2023 Undergraduate UCSB History Theses

Gracelyn Barmore-Pooley, “‘We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Irish’: Excavating Transatlantic Queer Identity through the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023). Mentor: J. Henderson.

Emma Barrera, “The Forgotten Crusader: Dr. Dorothy Ferebee and her career as a public health activist” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023). Mentor: H. Roose.

Logan Cimino, “Del Webb, Corporate Development, and the Building of the Landscape of Mass Consumption in the Postwar American Southwest” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023). Mentor: E. Rappaport.

Marisol Cruz, “En La Vida: A Glimpse into the Life of Queer Latine Folks in Chicago during the 1990s” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023). Mentor: J. Henderson.

Wei Cui, “Agents and Agency in Japanese Daimyo Foreign Trade: Kyushu in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023). Mentor: L. Roberts.

Cole Grissom, “Severing the Old Order: The Involvement of Women in the Politics of Ancient Rome’s Severan Dynasty (AD 193-235)” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023). Mentor: B. Digeser.

Madeline Josa, “Ladies’ Magazines: Women’s Fashion as Politics in Georgian England” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023). Mentor: E. Rappaport.

Gina Kim, “‘Twisted Tongues’ Take the Stand: Legal Advocacy & Educational Reform for National Origin Minorities in California, 1931-1997” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023). Mentor: M. Chavez.

Raana Naghieh, “Dudes, Prudes, and Statute Moralists Had Better Not Read This: PR, Feminism, and Nineteenth Century ‘Sex Radicalism’” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023). Mentor: S. Zipperstein.

Nichole Poblete, “Treating the Body Politic: Epidemics and Spanish Colonial Rule in the Early Modern Philippines” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023). Mentor: J. Cobo.

Samuel Ricci, “Mirror in the Maghrib: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Early Modern European Captivity Narratives” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2023). Mentor: B. Bouley.