Student Research
Read about some of the undergraduates who have engaged in research and internships:
Undergraduate Honors Theses completed in 2011
Rebecca Chabot
"Born to Exhibit Great Virtues": Nabby Adams Smith and the American Revolution
Agatha Dunbar
"Rival Sisters: Religious Reaction to Female Monarchs in Tudor England"
Bridgette Farrell
"Renovating for Modernity:" Topsfield, MA 1870-1915
Andrew Newton
"The Other Settler Colony: British Emigration to South Africa, 1870-1914"
Benjamin Seel
"US Cold War Policy in Afghanistan: From Development to Clandestine Warfare, 1960-1979"
Samuel Morse, "The Latino Community of Worcester, Massachusetts 1950-1990," A Historical Perspective Through the Lens of Community Development
Undergraduate Honors Theses completed in 2010
Mikal Brotnov
"Locating Lemkin:
Historiography, Concepts of Genocide and the Problem of Genocide in the American
West"
Gregory Burton
"A Great Society in the Seven Hills?
Federal Intervention in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1960-1980"
Shaylyn Doody
"Love and Resistance: Jewish Partisans and the
Role of Intimacy"
Stephen Edelstein
"A Two-Front War: The CIA in Vietnam"
Matthew Goldflam
"Self-control, Self-determination, and
Self-defense: The African-American Teachers Association and the Rise of
Black Power"
Rachel Kopelman
"Jubal Early, James Longstreet, and Honor in
the Development of the Lost Cause Paradigm in the Post-Civil War South"
Stephen Segal
"Remember for Whom we Play: Baseball in
American Jewish Culture after World War II"
Internships
Madeline DeDePanken '12 is currently a intern at the Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art in Luxembourg City. She identifies and catalogues photographs for the museum. Her internship is funded through the Henry J. Leir Summer Internship Undergraduate Program. Her sponsoring faculty for this internship is Professor SunHee Kim Gertz. You can read about her experience on her blog.
Mikal Brotnov '10 was an intern at the National Museum of the American Indian-Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. during summer 2009. His internship was funded by the Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Fund for Studies of the Holocaust through the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University. His sponsoring faculty for this internship was Professor Debórah Dwork.