(top row, left to right) Iden Baghdadchi, Daniel Singer, Angelica Leveroni, Lucas Polcyn, Valerie Samet, Jonathan Zajac, Pablo Lambea, Harry Kezelian, Charles McCarren, Elliott Mallen

(second to top) Kristen DCamp, Amy Sheppard, Meredith Goldich, Steven Assarian, Lindsey Trainor, Rachel Levandoski

(second to bottom) Jennifer Jones, Monica Woll, Amy Kamin, Pauline Lewis, Andrew Gould

(bottom row) Benedict Lee, Nevila Pahumi, Karen Carmichael, Sarah Tomasik, Aman Sharma

(not pictured Haosi Wu)

More Symposium photos

The students in the History Honors Class of 2007 spent an intensive senior year researching and writing an honors thesis. Their efforts culminated in the Twenty-Third Annual History Honors Symposium on Friday, April 27, 2007 in the William L. Clements Library when honors students gave presentations of their thesis research to an audience of their faculty advisors, family, and friends.

The History Honors Program requires three terms of rigorous research and writing. Even as students work with their individual faculty advisors, they also participate in a writing workshop with others in the program, this year under the supervision of Professor Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof. Most of these students prepared to write their thesis in a junior year honors colloquium with Professors Jonathan Sheehan and Martin Pernick.

This year, thesis topics ranged across the globe. Click here to read the program.

Many thanks to this year's Honors Committee, Professors Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Christian de Pee and Jonathan Sheehan, and to the many dedicated thesis advisors, evaluators, and the award donors, for making the History Honors Program a success.

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

Thesis Awards

Arthur Fondiler Award for Best Thesis:
Jennifer D. Jones
We Never Fade: The Black Body in Advertising, 1877-1915
Advisor: Martha Jones

Andrew Gould
A Divided State in a Divided Nation: Kentucky's Decision in the Civil War
Advisor: J. Mills Thornton

John A. Williams History Award:
Lindsey Trainor
"To Provide for Our Relations:" Diplomacy and Identity Among the Great Lakes Ojibwe, 1826-1837
Advisor: Michael Witgen

Stephen J. Tonsor History of Ideas Award:
Karen Carmichael
Americanization and Mexican Immigrants: Racism and Citizenship in Conflict in 1920s Detroit
Advisor: Alexandra Minna Stern

James A. Knight History Award:
Harry Kezelian
"Nationalism or the Gospel?": Archbishop Tiran Nersoyan and the Armenian Church in the United States
Advisor: Kevorah Bardakjian

Nevila Pahumi
The Consolidation of Albanian Nationalism: The League of Prizren 1878-1881
Advisor: John V.A. Fine

Daniel Singer
A Critique of the Adjustment Movement: The Case of Ghana, 1983-1992
Advisor: Mamadou Diouf

Stephen J. Tonsor Best Oral Presentation of Thesis Award:
Valerie Samet
Equality of Devotion: Women of the Paris Commune, 1871
Advisor: Joshua Cole

Amy Sheppard
Doers of the Word: Seventh-day Adventist Social Christianity in the American Gilded Age
Advisor: Susan Juster

 

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