2011 Undergraduate UCSB History Theses

Emmett M. Bloom “Who’s In Charge? Political Fragmentation in Post-Taliban Afghanistan” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011). Mentor: S. Humphreys.

Jonathan Bronstein, “Judging Judges: The Politicization of Judicial Nomination From Nixon to Reagan” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011). Mentor: L. Kalman.


Kaitlyn Summer Cherry, “Detroit: A Laboratory for American Policing” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011). History of Public Policy Senior Thesis Prize

James Davies, “Vengeance and Remembrance: The Role of Florentine Family Memoirs in Vendetta Culture” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011). Mentor: C. Lansing.

Ariana Dumpis, “Surf and Turf: Surfing, Localism, and Everything In Between” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011). Mentor: J. Park.

Rebekah Dunn, “‘Africans a-liberate Zimbabwe’: Music and Pan-Africanism in Zimbabwe and South Africa, 1950-1995” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011). Mentor: M. Chikowero.

Mattias Fibiger, “Redeeming the Ship of State: The Mayaguez Incident of 1975” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011). Mentor: S. Yaqub.

Miles D. Freeman, “Heroes and Traitors: The China Hands, The China Lobby, and the War for America’s China Policy” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011).

Lindsay Gaudinier, “The Western Shoshone and the Nevada Test Site” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011). Mentor: L. Kalman.

Alexandra D. Greco, “Thorns Amongst the Tentacles: A Look into the Private and Public Depiction of the Standard Oil Company” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011). Mentor: M. Furner.

Cheyanne Gustason, “Some Like It Haute: The Role of 1930s Hollywood Cinema in the Rise of the U.S. in the International Fashion Industry” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011). Mentor: J. S. McGee.

Benjamin Thomas Lopez, “The Sullivan Campaign of 1779 on the New York Frontier: An American General Fails to Grasp Victory” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011). Mentor: P. Cohen.

Charles A. Lucero, “Anybody ‘but not Ld. B’: A Study of Lord William Carr Beresford’s Intervention In 1820s Portugal” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011).

Christos Potamianos, “The Function of the Roman Spectacle in Ephesos” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011). Mentor: E. D. Digeser. History Associates Board Prize

Eric Rogers, “A Study of Early Christianity in Relation to the Ancient Mysteries” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011). Mentor: E. D. Digeser and C. Thomas.

Andrew Seguin, “Forays into the “Urban Frontier:” The Beginnings of Gentrification in New York City” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011).

Evan R. Sherwood, “Extending the Containment Perimeter in Korea: October 9, 1950” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011).

Douglas E. Wagoner, “A Crossroads of Racial and Gender Preference: Affirmative Action and the University of California’s War Within” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011). Mentor: L. Kalman.

Gregory J. Wilner, “Into the Arms of the Infidel: Christian and Muslim Mercenaries of the Reconquista” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2011). Mentor: D. Blumenthal.