2004 Undergraduate UCSB History Theses


Jennifer Adkins, “‘I Liked Her Coconut Bra’: The Representation of Pacific  Island Women from 1950s Films to Modern Lu’aus and Its Effect on American Tourists” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004). Mentor: P. Spickard


Bret Beheim, “The City of Ephesus and Fall of the Roman Empire” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004). Mentor: H. Drake.


Elizabeth Ciarrocca, “Memory and Justice in the Realm of History: the Trial of Klaus Barbie” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004). Mentor: K. Moure.


Joanna Hulce, “Under Their Skirts: The Medical Fight for Racial Purity” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004). Mentor: C. Harris.


Daniel Klein, “Freedom of Space: The Free Speech Movement, The Public Realm, and Berkeley in the 1960s” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004). Mentor: L. Kalman.


Mike Peixoto, “The Last Templars and Their Piety in Fourteenth Century Cypress” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004). Mentor: C. Lansing. History Associates Board Prize


Natalie Xifo, “A Massacre of Words: Native American Portrayal in 19th Century Newspapers” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004). Mentor: P. Cohen.


Marco Paolo Lascon Yupangco, “Dusk in the Spanish Orient: Nineteenth Century Export Agriculture and de-Hispanization in the Philippines” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004). Mentor: D. Rock.