Top row: Erol Ahmed, David Williamson, Thomas Hooker, John Geise, Christopher McLaurin, Nicholas Kovach, Kyle Anderson, Bryan Klausmeyer, Daniil Gunitskiy

middle row: Juliann Schwartz, Meera Sarathy, Emily Brooks, Jane Coaston, Paul Leahy, Edward Kim

Bottom row: Andrew Reinel, Judy Bankman, Maureen Kellett, Jenny Armstrong

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Nineteen students in the History Honors Class of 2009 spent an intensive senior year researching and writing an honors thesis. Their efforts culminated in the Twenty-Fifth Annual History Honors Symposium on Friday, May 1, 2009 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 Christian de Pee. Most of these students prepared to write their thesis in a junior year honors colloquium with Professors Micah Auerback.

Thesis topics ranged across the globe. Click here to read the program.

Many thanks to this year's Honors Committee, Professors Christian de Pee, Micah Auerback, and Richard Turits 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. Two students also won Goldstein Honors awards from the LSA Honors Program for their work as noted below.
 

Thesis Awards 2009

The Arthur Fondiler History Award (2 awards)
Bryan Klausmeyer - also winner of the Robert Hayden Humanities Award from LSA Honors
Transcritical Encounters in Lancanian Psychoanalysis
Advisor: Silke-Maria Weineck

Thomas Hooker - also co-winner of the Marshal Sahlins Social Science Prize from LSA Honors
A Friend in Need is a Friend Indeed: Friendship and Terror in Stalin's Russia
Advisor: Ron Suny

John A. Williams History Award
Christopher McLaurin  
"Lift Up the Lad": The Struggle of One Group Home Amidst a City in Decline
 Advisor: GIna Morantz-Sanchez

Stephen J. Tonsor History of Ideas Undergraduate Honors Award
 Meera Sarathy
"La question féminine": Women and the Extreme-Right in Interwar France
Advisor: Dena Goodman

James A. Knight Scholarship in History (4 awards)
Erol Ahmed
Photographic Trust, Photographic Truth in the Hamidian Period
Advisor: Gottfried Hagen
 
Kyle Anderson
 Land Reform: The Invented Tradition of Social Revolution in Modern Egypt
Advisor: Juan Cole

Judy Bankman
The Third World Women's Alliance and the Birth of Cross-racial Coalitional Feminism
Advisor: Maria Cotera

John Geise
Bradley v. Milliken: The Failure of Idealism
Advisor: Kevin Gaines

Stephen J. Tonsor Best Oral Presentation of Thesis Award (2 awards)
Jane Coaston
Nazi Propaganda Before and After the Battle of Stalingrad
Advisor: Scott Spector

Andrew A. Reinel
¡Si Te Atreves! Composing Music and Black Identity in Peru, 1958-1974
Advisors: Paulina Alberto and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof

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