The Twentieth Annual History Honors Symposium was held on Friday, April 30, 2004 in the Amphitheatre of the Rackham Building. Twenty-nine honors students presented their thesis research to an audience of their faculty advisors, family, and friends. After the presentations, each graduating student received honors cords and a certificate courtesy of the LSA Honors Office. A buffet lunch was served in the Rackham Assembly Hall.

This event is the culmination of three terms of rigorous research and writing. Even as students worked with their individual faculty advisors, they also participated in a group writing workshop experience under the supervision of Professor Leslie Pincus. Most students prepared to write their thesis in the junior year Honors Colloquium with Professors Damon Salesa and Rudolf Mrazek.

We thank this year's Honors Committee, Professors Leslie Pincus, Beate Dignas, and Damon Salesa, the many dedicated thesis advisors and thesis evaluators, and the award donors, for making the History Honors Program a success once again.

The Honors Committee is pleased to announce the following awards for outstanding thesis writing and oral presentation. These are made possible through the generosity of several donors to the Department.

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Thesis Awards

Arthur Fondiler Award for Best Thesis:

First place: Kim Foster
Making Powerful Choices: Economic Participation of Women in Ptolemaic Egypt.
Advisor Beate Dignas.

Second place: Nathan Platte
In Pursuit of Prestige: Warner Bros., Music, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Score for A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Advisor Mark Clague

John A. Williams History Award:

John C. Nelson
An Alliance Asunder: The Dissolution of the Seminole-Black Partnership.
Advisor Gregory Dowd.

Stephen J. Tonsor History of Ideas Award:

Min Kyung Yoon
The Images of Women as Portrayed in the Narrative Literature of the Hideyoshi Invasions and their Role in Nationalist Historiography.
Advisor Henry Em.

James A. Knight History Award:

Katie Cramer
"Respite, Not a Revolution": Counterculture, Comsumer Culture, and the Legacy of the Woodstock Generation.
Advisor Matt Lassiter.

Michael Kaplan
The Pullman Strike: Understanding Race and the Labor Movement.
Advisor Kevin Gaines.

Kiron Johnson
A Man's Share in the Field, A Woman's Part at Home: African-American Women in Norfolk, Virginia during Reconstruction (1863-1873).
Advisor Martha Jones.

Stephen J. Tonsor Best Oral Presentation of Thesis Award:

Michael J. Carroll
Manipulative Magic: Animated Cartoon Propaganda of the Early Cold War (1947-1962).
Advisor Penny Von Eschen.

Olivia Helena Jones
Housewives for a Separate Black Economy: The Detroit Housewives League of the 1930's Great Depression Era
Advisor Michele Mitchell.