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History Honors Thesis Colloquium

Event Type
Other
Sponsor
Department of History
Location
Illini Union Room 210
Date
Apr 30, 2025   4:00 - 6:00 pm  
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Senior history majors will present their senior theses.

Schedule of Presentations: 

4:00-4:15: Katelyn Barbour, “‘What Else Could Any Girl Do?’: The White Slavery Scare in Chicago in the Early Twentieth Century”

4:15-4:30: Caroline Da Rocha Birnfeld, "Faces of Zumbi: Legacies of a Name"

4:30-4:45: Will Doty, "Connecting School with Life: Georgians' Responses to Khrushchev's 1958-59 School Reform"

4:45-5:00: Justin Wytmar, "The Italian Expositions: National Identity and Cultural Modernism on Display during the Fin de Siècle"

5:00-5:15: BREAK

5:15-5:30: James Perkovich, “Inclusive Imperialism: ‘Assimilable’ Chinese Americans and American Imperial Hegemony during the Cold War”

5:30-5:45: Isabella Reyna Sauer, “‘It is all one struggle’: The 1981 Brixton Uprisings and Black Women’s Organizing Against the British Welfare State, 1973-1985”

5:45-6:00: Anthony Erkan, “Embers of Eastern Question: The Turkish Security Dilemma and Great Power Strategy”

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