Honors Theses, 1986-2024

Theses since 2014 are available online through Arminda Collections.

2024

• Samuel Bennett Allen, A river upside down : power and politics in the Klamath Basin
• Kasey Pearl Moulton, Spaces, places, and good graces : civic amenities and the development of a respectability politic in the Inland Pacific Northwest, 1865-1900
• Genevieve Helena Vogel, The precarious history of Seattle's houseboats in the wake of urban development, 1953-1993

2023

• Sophia Constance Maroulis, Colonialism and World War II memorialization on Guam : U.S., Japanese, and Chamorro legacies
• Luca Pelizzoli Bishop, The Ogaden War : Greater Somalia, irredentism, and the reordering of Somali identity

2022

• Grace Kathryn Mitchell, Reading the writing on the walls : representations of female erotic agency in Pompeiian graffiti
• West Skrobiak-Bales, Trans formations : gender, violence, and the body in Ovid's Metamorphoses
• Matthew Lyndon Triplett, Heroic deeds and exclusive identities : heroism and characterization in the chronicles of the First Crusade

2021

• Chloe Catherine Barbara Daikh, arbitrio quam vis non sinit esse meo "...a woman whom Force does not allow to be, by my own judgement" : restoring the voice of Sulpicia
• Jack Cotton Fleming, An occupation of water : the case of water rights in the Arab-Israeli conflict
• Rhône Josef Grajcar, Tilting at windmills in South Asia : the Nixon administration & the 1971 Bangladesh secession crisis

2020

• Andrew Martin Burnstein, Mapping Egypt : examining the governmentality of World Bank development projects
• Jayden Dirk, In a garden of deviant roses : encountering queer history in Portland, Oregon, 1941-1974
• Sarah Marie Fassio, Physical memories, eternal city : sourcing collective identity in the topography of Rome's Campus Martius
• Eli Holliday, Age of the last first citizen : the Neronian period
• Ree Robson, Closet, community or bubble? : queer life at Whitman College from 1975 to 2011
• Dylan Farrell Seidler, Cultural staples in crisis : a historical analysis of southern resident orcas and Chinook salmon

2019

• Bassel Jamali, Stephen B.L. Penrose Jr. and the case of the Palestinian refugees
• Flora Klein, Acoustic panopticism : gender, space, and sound in the early modern Ottoman sultanate

2018

• Jessica Anderson, “Distaste for the Violent Doves”: The Administration of Lyndon B. Johnson and the Antiwar Movement
• Steven Aslin, No Surrender: Bruce Springsteen and the American Dream
• Emma Bishop, A Formula for Failure: The Reagan Administration’s Foreign Policy with El Salvador and Nicaragua
• Christopher Cox, “The People with Burned Faces”: Greco-Roman Anti-Black Racism and Its Modern Effects
• Jessica Day-Lucore, “Morally Wrong and Politicaplly Unacceptable”: Ronald Reagan and Constructive Engagement, 1981-1988
• Nicole Day-Lucore, Pandora’s Box: The Nixon Administration and Bolivia, 1969-1972
• Emily Krank, The Promises of the Great Society: Lyndon B. Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Wars of the 1960s
• James McKinney, Novel Ptolemaic Naval Power: Arsinoë II, Ptolemy II, and Cleopatra VII’s Innovative Thalassocracies
• Christopher Meabe, Islands of Peace: How Individuals, Families, and Communities Sought to Survive the Liberian Civil War

2017

• Delaney Hardin Hanon, The Whitman legend : the intertwining of history and memorial in the narrative of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman

2016

• Kyle Hendrix, Precision guided democracy : the American war on terror from catch and release to kill and capture
• John Robert Percival III, Building a new world order : "Operation Just Cause" and the construction of a post-Cold War American foreign policy

2015

• Cade Marcus Beck, Priority of life : U.S. response to atrocities in East Asia during World War II
• Julia Holmlund Thompson, Liberated but not yet free : Allied policy, Jewish displaced persons, and identity in occupied Germany, 1945-1948

2014

• Conner J. Madden, Keepers of the sacred fire : Franklin D. Roosevelt and the redefinition of American national security
• Colin A. Strong, Water and power : a history of large dam construction in Yunnan, China 1980-2010

2013

• Kathryn Witmer, Icarus falling : the neoconservative war in Iraq and the end of “benevolent global hegemony”
• Lauren C. Moscovis, Here we remain, the struggle continues : a comparison between two Zapatista movements in Mexico
• Sally Boggan, A world apart : U.S. foreign policy toward Vietnam and Cuba under the Kennedy administration

2012

• A. Gabrielle Westcott, Recognizing a stalemate : Clark Clifford and the changing of American policy in Vietnam, 1965-1968
• Carolyn Lieber Hart, The hawk general : Alexander Haig and the formation of foreign policy in the Nixon and Reagan administrations, 1969-1982
• Omar Saifeddin Ihmoda, The “Turcos” of Argentina : Middle Eastern immigrants and the imagined Argentine community, 1897-1955
• Elizabeth Marie Reetz, Transgressions of gender : women in Argentine concentration camps (1976-1983)

2011

• Alexandra Garnhart-Bushakra, The poetics of conversion in early English Christianity
• Thomas D. Friedenbach, Eisenhower’s nuclear policy toward China during the first Quemoy and Matsu crisis, September 1954-April 1955
• Michelle Vogler Vogler, Gnothi seauton : revisiting conceptions of prehistoric Greek civilizations and the dark age of Greece
• David A. Friedman, Against the experts : Harry S. Truman, David K. Niles, and the birth of the state of Israel, 1945-1948

2010

• Liam G. Nance, Tending her “Good Townspeople” : order and the role of one noblewoman in nineteenth-century France
• Seth Conrad Bergeson, Creating the character of colonial prisons : Senegalese strategies of resistance, 1886-1939
• Margaux Anne Faris-Merkert, Witchcraft and power in apartheid South Africa
• Michelle Marie Saperstein, Conversations with God : ungendering the medieval mystic (1050-1450)

2008

• Patrick Forrest Herman, Mutinous negotiation : professional British sailors and the Great Mutinies of 1797
• Daniel J. Scalise, God, food, and family : Italian community and identity in Walla Walla 1876-1930
• Kelsey Leigh Krumdieck, Youth and the counterculture : Haight-Ashbury and the summer of love
• Marianna Symeonides, “Beautiful as an angel, and dumb as a basket” : feminine performance and power in the Affair of the Poisons
• Charles Spencer Wittmann-Todd, English society and the prison : 1750-1850
• Anne Shelby Conners, The industrial workers of the world : a radical imagining of American nationalism

2007

• Michael E. Woods, A sublime example to our erring countrymen : Kentucky's conservative unionism and its civil war experience
• Matthew B. Colley, Constructing authority : J.R. Jayewardene, historical narratives and modern Sri Lankan politics
• Christopher Jackson Juergens, American popular attitudes toward Nazi Germany : 1933-1939

2006

• Julia Swan, The Anti-Vietnam War Movement And The Counterculture In Seattle, Washington
• Ian Michael Robertson, The Antithetical Other: Ideology And American Involvement In Vietnam
• Lindsey M. Burton, Between Fame And Infamy: Bluestocking Education And Influence In Eighteenth-Century Britain
• Lucy Palmersheim, Challenges To Feminism: Sorority Girls, Women Vietnam Veterans, Nuns, And The Women's Movement
• Mary Alice Fellman, The Sexual Characterization Of Livia And Agrippina Minor
• Sarah Fergusson, A Woman's Right: Margaret Sanger's Leadership And The Birth Control Movement

2005

• David A. Young, The Evolution Of The American-Israeli Alliance, 1948-1973
• Christopher Sall, Hope And Uncertainty: Jimmy Carter, Foreign Policy, And China
• Jaclyn Jean Jenkins, Setting Behavioral Precedent : Divorce In Umatilla County, 1865-1889

2004

• Marie Christine Hoguet, Just Wounded On Our Behalf: Reclaiming The Memories Of September 11
• Kai Breshem, USAID In Africa, 1961-1981

2003

• Laura Alexandra Ritter, Forging A Special Relationship With The State Of Israel: United States Foreign Policy From Eisenhower to Nixon
• Amelia Marie Holeman, From Coroner To Medical Examiner?: Continuity In The Face Of "National" Change
• Annelise Marie Heinz, From Romantic Friendships To Unnatural Tendencies: The Changing Boundary Of Female Friendship And Sexuality, 1890-1940
• Alexandra K. Gesheva, Imposing Macedonia: Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia And The Production Of National Identity
• Erin Elizabeth Gettling, Know All Men By These Presents: Gender, The Washington Commonwealth Federation, And The Seattle Labor Movement, 1936-1945
• Hilary Jeanne Dorsch, Unity Within Diversity: The Motherhood Debate In The German Feminist Movement, 1870-1914

2002

• Mark Reid Lanning, We Can't Be Kicked Around: The United States Foreign Policy In Chile In The 1960's And 1970's

2001

• Mollie Eileen Lewis, The Changing Diaspora: Jewish Immigration To Argentina And Cuba, 1890-1930
• Nathaniel Boone Sampson, Franklin D. Roosevelt And The Battle Over Neutrality: Pursuing Peace And Security Through American Foreign Policy in the 1930’s

2000

• Vanessa Walker, Building A Lasting Peace: Jimmy Carter's Legacy Of Human Rights In American Foreign Policy
• Nicole Lea Madsen, Contested Identities: Contesting Power Representations Of Prostitutes In Great Britain And The United States, 1858-1917
• Malia Beth Renner, Slaves Of Custom, Creed, And Sex: Woman's Rights And Abolition In The Antebellum Period

1999

• Jason Lee Lindenburger, Bricks In The Wall: Native American Education In The Pacific Northwest, 1834-1920
• Krista Louise Lussenhop, The Demise Of The Ideology Of Domesticity: The Critiques Of The Radical Feminists
• Julieanna Elegant, Discontent, Revolution And Republic: Student Ideology And Influence In Iran
• Tammy M. Sittnick, Forged In War: U.S.-Free French Diplomatic Relations During World War II And Its Influence On The Postwar Reconstruction of Europe
• Emily C. Harris, Free At Last: The Evolution Of The Strategies And Rhetoric Of The Civil Rights Movement
• Andrew Richard Jerome, Tudor Rebellions Of The North: The Consequences Of Centralization In Sixteenth Century England

1998

• Aukjen Tadema Ingraham, Henry Weinhard: Portland's Elusive Founding Father
• Gayle S. Christensen, The Media Speaks: A Portrayal Of The Decision To Unify Germany
• Derek J. Michael, The Mission In The Valley: The Americanism Of Marcus Whitman
• Andrea Leigh Hamilton, Postwar Economic Reconstructions: A Comparison Of The Marshall Plan And The Dodge Plan, 1947-1952
• Amy Lee Portwood, Wake up America

1996

• Debra Lynn Olson, Changing role of women in reformation society in England
• Dorothy Anne Copeland, Struggle for modernity : Francisco Franco's role in the development of Spain
• Catherine E. Brooker, The small farmer, religion, and politics : social constructions of community in eighteenth-century Virginia
• Stefanie Marie Starkovich, Weaving the threads of our cultural heritage : immigrant experiences in the Walla Walla Valley
• Andrew Kristianson, The origins of dispossession : a comparison of native resistance and dispossession in Tasmania from 1824 to 1834 and Washington Territory from 1848 to 1858

1995

• Jessica L. Pehoski, The Black Death and the psychological impact on fourteenth century Europe, 1347-1351

1994

• Sara Andrina Munson, Whitman College and the tradition of women’s higher education, 1882-1924
• David Albert McClusky III, Precedence, precepts, and pressure : William O. Douglas and the elections of 1940 and 1944

1993

• Shawn Adrian Ross, The Roman civil wars to the death of Sulla : a study in the failure of republican self-determination

1992

• Jean Tobin, The aesthetic protest : poetry of the Harlem renaissance & the black arts movement of the 1960s
• Mark Ryan Burles, Dean Acheson : the origins of the frustration and failure of his policy in China
• Keith Hand, Oregon state and reconstruction issues, 1865-1868
• Kyra L. Nourse, When wicked queens ruled : an assessment of the precedent for the power of Cleopatra VII through the examination of the careers of Hatshepsut of Egypt and Olympias of Macedonia

1991

• James Lee Meadows, The Massachusetts fifty-fourth regiment : an analysis of northern and southern press coverage
• Sam Collins, Public pressure and Catholic emancipation in Britain : 1828-1829
• Kelly M. Cannon, Dura lex sed lex = The law is hard, but the law : women and law England, 1150-1450
• Benjamin Garrett Lenhart, American postwar foreign policy and the Church committee

1990

• Joseph Michael Ahern, Seattle Washington and the struggle for black equality
• Brian James Els, Whitman College and the postwar transition : 1919-1923
• Nancy Enneking, An examination of the construction and decoration of Egyptian mortuary temples as a means of reconstructing various aspects of Egyptian history and society
• Natalie Marie Fousekis, Frank Church, the senate and the Vietnam War (1963-1968)

1988

• Danielle K. Hart, John F. Kennedy's Alliance for Progress : the broken promise
• Kimberly Maureen McKaig, Whitman College and the Great Depression
• Michael Thomas Zoretic, “I will not remain silent” : Senator Henry M. Jackson and détente
• Lisa Ann May, Walla Walla : a frontier town in the Civil War

1987

• Emily Barton, The transformation of the civil rights movement during the Johnson administration : 1963-1968
• Michael A. Schwartz, Medieval medicine and the 12th century renaissance : the birth of a rational medical system
• Alice Berschauer, The twelfth century renaissance and the cult of the Virgin Mary
• Matthew J. Hiefield, World War II and Walla Walla Washington (1941-1943) : challenges, problems, and change

1986

• Joseph Patrick Bennett, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin : an historiographical comparison
• Aaron Patrick Forsberg, Republican foreign policy toward Europe, 1921-1925