2009 Undergraduate UCSB History Theses

Seminar Director:

Katyn Evenson, “Upon a Blank Slate: Reforming Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009). Mentor: C. Woods.


Allison Fischer, “Shot to the Core: Vietnam Veterans and the Disintegration of American Exceptionalism” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009). Mentor: L. Jacobson.


Michael Hale, “The Destruction of Poleis in the Greek World”  (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009). Mentor: J. Lee.


Jeffrey Kaplan, “To Mislead and Misrepresent: The Failure of the Ninth Census” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009). Mentor: 


Risa Katzen, “Anything to Fit In: A Comparative Study of American and South African Women’s Suffrage Movements” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009). Mentor: C. Harris. History Associates Board Prize


Christopher Kindell, “‘Now for the Lord and Our Good Queen / To Fight Be Not Afraide’: Elizabethan Propaganda and the Spanish Armada” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009). Mentor: S. McGee.


Damien Mimnaugh, “The School is Before the Church: A History of Catholic Dissent during and Following the Great School Controversy in New York, 1840-1870” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009). Mentor:


Adrienne Nicole Minor, “What’s Left of the Struggle: The Oakland Community School and the Black Panther Party” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009). Mentors: D. Daniels and L. Jacobson.


Angela Prattas, “Images of Identity: Confederate Currency and Nationalism in the Civil War South”  (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009). Mentor: J. Majewski.


Celine G. Purcell, “STEP it Up: The Rise of Conservative Anti-Gang Legislation in California” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009). Mentors: R. Bergstrom and L. Jacobson. History Associates Board Prize