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Senior history majors to give thesis presentations

salvetoday Posted On December 5, 2012
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The Department of History will present the 29th annual Senior Seminar Friday, Dec. 7 in McAuley Hall, Room 105 and Saturday, Dec. 8 in the DiStefano Lecture Hall. Eighteen senior history majors are scheduled to deliver their thesis presentations over the two-day period.

Members of the Salve Regina community and the general public are invited to attend, and may stay for any length of time. The schedule for the 29th annual Senior Seminar is:

Friday, Dec. 7

  • 1 p.m. – Sarah DeVito: “The Wearing of the Tartan: Nineteenth Century Scotland’s Unique Brand of Nationalism”
  • 1:40 p.m. – Sarah Erichsen: “Crude Intentions: Saudi-American Oil Policy from 1930-1960”
  • 2:20 p.m. – Zeena Barbarita: “No Light at the End of the Tunnel: Nixon’s Attempted Pullout from Vietnam”
  • 3 p.m. – Sean Moriarty: “The Iran Hostage Crisis and the Downfall of the Carter Administration”
  • 3:40 p.m. – Kathryn Johnson: “Guilty until Proven Innocent: The Fall of Anne Boleyn”
  • 4:20 p.m. – Nicholas Patti: “The Evolution of an Icon: John Brown and the Shifting Perceptions of One of America’s Most Provocative Citizens”
  • 5 p.m. – Matthew Lawber: “Dirty Money: The Collaboration of I.G. Farben and Adolf Hitler”

Saturday, Dec. 8

  • 9 a.m. – John Pelletier: “From Newport to New York: The United States Open Championships”
  • 9:40 a.m. – Regina Wrenn: “Unity, Protest, Revolt: SDS and the Counterculture”
  • 10:20 a.m. – Jennifer Frazier: “Taking Center Stage: George Balanchine’s Role in the Revival of Ballet”
  • 11 a.m. – Sarah Averill: “Hitler’s Ideal Games: The Controversy over American Participation in the 1936 Olympics”
  • 11:40 a.m. – Kathryn Pellegrini: “The Peaceful Warrior: Woodrow Wilson’s Role in World War I and the Fourteen Points”
  • 1:20 p.m. – Sara Thurber: “Breaking the Code: How Mathematicians Shortened World War II”
  • 2 p.m. – Zachary Utting: “American Foreign Policy’s Role in 1973 OPEC Oil Crisis”
  • 2:40 p.m. – James Connelly: “A Partnership for Independence: Washington and Lafayette”
  • 3:20 p.m. – Kiersten Tibbetts: “Michael Collins: From IRA Leader to Peacemaker”
  • 4 p.m. – Thomas Bovill: “Uneasy Allies: The New England Colonies in King Philip’s War”
  • 4:40 p.m. – Kathryn Luvera: “The Final Fight for Suffrage: Victory for Alice Paul and the National Women’s Party”
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