2022 Undergraduate UCSB History Theses


Seminar Director: B. Bouley

Akunna Chilaka,  “The American Dream Denied: The Inland Empire and Southern California’s Legacy with Postwar, Anti-Black Racial Housing Discrimination” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022) Mentor: Guiliana Perrone.


Sydney Evans, “Gender Queerness in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022) Mentor: Carol Lansing.


Sabrina M. Hall, “Welfare Reform, It’s What’s for Lunch: How the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program Changed School Lunch Across America” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022) Mentor: Paul Spickard.


Ryan B. Kenyon, “Imperial Ancestry: The Soviet Union’s Relationship with the Past” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022) Mentor: Adrienne Edgar.


Illiana Lievanos, “Mere Seconds From Launch: Able Archer 83, the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered a Nuclear War” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022), Mentor: Patrick McCray.


Emely Lopez, “Exploring Media Portrayals of Women and their Responses In the Mid-Century Feminist Movement” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022), Mentor: Sarah Case.


Tamia McDonald, “The Black Panther Party: How Media Bolstered, Decimated, and Ensured the Legacy of a Movement” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022), Mentor: Mhoze Chikowero.


Grace Molinari, “The PLO and the Reagan Administration: The Great Thaw of 1988” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022), Mentor: Salim Yaqub.


James Scherrer “The Empire with a Thousand Faces State & Subject at the End of the Achaemenid Empire” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022), Mentor: Professor John. W. I. Lee.


Emily Searson “‘The computer got it wrong’: Artificial Intelligence and Race During the Cold War” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022), Mentor: Elena Aronova.


Bill Tamburelli, “The Grudge Against Drudge: Clinton and the Rise of the ‘New Media’ in the 1990s” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022), Mentor: Steve Zipperstein.


Ryker Tebbs, “100 Years of Abolition: The Gradual Abolition of Slavery in Pennsylvania” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022), Mentor: Katie Moore.


John Young, ““New Men” Rising: Landed Emulation in the English Country House, 1700 to 1860” (University of California, Santa Barbara, 2022), Mentor: Jarett Henderson.