2015 Honors Theses
Name: Emily Karen Cathey
Thesis Adviser: Harry Watson
Title: “Working and Playing”: Mill-sponsored Baseball in the Early Twentieth Century in the Peidmont of North Carolina
Name: Abigail Cooksey
Thesis Adviser: James Leloudis
Title: “In a Nice Way”: Moderation as a Tool of Racial Oppression During North Carolina School Desegregation from 1954-56
Name: Katie Crook
Thesis Adviser: Benjamin Waterhouse
Title: Duty to Defend: McNeill Smith and the Education of Southern White Liberalism
Name: Murphy Donohue
Thesis Adviser: W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Title:Clashes on King Street: The Role of State Officials in the 1964 St. Augustine Racial Crisis
Name: Meg Foster
Adviser: John Sweet
Title: A Sisyphean Task: Anti-Rape Activism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1970s-1990s
Name: Meghan Victoria Herwig
Thesis Adviser: Benjamin Waterhouse
Title: The Balancing Act: Nixon, Taiwan, and the Tactics of Détente
Name: Emily Kowalczyk
Adviser: Wayne Lee
Title:Captives, Conflict, and Conquest: The Changing Roles of Prisoners in Anglo-Indian Warfare, 1754-1765
Name: Kayla Leonard
Thesis Adviser: Susan Pennybacker
Title: The Wandering Collection: The India Museum and Perceptions of Empire
Name: Griffin Lerner
Thesis Adviser: Lisa Lindsay
Title: Neither Black nor White: Louisiana Creoles of Color, South African Coloureds, and the Struggle for Identity, Nationhood, and Belonging
Name: Jan Therese Michael
Thesis Adviser: Klaus Larres
Title: Controlling Chaos: An Analysis of Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Political Theories and Foreign Policy, 1977-1981.
Name: Andrew Soboeiro
Thesis Adviser: Susan Pennybacker
Title: Britons, Beasts, and Benighted Savages: British Superiority in Nineteenth Century Children’s Periodicals
Name: Peter Vogel
Thesis Adviser: James Leloudis
Title:Dividing the Donkey: Modern Racism and the Dissolution of North Carolina’s Democratic Party, 1963-1968
Name: Brenna Renee Yellin
Thesis Adviser: Konrad Jarausch
Title: Immigrants in their Own Homes: East German Women and the Effects of German Reunification