History Awards & Honors
Each spring outstanding juniors participate in the senior honors program. Students choose faculty members with whom they wish to work, prepare a major paper based on primary source materials and present it to the department for consideration. Students then register for History 5010 for their Honors Thesis for the Fall term in their senior year.
2011 Departmental Honors Research Projects
Conor Anderson: Revisiting the Hormel Strike of 1985-86: A Community Narrative of Disruption and Change
Mitchell Knajdek: History of Fraternities and Sororities at Hamline: 1880-2000
2010 Departmental Honors Research Projects
Christopher Matter: The Waldheim Affair Reconsidered: An Examination of National Memory in Postwar Austria
Rachel Glissman: The Reconstruction Era in High School History Textbooks, 1971-2005
2009 Departmental Honors Research Projects
Margaret Nancarrow: A’isha and Fatima: Matriarchs and Sectarian Identity in Medieval Islamic Literature
Michael Schultz: Robots, Pilots, and the Endless Waltz of Battle: Examining Japanese Postwar Historical Consciousness through the Mecha Anime Genre
2008 Departmental Honors Research Projects
Sheila Kandels: The Foreigners’ Perspective of the Chinese Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976
Alicia Newman: Caught Between Two Cultures: Hmong Women Dealing with the Differentiation and Vast Expectations of Gender Roles Between the Hmong and American Cultures
2007 Departmental Honors Research Projects
John Tatge: A Study in the Shift from Classical Hollywood to New Hollywood Cinema
2006 Departmental Honors Research Projects
Lisa Johnson: The New York Times' Crusade Against the Nineteenth Amendment
Victoria Taylor: The Saint Paul Winter Carnival: Historical Reflections of Identity and Place in the City
2005 Departmental Honors Research Projects
Emilyn Anderson: Gender, Class, and Power: A Study of Selected Elite Fascist Women in Interwar Britain
Brooke Erickson: "Of Queens' Gardens": Victoria of Britain and Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary
Leslie Schumacher: The Sublime Web: British Extra-Territorial Imperialism and the Ottoman Empire During the Eastern Crisis of 1875-1878
Brianna Smith: Anti-Communism and Propaganda in West Germany
2004 Departmental Honors Research Projects
Thomas McLafferty: Media Coverage of the 1997 UPS Strike: A Comparative Analysis of the New York Times and Left Wing Articles' Portrayal of the Working Class
Natalie C. Vestin: Effects of Migration on Tuberculosis Incidence and Prevention among Somali Refuges to Minnesota, 1990-2003
2003 Departmental Honors Research Projects
Andrea Derby: Minnesota Reporting Laws in the 1970's
Brian Niemczyk: The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the World Trade Center Attacks: Parallel Case Studies in International Diplomacy
2002 Departmental Honors Student Research Projects
Scott Chutka: Into the Bright Sunshine of Human Rights: Paper and Video Documentary of Hubert H. Humphrey's Mayoral Years
Ben Herman: Exploring Abraham Lincoln's Mind: An In-depth Analysis of Influences Related to His Decision to Commute the Sentences of 264 Sioux Warriors during the Sioux Uprising of 1862
Nicole Kreklau: Ripple Across the Waves: The Sensation of the Crippen Murder
2001 Departmental Honors Research Projects
Luke Kuhl: Pioneering Education: Methodist Secondary Education in Frontier Minnesota 1850-1880
Brett Nichols: Development and Deforestation, Brazil. Can the Atlantic Coast Rainforest Be Saved?
Sian Ward: The Definition of a Gentleman: 1800-1870
2000 Departmental Honors Research Projects
Nathaniel Bailly: Saint Paul's Landmark Center: Building Preservation and Community Revitalization
Debra Johnson: Britain and the European Union: A Member or a Partner?
Christopher Miller: Greil Marcus: A Study in Cultural Theory