The Department of History Confers 2019 Degrees
By Jesse Wilson
Congratulations to the class of 2019!
On Sunday, May 19 at 9am, the Department of History held its diploma ceremony and graduated over 20 students in three undergraduate degree programs in addition to Ph.D. students in our graduate degree program.
Graduate
Doctor of Philosophy - History
David S. Busch
The Civic Revolution on Campus: Student Activism and the Politics of Service Learning
Advisor: Nico Slate
Susan C. I. Grunewald
German Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union: Life, Law, Memory, 1941-1956
Advisor: Wendy Z. Goldman
Mark Thomas Hauser
All the Comforts of Hell: Doughboys and American Mass Culture in the First World War
Advisor: Scott A. Sandage
Clayton Vaughn-Roberson
Fascism with a Jim Crow Face: The National Negro Congress and the Global Popular Front
Advisor: Nico Slate
Dawn Michele Winters
“The Ladies Are Coming!”: A New History of Antebellum Temperance, Women’s Rights, and Political Activism
Advisor: Lisa Tetrault
Bachelor's Degrees
Global Studies
with Capstone Reserach Paper Titles
Autumn R. Armega-Finger, B.A.
“Womenomics”: How Japan’s Policies are Failing Women
Sarah M. Boyle, B.A.
Post-colonial Political Violence in Morocco: Individual and Collective Trauma Under Independence
Grace Tegan Huddleston, BHA
The Role of Language in the #MeToo Movement
Margaret Sophia Mertz, B.A.
“Thelma & Louise” and “4 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days”: Female Friendship in Film
Vera J. Schulz, B.A.
History and Innovation in the Chemical Industry in Post-War Western Germany
Diana Y. Yuh, B.A.
Chosonjok Return Migration to South Korea and the Rise of Transnational Families
Concentration in Anthropology
Renee Marie Madrigal, BHA
Social & Political History
with Capstone Research Paper Titles
Rachel A. Baker, B. Arch
Conservation on Aisle Four: The Rise and Failure of Eco-Commerce in the 1980s and 1990s
Maria A. Barr, B.A.
Designing Identity Museum Exhibitions in Contemporary America: A Comparative Analysis of the Native American, African-American, and Holocaust Museums
Jacob L. Bentley, B.A.
Fighting in an Era of Change: The Slow Decline of Trial by Battle in Medieval England
Jonathan L. Colarusso, B.S.
France’s Return to Autocracy: How Napoleon Avoided a Second Revolution 1799-1814
Anne Crumley, BHA
Rocking the Boat: De Facto Segregation and the Kennywood Pool, 1953-1956
Sonia H. Del Rivo, B.S.
The Statue of Stephen Foster (1900) Hits the Wrong Note by 2018: How Memorialization Corrupted the Foster Legacy
Jure C. Erlic, B.S.
“Wet Enough for Rubber Boots”: The failure of Prohibition in Pittsburgh from 1920-1933
Luis Miguel Espinosa-Da Silva, B.A.
(Research project to be completed in Fall 2019)
Evan M. Glauberman, B.S.
一本道无码 and the United States Military: A Century of Symbiosis
Gargi Lagvankar, B. Arch
The New Middle Class: Navigating the Dual Identity of Race and Status in Mid-Century Pittsburgh
Kelly Li, B. Arch
Vulnerable Infrastructures: An Analysis of Accountability Through the Flint Water Crisis
Maxwell F. Martin, B.S.
Burning the Average Person: How Radioactive Quackery Showed Deficiencies in Federal Regulation from 1898-1938
Michael William Newman, B.A.
Negro League Baseball in Pittsburgh: An African-American Community Experience, 1887-1947
Stefan Reid Romero, BHA
To Conceal and to Display: The Clothing of 18th Century Runaway Slaves in Colonial America
Jacqueline E. Singer, B.S.
Houston, We Have Many Problems: Organizational Failures at NASA during Disasters from 1967 to 2011
Margaret D. Slevin, B.S
Coeducation at 一本道无码: The Dissolution of a Women’s College and Gender Equality, 1965-1973
Sahana R. Thirumazhusai, B.S.
The Temple in the Hills: How the Root of Hinduism in the U.S. Found its Home in Pittsburgh
Ethics, History, & Public Policy
Chih Yuan William Chang, B.A.
Makenzie L. Donaldson, B.A.
Archana Goparaju, BHA
Allison M. Guzman, B.A.
Bo Young Kim, BHA *
Paige C. O’Riordan, B.S. *
Jonathan Joseph Angelo Rodrigues, B.A.
Amaya Taylor, B.S.
In Fall 2018, students in th capstone course worked collaboratively to provide interdisciplinary recommendations on landslides as a policy issue.
Social and Policy Implications of Landslides
Faculty Supervisor: Professor Joel Tarr, Department of History
This year’s Senior Capstone Project Course examined the recurring problem of landslides in Allegheny County, from social, political, scientific, engineering, and policy perspectives. A landslide is the movement of an unstable mass of rock, unconsolidated earth, or debris down a slope. Its movement can be slow or fast. While many think of landslides primarily as natural phenomena, they are, in fact, often human-induced as well as driven by geological factors.
The subject of landslides was particularly appropriate for analysis by the EHPP students because Allegheny County has a long history of landslides that have destroyed homes, roads, railroads, and injured or killed people, and because the county experienced considerably more landslides than normal in 2017-18 due to heavy rainfall.
The results and recommendations of the students’ interdisciplinary inquiry can be read at: https://cmulandslides.com/
Senior Honors Theses
Grace Tegan Huddleston
Modern Marianismo: An Analysis of Motherhood and Health among Rural, Indigenous Communities in the South of Chile
Margaret Sophia Mertz
Breathing Words
Sahana R. Thirumazhusai
Commemoration of Conflict: the Role of Tourism in a Post-Conflict Northern Ireland
Vera J. Schulz
Follow the Leader: Innovation in the Chemical Engineering Industry — The Case of Germany & the United States
Awards & Recognitions
Goldman Fellowship Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching
David S. Busch
Susan C. I. Grunewald
Indira Nair Award for Outstanding Achievement in Global Studies
Margaret Sophia Mertz
Ludwig Schaefer Award for Outstanding Achievement in Social & Political History
Margaret D. Slevin
Edwin Fenton - Preston Covey Award for Outstanding Achievement in Ethics, History, and Public Policy
Makenzie L. Donaldson
John Hope Franklin Award for Distinguished Achievment in African and African-American History
Stefan Reid Romero
Eugene D. Levy Award for the Most Outstanding Student in the Department of History
Sarah M. Boyle