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Hannah Chavez-summa cum laude
Cemetery as Settlement: A Study of Boulder’s First Cemeteries
Ryan Oshinsky-summa cum laude
Antichinismoand the Birth of Modern Mexico
Dillon Otto-summa cum laude
Heart of Whiteness: Asymmetrical Exchange in the Quest for the North Pole
Madeleine Panek-summa cum laude
Send in the Psychics: Remote Viewing, Intelligence Operations, and the Cold War
Ethan Provost-magna cum laude
The Threat of Pinky(1949) and Island in the Sun(1957): How White Southerners Reacted to Interracial Romance in Film from 1949 to 1958
Kailynn Renfro-magna cum laude
Red Lipstick, Red Scares: Women’s Magazines and the Cold War
Casey Ringer-summa cum laude
A School for the Enemy: Unveiling the Tinian School for Japanese Children and Its Western Objective (1944–1946)
Sam Senseman-summa cum laude
Along the Shatt: An Environmental and Cultural History of Development in British Iraq, 1908-1932
Brenna Bythewood -summa cum laude
“Now Designed to the Worst”: English Captive Labor and Perceptions of Slavery in the Interregnum
2022-23 Thesis Prize winner
Olivia Hart -summa cum laude
Operation Clean Sweeps’ Dirty Past: A Historical Analysis of Police Raids in The Projects and the Demolition of Public Housing in Chicago
Taylor Henderson -magna cum laude
The Once Factual and Future Fictional King: Historical Retellings as Reflections of Cultural Zeitgeists
Jack Kontarinis -magna cum laude
“Prowd, Humorous, Dreamying Fellos”: The English East India Company in Southeast Asia and the Failure of the Hirado Factory, 1600-1630
Kaori Quan -summa cum laude
Singing a New World: Performing Colonialism Under Louis XIV and Louis XV
Katlin Risen -magna cum laude
“We appreciate your interest”: Women in Soviet Union and American Space Race Propaganda
Sarah Rosenbloum -summa cum laude
The Rave Panic: Electronic Dance Music and the War on Drugs, 1980s – 2010s
Iulia Sava -summa cum laude
From Blue Jeans to Checkered Bags: Women’s Role in the Creation of a Soviet Consumer Culture
Shannon Thompson -magna cum laude
Change on the Horizon: The Church Committee (1975) and Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy
Ann Tirrill -magna cum laude
The Man Behind the Mask: John Galen Locke and 1920s Ku Klux Klan
Gregory Mosley-magna cum laude
The Greatest in History: The Integration of the 1934 Denver Post Tournament
Colby Cecil-magna cum laude
A British Balancing Act: Britain’s Policy of Containment During the 1938 Majlis Movements in Kuwait, Dubai, and Bahrain
Eleanor Creasey-cum laude
The Ambiguous Neoconservative Doctrine of Condoleezza Rice
Erin Hebert-magna cum laude
Erased: The Neglect of Marginalized Victims during the Serial Killer Epidemic of 1960-1990
Delaney Koontz-summa cum laude
The Paradox of Inclusion: Queer Women and the Women’s Health Movement, 1960s-1980s
2021-22 Thesis Prize winner
Hannah Pogue-cum laude
Where Are All the Veterans? Why the Vietnam Veteran Perspective is Missing from Americans’ Collective Memory
Emily Ray-summa cum laude
Textiles and Magic: The liminal position of women in Viking Age and Medieval Iceland
Shannon Thompson-magna cum laude
Change on the Horizon: The Church Committee (1975) and Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Policy
Jan Váňa-magna cum laude
Alexander the Lost: How Temples of Greco-Egyptian Cults in Ptolemaic Egypt Can Help Identify Alexander the Great’s Tomb
Austin Adams -summa cum laude
Genesis of the German Spirit: Detailing the Origins of Nazism in the History of 19th Century German Philosophy
Hannah Hagens-magna cum laude
Violent or Victimized: A Historic Analysis of the Stereotype Associating Mental Illness with Violence
Benjamin Humphries-summa cum laude
The Relationship Between Economic Development and Chinese Exclusionary Methods in the Nineteenth Century Interior West
Trevor Koglin-magna cum laude
High Frontier: The Failure of a Bold New Space Initiative
Alexandra Lanzetta-summa cum laude
The Racist History of Gun Control Policy and Rhetoric in the United States
Cayden Stice-summa cum laude
Welcome to Lesbian-Homoville: Queer Politics of Boulder, Colorado in the Late-Twentieth Century
2020-21 Thesis Prize winner
Natania Bloch- summa cum laude
Reimagining Religion in a Contemporary Context: The Case of Harry Potter (written for JWST)
Anna Bodnar- cum laude
Villain and Saint: Chronicler Agency Following the Civil Wars and Deposition of Edward II
Viola Burlew- summa cum laude
The MoMA Moment: American Propaganda, Nazi Caricature, and Racialization
John Fitzmaurice- cum laude
The Consolidation of the Rhodesian African Rifles: How a New Unit Escaped Disbandment
Catherine Foster- summa cum laude
A Grand Distortion: Malice and Mythology in Shane O'Neill's Ulster, 1558-1567
Drew C. Gaines- cum laude
The Persistence of Colorado Chicana Activism in Higher Education From the 1960s to 1980s
Ian Hogg- summa cum laude
A Genealogy of Revolt: The Regulator Tradition of Revolt and its Significance
Kami McDaniel- summa cum laude
Rocket Man: Yuri Gagarin & the Soviet/Post-Soviet Memory
Tynan McMullen- summa cum laude
Friends in Low Places: Philadelphia Merchants, Trans-Atlantic Smuggling, and the Secret Deals that Saved the American Revolution
Berkeley Newhouse-Velie- summa cum laude
Pravda and Maskirovka: How the Soviet Union Publicized the June War of 1967
Adrian North-summa cum laude
The Invisible Eyes of the Raj: Indigenous Actors in Intelligence Gathering and Empire Building Along British India's Northwest Frontiers (1860-1895)
2019-20 Thesis Prize winner
Christopher Painter- cum laude
The Third Party: American Involvement in Operation Catapult, 1940
Shannon Ross- magnacum laude
Loss of Microbial Biodiversity: Implications for Human Health and Food Security (Written for EBIO)
Kara Syvanen- magnacum laude
Nineteenth-Century American History Textbook Narratives, Markers of American Identity, and German Language Instruction in St. Louis Public Schools
Gabriel West- magnacum laude
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Rum: The Phenomenon of Liberalism in British Pirate Law
Michala Whitmore- magnacum laude
"Immediate Preservation of the Public Peace, Health and Safety": Colorado's History of Eugenic Sterilization
Sage Yeager-Wheaton- cum laude
The MOVE Bombing: A Precedent for Disaster
Maria Antonia Abraas-magna cum laude
Protective Patriotism and the Creation of an American Identity: Analyzing the Memorial Landscape of Japanese American Internment in Colorado
Andrey Bradford -summa cum laude
Life Imitating Art: Friedrich Schiller's Influence upon the Republican Ideals of the German Revolution of 1848
Amelia Chouinard -summa cum laude
From Water to Wine: Understanding the Concept of the Holy Grail in Light of the Crusader Ethos of the Middle Ages
Cecilia Donovan-magna cum laude
Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands: Social Workers and Adoption Practices in United States Maternity Homes
Liliana Eilliott- summa cum laude
Names Tell a Story: The Alteration of Student Names at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879-1890
2018-19 Thesis Prize winner
Remy Lepore -cum laude
Chinese Women in the Early Twentieth Century: Activists and Rebels
Allison Murphy-summa cum laude
Cheburashka and Friends: The Rootless Cosmopolitan as Ideal Soviet Citizen
Tyler Berger-cum laude
From the Rhineland to Czechoslovakia: How the Policies of Appeasement in the British Government led to the Second World War
Trevor Borasio-summa cum laude
Herat: the Key to India - Individual Fears and Plans Shaping the Defense of India During the Great Game
Benjamin Elrod-magna cum laude
Environmental Mastery of the Biopolitical: Water and the Birth of the Modern al-Sabah State
Rachael Gessert-magna cum laude
"Beauty Fled, and the Empire Now No More:" Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Transimperial Femininity in the Turkish Embassy Letters (1716-1718)
Kaitlynn Harless-cum laude
Force and Deceit: The Creation of an Andean-Catholic Religion
Nora Hickins-magna cum laude
"We Want No Hatchet-Wielding Amazons:" The Feminism, Racism, and Nativism of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan
William Holsclaw-summa cum laude
Walking the High Ground: The Manned Orbiting Laboratory and the Age of the Air Force Astronauts
Daniel Lucca-magna cum laude
To a Millennial Kingdom: The Nazi Aryanization of Christianity
Austin McCleery- summa cum laude
Creation and Collapse: The British Indian Empire in Mesopotamia Before and After World War I
Adrienne Mueller- cum laude
Prostitutes, Prophylactics, and Propaganda: The Venereal Disease Campaign and the Fight for Control of Female Sexuality During World War II
Nicola Skakel- summa cum laude
The Rwandan Genocide: Combating Stereotypes and Understanding the Origins
Ryan Smith- magna cum laude
Elizabeth's Silver Age
Julia Birgen-summa cum laude
Overstating and Misjudging the Prospects of the Civil War: The Ulster Volunteer Force and the Irish Volunteers in the Home Rule Crisis, 1912-1914
Nicoli Bowley- magna cum laude
Ten Dollars to Hate Somebody: Hispanic Communities and the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado, 1917-1925
Nathan Brien- magna cum laude
Western Shoshone Treaty Activism, US Indian Claims Law & Human Rights Violations
Alexander Buck- magna cum laude
Through Their Own Eyes: The History of Slavery and the United States Civil War from Black Women's Perspectives
Sophie Buur- summa cum laude
Partitioning India: Indian Muslim Nationalism and the Origin of the Muslim State (1800-1947)
Kira Johnson- cum laude
Demographic Engineering: Post-War Canadian Immigration Advertising and Scottish Migration, 1919-1929
Alexandrea Kord- summa cum laude
To Kill Thy Brother: Kin-Strife, Power, and Politics in the Medieval Welsh Dynasty of Powys
2016-17 Thesis Prize winner
Jacquelynn Lyon- cum laude
The Pen and the Petticoat: Gendered Slander Against Dolley Madison in the Early American Republic
Aisha May- cum laude
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Evolution as an Activist
Darby Simmons- summa cum laude
Labor of Love: Prostitutes and Civic Engagement in Leadville, Colorado, 1870-1915
Sally Simpson- magna cum laude
A Brief History of Space: Congregation Har HaShem and the Construction of Community in Frontier Synagogues
James Stokes-cum laude
A National Flag?: King James I and the British Flag
Joanna Toohey -summa cum laude
‘Ce Jour Immortel’: The Storming of the Bastille and the Formation of Cultural Memory 1789-1794
2017- 18 Thesis Prize winner
Peter Wineman- magna cum laude
A Tragic Success: An Examination of the Transition to an All-Volunteer Force between 1968 and 1978 and its Unintended Consequences
Alexis Aaeng-magna cum laude
Ir Kenen Heren Mikh?: The Dawn of Yiddish Radio in New York City
Jordan Becker-summa cum laude
Warrior Bishops: The Development of the Fighting Clergy under the Ottonians in the Tenth Century
Adam Bell-cum laude
Creating Place: Activist Intellectuals in Boulder, Colorado, 1959 to 1967
EvanFernández- summa cum laude
Forging the Pacific: Peruvian-Japanese Diplomacy, Migration, and Empire, 1918-1930
2015-16Thesis Prize winner
Christian Harrison-cum laude
From King’s African Rifles to Kenya Rifles: The Decolonization and Transition of an African Army, 1960-1970
Samuel Routhier-magna cum laude
To Authorize the Merger of Two or More Professional Basketball Leagues: Professional Basketball’s 1971-72 Congressional Hearings and the Fight for Player Freedoms
Michael Rupert-summa cum laude
La Grande Nation: The Revolutionary Tradition in French West Africa
Jhelene Shaw-summa cum laude
'Yours for Colorado': Applicants to the 1870 Union Colony at Greeley
Lauren Troska-magna cum laude
The Study of Generations: A Timeless Notion within a Contemporary Context
Jesse Van Divier-summa cum laude
A Politically Selective Memory: The Battle for Memory in the Wake of War, 1812-1845
Casey Van Sise-magna cum laude
Good Neighbor Renditions and the Enemy Alien: The Latin American Civilian Internees of World War II and the Integrity of the Good Neighbor Policy
Robin Altman-magna cum laude
Sympathy for the Devil: Charles Manson’s Exploitation of California’s 1960s Counter-Culture
Charles Bower-cum laude
The Gandhian Ashram and Its Contemporaries: A Global Study of the Communal Reaction to Modernity
Aaron Fox-magna cum laude
When the Invisible Empire Stormed the Front Range: The Reign of the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in Boulder County, Colorado
Maura Kalthoff-magna cum laude
Faith and Terror: Religion and the French Revolution
Taylor Martin-cum laude
The Fight for Industrial Democracy and Domestic Prosperity: Working Class and Prominent Women’s Participation in the Colorado Coal Field Strike, 1913-15
Wojciech Owczarek- summa cum laude
Poujade and Poujadolf: Fears of Fascism in France’s Fourth Republic
2014-15Thesis Prize winner
Adamya Sharma-magna cum laude
A Game of Human Chess': The Double Cross System and MI-5’s Supremacy in World War II
Meghan Steele-summa cum laude
The Missing Piece: Uncovering Women’s Effects on Semegambia from 1400 to 1800
Tarah Vergo-magna cum laude
Changing Perceptions: How We See the Salton Sea, and Why it Matters
Justin Williams-magna cum laude
Investigating a Century-Long Hole in History: The Untold Story of Ayahuasca, 1755-1865
Manon Williams-summa cum laude
From the Holy Land to the Cloister: The Decline of Female Ascetic Pilgrimages in the Early Medieval West (c.350-615)
Sierra Bazor-magna cum laude
Hesitant Inclusion: The Development of the Tidewater Gentry’s Process of Political Inclusion in the Blue Ridge
Dakota Cotton- summa cum laude
When Big Science Fails: The Hubble Space Telescope Flaw and Implications for the Space Program in the Post-Cold War Era
2013-14Thesis Prize winner
Morgan Flynn- summa cum laude
Theory, Principle, and Diplomatic Leverage: Latin American Influence on the Founding of the Alliance for Progress
Gabrielle Friesen-magna cum laude
Perpetua Before the Crowd: Martyrdom and Memory in Roman North Africa
Dela Fyfe- cum laude
National Health Insurance 1970-1975: Success and Failures of the Gray Panthers and Women’s Health Movement
Jenna Goldberg- cum laude
Crisis at Home: American Reaction to the Berlin Crisis of 1961
Ronald Lienhardt-magna cum laude
Politics, Ballyhoo, and Controversy: The Allied Clandestine Services, Resistance, and the Rivalries in Occupied France
Sean McKelvie- cum laude
The Law of Unintended Consequences: The Dichotomy of Gender Roles during the Great War
Richard Murphy-magna cum laude
The Limits of Law: British Efforts to Suppress the Slave Trade, 1818-1850
Patrick Rodriguez- summa cum laude
True Americanism: The Rise of America’s Nazis in the Great Depression
Cale Walsh- cum laude
Thomas Francis Meagher and the Political Identity of the Irish Brigade: 1861- 1863
Reed Chervin-magna cum laude
Wellington Koo’s Dream of National Identity: Transitioning to a Modern China (1946-1956)
Julia Feis- cum laude
Henry VIII: Patient and Patron of Medicine
Christopher Lane-magna cum laude
Jeffersonian Diplomacy and the American Indian
Conor May-magna cum laude
Empire in the Shadows of the Bolsheviks
Jordan Miranda -magna cum laude
Damnation to Divinity:The Myth, Memory, and History of Monarchical Power at the Dawn of the Roman Empire
Lawrence Myers- summa cum laude
Vicious Barbarians, Slave Girls, and Mythologized Mountains: The Effects of Orientalist Discourse in Literature & Memoir on the Prosecution of the Great Caucasian War, 1817-1864
2012-13Thesis Prize winner
Lucas Polglaze-magna cum laude
A Ten-Meter War': Common Themes in Letters Home from the World War II Tenth Mountain Division, January-May 1945
Ryan Rasmussen- summa cum laude
Colorado's Role in the American Labor Struggle: Western Unionism and the Labor Question, 1894-1914
Ryan Rebhan-magna cum laude
Designed by Nature: Transportation, Tourism, and the Transformation of Glenwood Canyon
Brett Stokes-magna cum laude
Patria o Muerte!: Jose Marti, Fidel Castro, and the Path to Cuban Communism
Jordan Towne-magna cum laude
Mutual Integration versus Forced Assimilation: The Conflict between the Sandinistas and the Miskitu Indians, 1979-1987
Joshua Umland- summa cum laude
Max Nordau and the Making of Racial Zionism
Sheena Barnes- summa cum laude
The Great Matter: Dissecting the Polemics of Treason and Sedition in Tudor England
Alexandra Castanon- cum laude
Press Relations and Image Management in the Kennedy Administration
Emily Clary- summa cum laude
African Responses to British Wartime Propaganda in Kenya During World War II
Jason Cleland- summa cum laude
Searching for Precedent: Thomas More, Edmund Burke, and the Foundations of Modern Conservatism
Jonathan Crenshaw- cum laude
Freak Power in Aspen
Rachel Crouch- summa cum laude
Felix Lembersky: Painting the Truth
Phoebe Flanigan- summa cum laude
Re-Appropriating Empire: A Study of the West African Students’ Union, 1900-1960
Augustus Flottman- cum laude
The Meiji Education System: Developing the Emperor’s Ideal Subject
Amy Greenswag- cum laude
Hollywood’s Representations of Native American Populations and the Rewriting of America’s History
Patricia Helfenbein- summa cum laude
Reconciling Heritage and Citizenship: Identity Negotiation and the Emergence of Taiwanese National Identity during the Japanese Colonial Period, 1895-1945
2011-12Thesis Prize winner
Hollie Hicks- cum laude
The Public Debate over Carter’s Human Rights Foreign Policy: Nicaragua, 1977-1979
Joanna Merrill- cum laude
American Jewish Identity and Newspapers: the Medium that Maintained an Imagined Community through a Change in Identity
Michael Palmisano- cum laude
With Friends, Family and Conviction: Combat Motivation in British and Canadian Soldiers Fighting the First World War
Hayley Presley- cum laude
Purifying the American Race: The Sacco-Vanzetti Trial and the Power of Eugenics
Laura Roesch-magna cum laude
Theodoricus Rex: Identity and Ideology in Ostrogothic Italy, 493-526 CE
Kimberley Smith-magna cum laude
Heavenly Hierarchies: Angels and Angelology in Medieval Europe
Lauren Trujillo- summa cum laude
God Was Wonderfully Near: White Middle- and Upper- Class Union Protestant Female Nurses’ Use of Religion in the American Civil War
James Clark-cum laude
Florins, Faith and Falconetes in the War for Granada, 1482-1492
Jessica Counce-magna cum laude
Imagining the New World: Indians, Colonists, and the Environment in the Early Settlements of New England
Christopher Ibeling-magna cum laude
Retailing and Cultural Despair: Small Shopkeepers and the Department Store in Nineteenth-Century France
HannaLore Hein-magna cum laude
The Mexican Invasion … By Invitation Only: A Critical Look at the Legacy and Consequences of The Bracero Program, 1942-1964
Corinne Kannenberg-summa cum laude
Realism before ‘Art’: Hyperreality in Medieval Aesthetics and Piety
Kelsea Kenzy-summa cum laude
Transgression and Ideology, Scandal and Politics: The Public Lives and Memoirs of Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century British Courtesans
Kathryn Kleinkopf-magna cum laude
Resurrecting the Body: The Valuation of the Body in Proto-Orthodox Christianity, 30-300 AD
Robert Kopperud-magna cum laude
The Templars in Southern France, 1133-1183: Gift-Giving, Networks, and Environment
David Levine-magna cum laude
Popular Ideology: The Cinema of Nazi Germany
Meaghan Milan-magna cum laude
The Disintegration of Ottoman-Armenian Relations in the Tanzimat and Hamidian Periods, 1839-1896
Brendan Shea-cum laude
Tracing the Evolution of An American Identity Through the Study and Analysis of the Boston Massacre Orations (1771-1783)
Alan Sielaff-magna cum laude
Soviet Influence in British India: Intelligence and Paranoia within Imperial Government in the Interwar Years,
Sarah Vlasity- magna cum laude
Privateers as Diplomatic Agents of the American Revolution
2010-11Thesis Prize winner
Weston Welge-cum laude
The Evolving Technoculture of America: Understanding the Impact of the Laser on the Relationship between Technology and Culture, 1960-2000
Janine Allen-magna cum laude
Massacre Memory: A Comparison of the Bear River and Sand Creek Massacres
Joseph Cavanah-magna cum laude
Ballistic Diplomacy: Taking Aim at Ethiopia and Afghanistan through the Scope of Modern Weaponry
Catherine Cunningham-summa cum laude
The King's Consolation: King Alfred's Translation of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy
Peter Evans-magna cum laude
Milites Christi: Adaptations of the Soldiers of Christ from the Third to the Early Fourteenth Centuries
Laura Foreman-summa cum laude
An Education in Ceylon: The Influence of Imperial Civil Service on Leonard Woolf
Brian Hall-summa cum laude
Development of the English Medieval Jury: Innovative, Reactive, and Interactive
Heather Hanson-magna cum laude
It's a Small World: An American Love Story
Katherine Hermann-summa cum laude
Cholera and the Feverish Disposition: Medical Discourse on Cholera in Nineteenth-Century British India
John Hoban-magna cum laude
Legalized Murder: The Development of U.S. Strategic Bombing Doctrine and the Fight for Autonomy in the Interwar Years, 1919-1941
Anna Jackson-summa cum laude
From Swedish Throne to the Vatican: The Abdication and Conversion of Queen Christina of Sweden (1626-1689)
Kathryn Emilia Lehman-magna cum laude
From the United Nations to the Lof Mapuche: The Indigenous Peoples' Right to Self-Determination in Mapuche Lafkenche Communities of Teodoro Schmidt, Chile
Jeff Loposer-cum laude
Blue, Black, and White: Music and the Majority
Catharine Silverman-cum laude
'Grit and Grace': European Women and the Creation of Tradition, Identity, and Myth in Colonial Kenya, 1918-1939
Victoria Ulrich-summa cum laude
The Mothers of Cocoa: The Effect of Cocoa Farming on Women in the Gold Coast 1890-1940
Kathryn Wataha- summa cum laude
Managing Disease as an Imperial Threat: The Role of Medicine, Morality, Locality and Sanitary Policy in Framing Epidemic Cholera in Nineteenth-Century India
2009-10Thesis Prize winner
Gavin Wolny-summa cum laude
The Prestige of Empire: 91Ƭn Views of Natives in the Caucasus and Siberia in the Early Nineteenth Century
Erin Bauman-magna cum laude
La Medicina Past and Present: Indigenous Women in Healthcare Reform, Chiapas, Mexico 1985 to the Present
Samuel Bock-summa cum laude
The Debate that Stood on Clay Legs: Examining the Role of Ethnocentric Assumptions in Forming Archaeology's Great Paleolithic Debate, 1850-1930
Aaron Bothner-magna cum laude
Constructing Character: An Examination of the Relationship Between Alexander Hamilton's Personal History and Fiscal Policy
Nicole DeVanon-cum laude
Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail: An Examination of Guatemala and Cuba 1954-1961
Cynthia Frye- summa cum laude
From the Courtroom to the Council Room: The Legal Career of Sir James Hobart (1440-1517), Attorney General to Henry VII
2008-09Thesis Prize winner
Cecily Harms- summa cum laude
Exemplum or Threat? Beguines and the Medieval Church Prior to the Council of Vienne
Brian Jang-cum laude
Within the Calculus of Containment: Understanding America's China Strategy through US-Indonesian Relations, 1950-1965
Kathryn Jankovsky-magna cum laude
To Save Our Boys from Themselves: The United States Army's Control of Sexually Transmitted Infections in WWI, WWII, and the Vietnam War
John Lindbeck- summa cum laude
Opponents of Populism: The Rural Progressives of Eastern Colorado
Connor Link-magna cum laude
With Shotguns Strapped to Their Cultivators: Italian Gangsters and American Nativists in Southern Colorado, 1900-1931
Cailyn Plantico- summa cum laude
The Progressive Legacy in Boulder's Open Space Movement
Amanda Walck-magna cum laude
Conquering the Twin Sisters: Germany, France, and the Question of Regional Identity in Alsace-Lorraine
Anthony Bowman- summa cum laude
Sacrificed Upon the Altar of Empire: Admiral John Byng and the Minorca Crisis of 1756-1757
2007-08Thesis Prize winner
Brian Johnson-magna cum laude
Bridge Building or Treason? Liberal Unionism and Community Relations in Northern Ireland, 1963-1970
Rebecca Kaplan-magna cum laude
‘Benevolence, Brotherly Love, and Harmony Prevailing': The Development of Denver Lodge No. 171 of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith and the Establishment of National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, 1859-1899
Emily Laase-cum laude
'Are You a Maiden?': Reconciling Ecclesiastical Constructions of Female Holiness and Lay-Social Expectations in Medieval England
Srinivasa Srinidhi-summa cum laude
Envisioning the ‘Other': The Role of the Vijayanagara Empire During and Immediately After the Tuluva Dynasty in the Formation of Hinduism as a Political Identity
James Zonino-cum laude
Dagoes, Wobblies, or Workers: The Italians of Colorado's Northern Coalfield During the 1927 Coal Strike
Patrick Cecil-magna cum laude
Command Crisis in the Coalition: The Allied High Command and the Battle of the Bulge
Katherine Fox-cum laude
How ‘la guerre sans nom’ became the Algerian War
David Hayes-cum laude
Revolution and Reality: The United Mexican American Students and the University of Colorado at Boulder, 1968-1975
Elisabeth Jackson-cum laude
‘Pure religion will aid and strengthen any cause’: The Influence of Christian Rhetoric on the Indian Removal Debates
William McEachron-cum laude
The Role of the Medieval Warm Period in the Rise of the French Monarchy and the Success of Philip II
Lisa Predaina-cum laude
Picking Up the Pieces: Interpreting and Responding to Disaster in Jamaica, 1655-1722
Julia Rahe- summa cum laude
Damning Heterogeneity: A Study of the Socio-economic, Political, and Religious Manifestations and Implications of the Anti-Semitic Discourse in Mathias de Bocanegra’s Relación of the Auto General de Fé of 1649
2006-07Thesis Prize winner
Troy Tice-magna cum laude
To Snatch from the Mouths of Lions: Conquest and Colonization in Occitania
Jennifer Wells- summa cum laude
The Spying Game: Informers, Infiltration, and the IRA During the Troubles
Michael Woods-magna cum laude
The Legacy of the Public Sector: Privatization and the Business Performance of Amersham International, 1982-1997
Peter Carlisle-summa cum laude
Learning from the Recent Past: Nonintervention at Dien Ben Phu and in Rwanda
Katherine Gleeson-magna cum laude
From Admirable to Deplorable: A Comparison of the Court of Star Chamber in 1487-1547 and 1620-1641
Bradford Jones-magna cum laude
Pillars of their Communities: The Volunteers of the Third Colorado Cavalry
Erin Miller-summa cum laude
Infant Health in Wigan, England during the First World War
James Shoffitt-magna cum laude
High and Low: Close Air Support in Vietnam
Shannon Smith- summa cum laude
The American Home Economics Association and the Popularization of Knowledge, 1909-1918
2005-06Thesis Prize winner
Justin Villere-magna cum laude
False Hope: Environmentalism and the Colorado Democratic Party
Andrew Chatfield-cum laude
The Reappearance of the Three Points: Woodrow Wilson’s Ideas for Disarmament, Open Trade, and Open Peace Treaties at the Washington Naval Conference of 1921-22
Alan Haburchak-magna cum laude
Power in a Revolutionary Legacy: The Role of the May Fourth Movement During the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests
Amina Nawaz-magna cum laude
A Century of Secret Struggle: An Examination of Sixteenth-Century Morisco Translations of the Qur’ān in Aljamiado
Andrew Pettit-magna cum laude
Remaking the Nation: The Adaptation of Western Ideas in China
Megan Reece-magna cum laude
The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument and an Indian Memorial After 1988
Matthew Zepelin- summa cum laude
The Origins of the Seemingly Improbable Zen Boom in America
2004-05Thesis Prize winner
Jennifer Beltzer-cum laude
Alfred Hitchcock's Forgotten World War II Propaganda Films: 'Bon Voyage,' and 'Aventure Malgache'
Michelle Hanley-magna cum laude
New Path to Communism: Nationalist Rhetoric and the Communist Uprising - A Case Study of Yugoslavia
Jamie Kreiner- summa cum laude
Radegund, Dhuoda, and the Dynamics of Female Voice in Early Medieval Francia
2003-04Thesis Prize winner
Jeffrey Mohrmann-magna cum laude
Intolerance and Public Perception: Constantine's Rome
Rachel Narens-magna cum laude
Art for the Collector's Sake? Art, Identity, and Cultural Diplomacy in Meiji Japan
Debra Quakenbush- summa cum laude
Forgotten: The Settlement of Japanese American Voluntary Evacuees of World War II in Rural Colorado.
Derek Richards-cum laude
Foundations of Change: The Origins and Development of Nationalist Visions in Turkey and China
Patrick Shea-cum laude
The Compromise of Liberty in the Early American Republic: Slavery's Role in the Creation of the United States Consitution
James Ward-magna cum laude
Shifting Terms of Mission: The Religious Premises and Secular Outcome of American Colonialism in the Phillipines
Shoshannah Zirkin- summa cum laude
The Jewish Refugees of Shanghai, 1938-1945
Emalie Brgoch- summa cum laude
Revolution not Reform: An Ideological Divergence between Clara Zetkin and Lily Braun, Two German Socialist Feminists
Timothy Clark-magna cum laude
Factionalism in the Empire of Alexander the Great: The King's Power in Relation to the Alliances of the Asiatic Campaign, 334-323 BCE
Katie Cumpstein-cum laude
Women at War: Female 91Ƭn Combatants in World War II
Elias Glenn-cum laude
Americans in Imperial China: An Investigation of American Missionary Thought and Activity in China during the Years 1867-1878
Carmen Kordick- summa cum laude
The Triumph of Pragmatic Politics: Four Men and Their Strategies in Writing Fundamental Law at Colorado's Constitutional Convention, 1875-1876
Thomas Marshall-magna cum laude
Considering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Structured Critiques, Philosophical Consistency, and Radical Alternatives
Kevin Morse-cum laude
'The Purest Bars of Castillian Soap': Cubans in Major League Baseball, 1910-1947
Moriah Waterland-cum laude
The U.S. Navy WAVES and the ULTRA Secret
Allison Wegrzyn- summa cum laude
Twilight of Revolution: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson as Observers in a Changing World
Gina Yusypchuk-magna cum laude
Monocled Mamma and Singled Sisters: Fashion, Class, and Sexuality in 1920s Britain
Dana Bartle- summa cum laude
''Some Plant Their Flags on Things, We Plant our Flags on the Seventies': African American and Nuyorican Political and Cultural exchange in the Black Power Era
Steven Beda- summa cum laude
Men as Tough as Their Axe Handles: Loggers, the Industrial Workers of the World, and Changes in Masculinity in the Pacific Northwest, 1880-1917
2002-03Thesis Prize winner
Melissa Field- summa cum laude
Cautious Optimism: US Political Involvement in Northern Ireland, 1992-1998
Jeffrey Henriksen-magna cum laude
War Stories: New England Soldiers, Memory, and the American Revolution
Sarah Lamb-magna cum laude
The Relationship Between Social Control and Premarital Sex in Colonial and Post-Colonial America
Donald Livesay- summa cum laude
The Death of the Volunteers: An Examination of Ireland's Imperial Position in Eighteenth-Century Britain
David McCoy-magna cum laude
A Case of Opposites: Thomas Jefferson and Gouverneur Morris in France, 1784 - 1794
Amy Nelson-magna cum laude
Peace Maintenance at Risk: The United Nations and the Suez Crisis
Laurence Nelson-cum laude
Racial Theory in the Postwar Era: 'Nature vs. Nurture' and the Rhetoric of Race
Andrew Sheldon- summa cum laude
Honorable Men: A Study of Honor During the Period of the American Revolution, as Explored through the Lives of Henry Laurens, Richard Henry Lee, and Arthur Lee
Sara Smith-magna cum laude
Slippery When Wet: AIDS, San Francisco Bath Houses, and Queer Art in the Reagan Era and After
Michelle Wing- summa cum laude
Resistance and Memory in Toulouse: 1944-2002
2001-02Thesis Prize winner
Alison Langlois-cum laude
Miranda de Ebro: Internment in Spain
Sara Smith-magna cum laude
Slippery When Wet: AIDS, San Francisco Bath Houses, and Queer Art in the Reagan Era and After
Andrea Lassiter-magna cum laude
Martin Luther: Fear in the Face of Rebellion
Bryan Miller- summa cum laude
Drumfire:The Champagne Offensive, the French War Effort, & the Death of Perceé in 1915
Loren O'Dell-cum laude
The Impact of Race, Gender, & Sexual Orientation on Chicana Feminism
Lena Potyondy- summa cum laude
The Advertiser/El Anunciador & the Cultural Frontier: The Decline of Hispano-Anglo Accommodation in Southern Colorado
2000-01Thesis Prize winner
Michael Sandoval- summa cum laude
Republic to Empire: American Nationalism in the Visual Arts & Architecture
Karen Thomas- summa cum laude
The Sword and the Olive Branch: Paradoxical Authority & the Fall of Thomas Gage
Tucker Katz-magna cum laude
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Caroline Campbell-magna cum laude
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Charles Grossman-magna cum laude
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John Ingold-magna cum laude
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Rodney Thomas-summa cum laude
The Ipswich Tax Revolt of 1687: A Case of Diverging Views of the Rights of Englishmen
Jeffrey Webb-summa cum laude
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1999-2000Thesis Prize winner
Matthew Bornstein-summa cum laude
'A Distant Post': An Examination of the Effects of Isolation on the Diplomats Who Served in Persia Between 1885 and 1914
Brant Downes-summa cum laude
The Sea of Rum, the Sea of China, and the Encircling Ocean in the Medieval Muslim World
Justin Gurvitz-summa cum laude
The Accident at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Facility: Effects on the Fall of the Communist State in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Denise Holladay-magna cum laude
The Domingue Family: A Story of Ethnic Identity
Olivia Kaferly-summa cum laude
Beyond Sterile: Merovingian Queens and the Propagation of Christianity
Stacey Manley-summa cum laude
Standing on Eggs Loaded with Dynamite': The Inactivity of American Troops in Siberia
Katherine Moran-summa cum laude
Natural Degeneration: The Nazis and the Postwar Persistence of American Eugenics
1998-99Thesis Prize winner
Gerardo Munoz-cum laude
Now He Sings, Now He Sobs': Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, 1953 to 1960
Charles Pernicka-magna cum laude
The Politics of Revenge: Guerilla War in Civil-War Missouri
Sarah Scaturro-summa cum laude
Succumbing to Maternity': An Examination of Women under Italian Fascism
Dana Takeuchi-magna cum laude
The Impact of the British Navy During the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815
David Webb-magna cum laude
'There is only one thing that is valid: Orders!': An Examination of the Rationale of Following Orders Employed by Members of the Nazi SS During the Holocaust
Nikolaus Greven-magna cum laude
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Scott Kleeb-magna cum laude
Don't Thank Me, Thank Brother Malcolm:' An Examination of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the Crisis of Black Intellectualism
*1997-98Thesis Prize winner
Stacey Smith-summa cum laude
The Marble Crisis: Sylvia Smith and the Community Politics of Western Company Towns
*1997-98Thesis Prize winner
* Dual Award