DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

2019-20 Senior Theses

Haaris Alvi, “Comparisons across Countries: Exploring unique causes and effects of Hyperinflation in Interwar Europe.” (advisor: Joel Mokyr)

Yichun Chen, “Entrepreneurial Ethnic Writers: Jade Snow Wong, Rose Hum Lee, and Chinese American Knowledge Production in the Early Cold War Years.” (advisor: Melissa Macauley)

Thomas Fredricks (pictured, left), “Conflicting Visions: How Britain, France and Germany Forged a United Europe.” (advisor: Benjamin Frommer)

Amy Ouyang, “Law vs. History: The Crisis of Legitimacy in the South China Sea.” (advisor: Peter Carroll)

Elizabeth Perkins, “’Equally Determined to Send Their Children’: Pro-Integration Activism and the Persistence of Segregation in the Public Schools of Southern Illinois, 1874-1952.” (advisor: Kate Masur)

Andrew Reed, “Money Hungry: Famine Policy Under the British East India Company, 1770-1840.” (advisor: Ashish Koul)

Jared Zvonar, “The War that Never Happened: War Plan Red, Defence Scheme No. 1, and the Myth of the Anglo-American Special Relationship, 1919-1939.” (advisor: Henry Binford)

Undergraduate Prize Winners

Josef Barton Research Seminar Essay Award

(best 395 final essay)

Xinyang Zhou (pictured, right), “Becoming the ‘New People’: A Discussion on the Abolition of Prostitution in Shanghai from 1949 to 1958,” written for History 395 with Professor Carroll

• this paper also won the Jock McLane Prize (best undergraduate essay in the field of Asian Studies, presented by the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures) and the Mikiso Hane Prize (best undergraduate paper, given by the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs).

Jacob Lassner Prize

(best essay in Jewish or Islamic civilization)

Netta Keesom, “Our Dear Nations’ Esther Azhari Moyal and the Silhouette of an Arab-Jew," written for History 393 with Professor Yosmaoğlu

First-Year Seminar Essay Award

(for best final paper)

Eman Akhtar, “I Had Joined the Struggle Like One Joins a Religion: Religion, Gender, and the 1984 Family Code," written for Humanities 101-6 with Professor Immerwahr

Grace Douglas Johnston Award

(best senior honors thesis presented to the History Department)

Thomas Fredericks, “Conflicting Visions: How Britain, France and Germany Forged a United Europe” (advisor: Benjamin Frommer)