2021 Undergraduate UCSB History Theses

Seminar Director: D. Blumenthal

Mackenzie Butler, “Containing Teenage Femininity in the Cold War Classroom” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2021). Mentor: S. Case/J. Henderson.

Zihang Chen, “Remedia Mortis: Invoking the Saints and Embracing Suffering as the Two Remedies of Black Death” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2021). Mentor: E. English.

Nicholas Dias, “A Homegrown Fifth Column: An Analysis of the German American Bund and its Connection to the Nazi Party of Germany” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2021). Mentor: H. Marcuse. History Associates Board Prize

Lily Hopwood, “Financing an Insurgency: The Complicity of the CIA and Reagan Administration in Narcotrafficking by Contras and Contra Associates, 1981-1987” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2021). Mentor: S. Yaqub.

Lam Winnie, “The Political Dot Com: A Polarized America in the Era of the Internet” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2021). Mentor: L. Kalman.

Irene Rauch, “Something’s Brewing in the East: Germany’s Right Wing Resurgence as an Unintended Consequence of the 1990 Reunification” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2021). Mentor: P. Spickard.

Jane Wahlig, “American and British Narratives of Enslavement in the 19th Century” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2021). Mentor: J. Henderson. History of Public Policy Senior Thesis Prize