2025 Undergraduate UCSB History Theses

Seminar Director: J. Henderson

Cecilia Aden, “The Enemy Within and the Enemy Without: When ‘Protecting the Constitution’ Becomes Unconstitutional”   (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: G. Perrone

Jessianne Carter Sneed, “The Vrba-Wetzler Report: The Horrifying Truths of Auschwitz” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: H. Marcuse

Cece Chao, “‘I Look in People’s Windows’: Exploring Women’s Experiences in Victorian Consumer Culture” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: E. Rappaport

Manasi Chintalapathi, “Breaching Allegiance: Tracking the Historical Tradition of Legal Disqualification” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: G. Perrone

Eric Ge, “Shared Past, Conflicting Future: Bishops, Constantine, and the Search for Higher Power” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: B. Digeser

Moira Gullem, “Hooded Figure$: The Female Profiteers of the Ku Klux Klan (1899-1930)”(Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: S. Case

Zachary Hager, “‘Animal Acts’: How the National Football League Overcame Anti-Professional Football Sentiment and Became a Part of Americana” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: L. Jacobson

Yuxuan Hu, “On the Cusp: CUSPEA and China-US Academic Exchanges, 1972-Present” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: X. Zheng

Ryan Joseph, “Heaven on Earth: Radical Theology and The German Peasants’ War”  (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: B. Bouley

Alea McElroy, (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: E. English

Ryann Nelson,  “The ‘Barbelles’: Femininity and Women Bodybuilders at Mid-Century Muscle Beach, California” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: J. Henderson

Benjamin Ortiz , “William Randolph Hearst: Progress Through Racism and Imperialism” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: E. Rappaport

Isabella Pianalto, “Bound Labor: Challenging the ‘History and Tradition’ of Dobbs v. Jackson (2022)” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: G. Perrone

Calum Smit, “Heretical Rhetoric: Anabaptist Rhetoric Throughout the Reformation” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: B. Bouley

Jermaine Smith, “Trading on Tyranny: Machinating the Political Narratives for the U.S. Militarization of Panama” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: C. Mendez

Jacob  Varela, “Clashing Exceptionalisms: The American Perspective of the Second French Intervention in Mexico, 1861-1867” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: M. Covo

Christian  Younan, “Coffee Culture: The World-Building of a Commodity” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: L. Jacobson

Rui  Yuan, “Wu Zetian: The Reincarnated Female Ruler” (Undergraduate thesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025). Mentor: A. Barbieri