History majors to give thesis presentations Dec. 8-9

The Department of History will hold their annual senior thesis presentations on Friday, Dec. 8, and Saturday, Dec. 9, in the DiStefano Lecture Hall in the Antone Academic Center.

Eleven seniors are scheduled to present and defend their theses throughout the two-day period. Members of the Salve Regina community and the general public are invited to attend, and they may stay for any length of time.

The presentation schedule is listed below.

Friday, Dec. 8

• 1:05 p.m. – Liam Cooney, “Hitler’s Games: The Nazification of the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics”
• 1:50 p.m. – Aoife Rouse, “The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia: Students, Organization, and Resistance”
• 2:35 p.m. – Sarah Kraus, “A Precedent for Peace: The Role of All Children Together in the Integration of Northern Irish Schools”
• 3:20 p.m. – Shannon Kennedy, “Strength and Survival: The 101^st Airborne Division during World War II”
• 4:05 p.m. – Daniel DiMeo, “A Forgotten Genocide: The Ottoman Empire’s Plan to Exterminate the Armenian Race”

Saturday, Dec. 9

• 9 a.m. – Alicia Shook, ‘“I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke’: An Examination of Coca-Cola’s Development as a Representation of American Culture in the Twentieth Century”
• 9:45 a.m. – Nicholas Valenti, “He Watched Us Wither: President Ronald Reagan’s Silence towards the AIDS Epidemic in the 1980s”
• 10:30 a.m. – Joseph Saccone, “Lucky Luciano: The Godfather of Italian-American Crime”
• 11:15 a.m. – Timothy De Petris, “When Gulls Take Flight: The United States Basketball League’s Rhode Island Gulls”
• Noon – Lunch Break
• 1:15 p.m. – Macarena Arrue Riofrio, “The Spanish Crusade: George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War”
• 2 p.m. – Jessica Roberts, “Faith, Trust, and Richard Nixon: How Richard Nixon Utilized the Magic of Disney throughout his Political Career”