paris | |
| Dean, Jeffrey | From Pin Stripes to Prison Stripes: The Construction and Perception of White-Collar Crime in America in the Twentieth Century | |
| Dibblee, Christian | Southern Reconstruction as an Issue in the Northern Elections of 1866 | |
| Ebenal , Brian | Consumption of Religious Authority: Jesuit Encounters and Conflicts with the Settlers Regarding the Indians of Brazil | |
| Ellison, Nora | From Nuremberg till Now, and From Now On: The History of Universal Jurisdiction | |
| Filipetti, Carrie | Necessary to a Democratic Society:’ The European Headscarf Debate and Its Implications for Secularism, National Identity, and Multiculturalism | |
| Fillinger-Huggins, Emily C. | The Influence of Slave Mothers and the Impact of Slavery | |
| Flusche, Catherine | The Civil War in Norfolk: A Public Relations Nightmare | |
| Ford, Elizabeth | A Balancing Act | |
| Forscey, David | Jammu and Kashmir: The Plebiscite Problem | |
| Fowler, Doug | The Easter Rebellion and the Change in British Public Opinion on the Irish Question, 1916-1918 | |
| Francois-Ashbrook, J. Asasi | The Effect of WWI on German-American Culture in the United States | |
| Frazier, Luke | Henry Morgan, Panama, and Law in the Caribbean International System | |
| Frederickson, Anders | Virginians and Bleeding Kansas | |
| Garrison, C. | Easing Generational Tension: Augustus’ Attempt to Reconcile Two Generations in the New Imperial Regime | |
| Geriak, Jesse | Southern Reconstruction as an Issue in the Northern Elections of 1865 | |
| Gill, Anna | The Southern Problem: Post-Unification Issues in the Italian Mezzogiorno | |
| Gilliam, Baxter | Southern Reconstruction as an Issue in the Northern Elections of 1868 | |
| Goff, Jonathan | Sold Down the Aisle: Chastity, Poverty, and Wife-selling in the Qing Dynasty | |
| Goldberg, David | The Holocaust and the United Nations | |
| Goldberg, Jeffrey | The Espionage and Sedition Acts in World War I | |
| Goldberg, Mark | Bred from a Nobler Stock | |
| Gordon, Andrew | The Untold Story of Stephen F. Austin’s Old Three Hundred | |
| Granville, Chelsea | Roy Wilkins: A Lifetime of National Achievements for Civil Rights | |
| Gunner, Claire | Sobhini: Still the City’s Property? An Exploration of the Thai Prostitute’s Rights | |
| Harbert, John | The Criminal Next Door: The Changing Perception of White-Collar Crime in Twentieth Century America | |
| Harris, Tyler | Art Looting under Napoleon | |
| Henritze, Reeves | The Dehumanization of Jews Under Nazi Rule: An Analysis of the Nazi’s Systematic Implementation of Dehumanizing Ideology During the Holocaust | |
| Herget, Evan | The Artistic as the Political: The Political Power of Ansel Adams’ Photographs | |
| Humphreys, Lindsey | The Delhi Development Authority’s Slum Removal Policy Surrounding the 2010 Commonwealth Games and its Facilitating Social Factors | |
| Ireland , Casey | Misogyny in the Writings of Hans Staden: A Source Critique of the "Warhaftige Historia" | |
| Irvin, B. Taylor | Virginia Planters and Slavery in the American Revolution | |
| Jones, Katrice | Slave Identity and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Virginia | |
| Josephson, Eric | Southern Reconstruction as an Issue in the Northern Elections of 1874 | |
| Keenan, James | From Paradise to Perdition: Public Housing and Violent Crime in Post-1980 Washington, D.C. | |
| Keith, Laura | The Rise of Spiritualism in Post-World War I America | |
| Kerle-O’Brien, Kelsey | Finding a Safe Harbor: Voluntary Habitat Conservation Plans, the Fifth Amendment and the Endangered Species Act | |
| Kewer, Zach | The Nature of British Imperialism and its Effect on Racial Tensions: A case study in the colonies of India and Australia in the Nineteenth Century | |
| Kim, Cherrie | Misconceived Notions of The Early Socialists During The Second Republic | |
| Kitz, Jessica | Great Expectations: Confederate Women in Civil War Virginia, 1861 | |
| Koushik, Sudhinder | The Princely State of Hyderabad and The Long Road to Accession | |
| Larson, Gretchen | Gallipoli: Remnants of the British and Australian Colonial Relationship | |
| Lasebikan, Jessica | Mass Imprisonment of African-American Men: The Political and Socioeconomic Implications | |
| Lewis , Tamara | Civilization Defined: Cannibalism in the New World | |
| Libertini, Elizabeth | Biblical Interpretation and Arguments For and Against Slavery | |
| Light, Paige | Hermaphrodites in Early Modern Europe | |
| Lovejoy, Matthew | The Grand Coulee Dam: Reclamation and Planning of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and The United States Government During The Great Depression | |
| Lyddon, Sara | Olympia Morata: The Diversity of Women’s Roles and Evangelical Theology | |
| Madden, Sarah | The Slave Narrative’s Role in the Evolution of African American Human Rights | |
| Marchbank, Kirsten | Jan Christian Smuts and the First World War | |
| Meritt, Kevin | Commercialism and Preservation: The Creation of Shenandoah National Park | |
| Michel, Adam | Southern Reconstruction as an Issue in the Northern Elections of 1872 | |
| Miller, Peter | Devotion to a Nation: Why British Soldiers Fought | |
| Mitchem, Melissa | E.D. Morel: Leader of the First Human Rights Campaign of the Twentieth Century? | |
| Morenus, Kelly | Bleeding Kansas: Abolitionism and Sectional Tensions in the 1850s | |
| Morris, Caitlin | Bodily Exemplarity in Early Modern European Executions | |
| Morris, L. | Provincial Rebellions Under the Julio-Claudians | |
| Morrow, Patricia | Partition of the British Indian Army | |
| Mullens, David | Southern Reconstruction as an Issue in the Northern Elections of 1867 | |
| Murphy, Carina | Southern Reconstruction as an Issue in the Northern Elections of 1873 | |
| Nelson, Gregory | The Trenches in the Minds of Allied Soldiers during World War I | |
| Nicholas, Thomas | Hypocrisy and the Ideological Framework of New Deal Conservationism: The Building of the Shenandoah National Park | |
| Obasi, Anita | Portrayals of Gandhi in Print Media | |
| Opachan, Alexxis | The Development of the "Nation": Russia’s Struggle to Create a National Identity | |
| Ortiz, Mary | The Springtime of People: Nationalism in France and Germany, 1848 | |
| Osborne, Elizabeth | The Jesuits of Virginia: The Spirit of Ignatius Loyola’s “Militia of God” in the New World | |
| Oschrin, Natalie | A History of the Sexual Offense Registry Program in America: Classification, Categorization and Communication | |
| Parker, Abigail | Southern Reconstruction as an Issue in the Northern Elections of 1871 | |
| Parrish, Robert | The Conflicting Efforts of Cassius Marcellus Clay and John Gregg Fee to Abolish Slavery in Kentucky | |
| Pedersen, D. | Becoming a Citizen under the Julio-Claudians | |
| Peery, Camp | The Influence of Music During the Great War | |
| Pendleton, Whitney | Southern Reconstruction as an Issue in the Northern Elections of 1875 | |
| Pluta, Maria | The Converso: A Study of Two Documents to Probe an Identity | |
| Poindexter, Jessica | The Influence Behind Reform: Working Class Conditions and Social Reform in Nineteenth-Century Britain | |
| Redd, Walker | Southern Reconstruction as an Issue in the Northern Elections of 1869 | |
| Reddy, Robert | American Exceptionalism and the Mexican War | |
| Regelski, Christina | Food and Foodways of African-American Slaves in the Virginia Piedmont, 1760-1840 | |
| Russell, Scott | Galileo: a Conflict Reexamined | |
| Scherrer, Casey | Louisa Maxwell Cocke: An Evangelical Woman in a Plantation Mistresses' World | |
| Shah, Deeva | Karnataka: A Brief Study on Globalization, Farming, and Genetically Modified Crops | |
| Shaw, Andrew | Revolutionary Inertia in France and The United States: How The Nature of Revolution Impacts Society and Governance in Revolutionary Societies | |
| Sherman, David L. | Corruption in American throughout the Twentieth Century | |
| Shields, Jack | Southern Reconstruction as an Issue in the Northern Elections of 1876 | |
| Slaughter, Jennifer | Southern Women and Their Commitment to the Social and Economic System of Slavery in the Antebellum South with Reference to Their Published Works | |
| Slay, Patrick | Conservation and the Fracture of the Republican Party: 1908-1912 | |
| Snow, Kelly | Revising and Re-Creating Revolution: Collective Memory in The Paris Commune of 1871 | |
| Stern, Shayna | The Personal is Political’: The Criminal Justice System’s Treatment of Domestic Violence Victims from 1970 until Today | |
| Stotler, Anne | Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo: The Mothers of Human Rights in Argentina | |
| Szymkowiak , Kate | Constructing the Criminal: The Rise of the American Outlaw and the Emergence of the FBI | |
| Terry, Caroline | Mediterranean Slave Trade of the Seventeenth Century: The Significance of Forced Conversion | |
| Thalmann, Katharina | Daughters of the Confederacy: Southern Women’s Contributions to the Lost Cause Mythology in the Reconstruction Period | |
| Theberge, Matthew | From The Company to the Raj: Changes in British Imperial and Economic Policy | |
| Tomlinson, Adam | The Identity and Image of Mountain South Distillers, 1760-1919 | |
| Tsui, Flora | China’s Progress on Human Rights in a Historical Perspective | |
| Vaccaro, Stephen | American Catholics in World War I: A War Effort that Proved their Loyalty | |
| Veldhuyzen, Jennifer | Smooth Stones in Fluid River: The Viscosity Model of Imperial Chinese Wedding Ritual | |
| Venn, April | Armenia's Evolving Relationships with the Christian world during the Crusades | |
| Walker, Courtney | Hidden Power: Women in the Song | |
| Warburton, Michael | Foundations for African Slavery in Indian Slavery: The Economic, Social and Religious Factors | |
| Williams, McCauley | President Andrew Johnson: The Erstwhile Tailor | |
| Winter, Mathew | The James River Company and Virginia’s Western Expansion | |
| Woodward, Katie | White Prejudice Empowers Blacks | |
| Wortham, Coleman | Captivity among the Comanches | |
| Zhang, Qihan | Tituba’s Confession: The Manipulation of Salem Village |
