History

In its Honors Program the History Department awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2022-2023

Lucy Clark Abell, "A Peculiar Institution: Slavery, Labor Relations, and Treatment at Williamsburg, Virginia's Eastern Lunatic Asylum, 1841-1862" (Highest Honors)
Adrienne Petty + Chandos Brown, Jaclyn Moloney
Sage Claire Bouchér, "“Pass the Pickles”: Viewing Class and Dining in Virginia City, Nevada through the Pickle Castor" (Highest Honors)
Julie Richter + Fabrício Prado, Liz Moran Clayton
Katarina Bromkamp, "Keeping Ordinary: Licensing and Respectability among Loyalist Women Tavernkeepers in Revolutionary America" (Highest Honors)
Paul Mapp + Nicole Dressler, Annie Blazer
Grace Christiana Brooks, "Winston Churchill and the United States: The 'Wilderness Years'" (Honors)
Michael Butler + Kathrin Levitan, Adam Potkay
Madison Cross-Kaplan, "“I Maintained My Authority:” Gender and Power in the Eighteenth-Century Virginia Home" (Highest Honors)
Julie Richter + Jay Watkins III, Michael Brennan Harris
Astrid Tatiana Garcia, "The President's Pawn: Racism, Discrimination, and Diversity in the Nation's Civil Service" (High Honors)
Adrienne Petty + Chandos Brown, John Riofrio, Melvin Ely
Maximilian Bernd-Youngjin Kim, "Entangled Agencies, Economic Contingencies, and Competing Ideologies: Williamsburg’s Complex Origins as a Place of National Historic Interest" (High Honors)
Sarah McCartney + Richard Turits, Sibel Zandi-Sayek
Xiuyu Li, "Peace Discourse in Postwar Japan: Emergence, Continuity, and Transformation" (Highest Honors)
Eric Han + Fabricio Prado, Tomoyuki Sasaki, Kitamura Hiroshi
Robert Davis Little, "1973: A Crossroads in British and International Energy Policy" (High Honors)
Amy Limoncelli + Peyman Jafari, Rui Pereira
Christen Marie Sigourney Macias, "The Unseen Vaccine: Trans-Imperial Networks, Medical Exploitation, and State Formation in Nineteenth-Century South America (1795-1825)" (Highest Honors)
Fabricio Prado + Nicole Dressler, Adela Amaral
Ethan Seth Miller,"Two London's in Williamsburg: Using Historical Imagination to Reinterpret the Meaning of Reconciliation and Memorialization in the Archive" (Highest Honors)
Jody Allen + Adrienne Petty, Jajuan Johnson, Jackson Sasser
Adam Kyle Pleasants, ""The Unlucky Rebel": William Claiborne and the Evolution of the Kent Island Dispute" (High Honors)
James Whittenburg + Matthew Schueller, Paul Mapp
Isabella Maria Stark,"Popular Culture, Politics, and the Papacy: The Alignment of Anglo-American Popular Music and the Modernizing Catholicism of John Paul II, 1979-1989" (High Honors)
Charles McGovern + Philip Daileader, Eric Han, Amy Oakes
Henry George Stratakis-Allen, "The People of Seljuq Baghdad, 1069-1089" (Highest Honors)
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump + Philip Daileader, Alexander Angelov
Natalie Bailee Wexler, "Comedy Laughter Tragedy: The AIDS Epidemic Through The Camera Lens of The American Sitcom" (High Honors)
Jerry Watkins + Charlie McGovern, Kevin Smith
Clairice Wyszynski, ""Lepers for Show": The Performance of Medical Authority and the Illusion of the Chinese Medical Threat in Nineteenth-Century America" (Highest Honors)
Brianna Nofil + Chinua Thelwell, Claire McKinney
Rachel Celia Zaslavsky,"To Have Sex or Not to Have Sex: An Exploration of Medieval Christian and Jewish Sexual Values" (High Honors)
LuAnn Homza + Philip Daileader, Mary Kirsh, Randi Rashkover
Heidi Carmel Zmick,"“Levers a Dansh” [Get Up and Dance]: Monastic Dance in Sixteenth-Century England as Revealed by The Gresley Dance Manuscript" (High Honors)
Nicholas Popper + Philip Daileader, Cristina Stancioiu

2021-2022

Jason Blau, "Paradoxical Toleration: Southern Antisemitism in the Nineteenth Century" (Highest Honors)
Hannah Rosen + Richard Turits, Jonah Goldwater
Allyson Cook, "Don't You Know What a Lesbian Is?': The Political Roots of 1950s Lesbian Pulp-Fiction" (High Honors)
Leisa Meyer + Jerry Watkins, III, Thomas Linneman
Beckett Hunecke, "Global Trade and Local Cuisine: New England and the Iberian Atlntic in the Early Nineteenth Century" (Highest Honors)
Fabricio Prado + Adrienne Petty, Sara Bon-Harper
Charlotte Lucas, "Disappearing Smoke: Why Black Pitmasters Are Being Left Behind by Commercialization within North Carolina Whole Hog Barbecue" (Honors)
Adrienne Petty-Roberts + Claire McKinney, Jay Watkins III
Laura Mills, "Divided We Stand: An Investigation of America’s Dual Psyche and the FBI’s War on Anti-Americanism" (High Honors)
Jerry Watkins + Michael Butler, Charlie McGovern
Jillian Murphy, "And the Band played On...But Should It?: Educational media and the AIDS crisis" (Honors)
Jerry Watkins + Alison Scott, Charles McGovern
Daniel Speer, "The Rails that Bind: America's Freedom Trains as Reflections of Efforts to Form Cultural Consensus and Indicators of the Weakness of Cold War Memory" (High Honors)
Charles McGovern + Jay T. Watkins III, Mitchell D. Brown, Fred Corney
John Wagner, "The Hanoverian Interest: British Foreign Plicy and the Electorate of Hanover, 1740-1760" (Highest Honors)
Kathrin Levitan + Michael Butler, Rob Leventhal
Annemarie Wolf, "Just Two Lands? Language and Identity in Ancient Egypt" (High Honors )
Jeremy Pope + Tuska Benes, Andrew Tobolowsky

2017-18

Mehr Ali, "The Women of the PWA: The Politics and Writings of Rashid Jahan and Qurratulain Hyder" (High Honors)
Chitralekha Zutshi + Jerry Watkins, R. Benedito Ferrão
Rose Olwell, "The Devil's Café au Lait: the Métis Question in Colonial French West Africa, 1870-1940" (Highest Honors)
Guillaume Aubert + Gérard Chouin, Oludamini Ogunnaike
Samantha Ryan, "Althea Hunt: Behind the Curtain" (High Honors)
Leisa Meyer + Jerry Watkins, Patricia Wesp
Keon Shahidi, "The Influence of Christian Scripture on the Metaphysics and Mystical Theology of Evagrius Ponticus" (High Honors)
Philip Daileader + Ronald Schechter, Michael Daise
Brendan Thomas, "Back to Batoche: Métis History and Memory 1885-2015" (High Honors)
Andrew Fisher + Danielle Moretti-Langholtz, Frederick Corney

2016-17

Douglas Breton, "“No Great Mischief if They Should Fall”: Scottish Highland Soldiers in the French and Indian War" (High Honors)
Julie Richter + Paul Mapp, Giulia Pacini
Monica Cronin, "U.S. Combat Morale in the World Wars: The European Theater of Operations" (Highest Honors)
Julie Richter + David Corlett, Michael Butler, Kelly Charles
Cody Grogan, "Jimmy Carter’s Human Rights Diplomacy and the Democratization of Taiwan" (High Honors)
Michael Butler + Dajeong Chung, Tun-Jen Cheng
Susannah Haury, ""Our Wages for Our Pains:" National Identity, Patriotism, and the Motivation of American Sailors in the Revolutionary War" (High Honors)
Julie Richter + Carl Lounsbury, Colleen Kennedy
Polly Lauer, "Community Radio in Guatemala: A Half-Century of Resistance in the Face of Repression" (Highest Honors)
Betsy Konefal + Richard Turits, Teresa Longo, Chinua Thelwell
James Leach, "American Education Reform and the Humanism of Mathematics, 1890-1940" (Highest Honors)
Nicholas Popper + Marc Sher, Ronald Schechter
Luke Maclay, ""Living History:" Heritage Breed Livestock and the Pursuit of the Past" (High Honors)
Laurie Koloski + Frederick Corney, Jeremy Stoddard
Francesca Maestas, "In Between and Nowhere at all: How an Autobiography Reveals Hybridity" (Honors)
Ayfer Stump + Jonathan Glasser, Robert Vinson, Kathrin Levitan
Sloane Nilsen, "The Myth of Egalitarianism in Wartime and Austerity Britain" (Highest Honors)
Frederick Corney + Kathrin Levitan, Laurie Koloski, Bruce Campbell
Rachel Rosenfeld, "Oscar Micheaux’s Cinematic Legacy: Through the Eyes of Contemporary BlackDavid Brown + Jody Allen, Arthur Knight
John Weaver, ""A Corps of Much Service:" The German Regiment of the Continental Army" (High Honors)
Julie Richter + Bruce Campbell, Ronald Schechter

2015-16

Mary Andino, "Group Discipleship and Individual Spirituality: Challenging Models of False Sanctity in Early Modern Italy and Spain" (High Honors)
Lu Ann Homza + Robert Leventhal, Tuska Benes
Meghan Condlin, "The Hammer and Sickle, Parallel Bars and Spikes: How Cold War America Responded to Soviet Olympic Success" (High Honors)
Cindy Hahamovitch + Kyrill Kunakhovich, James Whittenburg
Kelsey Fenske, "History Influencing History: Changing Perceptions of the Starving Time at Jamestown" (High Honors)
David Brown + Laurie Wolf, Kyrill Kunakhovich
Brenna Ferris, "“The Internal Conflict:” Navigating Transitional Education in Postwar Guatemala" (Honors)
Betsy Konefal + Michael Iyanaga, Robert Vinson
Luke Frerichs, "Foundations of Empire: The American Military Government in the Philippine-American War, 1899-1902" (High Honors)
David Corlett + Richard Turits, Neil Norman
Cade Meinel, "Thinking through the Monarchy in Sixth-Century Visigothic Spain" (High Honors)
Philip Daileader + Fabricio Prado, Driss Cherkaoui
Jeremy Ross, "Civil Patrols, Race, and Repression in Guatemala, 1982-1996" (High Honors)
Betsy Konefal + Silvia Tandeciarz, Richard Turits
Abigail Trevor, "Theobald Wolfe Tone as a Politician and Diplomat" (High Honors)
Ronald Schechter + Kathrin Levitan, Kim Wheatley

2014-15

Jacob Abrams, "Disaster and Discourse: Reactions to the 1906 Courrieres Colliery Mine Disaster" (High Honors)
Ronald Schechter + Frederick Corney and William Hausman
Timothy Courtney, "Black Slaves, Christian Servants: Race and Legal Identity in Northampton and Middlesex Counties, Virginia, 1632-1705" (Highest Honors)
C. Julia Richter + Jody Allen and Monika Gosin
Whitney Fields, ""Among the Graves": Constructing Community, Resistance, and Freedom on Nineteenth Century Plantation Burial Grounds" (High Honors)
Hannah Rosen + Robert Vinson and Michael Blakey
Madeline Grimm, "Historical Precedents and Early Modern Interpretations: English Histories of America, 1500-1700" (High Honors)
Nicholas Popper + James Whittenburg and Brett Wilson
Jacob Jose, "The Case of Charles Horman Revisited: Complication and Conflict within Declassification" (Honors)
Betsy Konefal + Richard Turits and Susan Norman
Kathryn Plunkett, "'We Made You': The Contrived and Contested Nature of Authenticity in American Folk and Hip Hop Subcultures" (High Honors)
Charles McGovern + Scott Nelson and Richard Lowry
Alaric Powell, "'The State of These Countries...Is Truly More Astonishing Than Our Story Can Fully Convey': The Crusader States in the Late Twelfth Century from the Perspective of Three Pilgrims" (High Honors)
Philip Daileader + Ayfer Karakaya-Stump and Cristina Stancioiu
Hannah Tucker, "A Smoking Structure: Firm Organization in the Transatlantic Tobacco Trade" (Highest Honors)
Scott Nelson + Nicholas Popper, Peter McHenry and Paul Mapp
Sydney Weaver, "Narrativity in French Depictions of the Crusades" (Honors)
Fahad Bishara + Philip Daileader and Maryse Fauvel

2013-14

John Bridgeford, "The Making of a 'New Ramallah': A Palestinian Diaspora Community in America" (Highest Honors)
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump + Fahad Bishara, Tamara Sonn
Bryan Casey, "The Internal Foe: Rethinking Slave Resistance in Antebellum America" (Highest Honors)
Melvin Patrick Ely + Robert Trent Vinson, Jackson N. Sasser, Jr.
Robin Crigler, "When George Washington's Ghost Turned Handsprings: South African Crisis & American Identity, 1895-1905" (Highest Honors)
Robert Trent Vinson + Hannah Rosen, Chinua Thelwell
Yonsoo Kang, "A Framework for Understanding the US Air Bombing Campaign in Korea, 1950-51" (High Honors)
Hiroshi Kitamura + Eric Han, Beverly Peterson
Luke Nicastro, "'No Commitments': Canada and Imperial Defense, 1936-1939" (Highest Honors)
Michael Butler + Eric Han, Ross Carroll
Amy Schaffman, "Keep Calm and Carry On?: Examining WWII Great Britain through the Lens of Overseas Evacuation" (Highest Honors)
Bruce Campbell + Frederick Corney, Jennifer Taylor
Dwight Weingarten, "'To Thine Own Self Be True': Robert F. Kennedy, the Inner Cities, and the American Civil Rights Movement, 1963-1968" (High Honors)
Charles McGovern + Andrew Fisher, John L. Froitzheim
Deborah Wood, "'Infallible Proofs': Math, Knowledge, and Religion in the Medieval Islamicate World" (Highest Honors)
Nicholas Popper + Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, Frans Schalekamp

2012-13

Chelsea Bracci, "Community and the Site of Memory: The Effect of Internationalization on Community-Museum Relations" (Honors)
Tuska Benes +Frederick Corney, Marc Raphael, Laurie Koloski
Meredith Duffy, "The Origins of Hatred: An Analysis of Antisemitic Political Cartoons in Fin-de-siecle Vienna" (High Honors)
Leslie Waters + Tuska Benes, Marc Raphael
Sophia Farrulla, "The Enemy Within: Internecine Conflict in the Second Kingddom of Kush" (Highest Honors)
Jeremy Pope + Neil Norman, Ronald Schechter
Jill Found, "Exhibiting Slavery: How Plantation Museumsin Virginia Represent Slavery" (Highest Honors)
Susan Kern + James Whitenburg, Michael Blakey
Sarah Higgins, "Creating an American Identity-Propaganda During the Second World War" (High Honors)
Leisa Meyer + David Dessler, David Corlett
Neal Hurst, "'Kind of Armour, Being Peculiar to America:' The American Hunting Shirt" (High Honors)
Julie Richter + Susan Kern, Patricia Wesp
Allison Kennington, "Redefining the "Women's Movement" in Modern Japan" (High Honors)
Eric Han + Joanna Schug, Chitralekha Zutshi, Kathrin Levitan
Hannah Metheny, "'For a Woman': The Fight for Pensions for Civil War Army Nurses" (Highest Honors)
Carol Sheriff + James Whittenburg, Katherine Preston
Zack Quaratella, "'The Ornament of Human Society': Anti-Southernism in New England Common Schools" (High Honors)
Carol Sheriff + Scott Nelson, John Baltes
Rebekah Turnmire, "'Worthy to be Classed': Slavery and its Legacy in Grayson County, Virginia" (Highest Honors)
Julie Richter + Susan Kern, Charles McGovern
Henry Ware, "The Personal of the Event Subjectivity and the English Civil War" (High Honors)
Nicholas Popper + Frederick Corney, Jonathan Glasser
Glenn Williams, "Virginia's 'Legacy of Legal Complicity with Race-Based Slavery': A Review of the Legal Treatment of Slaves in Antebellum Virgina with a focus on Albermarle County" (High Honors)
James Whittenburg +Martha Alexander, David Corlett
Kyra Zemanick, "War on the Ground: A Study on the Relizability of Firsthand Testimony on the Battle of Shiloh, April 6 and 7, 1862" (Honors)
James Whittenburg +Carol Sheriff, E. Grey Gundaker

2011-12

Eric Ames, "The Spirit of Association: The Nelson Family and Commercial Resistance in Yorktown, Virginia 1769-1771" (High Honors)
Julie Richter + Paul Davies, Scott Nelson
Roger Bailey, "'Nothing But A Pack of Boys' Preble's Boys and the Culture of Honors in the Early Naval Officer Corps, 1798-1825" (High Honors)
Chandos Brown + Richard Lowry, Paul Mapp
Andrew Budiansky, "The "Iona Chronicle" and Irish Politico-Ecclesiastical Connections: The Transmission of a Text Reconsidered" (High Honors)
Philip Daileader + John Conlee, Nicholas Popper
Andrew Frantz, "For the Advancement of So Good a Cause: Hugh Mackay, the Highland War and the Glorious Revolution in Scotland" (Highest Honors)
Nicholas Popper + Paul Mapp, Simon Stow
Max Lazar, "Beyond Jericho: The Resurgence of German Jewish Life Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall" (High Honors)
Tuska Benes, Cindy Hahamovitch, Jennifer Taylor
Rebecca Little, "What Can You Learn From the Kinsey Report: Kinsey and the Gay and Lesbian Population, 1970-1993" (High Honors)
Leisa Meyer + Chandos Brown, Nancy Gray
Diana Ohanian, "Memory Derailed: Vichy Memory in International Court Cases and Business Legislation against the French National Railway" (Highest Honors)
Ronald Schechter + Frederick Corney, Giulia Pacini
Charles Ritinski, "The Tactics of Our Fathers: A Discourse on Seventeenth Century Warfare in Virginia" (Honors)
David Corlett + Nicholas Popper, Patricia Wesp
Ellen Walsh, "Conceptions of and Treatments for Cognitive Disability in Antebellum Virginia: John Minson Galt's 'Lecture on Idiocy' (1859)" (Honors)
Karin Wulf + Jennifer Putzi, Carol Sherriff
Mason Watson, ""Not Italian or German, but British in Character": J.F.C. Fuller and the Fascist Movement in Britain" (Highest Honors)
Kathrin Levitan + Frederick Corney, Kathrin Seidl-Gomez
Andrea Williams, "Sir James Wright in Georgia: Local and Imperial Conflict in the American Revolution" (High Honors)
Paul Mapp + Maria Swetnam-Burland, James Whitenburg

2010-2011

Daniel Bever, "'The Higher Court of Heaven': Dr. Henry Ingersoll Bowditch and Violant Abolition" (High Honors)
James Whittenburg + Chandos Brown, Mel Ely, Chris Howard
Doina Cretu, "Assimilation, Segregation, Integration: State Control on Minority Policies in Modern Romania (1918-2007)" (Honors)
Gregor Kranjc + Tuska Benes, Paula Pickering
Mark Guerci, "It Took a War: The End of Slavery in West Virginia" (Highest Honors)
Scott Nelson + Mel Ely, Clyde Haulman
Erin Holmes, "The Staircase: Evolution of Design and Use in Elite, Domestic, Virginia Architecture 1607-1812" (High Honors)
James Whittenburg + Carl Lounsbury, Ed Pease
Meredith Howard, "Discovering El Cuaderno: An Examination of the Zugarramundi Witch-Hunts and Three Debating Inquisitors, 1609-1614" (Honors)
Lu Ann Homza + Nick Popper, Erin Minear
Jennifer Joyce, "Hanged Harpers and Incinerated Instruments: Tudor Government Policies Toward Irish Poets in the Sixteenth Century" (High Honors)
Nicholas Popper + Paul Mapp, John Conlee
John Kelly, "The Richmond & Petersburg Railroad: A Story Of Antebellum Southern Success" (High Honors)
Scott Nelson + Mel Ely, John Donahue
Blair Saunders, "Confident of Color: White Activists in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement" (Honors)
Robert Vinson + James La Fleur, Amy Selzer
Julianne Sicklesteel, "'The Father of His Country': Peyton Randolph and the Definition of Liberty in Colonial Virginia" (Highest Honors)
Julia Richter + Paul Mapp, Terry Meyers
Anna Storm, "Religious Conviction and The Boston Inoculation Controversy of 1721" (High Honors)
Paul Mapp + Chandos Brown, Randy Coleman
Michael Young, "Baseball, Immigration, and Professionalization in the 19th Century" (Honors)
James Whittenburg + Phil Daileader, John Conlee

2009-10

Lydia Barrett Blackmore, "Just Imported and Sold: Methods of Acquisition and use of Knives, Forks and Silver Spoons in Eighteenth-Century Virginia"
Julie Richter + Susan Kern, Martin Gallivan
Christopher James Consolino, "Watchful Guardians of Liberty: The French Revolution and the Development of the Democratic-Republicanism in Philadelphia, 1792-1797" (Highest Honors) Paul Mapp + Ronald Schecter, John Baltes
Caryne Eskridge, "Illinois Culture, Christianity and Intermarriage: Gender in Illinois Country, 1650-1763" (High Honors) Brett Rushforth + Ronald Schecter, Martin Gallivan
Andrew Garden, "The Triumph of Reason: Roots of Inter-German Cooperation in the 1980s" (Highest Honors) Bruce Campbell + Tuska Benes, Fred Corney, Clay Clemens
Rebecca Green, 'Men of Substance and Ability of Body and Estate: Justices of the Peace and the Rise of a Creole Elite in Isle of Wight County, Virginia at the Turn of the Seventeeth Century" (Highest Honors) James Whittenburg + Paul Mapp, Adam Potkay
Amy Limoncelli, "Looking at East End in the Face: The Impact of the British Monarchy on Civilian Morale in the Second World War" (High Honors) Kathrin Levitan + Bruce Campbell, Ronald Schechter
Thomas Queen, "The Effect of 24-Hour Television News on American Democracy and the Daily Show as a Counterbalance to 24-Hour News" A History" (High Honors) Charles McGovern + Hiroshi Kitamura, Melanie Dawson
Jennifer Souers, "To Say What the Law is: John Marshall and his Influence on the Origins of Judicial Review in America" (High Honors) James Whittenburg + Carol Sheriff, Christine Nemachek

2008-09

Katherine Arnold, "The Transformation of the Lutheran Church in Namibia: How the Church Evolved into a "Voice for the Voiceless" (Highest Honors)
Robert Vinson + Ismail Abdalla, Brad Weiss
Michael Blaakman, " 'Nasty Holes' and New Hotels: Public Accommodations in Early New York City" (Highest Honors)
Camille Wells + Carol Sheriff, David Holmes
Samantha Grill, "Dust Bowl Days: A Study of Women's Lives and Experiences" (High Honors)
Leisa Meyer + Andy Fisher, Colleen Kennedy
Jaimie Lewis, "Negotiating 'Popular' Religion: Clerical and Lay Culture in Thirteenth-Century Exempla" (High Honors)
Philip Daileader + LuAnn Homza, Barbara Watkinson
Joshua Litten, "American-Educated Chinese Students and their Impact on U.S.-China Relations" (High Honors)
Craig Canning + Erik Han, T.J. Cheng
Jeffrey Mason, "The Undeserving Other: A Study of Service and Healthcare Providers' Perspectives on "Latino-ness" in Williamsburg" (High Honors)
Hiroshi Kitamura + Charles McGovern, Marley Brown
Matthew Morrill, "The Development of Merchant's Square: Colonial Imagery and the Consequences of Redevelopment in Williamsburg, Virginia and Other Small Towns, 1910-1955"
Carl Lounsbury + Scott Nelson, Ed Pease
Camerson Shriver, "William Wells and the Old Northwest, 1770-1812" (High Honors)
Paul Mapp + Brett Rushforth, Danielle Moretti-Langholtz
Elizabeth Yohn, "Haitians in Montreal: The Role and Experience of a Francophone Immigrant Group in Modern Quebec Nationalism" (Highest Honors)
Cindy Hahamovitch + Tuska Benes, Dennis Smith

2007-08

Hannah Ayers, "Space, Secularism, and the Expansion of Forced Child Begging in Senegal, 1850-2008" (High Honors)
James LaFleur + Melvyn Ely, Tamara Sonn
Marie Booth, "Prostitution and the Representation of Anxiety in London, 1723-1870" (High Honors)
Kathrin Levitan + Karin Wulf, Deborah Morse
Laura Brandt, "Boys Don't Make Passes (at Girls who Wear Glasses): Gender, Vision Aids, and Persona in the Early American Republic" (Honors)
James Whittenburg + Julie Richter, Kathleen Bragdon
Kelly Creed, "Classical Liberal Stunt Men: Lord Acton, Herbert Spencer, and the Development of Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Highest Honors)
Tuska Benes + Kathrin Levitan, Robert Leventhal
Jennie Davy, "From Color Line to Colorblind: Changing African American Perceptions of the Japanese during World War II" (High Honors)
Chandos Brown + Hiroshi Kitamura, Arthur Knight
Jason Drake, "Servant to England: The Biography of Adam Marsh (de Marisco)" (Honors)
Philip Daileader + LuAnn Homza, Monica Potkay
Allison Finkelstein, "'Unhappy Differences': The American Revolution and the Disruption of the Course of Theatre in Virginia" (High Honors)
James Whittenburg + Susan Kern, Richard Palmer
Jennifer Hoover, "Secrets in Switzerland: Allen W. Dulles' Impact as OSS Station Chief in Bern on Developments of World War II & U.S. Dominance in Post-War Europe" (High Honors)
Hiroshi Kitamura + David McCarthy, William Rennegal
Paul Kuenker, "Out of the Depths: The Construction of Meaning After Colorado Mining Disasters" (Honors)
Andrew Fisher + Kris Lane, Charles Palermo
Ashley Whitehead, "Though my people slay me, yet I will trust in them': Varina Davis and the Elusive Paradigm of the Politically Elite Confederate Woman" (Highest Honors)
James Whittenburg + Susan Kern, Katherine Preston

2006-07

Elizabeth Anderson, "'Again in the Providence of God:' Two Appalachian Women Inscribe Community, Family, and Faith on the Civil War" (Highest Honors)
Karin Wulf + Leisa Meyer, Jennifer Putzi
Philip Baylor, "The Instruments of Peace: The West Indies in the Seven Years' War, 1759-1963" (Honors)
James Allegro + James Axtell, Sharla Blank
John Bell, "'It was honest': The Politics of Authenticity in the American Folk Revival and British Punk Subcultures" (Highest Honors)
Charles McGovern + Scott Nelson, Rob Leventhal
Sara Casey, "Elizabeth Avery Meriwether: One Southern Woman's Life of Contradiction" (High Honors)
Chandos Brown + Carol Sheriff, Susan Donaldson
Stephanie Crumbaugh, "'To Sell for Exploitation': Indian Slavery in the English Colonies" (Highest Honors)
James Axtell + Andrew Fisher, Fred Smith
Katherine Eade, (Honors)
Ronald Schechter + Chitralekha Zutshi, Margaret McColley
Mary French, "History and Memory: The Memoirs and Other Writings of Russian Literary Emigres Bunin, Berberova, Nabokov and Brodsky" (Highest Honors)
Fred Corney + Tuska Benes, Alexander Prokhorov
Leah Giles, "'A Great Ambition to Serve Your Lordship': The Influence of Sir John Yeamans of the Founding and Early Development of South Carolina" (Highest Honors)
Timothy Huffstutter (Honors)
Carol Sheriff + Charles McGovern, Rich Lowry
Jacob Lubetkin, "'England's Freedom, Soldiers Rights': Democratic Upheaval in the English Civil War" (Highest Honors)
Dale Hoak + Tuska Benes, Don Campbell
Heather Maclean, "King Henry VIIIÕs Sumptuary Laws and Their Impact on British Society during the Tudor Era" (Honors)
Dale Hoak + LuAnn Homza, Patricia Wesp
Celeste McNamara, "Patronage in Savonarola's San Marco: the Correspondence of fra Santi Rucellai" (Highest Honors)
LuAnn Homza + Dale Hoak, Monica Potkay
John Regina, "Between Migration and Nativism: The Adjustment of the Italians in America" (Honors)
Carl Strikwerda + Hiroshi Kitamura, John Donahue
Sarika Reuben (High Honors)
Chitralekha Zutshi + Hiroshi Kitamura, Deenesh Sohoni
Stuart Smith, "To Those Who Fought: The Pacific War's Place in American Historical Memory" (High Honors)
Chandos Brown + Melvyn Ely, Walter Wenska
Joshua Specht, "Boodle-Carriers, Shovers, and Cony-Men: Counterfeiting in Nineteenth-Century America" (Highest Honors)
Scott Nelson + Ronald Schechter, Tim Costelloe
David Williard, "'An Officer May Punish a Private, But He Dare not Curse Him': Social Values and Wartime Experience in the Army of Northern Virginia" (Highest Honors)
Carol Sheriff + Melvyn Ely, David Holmes
Nora Wolf, "Popular Art and the Culture of Racism: Establishing the Semiotics of Race" (High Honors)
Melvyn Ely + Kris Lane, Anne Charity
Brandon Wolfe, "'Democracy in Housing': Property Rights and the Civil Rights Movement in St. Louis, 1948-1968" (Highest Honors)
Charles McGovern + Hiroshi Kitamura, Jackie McLendon

2005-06

Joseph Bertini, "Capturing the Mandate of Heaven: State Control and Religion in Chinese History" (High Honors)
Craig Canning + Walter Skya, Kevin Vose
Jennifer Brickey, "The Diary of Fanny Fain of Blountville: Defining Allegiance in Civil War East Tennessee" (Honors)
Jim Whittenburg + Scott Nelson, Will Hausman
David Carey, "The Burden of Memory: German Holocaust Memorialization 1945-2005" (High Honors)
Tuska Benes + Laurie Koloski, Clay Clemens
Sarah Cordes, "'Yanks' in Post-War Germany: The Role of Gis in the American Occupation of Germany, 1944-1949" (High Honors)
Hiroshi Kitamura + Laurie Koloski, Rob Leventhal
Edward Geist, "Repressing the Unthinkable: Public Perceptions of Civil Defense in the Cold War" (High Honors)
Hiroshi Kitamura + Charles McGovern, Tony Anemone
Kristi James, "Captured Innocence: Narratives of Children's Captivities Among the Indians, 1677-1874" (High Honors)
James Axtell + Andrew Fisher, Kathleen Bragdon
Susanna Klosko, "Victims or Heros? The Chmielnicki Uprising and Jewish Interpretations of Martyrdom" (High Honors)
Laurie Koloski + Ron Schechter, Naama Zahavi-Ely
Elizabeth McCrillis, "'Virginians are of Genuine Blood - They Will Dance or Die!': The Significant Role of Dance in Eighteenth Century Northern Neck Virginia" (Highest Honors)
Jim Whittenburg + Andrew Fisher, Chris Nemacheck
Jonathon Miller, "Dueling Editors: Honor, the Duel, and the Public Sphere in Antebellum Virginia" (High Honors)
Scott Nelson + Andrew Fisher, Phil Kearns
Caitlin Verboon, "Apostles of Democracy: The Green Family in Nineteenth Century Politics" (High Honors)
Scott Nelson + Cindy Hahamovitch, Charles McGovern

2004-05

Matthew Bernt
Kevin Kelly + Paul Mapp, Clyde Haulman
Alison Ferguson
Mel Ely + Carol Sheriff, Dee Royster
Brian Haynes
Dale Hoak + Paul Mapp, John Conlee
Scott Hoffman
James McCord + Laurie Koloski, Clay Clemens
Catherine Huennekens
Dale Hoak + LuAnn Homza, Nancy Gray
Sharon Jones
Jim Whittenburg + Jim Axtell, Bella Ginzbursky-Blum
Stuart Lilie
Ronald Schechter + Paul Mapp, Giulia Pacini
Graham Nessler
Kris Lane + Brett Rushforth, Ann Marie Stock, Kirsten Kellogg
Kate Pierce-McManamon
Laurie Koloski and Bruce Campbell + Fred Corney, Ron Schechter
Peter Taylor
James Whittenburg + Phil Daileader, Jennifer Taylor