Senior Thesis
The thesis marks the culmination of your academic career at 精东AV. It’s an opportunity to build on what you’ve learned over the past three years in order to research and write about a historical question that is intellectually meaningful for you.
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Recent Thesis Titles
- “Making Home and Household: Reconstructing Family and Community in Early to Mid-20th Century Japanese American Migrant Life” by Arthur Imamoto ’22
- “Growing Holiday Magic: Nature, Labor, and Meaning in Christmas Trees in the mid-Twentieth Century Pacific Northwest” by Clara Barclay ’23
- “Stuffed and Silent: a Study of the Troubling Legacies of Taxidermy at the Field Museum, 1890–1920” by Robin Eckensberger ’23
- “In the Company of the Marquis: Reevaluating the Collapse of the Aztec Empire” by Cazador Barnum ’24
- “Students and ‘The Scars of a Democracy:’ Political Possibilities at the West German Campus from 1967–1969” by Andrew Lucksinger ’25
- “Tick, Tick, BOOM! the Doomsday Clock, Environmental Catastrophe, and the Cold War, 1939–1991” by Sydney Stitt ’25