2013 Undergraduate UCSB History Theses

Heidi Graves, “The Public Debate on Witchcraft in Colonial Ghana” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013). Mentor: S. Miescher.


Elaine MacPherson, “Relief Without A Roof: The Emergence of a Policy Discussion on American Homelessness, 1980-1996” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010). History Associates Board Prize


Jesse McCarthy, “The Emergence of English Arminianism: Richard Montagu 1624-1639” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013). Mentor: J. S. McGee.


Molly Nugent, “‘Your Tax Dollars Buy Sex Discrimination!’: The Fight for Equal Gender Representation in France and the United States” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010). Mentor: R. Bergstrom. History of Public Policy Senior Thesis Prize


Jacob Owens, “‘A Most Inconvenient Dilemma:’ The British Motives Behind the Making of the Hoare-Laval Plan” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010). Mentor: E. Rappaport.


Ricardo Quezada, “‘Free the 13’ Contesting Legal Discrimination: The East Los Angeles Blowouts and the Chicano/a Community’s Agency, 1968-1970” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013). Mentor: M. T. Garcia.


Morgan Stocks, “Perusing the Papal Pantry: The Fasting Principles of Pope Boniface VIIII, 1299-1303” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2010). Mentor: C. Lansing.