The Twenty-First Annual History Honors Symposium was held on Friday, April 29, 2005 in the William L. Clements Library, 909 South University Avenue. Twenty-six 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 an honors graduation certificate courtesy of the LSA Honors Office. A buffet lunch was served in the Haven Hall Ballroom.
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 John Carson. Most students prepared to write their thesis in a junior year Honors Colloquium with Professors Beate Dignas and Neil Safier.
We thank this year's Honors Committee, Professors John Carson, Joshua Cole, and Farina Mir, 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.
MORE PHOTOS OF SYMPOSIUM
Symposium Program (pdf)
Arthur Fondiler Award for Best Thesis:
Ann Marie Fernandez
Reconstructing the Torch: Immolation, Resistance, and Suicide as a Means of Political Protest, 1963-1969
Advisor Geoff Eley
Michael J.Roth
"Go Forth Stout Hearts": Abolitionism and the Agrarian Response to the Market Revolution
Advisor James Cook
John A. Williams History Award:
Kyle Stone
The Politics of Stupid: Intellectual Fitness as a Presidential Campaign Issue
Advisor Jonathan Marwil
Stephen J. Tonsor History of Ideas Award:
Ian Campbell
Orientalism's Final Frontier: Soviet Representations of Russian and Central Asian Peasants, 1917-1935
Advisor Valerie Kivelson
James A. Knight History Award:
Jason Colman
Constitutionalism and the Cloister: Matthew Paris and the Crisis of Royal Monastic Patronage in Thirteenth Century England
Advisor Paolo Squatriti
Sabrina Hiedemann
Unique Collections, Innovative Designs and One Interpretation: The Henry Ford Museum, 1929-1976
Advisor John Carson
Thomas Massie
The Inconvenience of History: Catholicism, Secularization, and the CTCC in Quebec
Advisor Kenneth Sylvester
Kathleen Rowland
Watching Ourselves: The Establishment of Mass-Observation
Advisor Kali Israel
Stephen J. Tonsor Best Oral Presentation of Thesis Award:
Shira Levine
Independence, Fraternity, and Fairness: Remembering an Imagined Past in Appeals for Racial Equality, Cuba, 1878-1908
Advisor Rebecca Scott
Ryan Westbrook
Breaking Tradition and Transforming Reality: A Comparison of English and Byzantine Iconoclasm
Advisor Paolo Squatriti
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