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University of Southern California
University of Southern California
History

Past Honors Thesis

YEAR: 2005

Student's Name Thesis Title Advisor's Name
Anderson, Constance Falling Apart, Pulling Together: Charlemagne’s Decrees and the Shaping of Early Medieval Society Paul Knoll
Grossenbacker, Nicholas C. Concrete Oases: People and Water in Arizona’s Salt River Valley Bill Deverell
Kirchberg, Katie

Fascist Journalism? Mussolini, Hearst, Chandler, and Shaping Italian Identity in the Interwar Period

 Claudio Fogu
Kohler, Keriann

Deco, Décor and Decorum: The Work of Cedric Gibbons’ Sets in MGM Films, 1928-1939

 Steven Ross
Kuyumjian, Hagpop Blacked Up Operas: The Popularization of Minstrelsy Terry Seip
Matharu, Ajeet Singh

Taming the Flood: Conceptions of History and the Constructionof Left and Right Modernisms in Korea, 1876-1945

 Roger Dingman
Rosales, Jennifer MGM’s Courtship of Youth, 1936-1946 Lois Banner
Stein, Tristan Classical Studies and the British Empire 1880-1930 Claudio Fogu


YEAR: 2006

Student's Name Thesis Title Advisor's Name
Bartoloni, Dina Lee

Queen Elizabeth I in Love: The Story of Elizabeth and Essex in Drama from the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Steven Ross
Vanessa Schwartz
Benton, Kate

Union, Nation and State: Uncovering the Nationalism of Abraham Lincoln

Richard Fox
Terry Seip
Delano, Clary

Revolution and Degeneration: Theories of ‘The Crowd’ inNineteenth Century France in the Writings of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave Le Bon

 Elinor Accampo
Fetting, Emily

The Experience of Relief: Welfare Service Delivery in LosAngeles County, 1929-1939

 Philip Ethington
Godoy, Karina

Gender and Race in Film: A Comparative Study of AnnaMay Wong, Dorothy Dandridge and Lupe Velez

 Lois Banner
Kuhns, Jeffrey Roberts

All My Love, Daddy: Dr. Chester Bernstein, O.D. (Capt., USArmy) and His Role in World War II: The Occupation of Japan, the Korean War, and Vietnam

 Roger Dingman
Lerner, Emily

Image Versus Reality: Women Journalists in Film and on the Home Front, 1940-1945

 Lois Banner
May, Benjamin

Wachovia, North Carolina From 1753 to 1763: A Moravian Settlements’ Development During Colonial and Native Conflict

 Peter Mancall
Peck, Katherine St. Aed MacBriec Lisa Bitel
Salter, David

For This is the Worst of Evils: Sexual Deviance and SocialCategorization in the Early Medieval English and Irish Penitential

 Lisa Bitel
Wang, Tracy

Elizabeth Taylor and Natalie Wood: A Study of Their LivesThrough Courtship Rituals and Expectations

Lois Banner


YEAR: 2007

Student's Name Thesis Title Advisor's Name
Brazier, Alex  

The Bomb Squad: Robert S. McNamara and McGeorge Bundy on the Foundation of Nuclear Deterrence

 Roger Dingman
Buerano, Hannah B.  

Brutalities of National Development: David Starr Jordan and David Prescott Barrows on American Expansion

 Lon Kurashige
Cook, Elizabeth

We Theatric Merchants: Consuming and Marketing Theatre in Colonial Williamsburg

 Carole Shammas
Jones, Jennifer J.

The Evolution of the Black Character in Film: From the Golden Age to the Revolution

 Lois Banner
Nakamura, Lauren Carey McWilliams: A Journey Toward Tolerance Lon Kurashige
Prakash, Archana       

For the Political Preservation of Truth: A Contextual Interpretation of Al-Biruni’a Taqiq Ma’l Hind

 Ramzi Rouighi
Skee, James D.

Technological Obsolescence and the Queen Mary in Long Beach: 1967-1984

 Vanessa Schwartz
Swanson, Lesley

Peyote and the Native American Church: The Efforts of European Americans to Suppress Peyote Use and Infringe on Native American Religious Freedom

 Peter Mancall
Wyman, Patrick

Infantry Tactics, Organization, and the Experience of Battle in Late Medieval Europe

 Paul Knoll