2010 Undergraduate UCSB History Theses

Andrew N. Alvarado, “‘The Best Little Army In Asia:’ KMAG, the ROK Army, and the Failure of American Policy in Korea” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010). Mentors: J. Talbott and H. Bernstein.


Eleanor Dickson, “Uncivilized and Idealized: Depictions of the Southern Italian Peasant in the Fascist Period” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010). Mentors: E. Rappaport and C. Fogu.


Catherine Kwon, “‘Seeds of the Contemporary New Right’: California Young Americans for Freedom, 1964-1980” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010). Mentors: L. Kalman and H. Bernstein.


Philomen Paul Leonelli Jr., “Petrarchan Humor: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Irony” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010). Mentor: C. Lansing.


Joshua Madison, “Perspective on James II and the Emergence of Jacobitism in Ireland” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010). Mentor: J.S. McGee.


Christy A. Mason, “Valuing Nineteenth-Century Sexuality and the Act of Seduction, 1818-1860” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010). Mentor: P. Cohen.


Rheannon E. Maxwell, “A House of Cards: U.S. State Department Policy in Nicaragua, 1909-1928” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010). Mentor: F. Dutra.


Mackenzie Weinger, “Have You Any News? How America’s First Embedded Journalists Envisioned the United States, 1846-1848” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010). Mentor: P. Cohen. History Associates Board Prize


Shauna Woods, “Henry Spira and the SHAC 7: Comparing Animal Rights Activism in 1976 and 2006” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010). Mentor: L. Kalman.