2020 Undergraduate UCSB History Theses

Gabrielle Anne Birog, “Resolving the Revolving Door: The Legal System’s Efforts in Mitigating the Mental Health Crisis in the Criminal Justice System” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: L. Kalman.

Michael Caplan, “George Mason and Ordered Liberty in the Formation of the Early American Republic: 1774-1790” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: A. Plane.

Zheng Chen, “Yüe Ou: Local Culture, Identity and Mobility in Early Nineteenth-Century
Guangzhou” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: X. Zheng. History Associates Board Prize

Woodrow Davidson, “Rising Sun Revolutions: Ashio Miners’ Radical Struggle Against Labor Policies in Early 20th Century Japan” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: McDonald.

Andrew Delvasto, “Forgotten or Abandoned: The Policies of Deinstitutionalization and Its Effects on Homeless Populations” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: R. Bergstrom.

Jackie Gerson, “Republican Presidential Incentives for Charitable Giving: An Examination of the 1969, 1986, and 2017 Tax Code Revisions” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: L. Kalman.

Austin Janisch, “Soaring into Los Angeles: The 1910 Los Angeles International Aviation Meet” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: P. McCray.

Joshua Mackenney, “The causes of the first Anglo-Dutch war 1652-1654” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: J. S. McGee.

Kate Mason, “ARPANET and the Politics of Science at Three Californian Universities” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: E. Aranova.

Shekina Medalla, “The Role of the Body in Crime, Punishment, and Law in Early New
England, 1630–1675” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: A. Plane.

Elisa Oatis, “Tudor Vagrancy and the ‘Impotent Poor’: The Northern Implementation of Poor Regimes” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: H. Bernstein.

Shayal Prasad, “Indo-Fijian Immigrants in Modesto, California” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: P. Spickard.

Miguel Sanchez Morquecho, “Bonding with the Invader: Forming the
Sicilian Perspective of Carthage & Rome Through Diodorus Siculus’ Βιβλιοθήκη” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: J. Lee.

Benjamin Schwartz, “US Foreign Policy in the Persian Gulf During the Nixon Administration,
Following the 1968 British Announcement of Withdrawal from the Middle East” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: S. Yaqub.

Madeline Thompson, “Narratives of Assimilation for Non-White Immigrants in California, 1980s and 1990s” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: K. McDonald.

Tomas Tuszynski, “The Fifth Partition: The Post-War Polish American Experience in Southern California, 1945-1985” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: J. Henderson.

Rowyn Van Miltenburg, “Censor-y Overload: Sketch Comedy and Censorship on Television in the 1960s” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: S. Yaqub.

Simren Verma, “The Myth of Neutrality: Implicating the United States in the Violence of the 1989 Kashmir Insurgency” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2020). Mentor: U. Chattopadhyaya.