Things to do and consider:
1. Act early. The earlier you start the better, with a minimum of an academic year to finish it.
2. Contact me for a meeting to discuss your ideas for topics as early as possible.
3. For topics, think small and deep, rather than broad and superficial.
4. Primary sources are critical. No topic can be done if you cannot access sufficient primary sources for it.
5. Digitized primary sources are great--but usually not sufficient.
6. If possible take a research seminar as the first step. You have to take one to become eligible for a thesis, but one in the 20th-century US with me is preferable. Not required, but preferable.
7. Recognize that this is not a long term paper--it is a research project of historical significance.
8. Did I mention start early?
In Progress:
Kelly Ng
Previous students:
David Edelman, spring 2018
Magdalena Kusz, spring 2018
Rachel Blaifeder, spring 2017, editorial assistant, Cambridge University Press
Lindsey Mcclafferty spring 2017, funded graduate student at Syracuse University School of Journalism
Alexandra Cain, spring 2016, Congress-Bundestag fellow 2016-2017,Human Rights Institute, Cardozo Law
Nicole Schindel, spring, 2015, MAT at Teacher's College Columbia University, High School Teacher Bronx Collegiate Academy
David Meltsner, spring 2013, Teach for America teacher in Mississippi; funded PHD student in History, University of Florida
Caitlin Mastroe spring 2012, PhD student in International Relations at Cornell University
Oren Rafii, spring 2012, law degree at Fordham Law School, associate at Ropes and Gray LLP