Successfully Defended Honors Theses

Brenna Bythewood - summa cum laude
“Now Designed to the Worst”: English Captive Labor and Perceptions of Slavery in the Interregnum
2022-23 Thesis Prize winner

Olivia Hart - summa cum laude
Operation Clean Sweeps’ Dirty Past: A Historical Analysis of Police Raids in The Projects and the Demolition of Public Housing in Chicago

Taylor Henderson - magna cum laude
The Once Factual and Future Fictional King: Historical Retellings as Reflections of Cultural Zeitgeists

Jack Kontarinis - magna cum laude
“Prowd, Humorous, Dreamying Fellos”: The English East India Company in Southeast Asia and the Failure of the Hirado Factory, 1600-1630

Kaori Quan - summa cum laude
Singing a New World: Performing Colonialism Under Louis XIV and Louis XV

Katlin Risen - magna cum laude
“We appreciate your interest”: Women in Soviet Union and American Space Race Propaganda

Sarah Rosenbloum - summa cum laude
The Rave Panic: Electronic Dance Music and the War on Drugs, 1980s – 2010s

Iulia Sava - summa cum laude
From Blue Jeans to Checkered Bags: Women’s Role in the Creation of a Soviet Consumer Culture

Shannon Thompson - magna cum laude
Change on the Horizon: The Church Committee (1975) and Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy

Ann Tirrill - magna cum laude
The Man Behind the Mask: John Galen Locke and 1920s Ku Klux Klan

Gregory Mosley - magna cum laude
The Greatest in History: The Integration of the 1934 Denver Post Tournament

Colby Cecil - magna cum laude
A British Balancing Act: Britain’s Policy of Containment During the 1938 Majlis Movements in Kuwait, Dubai, and Bahrain

Eleanor Creasey - cum laude
The Ambiguous Neoconservative Doctrine of Condoleezza Rice

Erin Hebert - magna cum laude
Erased: The Neglect of Marginalized Victims during the Serial Killer Epidemic of 1960-1990

Delaney Koontz - summa cum laude
The Paradox of Inclusion: Queer Women and the Women’s Health Movement, 1960s-1980s
2021-22 Thesis Prize winner

Hannah Pogue - cum laude
Where Are All the Veterans? Why the Vietnam Veteran Perspective is Missing from Americans’ Collective Memory

Emily Ray - summa cum laude
Textiles and Magic: The liminal position of women in Viking Age and Medieval Iceland

Shannon Thompson - magna cum laude
Change on the Horizon: The Church Committee (1975) and Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy

Jan Váňa​ - magna cum laude
Alexander the Lost: How Temples of Greco-Egyptian Cults in Ptolemaic Egypt Can Help Identify Alexander the Great’s Tomb

Austin Adams -  summa cum laude
Genesis of the German Spirit: Detailing the Origins of Nazism in the History of 19th Century German Philosophy

Hannah Hagens -  magna cum laude
Violent or Victimized: A Historic Analysis of the Stereotype Associating Mental Illness with Violence

 Benjamin Humphries -  summa cum laude
The Relationship Between Economic Development and Chinese Exclusionary Methods in the Nineteenth Century Interior West

Trevor Koglin - magna cum laude
High Frontier: The Failure of a Bold New Space Initiative

Alexandra Lanzetta - summa cum laude
The Racist History of Gun Control Policy and Rhetoric in the United States

Cayden Stice - summa cum laude
Welcome to Lesbian-Homoville: Queer Politics of Boulder, Colorado in the Late-Twentieth Century 
2020-21 Thesis Prize winner

Natania Bloch - summa cum laude
Reimagining Religion in a Contemporary Context: The Case of Harry Potter (written for JWST)

Anna Bodnar - cum laude
Villain and Saint: Chronicler Agency Following the Civil Wars and Deposition of Edward II

Viola Burlew - summa cum laude
The MoMA Moment: American Propaganda, Nazi Caricature, and Racialization

John Fitzmaurice - cum laude
The Consolidation of the Rhodesian African Rifles: How a New Unit Escaped Disbandment

Catherine Foster - summa cum laude
A Grand Distortion: Malice and Mythology in Shane O'Neill's Ulster, 1558-1567

Drew C. Gaines - cum laude
The Persistence of Colorado Chicana Activism in Higher Education From the 1960s to 1980s

Ian Hogg - summa cum laude
A Genealogy of Revolt: The Regulator Tradition of Revolt and its Significance

Kami McDaniel - summa cum laude
Rocket Man: Yuri Gagarin & the Soviet/Post-Soviet Memory

Tynan McMullen - summa cum laude
Friends in Low Places: Philadelphia Merchants, Trans-Atlantic Smuggling, and the Secret Deals that Saved the American Revolution

Berkeley Newhouse-Velie - summa cum laude
Pravda and Maskirovka: How the Soviet Union Publicized the June War of 1967

Adrian North - summa cum laude
The Invisible Eyes of the Raj: Indigenous Actors in Intelligence Gathering and Empire Building Along British India's Northwest Frontiers (1860-1895)
2019-20 Thesis Prize winner

Christopher Painter - cum laude
The Third Party: American Involvement in Operation Catapult, 1940

Shannon Ross - magna cum laude
Loss of Microbial Biodiversity: Implications for Human Health and Food Security (Written for EBIO)

Kara Syvanen - magna cum laude
Nineteenth-Century American History Textbook Narratives, Markers of American Identity, and German Language Instruction in St. Louis Public Schools

Gabriel West - magna cum laude
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Rum: The Phenomenon of Liberalism in British Pirate Law

Michala Whitmore - magna cum laude
"Immediate Preservation of the Public Peace, Health and Safety": Colorado's History of Eugenic Sterilization

Sage Yeager-Wheaton - cum laude
The MOVE Bombing: A Precedent for Disaster

Maria Antonia Abraas - magna cum laude
Protective Patriotism and the Creation of an American Identity: Analyzing the Memorial Landscape of Japanese American Internment in Colorado

Andrey Bradford - summa cum laude
Life Imitating Art: Friedrich Schiller's Influence upon the Republican Ideals of the German Revolution of 1848

Amelia Chouinard -  summa cum laude
From Water to Wine: Understanding the Concept of the Holy Grail in Light of the Crusader Ethos of the Middle Ages

Cecilia Donovan - magna cum laude
Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands: Social Workers and Adoption Practices in United States Maternity Homes

Liliana Eilliott - summa cum laude
Names Tell a Story: The Alteration of Student Names at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879-1890
2018-19 Thesis Prize winner

Remy Lepore - cum laude
Chinese Women in the Early Twentieth Century: Activists and Rebels

Allison Murphy - summa cum laude
Cheburashka and Friends: The Rootless Cosmopolitan as Ideal Soviet Citizen
 

Tyler Berger - cum laude
From the Rhineland to Czechoslovakia: How the Policies of Appeasement in the British Government led to the Second World War

Trevor Borasio - summa cum laude
Herat: the Key to India - Individual Fears and Plans Shaping the Defense of India During the Great Game

Benjamin Elrod - magna cum laude
Environmental Mastery of the Biopolitical: Water and the Birth of the Modern al-Sabah State

Rachael Gessert - magna cum laude
"Beauty Fled, and the Empire Now No More:" Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Transimperial Femininity in the Turkish Embassy Letters (1716-1718)

Kaitlynn Harless -cum laude
Force and Deceit: The Creation of an Andean-Catholic Religion

Nora Hickins - magna cum laude
"We Want No Hatchet-Wielding Amazons:" The Feminism, Racism, and Nativism of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan

William Holsclaw - summa cum laude
Walking the High Ground: The Manned Orbiting Laboratory and the Age of the Air Force Astronauts

Daniel Lucca - magna cum laude
To a Millennial Kingdom: The Nazi Aryanization of Christianity

Austin McCleery - summa cum laude
Creation and Collapse: The British Indian Empire in Mesopotamia Before and After World War I

Adrienne Mueller - cum laude
Prostitutes, Prophylactics, and Propaganda: The Venereal Disease Campaign and the Fight for Control of Female Sexuality During World War II

Nicola Skakel - summa cum laude
The Rwandan Genocide: Combating Stereotypes and Understanding the Origins

Ryan Smith - magna cum laude
Elizabeth's Silver Age

Julia Birgen - summa cum laude
Overstating and Misjudging the Prospects of the Civil War: The Ulster Volunteer Force and the Irish Volunteers in the Home Rule Crisis, 1912-1914

Nicoli Bowley - magna cum laude
Ten Dollars to Hate Somebody: Hispanic Communities and the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado, 1917-1925

Nathan Brien - magna cum laude
Western Shoshone Treaty Activism, US Indian Claims Law & Human Rights Violations

Alexander Buck - magna cum laude
Through Their Own Eyes: The History of Slavery and the United States Civil War from Black Women's Perspectives

Sophie Buur - summa cum laude
Partitioning India: Indian Muslim Nationalism and the Origin of the Muslim State (1800-1947)

Kira Johnson - cum laude
Demographic Engineering: Post-War Canadian Immigration Advertising and Scottish Migration, 1919-1929

Alexandrea Kord - summa cum laude
To Kill Thy Brother: Kin-Strife, Power, and Politics in the Medieval Welsh Dynasty of Powys
2016-17 Thesis Prize winner

Jacquelynn Lyon - cum laude
The Pen and the Petticoat: Gendered Slander Against Dolley Madison in the Early American Republic

Aisha May - cum laude
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Evolution as an Activist

Darby Simmons - summa cum laude
Labor of Love: Prostitutes and Civic Engagement in Leadville, Colorado, 1870-1915

Sally Simpson - magna cum laude
A Brief History of Space: Congregation Har HaShem and the Construction of Community in Frontier Synagogues

James Stokes - cum laude
A National Flag?: King James I and the British Flag

Joanna Toohey - summa cum laude
‘Ce Jour Immortel’:  The Storming of the Bastille and the Formation of Cultural Memory 1789-1794
2017- 18 Thesis Prize winner

Peter Wineman - magna cum laude
A Tragic Success: An Examination of the Transition to an All-Volunteer Force between 1968 and 1978 and its Unintended Consequences

Alexis Aaeng - magna cum laude
Ir Kenen Heren Mikh?: The Dawn of Yiddish Radio in New York City

Jordan Becker - summa cum laude
Warrior Bishops: The Development of the Fighting Clergy under the Ottonians in the Tenth Century

Adam Bell - cum laude
Creating Place: Activist Intellectuals in Boulder, Colorado, 1959 to 1967

Evan Fernández - summa cum laude
Forging the Pacific: Peruvian-Japanese Diplomacy, Migration, and Empire, 1918-1930
2015-16 Thesis Prize winner

Christian Harrison - cum laude
From King’s African Rifles to Kenya Rifles: The Decolonization and Transition of an African Army, 1960-1970

Samuel Routhier - magna cum laude
To Authorize the Merger of Two or More Professional Basketball Leagues: Professional Basketball’s 1971-72 Congressional Hearings and the Fight for Player Freedoms

Michael Rupert - summa cum laude
La Grande Nation: The Revolutionary Tradition in French West Africa

Jhelene Shaw - summa cum laude
'Yours for Colorado': Applicants to the 1870 Union Colony at Greeley

Lauren Troska - magna cum laude
The Study of Generations: A Timeless Notion within a Contemporary Context

Jesse Van Divier - summa cum laude
A Politically Selective Memory: The Battle for Memory in the Wake of War, 1812-1845

Casey Van Sise - magna cum laude
Good Neighbor Renditions and the Enemy Alien: The Latin American Civilian Internees of World War II and the Integrity of the Good Neighbor Policy

Robin Altman - magna cum laude
Sympathy for the Devil: Charles Manson’s Exploitation of California’s 1960s Counter-Culture

Charles Bower - cum laude
The Gandhian Ashram and Its Contemporaries: A Global Study of the Communal Reaction to Modernity

Aaron Fox - magna cum laude
When the Invisible Empire Stormed the Front Range: The Reign of the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in Boulder County, Colorado

Maura Kalthoff - magna cum laude
Faith and Terror: Religion and the French Revolution

Taylor Martin - cum laude
The Fight for Industrial Democracy and Domestic Prosperity: Working Class and Prominent Women’s Participation in the Colorado Coal Field Strike, 1913-15

Wojciech Owczarek - summa cum laude
Poujade and Poujadolf: Fears of Fascism in France’s Fourth Republic
2014-15 Thesis Prize winner

Adamya Sharma - magna cum laude
A Game of Human Chess': The Double Cross System and MI-5’s Supremacy in World War II

Meghan Steele - summa cum laude
The Missing Piece:  Uncovering Women’s Effects on Semegambia from 1400 to 1800

Tarah Vergo - magna cum laude
Changing Perceptions: How We See the Salton Sea, and Why it Matters

Justin Williams - magna cum laude
Investigating a Century-Long Hole in History: The Untold Story of Ayahuasca, 1755-1865

Manon Williams - summa cum laude
From the Holy Land to the Cloister: The Decline of Female Ascetic Pilgrimages in the Early Medieval West (c.350-615)

Sierra Bazor - magna cum laude
Hesitant Inclusion:  The Development of the Tidewater Gentry’s Process of Political Inclusion in the Blue Ridge

Dakota Cotton - summa cum laude
When Big Science Fails:  The Hubble Space Telescope Flaw and Implications for the Space Program in the Post-Cold War Era
2013-14 Thesis Prize winner

Morgan Flynn - summa cum laude
Theory, Principle, and Diplomatic Leverage:  Latin American Influence on the Founding of the Alliance for Progress

Gabrielle Friesen - magna cum laude
Perpetua Before the Crowd:  Martyrdom and Memory in Roman North Africa

Dela Fyfe - cum laude
National Health Insurance 1970-1975:  Success and Failures of the Gray Panthers and Women’s Health Movement

Jenna Goldberg - cum laude
Crisis at Home:  American Reaction to the Berlin Crisis of 1961

Ronald Lienhardt - magna cum laude
Politics, Ballyhoo, and Controversy:  The Allied Clandestine Services, Resistance, and the Rivalries in Occupied France

Sean McKelvie - cum laude
The Law of Unintended Consequences:  The Dichotomy of Gender Roles during the Great War

Richard Murphy - magna cum laude
The Limits of Law:  British Efforts to Suppress the Slave Trade, 1818-1850

Patrick Rodriguez - summa cum laude
True Americanism:  The Rise of America’s Nazis in the Great Depression

Cale Walsh - cum laude
Thomas Francis Meagher and the Political Identity of the Irish Brigade: 1861- 1863 

Reed Chervin - magna cum laude
Wellington Koo’s Dream of National Identity:  Transitioning to a Modern China (1946-1956)

Julia Feis - cum laude
Henry VIII:  Patient and Patron of Medicine

Christopher Lane - magna cum laude
Jeffersonian Diplomacy and the American Indian

Conor May - magna cum laude
Empire in the Shadows of the Bolsheviks

Jordan Miranda - magna cum laude
Damnation to Divinity: The Myth, Memory, and History of Monarchical Power at the Dawn of the Roman Empire

Lawrence Myers - summa cum laude
Vicious Barbarians, Slave Girls, and Mythologized Mountains:  The Effects of Orientalist Discourse in Literature & Memoir on the Prosecution of the Great Caucasian War, 1817-1864
2012-13 Thesis Prize winner

Lucas Polglaze - magna cum laude
A Ten-Meter War':  Common Themes in Letters Home from the World War II Tenth Mountain Division, January-May 1945

Ryan Rasmussen - summa cum laude
Colorado's Role in the American Labor Struggle:  Western Unionism and the Labor Question, 1894-1914

Ryan Rebhan - magna cum laude
Designed by Nature: Transportation, Tourism, and the Transformation of Glenwood Canyon

Brett Stokes - magna cum laude
Patria o Muerte!:  Jose Marti, Fidel Castro, and the Path to Cuban Communism

Jordan Towne - magna cum laude
Mutual Integration versus Forced Assimilation: The Conflict between the Sandinistas and the Miskitu Indians, 1979-1987

Joshua Umland - summa cum laude
Max Nordau and the Making of Racial Zionism

Sheena Barnes - summa cum laude
The Great Matter: Dissecting the Polemics of Treason and Sedition in Tudor England

Alexandra Castanon - cum laude
Press Relations and Image Management in the Kennedy Administration

Emily Clary - summa cum laude
African Responses to British Wartime Propaganda in Kenya During World War II

Jason Cleland - summa cum laude
Searching for Precedent:  Thomas More, Edmund Burke, and the Foundations of Modern Conservatism

Jonathan Crenshaw - cum laude
Freak Power in Aspen

Rachel Crouch - summa cum laude
Felix Lembersky: Painting the Truth

Phoebe Flanigan - summa cum laude
Re-Appropriating Empire:  A Study of the West African Students’ Union, 1900-1960

Augustus Flottman - cum laude
The Meiji Education System:  Developing the Emperor’s Ideal Subject

Amy Greenswag - cum laude
Hollywood’s Representations of Native American Populations and the Rewriting of America’s History

Patricia Helfenbein - summa cum laude
Reconciling Heritage and Citizenship: Identity Negotiation and the Emergence of Taiwanese National Identity during the Japanese Colonial Period, 1895-1945
2011-12 Thesis Prize winner

Hollie Hicks - cum laude
The Public Debate over Carter’s Human Rights Foreign Policy:  Nicaragua, 1977-1979

Joanna Merrill - cum laude
American Jewish Identity and Newspapers:  the Medium that Maintained an Imagined Community through a Change in Identity

Michael Palmisano - cum laude
With Friends, Family and Conviction: Combat Motivation in British and Canadian Soldiers Fighting the First World War

Hayley Presley - cum laude
Purifying the American Race:  The Sacco-Vanzetti Trial and the Power of Eugenics

Laura Roesch - magna cum laude
Theodoricus Rex: Identity and Ideology in Ostrogothic Italy, 493-526 CE

Kimberley Smith - magna cum laude
Heavenly Hierarchies: Angels and Angelology in Medieval Europe

Lauren Trujillo- summa cum laude
God Was Wonderfully Near: White Middle- and Upper- Class Union Protestant Female Nurses’ Use of Religion in the American Civil War

James Clark - cum laude
Florins, Faith and Falconetes in the War for Granada, 1482-1492

Jessica Counce - magna cum laude
Imagining the New World: Indians, Colonists, and the Environment in the Early Settlements of New England

Christopher Ibeling - magna cum laude
Retailing and Cultural Despair: Small Shopkeepers and the Department Store in Nineteenth-Century France

HannaLore Hein - magna cum laude
The Mexican Invasion … By Invitation Only: A Critical Look at the Legacy and Consequences of The Bracero Program, 1942-1964

Corinne Kannenberg - summa cum laude
Realism before ‘Art’: Hyperreality in Medieval Aesthetics and Piety

Kelsea Kenzy - summa cum laude
Transgression and Ideology, Scandal and Politics: The Public Lives and Memoirs of Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century British Courtesans

Kathryn Kleinkopf - magna cum laude
Resurrecting the Body: The Valuation of the Body in Proto-Orthodox Christianity, 30-300 AD

Robert Kopperud - magna cum laude
The Templars in Southern France, 1133-1183: Gift-Giving, Networks, and Environment

David Levine - magna cum laude
Popular Ideology: The Cinema of Nazi Germany

Meaghan Milan - magna cum laude
The Disintegration of Ottoman-Armenian Relations in the Tanzimat and Hamidian Periods, 1839-1896

Brendan Shea - cum laude
Tracing the Evolution of An American Identity Through the Study and Analysis of the Boston Massacre Orations (1771-1783)

Alan Sielaff - magna cum laude
Soviet Influence in British India: Intelligence and Paranoia within Imperial Government in the Interwar Years,

Sarah Vlasity - magna cum laude
Privateers as Diplomatic Agents of the American Revolution
2010-11 Thesis Prize winner

Weston Welge - cum laude
The Evolving Technoculture of America: Understanding the Impact of the Laser on the Relationship between Technology and Culture, 1960-2000

Janine Allen - magna cum laude
Massacre Memory: A Comparison of the Bear River and Sand Creek Massacres

Joseph Cavanah - magna cum laude
Ballistic Diplomacy: Taking Aim at Ethiopia and Afghanistan through the Scope of Modern Weaponry

Catherine Cunningham - summa cum laude
The King's Consolation: King Alfred's Translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

Peter Evans - magna cum laude
Milites Christi: Adaptations of the Soldiers of Christ from the Third to the Early Fourteenth Centuries

Laura Foreman - summa cum laude
An Education in Ceylon: The Influence of Imperial Civil Service on Leonard Woolf

Brian Hall - summa cum laude
Development of the English Medieval Jury: Innovative, Reactive, and Interactive

Heather Hanson - magna cum laude
It's a Small World: An American Love Story

Katherine Hermann - summa cum laude
Cholera and the Feverish Disposition: Medical Discourse on Cholera in Nineteenth-Century British India

John Hoban - magna cum laude
Legalized Murder: The Development of U.S. Strategic Bombing Doctrine and the Fight for Autonomy in the Interwar Years, 1919-1941

Anna Jackson - summa cum laude
From Swedish Throne to the Vatican: The Abdication and Conversion of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689)

Kathryn Emilia Lehman - magna cum laude
From the United Nations to the Lof Mapuche: The Indigenous Peoples' Right to Self-Determination in Mapuche Lafkenche Communities of Teodoro Schmidt, Chile

Jeff Loposer - cum laude
Blue, Black, and White: Music and the Majority

Catharine Silverman - cum laude
'Grit and Grace': European Women and the Creation of Tradition, Identity, and Myth in Colonial Kenya, 1918-1939

Victoria Ulrich - summa cum laude
The Mothers of Cocoa: The Effect of Cocoa Farming on Women in the Gold Coast 1890-1940

Kathryn Wataha - summa cum laude
Managing Disease as an Imperial Threat: The Role of Medicine, Morality, Locality and Sanitary Policy in Framing Epidemic Cholera in Nineteenth-Century India
2009-10 Thesis Prize winner

Gavin Wolny - summa cum laude
The Prestige of Empire: Russian Views of Natives in the Caucasus and Siberia in the Early Nineteenth Century

Erin Bauman - magna cum laude
La Medicina Past and Present: Indigenous Women in Healthcare Reform, Chiapas, Mexico 1985 to the Present

Samuel Bock - summa cum laude
The Debate that Stood on Clay Legs: Examining the Role of Ethnocentric Assumptions in Forming Archaeology's Great Paleolithic Debate, 1850-1930

Aaron Bothner - magna cum laude
Constructing Character: An Examination of the Relationship Between Alexander Hamilton's Personal History and Fiscal Policy

Nicole DeVanon  - cum laude
Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail: An Examination of Guatemala and Cuba 1954-1961

Cynthia Frye - summa cum laude
From the Courtroom to the Council Room: The Legal Career of Sir James Hobart (1440-1517), Attorney General to Henry VII
2008-09 Thesis Prize winner

Cecily Harms - summa cum laude
Exemplum or Threat? Beguines and the Medieval Church Prior to the Council of Vienne

Brian Jang - cum laude
Within the Calculus of Containment: Understanding America's China Strategy through US-Indonesian Relations, 1950-1965

Kathryn Jankovsky - magna cum laude
To Save Our Boys from Themselves: The United States Army's Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections in WWI, WWII, and the Vietnam War 

John Lindbeck - summa cum laude
Opponents of Populism: The Rural Progressives of Eastern Colorado

Connor Link - magna cum laude
With Shotguns Strapped to Their Cultivators: Italian Gangsters and American Nativists in Southern Colorado, 1900-1931

Cailyn Plantico - summa cum laude
The Progressive Legacy in Boulder's Open Space Movement

Amanda Walck- magna cum laude
Conquering the Twin Sisters: Germany, France, and the Question of Regional Identity in Alsace-Lorraine 

Anthony Bowman - summa cum laude
Sacrificed Upon the Altar of Empire: Admiral John Byng and the Minorca Crisis of 1756-1757 
2007-08 Thesis Prize winner

Brian Johnson - magna cum laude
Bridge Building or Treason?  Liberal Unionism and Community Relations in Northern Ireland, 1963-1970

Rebecca Kaplan - magna cum laude
‘Benevolence, Brotherly Love, and Harmony Prevailing': The Development of Denver Lodge No. 171 of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith and the Establishment of National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, 1859-1899

Emily Laase - cum laude
'Are You a Maiden?': Reconciling Ecclesiastical Constructions of Female Holiness and Lay-Social Expectations in Medieval England

Srinivasa Srinidhi - summa cum laude
Envisioning the ‘Other': The Role of the Vijayanagara Empire During and Immediately After the Tuluva Dynasty in the Formation of Hinduism as a Political Identity 

James Zonino - cum laude
Dagoes, Wobblies, or Workers: The Italians of Colorado's Northern Coalfield During the 1927 Coal Strike 

Patrick Cecil - magna cum laude
Command Crisis in the Coalition: The Allied High Command and the Battle of the Bulge

Katherine Fox - cum laude
How ‘la guerre sans nom’ became the Algerian War 

David Hayes - cum laude
Revolution and Reality: The United Mexican American Students and the University of Colorado at Boulder, 1968-1975

Elisabeth Jackson - cum laude
‘Pure religion will aid and strengthen any cause’: The Influence of Christian Rhetoric on the Indian Removal Debates

William McEachron - cum laude
The Role of the Medieval Warm Period in the Rise of the French Monarchy and the Success of Philip II

Lisa Predaina - cum laude
Picking Up the Pieces: Interpreting and Responding to Disaster in Jamaica, 1655-1722

Julia Rahe - summa cum laude
Damning Heterogeneity: A Study of the Socio-economic, Political, and Religious Manifestations and Implications of the Anti-Semitic Discourse in Mathias de Bocanegra’s Relación of the Auto General de Fé of 1649 
2006-07 Thesis Prize winner

Troy Tice - magna cum laude
To Snatch from the Mouths of Lions: Conquest and Colonization in Occitania

Jennifer Wells - summa cum laude
The Spying Game: Informers, Infiltration, and the IRA During the Troubles

Michael Woods - magna cum laude
The Legacy of the Public Sector: Privatization and the Business Performance of Amersham International, 1982-1997

Peter Carlisle - summa cum laude
Learning from the Recent Past: Nonintervention at Dien Ben Phu and in Rwanda

Katherine Gleeson - magna cum laude
From Admirable to Deplorable: A Comparison of the Court of Star Chamber in 1487-1547 and 1620-1641

Bradford Jones - magna cum laude
Pillars of their Communities: The Volunteers of the Third Colorado Cavalry

Erin Miller - summa cum laude
Infant Health in Wigan, England during the First World War

James Shoffitt - magna cum laude
High and Low: Close Air Support in Vietnam

Shannon Smith - summa cum laude
The American Home Economics Association and the Popularization of Knowledge, 1909-1918
2005-06 Thesis Prize winner

Justin Villere - magna cum laude
False Hope: Environmentalism and the Colorado Democratic Party

Andrew Chatfield - cum laude
The Reappearance of the Three Points: Woodrow Wilson’s Ideas for Disarmament, Open Trade, and Open Peace Treaties at the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-22

Alan Haburchak - magna cum laude
Power in a Revolutionary Legacy: The Role of the May Fourth Movement During the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests

Amina Nawaz - magna cum laude
A Century of Secret Struggle: An Examination of Sixteenth-Century Morisco Translations of the Qur’ān in Aljamiado

Andrew Pettit - magna cum laude
Remaking the Nation: The Adaptation of Western Ideas in China

Megan Reece - magna cum laude
The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and an Indian Memorial After 1988

Matthew Zepelin - summa cum laude
The Origins of the Seemingly Improbable Zen Boom in America
2004-05 Thesis Prize winner

Jennifer Beltzer - cum laude
Alfred Hitchcock's Forgotten World War II Propaganda Films: 'Bon Voyage,' and 'Aventure Malgache' 

Michelle Hanley - magna cum laude
New Path to Communism: Nationalist Rhetoric and the Communist Uprising - A Case Study of Yugoslavia 

Jamie Kreiner - summa cum laude
Radegund, Dhuoda, and the Dynamics of Female Voice in Early Medieval Francia 
2003-04 Thesis Prize winner

Jeffrey Mohrmann - magna cum laude
Intolerance and Public Perception: Constantine's Rome 

Rachel Narens - magna cum laude
Art for the Collector's Sake? Art, Identity, and Cultural Diplomacy in Meiji Japan 

Debra Quakenbush - summa cum laude
Forgotten: The Settlement of Japanese American Voluntary Evacuees of World War II in Rural Colorado.  

Derek Richards - cum laude
Foundations of Change: The Origins and Development of Nationalist Visions in Turkey and China 

Patrick Shea - cum laude
The Compromise of Liberty in the Early American Republic: Slavery's Role in the Creation of the United States Consitution

James Ward - magna cum laude
Shifting Terms of Mission: The Religious Premises and Secular Outcome of American Colonialism in the Phillipines 

Shoshannah Zirkin - summa cum laude
The Jewish Refugees of Shanghai, 1938-1945 

Emalie Brgoch - summa cum laude
Revolution not Reform: An Ideological Divergence between Clara Zetkin and Lily Braun, Two German Socialist Feminists

Timothy Clark - magna cum laude
Factionalism in the Empire of Alexander the Great: The King's Power in Relation to the Alliances of the Asiatic Campaign,  334-323 BCE

Katie Cumpstein - cum laude
Women at War: Female Russian Combatants in World War II

Elias Glenn - cum laude
Americans in Imperial China: An Investigation of American Missionary Thought and Activity in China during the Years 1867-1878

Carmen Kordick - summa cum laude
The Triumph of Pragmatic Politics:  Four Men and Their Strategies in Writing Fundamental Law at Colorado's  Constitutional Convention, 1875-1876

Thomas Marshall - magna cum laude
Considering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.:  Structured Critiques, Philosophical Consistency, and Radical Alternatives

Kevin Morse - cum laude
'The Purest Bars of Castillian Soap': Cubans in Major League Baseball, 1910-1947

Moriah Waterland - cum laude
The U.S. Navy WAVES and the ULTRA Secret

Allison Wegrzyn - summa cum laude
Twilight of Revolution:  John Adams and Thomas Jefferson as Observers in a Changing World

Gina Yusypchuk - magna cum laude
Monocled Mamma and Singled Sisters:  Fashion, Class, and Sexuality in 1920s Britain

Dana Bartle - summa cum laude
''Some Plant Their Flags on Things, We Plant our Flags on the Seventies': African American and Nuyorican Political and Cultural exchange in the Black Power Era  

Steven Beda - summa cum laude
Men as Tough as Their Axe Handles:  Loggers, the Industrial Workers of the World, and Changes in Masculinity in the Pacific Northwest, 1880-1917
2002-03 Thesis Prize winner

Melissa Field - summa cum laude
Cautious Optimism: US Political Involvement in Northern Ireland, 1992-1998 

Jeffrey Henriksen - magna cum laude
War Stories:  New England Soldiers, Memory, and the American Revolution

Sarah Lamb - magna cum laude
The Relationship Between Social Control and Premarital Sex in Colonial and Post-Colonial America

Donald Livesay - summa cum laude
The Death of the Volunteers:  An Examination of Ireland's Imperial Position in Eighteenth-Century Britain 

David McCoy - magna cum laude
A Case of Opposites:  Thomas Jefferson and Gouverneur Morris in France, 1784 - 1794

Amy Nelson - magna cum laude
Peace Maintenance at Risk: The United Nations and the Suez Crisis

Laurence Nelson - cum laude
Racial Theory in the Postwar Era: 'Nature vs. Nurture' and the Rhetoric of Race

Andrew Sheldon - summa cum laude
Honorable Men: A Study of Honor During the Period of the American Revolution, as Explored through the Lives of Henry Laurens, Richard Henry Lee, and Arthur Lee

Sara Smith - magna cum laude
Slippery When Wet:  AIDS, San Francisco Bath Houses, and Queer Art in the Reagan Era and After

Michelle Wing - summa cum laude
Resistance and Memory in Toulouse: 1944-2002
2001-02 Thesis Prize winner

Alison Langlois - cum laude
Miranda de Ebro:  Internment in Spain

Sara Smith - magna cum laude
Slippery When Wet:  AIDS, San Francisco Bath Houses, and Queer Art in the Reagan Era and After

Andrea Lassiter - magna cum laude
Martin Luther:  Fear in the Face of Rebellion

Bryan Miller - summa cum laude
Drumfire: The Champagne Offensive, the French War Effort, & the Death of Perceé in 1915

Loren O'Dell - cum laude
The Impact of Race, Gender, & Sexual Orientation on Chicana Feminism

Lena Potyondy - summa cum laude
The Advertiser/El Anunciador & the Cultural Frontier: The Decline of Hispano-Anglo Accommodation in Southern Colorado
2000-01 Thesis Prize winner

Michael Sandoval - summa cum laude
Republic to Empire:  American Nationalism in the Visual Arts & Architecture

Karen Thomas - summa cum laude
The Sword and the Olive Branch:  Paradoxical Authority & the Fall of Thomas Gage

Tucker Katz - magna cum laude
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Caroline Campbell - magna cum laude
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Charles Grossman - magna cum laude
unknown

John Ingold - magna cum laude
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Rodney Thomas - summa cum laude
The Ipswich Tax Revolt of 1687:  A Case of Diverging Views of the Rights of Englishmen

Jeffrey Webb - summa cum laude
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1999-2000 Thesis Prize winner

Matthew Bornstein - summa cum laude
'A Distant Post':  An Examination of the Effects of Isolation on the Diplomats Who Served in Persia Between 1885 and 1914

Brant Downes - summa cum laude
The Sea of Rum, the Sea of China, and the Encircling Ocean in the Medieval Muslim World

Justin Gurvitz - summa cum laude
The Accident at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Facility: Effects on the Fall of the Communist State in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Denise Holladay - magna cum laude
The Domingue Family: A Story of Ethnic Identity

Olivia Kaferly - summa cum laude
Beyond Sterile: Merovingian Queens and the Propagation of Christianity

Stacey Manley - summa cum laude
Standing on Eggs Loaded with Dynamite': The Inactivity of American Troops in Siberia

Katherine Moran - summa cum laude
Natural Degeneration: The Nazis and the Postwar Persistence of American Eugenics
1998-99 Thesis Prize winner

Gerardo Munoz - cum laude
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs': Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, 1953 to 1960

Charles Pernicka - magna cum laude
The Politics of Revenge: Guerilla War in Civil-War Missouri

Sarah Scaturro - summa cum laude
Succumbing to Maternity': An Examination of Women under Italian Fascism

Dana Takeuchi - magna cum laude
The Impact of the British Navy During the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815

David Webb - magna cum laude
'There is only one thing that is valid: Orders!': An Examination of the Rationale of Following Orders Employed by Members of the Nazi SS During the Holocaust

Nikolaus Greven - magna cum laude
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Scott Kleeb - magna cum laude
Don't Thank Me, Thank Brother Malcolm:' An Examination of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Crisis  of Black Intellectualism
*1997-98 Thesis Prize winner

Stacey Smith - summa cum laude
The Marble Crisis: Sylvia Smith and the Community Politics of Western Company Towns
*1997-98 Thesis Prize winner

* Dual Award