Recent MA Graduates and Thesis Topics
FALL 2018
Crandall, Heather, Astronomy’s Great Debate Over the Size of the Universe: Scientists’ and Historians’ Changing Assessments
Advisor: Professor Joseph Tatarewicz
Gibson, Alan, Reciprocity Matters During the Civil War: Canadian Raw Goods and the Union Supply
Advisor: Professor Anne S. Rubin
Golden, Marshal, The Life and Times of John Graham Chambers: Sports and Commercialization of Leisure in Victorian Britain
Advisor: Professor Daniel Ritschel
Parker, Samantha, The First Sexual Revolution: A Comparative Study of Premarital Pregnancy Rates in Maryland and Massachusetts, 1700-1810
Advisor: Professor Terry Bouton
SUMMER 2018
Laina Miller, Singing Songs and Carrying Candles: The Development of Ashkenazi Jewish Marriage Customs and Rituals from Talmudic and Christian Sources, C. 850-1300 CE
Advisor: Professor Susan McDonough
Utz, Zachary, Re-Thinking “The American Dream of Integration” in Suburbia: Race, Class and Resegregation in Randallstown, 1956-2003
Advisor: Professor G. Derek Musgrove
SPRING 2018
Aglietti, Jason, The Religion the Revolution Forgot: The Persecution of the Maryland Quakers During the American Revolution
Advisor: Professor Terry Bouton
Lezgiyeva, Sudaba, Without a Country: A Stateless Armenian Refugees in the USSR and Russia, 1987-2003
Advisor: Professor Kate Brown
Philpott, Susan, Pride, Inc.: Black Power and Black Capital in Washington, D.C.
Advisor: Professor Derek Musgrove
FALL 2017
Heidi Carbaugh, “Mappipng Prostitution in Gilded Age Baltimore”
!Advisor: Professor Anne Rubin
Sherry Ryan, “Farms at Gettysburg”
Advisor: Professor Anne Rubin
SUMMER 2017
Tucker Foltz, “Freedom and Total Loss: Tensions, Identity Formation and the Back-To-The Land Movement in 1970’s Vermont
Advisor: Professor Denise Meringolo
Sydney Jenkins, “The Arabbers: A History of Baltimore Street Peddlers From 1945 to the Present”
Advisor: Professor Denise Meringolo
Georgia Ladd, “Remembering Dixie in a Border State: Reunion and Reconciliation in Post-Civil War Maryland”
Advisor: Professor Anne S. Rubin
Robin Martin, “Encounters Through Encroachment: 17th and 18th Century Interactions on Maryland’s Eastern Shore”
Advisor: Professor Melissa Blair
Molly Ricks, “Buried Memories: The Evolving Symbolic Significance of Black and White Burial Grounds at Mount Vernon, Monticello and Montpelier ”
Advisor: Professor Anne S. Rubin
Stephanie Smith, “The Canadian Bicentennial of the War of 1812: The Problem of Techumseh”
Advisor: Professor Daniel Ritschel
Laquanda Walters Cooper, “Every Evidence of Our Progress”: The North Carolina Negro State Fairs, 1879-1907
Advisor: Professor Michelle Scott
SPRING 2017
Kelly Daughtridge, “Defining Their Past to Immortalize Their Future: Women’s Monuments in Early Modern England”
Advisor: Professor Amy Froide
Katherine Fusick, “Ladies in Rebellion: Women of the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite Risings”
Advisor: Professor Amy Froide
Andrew Holter, “The Vanguard is Never Caught Napping: Informants and Police Inside the Black Panthers in Baltimore, 1968-1972”
Advisor: Professor Derek Musgrove
Sarah Huston, “The Lives of Enslaved and Free Black Children in Baltimore Under Apprenticeship Laws, 1790-1840”
Advisor: Professor Anne S. Rubin
Jennifer Montooth, “Bridges to Dignity”: Roy Innis, Conservative Black Power, and the Transformation of CORE, 1968-1998
Advisor: Professor Derek Musgrove
Chelsea Mueller, “Ink, Mirrors, and Capes: How Comic Books Mirrored Societal Events in American Culture From 1954-1990”
Advisor: Professor Meredith Oyen
Fall 2016
Joshua Fertig, “Bars on the Golden Door: Post WWII Security Screenings and Their Administrations”
Advisor: Professor Meredith Oyen
Summer 2016
Celso Baldivieso, “Irradiating Eden: The El Verde Experiment and the Atomic Energy Commission’s Nuclear Prospecting in Latin America, 1954-1970”
Advisor: Professor Kate Brown
Spring 2016
Michael Bealefeld, “The Peculiar Fidelity of the Old Line State”
Advisor: Professor Anne S. Rubin
Jacob Benson, “City Architect, County Architect”
Advisor: Professor Melissa Blair
Conor Donan, “The Streets of Baltimore-The Irish in Baltimore City”
Advisor: Professor Anne S. Rubin
Tyler Peterson, “Bridging the Gap: Culture and Politics in Sino-American Normalization”
Advisor: Professor Meredith Oyen
Allyson Schuele, “Marrying Down: A Strategy for Aristocratic Widows in Tudor England”
Advisor: Professor Amy Froide
Michael Stone,”Understanding the Uprising”
Advisor: Professor Denise Meringolo
Coleburn Volman, “Child of Man? Child of God?: Adolescence and the Ambiguity of Parenthood in Early Modern England”
Advisor: Professor Amy Froide
Fall 2015:
Elizabeth Cusick, “Anarchist Heaven: Barcelona 1936-1937.”
Advisor: Prof. Daniel Ritschel
Aiden J. Faust, “Neighborhood Matters: What Baltimore Learned from the War on Poverty.”
Advisor: Prof. Derek Musgrove
Aunaleah Gelles, “Commemorating the Defense of Baltimore, 1815-2015.”
Advisor: Prof. Denise Meringolo
Summer 2015
Genevieve White, “Gone With Only Memory Left”: The Wartime Memoir of Emily Raine Williams
Advisor: Professor Meredith Oyen
Nichole Zang, “Holy Temples to Dark Rooms: The origins of Baltimore’s Juvenile Reform Movement of the 19th Century”
Advisor: Professor Anne S. Rubin
Spring 2015:
Jessica E. Deane, “Glory Stands Beside Our Grief: The Maryland Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy’s Commemoration and Memorial Efforts in Baltimore”
Advisor: Prof. Anne Sarah Rubin
Talbot A. Kuhn, “Maryland and the Moderate Conundrum: Free Black Policy in an Antebellum Border State”
Advisor: Prof. Anne Sarah Rubin
Fall 2014:
Susan Chumley, “The United States Air Force Band: Musical Ambassadors on a Cold War Stage”
Advisor: Prof. Denise Meringolo
Sarah Hammersley, “The Family Bond: Benevolent Black Slaveholding in Early National Maryland”
Advisor: Professor Terry Bouton
Heather M. Steven, “The Use of Gender During the E. G. Wharton Trial”
Advisor: Prof. Michelle Scott
Summer 2014:
Megan C. Maxwell, “Black Faces in Blue Uniforms: Integrating the Baltimore Police Department, 1920-1950”
Advisor: Prof. Michelle Scott
Nancy Watts, “The History of Kindergarten in Baltimore City, Maryland”
Advisor: Prof. Anne Sarah Rubin
Zachary Garceau, “Johnny Unitas: Baltimore’s Cold Warrior” Advisor: Professor Derek Musgrove
Spring 2014:
Christopher Brown, “The Writing on the Walls and Other Places: American Civil War Graffiti”
Advisor: Prof. Anne Sarah Rubin
Katherine Dufresne, “Images and Reality: War Brides and Media Representation”
Advisor: Prof. Meredith Oyen
Steve Flint, “The Vietnam War: Communist Mass Mobilization at the Local Level”
Advisor: Prof. Ka-che Yip
Courtney Hobson, “A Mother’s Inheritance: Women, Interracial Identity, and Emancipation in Maryland, 1664-1820″
Advisor: Prof. Marjoleine Kars
Jacob Hutton,”The Other Side of the Riots”
Advisor: Prof. Derek Musgrove
Colin Leach, “Waiting for Supertrain: Trains, Technocracy, and the Great Society”
Advisor: Prof. Christy Chapin
Caitlin McGeever, “’That Which is Spirit is Spirit’: Male and Female Quaker Perspectives in Political Context”
Advisor: Prof. Amy Froide
David Warner, “Executive Privilege and the Spirit of Republicanism in the Washington Administration”
Advisor: Prof. Marjoleine Kars
Fall 2013:
Shae Adams, “Identity in Black and White: Indian Boarding School Postcards”
Advisor: Prof. Terry Bouton
Dorothy Alexander, “Hilltop: A Historic African-American Community”
Advisor: Prof. Denise Meringolo
William J Carroll, “Beer Wars: The Fight for Independent Brewing in Baltimore”
Advisor: Prof. Denise Meringolo
Theresa Donnelly, “George Washington’s Laboring Women: The Work and Lives of the Enslaved Female Field Workers at Mount Vernon, 1785-1787”
Advisor: Prof. Marjoleine Kars
Karl Dotterweich, “’And the Hand of the Lord Was With Them’: The Effects of Planters’ Socioeconomic Status on the Capital Trials of Enslaved Africans in Colonial Maryland, 1729-1775”
Advisor: Prof. Marjoleine Kars
Gary McMullin, “Country First: African Colonization and the Role of Southern Unionists, 1817-1862”
Advisor: Prof. Anne Sarah Rubin
Summer 2013:
Christy Gretsinger, “Oblivion: An Analysis of the Decline of Feminism Within the Owenite Movement”
Advisor: Prof. Daniel Ritschel
James Reaves, “Making Down: The Life of a Pullman Porter”
Advisor: Prof. Denise Meringolo
John J. Soos, “Jacob Beser: The Forgotten Hiroshima and Nagasaki Crewmember and the Construction of Atomic Memory”
Advisor: Prof. Joe Tatarewitz
Spring 2013:
Mia Brown, “Lyndon Johnson and the Race for Peace: The 1967 Outer Space Treaty”
Advisor: Prof. Joseph Tatarewicz
Dominique L. Covino, “‘In Great Danger of Perishing Through Poverty’: Kinship, Charity and Public Poor Relief in Somerset County, Maryland, 1665-1760”
Advisor: Prof. Marjoleine Kars
Jenny Lee Hansen, “Genocide: What Genocide?”
Advisor: Prof. Meredith Oyen
Elizabeth Pente – “Death for Dishonor in Danville”
Advisor: Prof. Michelle Scott
Johanna Schein – “Heeding Hetch Hetchy: A Public History Project”
Advisor: Prof. Denise Meringolo
Amy Zanoni – “‘Working on Many Levels’: A History of Second-Wave Feminism in Baltimore”
Advisor: Prof. Michelle Scott
Fall 2012
Brigette N. Cascio, “The More Personal Civil War: The Impact of the Civil War on Marriages”
Advisor: Dr. Anne Rubin
Meghan Colabella, “Beyond its Southern Border: An Examination of U.S. Immigration Policies (IRLA) and Mexican Migration”
Advisor: Dr. Meredith Oyen
Summer 2012:
Kellian Kennedy, “The Civil Rights and Social Justice Movement in Baltimore, Maryland”
Advisor: Dr. Michelle Scott
Spring 2012:
Vicki Heath,” Harris’ List as a Source for the Diverse and Entrepreneurial Nature of Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century London”
Advisor: Dr. Amy Froide
Jessica Keene, “Elite Women’s Protestant Networks in Mid-Tudor England”
Advisor: Dr. Amy Froide
Owen Lourie, “A Revolution Without Change: The Limited Effects of Suffrage Reform in Maryland, 1803-1813”
Advisor: Dr. Terry Bouton
Trisha Okine, “Real vs Real: How the Concept of Authenticity Has Influenced Hip Hop”
Advisor: Dr. Michelle Scott
Douglas Oppenheimer, “America’s Revolutionary War”
Advisor: Dr. Terry Bouton
Tarin Rudloff, “Regulating Identities: Governing Women’s Appearance in Early Modern England”
Advisor: Dr. Amy Froide
Allison Seylor, “In Defense of Slavery: An Exploration of Queen Anne’s County Slave Owners, 1820-1840”
Advisor: Dr. Anne Rubin
Andrew Young, “Lexington’s Grandsons: The Northern Response to the Pratt Street Riots”
Advisor: Dr. Anne Rubin
Summer 2011
Erin Estep, “A Chesapeake Childhood: Childhood in the Colonial Chesapeake”
Advisor: Dr. Denise Meringolo
Laura Rice, “The Experience of an Enlisted U.S. Army Soldier During and After the Punitive Expedition and World War I: Thomas F. Cunningham, A Case Study”
Advisor: Dr. Denise Meringolo
Coleen Walter, “Conserving Memory: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Western Maryland”
Advisor: Dr Kriste Lindenmeyer
Spring 2011
Bailey Ball, “Never Again: The Impulse to Commemorate the Holocaust in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the British Imperial War Museum”
Advisor: Dr. Rebecca Boehling
Bethany Bemis, “The People’s House? Public Access to the White House”
Advisor: Dr. Denise Meringolo
Daniel Burge, “Manifest or Murky? A Reexamination of the Popularity of Manifest Destiny in the Antebellum Era”
Advisor: Dr. Terry Bouton
Martin Cullen, “Nation Building and Insurgency in Southeast Asia”
Advisor: Dr. Daniel Ritschel
Teresa Foster, “The Passengers of the Ship Gilbert in 1721: British Female Convict Transportation From London to Annapolis”
Advisor: Dr. Marjoleine Kars
James Furgol, “An Analysis of Discourse and Disagreement: The British and American Medical Associations Following WWII”
Advisor: Dr. Daniel Ritschel
Jacob Levin, “Blacks and Jews in the Black Power Movement and its Subsequent Scholarship”
Advisor: Dr. Michelle Scott
Laura Marshallsay, “WAC Voices: The Transition of the Women’s Army Corps to the Integrated Army, 1973-1978”
Advisor: Dr. Denise Meringolo
Homira Pashai, “For the Sake of Power, Prestige or Oil: Did Cooperation Among the Governments of the United States and Great Britain Contribute to the 1953 Coup of Iran?”
Advisor: Dr. Kriste Lindenmeyer
James Risk, “Ship to Shore: Infrastructure and the Growth of American Seaports”
Advisor: Dr. Anne Rubin
Carol Van Natta, “Slavery and Free Black Labor in Northern Maryland, 1762 to 1864: Rethinking the Focus at Hampton National Historic Site”
Advisor: Dr. Denise Meringolo
Fall 2010
Peter Bunten, “A Vigil Strange: The Civil War and the Creation of Memory in Ulster and Greene Counties, New York”
Advisor: Dr. Denise Meringolo
Jessica Ding, “Political Prophecy in Tudor England”
Advisor: Dr. Amy Froide