2005 Undergraduate UCSB History Theses

Deborah Bahn, “Waiting for the Line: Aurora as County Seat for Mono County, CA and Esmeralda County, NV” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Mentor: J. Majewski.


Abbey Chamberlain, “Instilling Patriotism in Our Youth: Children’s Magazines during the Second World War” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Mentor: L. Jacobson.


Florentina Craciun, “Redefining the Romanian Revolution of 1989” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Mentor: T. Hasegawa.


Brittany Dethlefsen, “Reagan, Food Programs, and Budget Cuts: The Forces that Drove the Changes” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Mentor: L. Kalman.


Emily Flores, “Gender Politics and Contradictions in an Emergent Ghana” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Mentor: S. Miescher.


Joanna Funke, “From Furman to Gregg: Capital Punishment and ‘Law and Order’ Ideology in the United States” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Mentor: A. O’Connor.


Robert Harkins, “Constructing Castles of Health: Tudor Humanism and the Rise of Vernacular Medical Literature” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Mentor: H. Bernstein.


Juan Carlos Ibarra, “A History of the California Small Claims Court During the 1920s” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Mentor: L. Kalman.


Ann MacDonald, “Franco-American Relations and the NATO Crisis of 1966” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Mentor:


Elizabeth Malcolm, “Black Power in White America: The Black Panther Party in Oakland” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Mentor: A. O’Connor.


Anthony C. Rios, “English Seafarers in Coastal Brazil During Early Habsburg Rule (1580-1600)” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Mentor: F. Dutra.


Lauren Rushton, “Influencing Society: The Role of El Mercurio in Allende’s Coup” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Mentor: C. Lansing. History Associates Board Prize


Jason Shattuck, “Social Sacrifice: The Fracture of Antioch’s Public Sphere Under Julian the Apostate” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Mentor:


Karen Steward, “The Little Prayer Book that Could: The 1549 and 1552 Prayer Books as the Engine of Reformed Liturgy and Doctrine in England” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Mentors: J. Sears McGee and C. Lansing.


Meghann Williams, “Ireland and the Outbreak of the First World War” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2005). Mentor: K. Moure.