2018 Undergraduate UCSB History Theses

Avery Barboza, “A Sixteenth Century Cold War: England, Spain and John Hawkins” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018). Mentor: J.S. McGee.

Sasha Bates, “Ignoring Atrocities: The Reagan Administration Funding the Salvadoran Government, 1981-1984” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018). Mentor: S. Yaqub.

Penelope Fergison, “Head for the Hills: Race and Property Values in Oakland” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018). Mentor: G. Perrone. History of Public Policy Senior Thesis Prize

Jessica Kanter, “Historiographies of Colonial Rule: Italian Fascists in Libya and the British in Zimbabwe” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018). Mentor: M.Chikowero.

Amanda Krstic, “Age of Quarrel: Slavery and Diplomacy in maryland in the Era of Atlantic Revolution” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018). Mentor: M. Covo.

Megan Lucas, “Bluestockings on Campus: Women at Smith and Vassar College in the Nineteenth Century” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018). Mentor: S. Case. History Associates Board Prize

Milo Schaberg, “Nuclear Semiotics: Thomas Sebeok and the “Atomic Priesthood”” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018). Mentor: E. Aronova.

Halley Thiel, “”There is Power in the Blood:” The Growth of the Californian Oil Industry and its Resistance to Standard Oil” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2018). Mentor: G. Graves.