History  and

Russian and East European Studies (REES) 

History - Honors - 9:00 am - 12:30 pm  / History Research - 1:00 pm - 2:30pm 

Building:  Henry Hogan Campus Center, 3rd floor

Room number:  328

History Honors Thesis Presentations 

Nicholas S. Brumble '23

Presentation Title

“The Boston Police Strike of 1919: Promise, Chaos, and Reality” 

Faculty Mentor

Professor Liat N. Spiro 

Adam Cooper '24

Presentation Title

“Model Minorities or No-No Boys? Urban Politics, Crime, and Education Activism in Asian American Seattle 1970-1985” 

Faculty Mentor

Professor Ke Ren

Charlotte Doran '24

Presentation Title

"Murder, Media, and the Masses: Boston and the 1989 Charles Stuart Case" 

Faculty Mentor

Professor Michael West and Professor Stephanie Yuh 

Timothy J. Smalls '24

Presentation Title

“All the King’s Men? Clerical Conspiracy and the Jewish Community of Medieval Oxford” 

Faculty Mentor

Professor Kate Bush

Natalia Powers '24

Presentation Title

“Violence on Stage and in the Streets: Female Representation in Northern Irish Theatre during the Troubles of the 1980s 

Faculty Mentor

Professor Mary Conley and Professor Paige Reynolds 

Robert Janes '24

Presentation Title

The Prince of Darkness: The Genesis of Anti-Masonic Excitement in New York's Burned Over District 

Faculty Mentor

Professor Gwenn Miller and Professor Liat Spiro

Madelyn Holmes '24

Presentation Title

“Rules of Remembering, Rites of Forgetting: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Struggle for the Southern Past” 

Faculty Mentor

Professor Justin Poche

Russian and East European Studies (REES)/History Conference Papers

Jackson Montiero '24

Presentation Title

“Liberal Modernizer or Putin Puppet? How the West Mis-Read Dmitry Medvedev” 

Facutly Mentor

Professor Cynthia Hooper 

Owen Whaley '24

Presentation Title

“McWorld: Asserting National Identity in the Big Mac Age” 

Faculty Mentor

Professor Cynthia Hooper 


Jake O'Connor '24

Presentation Title

“Comparing Media Coverage of Russian Oil Spills” 

Faculty Mentor

Professor Cynthia Hooper 

Cade Harkins '24

Presentation Title

Creating Consent in Putin’s Russia” 

Faculty Mentor

Professor Cynthia Hooper