2024 Undergraduate UCSB History Theses

Daira Chavez, “Coal Oil Point: Ranching, Restoration, and their Effects” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024). Mentor: Peter Alagona.

Madison Dunkle, “‘Learn How To Mend Your Lives’: Repentance And Restraint In Early Modern English Broadside Ballads, 1570-1630” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024). Mentor: Brad Bouley.

Stephanie Gerson, “Triumphing Comprehensive Content Over Moral Messaging: Exhibiting the Holocaust at the Reagan Library” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024). Mentor: Harold Marcuse.

Hanna Kawamoto, “‘Spiritually Unsexed’: Believers, Critics, and Early Histories of the Publick Universal Friend, 1776-1835” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024). Mentor: Jarett Henderson.

Nicole Knox, “Frontiers of Reciprocity: The Dynamics of Exchange, Diplomacy, and Power in the Dawnland” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024). Mentor: Katie Moore.

Matthew Mucha, “Singapore’s Labor Relations Reveal that People’s Action Party Pragmatism is Political (1958-1985)” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024). Mentor: Kate McDonald.

Harry Pardoe, “The Ever-Changing Dynamics of Control, Power, and Black Agency in Georgetown County, South Carolina from 1860 to 1900.” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024). Mentor: John Majewski.

Nikita Srinivas, “American Psychopharmacology and its Discontents: Tracing the Historical Underpinnings of the 2004 Regulatory Intervention in Antidepressant Use, 1950s-2004” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024). Mentor: Alice O’Connor.

Jake Taylor, “’Telesis: Progress Intelligently Planned’ for Whom? Deciding Who Counts in the Telecommunications Industry” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024). Mentor: David Stein.

Emilio Perez Williams, “A Blood Stained Brush: Societal Reaction to Female Military Command in Medieval Europe” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024). Mentor: Carol Lansing. 

Roselind Zeng, “Chinese Protein PR: Selling Soymilk to Build a Nation, 2010-Present” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024). Mentor: Lisa Jacobson.