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History Colloquia Spring Semester 2025

Department of History Library, 121 Mason Hall @ 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, March 13

Scott Doebler, Department of History, ����AV
"Into the Belly of the Forest: The Early Modern Maya Woods of Yucatán and Guatemala, 1550-1625"

Thursday, April 3

Megan Gilbert, Department of History, ����AV
"Bound by Messengers: The Intermediaries Who Held Together Fifteenth-Century Japan"

Thursday, April 10

Nicolette Rohr, Department of History, ����AV
"The Folk Furor: Histories of Fandom and Community in the Folk Music Revival"

Thursday, April 17

Niyati Shenoy '15, Humanities Program, University of California, San Diego
"The Body as Threshold: Sexuality and Disability in Colonial India"

History Colloquia Fall Semester 2024

Senior Thesis Projects

Department of History Library, 121 Mason Hall at 4:15 p.m.

Thursday, October 31

Adam Osman Krinsky, “Urban Planning, Public Space, and Visions of the Sanitary City in Nineteenth-Century New York”

Colin McAfee, “Frontier Injustice: Cattle, Violence, and Vigilantism in the Nineteenth-Century American Southwest”

John Gibson, “Expectations and Convictions: The Trial of Bighohaden, Indian Law, and the Navajo Nation, c. 1900”

Eloisa Tirres, “Reaching New Heights in the Sierras: College Alpine Clubs in Postwar California”

Thursday, November 7

Dahlia Locke, “The Militarization of Honolulu’s Prostitution System During World War Two: Colonial Violence through the Imposition of Gender and Racial Hierarchies”

Jenna McMurtry, “’Play a Part in History’: How the LA84 Olympics Shaped the City’s Neoliberal Turn”

Caroline Welch, “The Making of the East Bay ‘NIMBY’: An Analysis of Contra Costa Antigrowth Movements, 1970-2000”

Lesly Lepes, “Young and Displaced: The Post-9/11 Security Paradigm and its Impact on Mexican Dreamers in California”

Thursday, November 14

Ben Brady, “Jerusalem and the New World: Abrahamic Eschatology and Columbus’ Enterprise of the Indies, 1492-1506”

Ben Cheng, “Lost Frontier: Spanish Encounters in Early Modern Taiwan”

Emma Grace Howlett, “Moving Mountains: Gender, Science, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century British Mountaineering”

Duncan James, "Paul Rohrbach and Southwest Africa: Colonial Ideology and Continuity in Germany"

Thursday, November 21

Dhani Srinivasan, “Colonial Imaginations and Realizations of Land in Pre-Mandate Palestine”

Anisa McLain, “Heavenly Gastronomy: Royal Thai Cuisine in Nineteenth-Century Siam”

Lea Wong, "Kabyle Women’s Jewelry as Resistance in the Algerian War of Independence"

Alexander Chao, “Schoolbooks, Geography, and Identity Formation in Colonial Hong Kong, c. 1930s-1950s”