History Senior Thesis Presentations this week

Please join the History Department in celebrating our students as they defend their senior theses Thursday, Dec. 7 and Friday, Dec. 8. See the timeline of presentations below.

Thursday, Dec. 7, Lentz Hall 411

• 2:30 p.m. — Sam Hermans ’24, “Ancient Egyptian and Viking Death and Burial: Similarities and Differences
• 2:50 p.m. — Sebastian Rosales ’24, “The History of the forgotten battalion of WW2”
• 3:30 p.m. — Stephany Mandujano ’24, “La Matanza de Tlatelolco: Social Impacts as Reflected in 20th Century Mexican Literary and Theatrical Works”
• 3:50 p.m. — James Musil ’24, “Suez: A Doomed Quest for the West”
• 4:10 p.m. — Jacob Bornhuetter ’24, “Communism: Red Scare on the Silver Screen”
• 4:50 p.m. — Connor Fowler ’24, “Kennedy’s Gamble: Examining Kennedy’s High-Risk diplomacy during the first week of the Cuban missile crisis”
• 5:10 p.m. — Ava Serfling Bennett ’24, “’Curious Rubish’: An Analysis of Fairy Belief in the Scottish Highlands and Problematic 19th Century Ethnography”

Friday, Dec. 8, Lentz Hall 318

• Noon — Miles Chubin ’24, “Molding Modern America: Columnist Murray Kempton’s Description of the Vast Changes of the Fifties into the Sixties”
• 12:20 p.m. — Daniel Lenzi ’24, “Understanding Evil: An Analysis of the Ideology, History and Lasting Legacy of Nazism”
• 12:40 p.m. — Abby Swihart ’24, “Psychiatric Sexism: A Gendered History of American Mental Health Diagnoses, Treatments, and Institutionalization”
• 1 p.m. — Kj De Jesús ’24, “’Putting together a bunch of papers’: Queer Zine Networks in Chicago & Milwaukee”
• 1:20 p.m. — Isabelle Graziano ’24, “An Election System Under Stress: A Deep Dive into Election Administration in Wisconsin”
• 1:40 p.m. — Jacob Brodkorb ’24, “’Progressive and Progressing’: Illuminating the Work of the White Missionary Teachers in the Freedmen’s Colony on Roanoke Island”
• 2 p.m. — Carly Flemmin ’24, “A Tale of Two Cities: Czechago and the ’68 Democratic Convention”
• 2:20 p.m. — Kelly Marten ’24, “Reconstruction: The issues that kept us broken”

Sponsoring Department, Office, or Organization:

History Department

For more information, contact:

Stephanie Mitchell: smitchell@carthage.edu