MA Thesis Archive

Logan Kilsdonk

• The Making of a Government: The 1634 Form of Government in Sweden

Elliot Mertz

• An Acquired Taste Mnemonic Arts in 18th Century Consumer Culture

Madeleine Muzdakis

• Gender and Foodways in Early Modern London, 1660-1760

Cornell G. Overfield

• Brake-ing Bad: European Debt Brakes and a Theory of Dictated Constitutional Change

Yurina Takeichi

• When do ‘strong’ leaders emerge for right-wing populist parties? Comparative analyses of personalization in Western Europe

Ying Xing

• ​Cultural Alterity: Foucault’s Conundrum in his Critique of Modernity

Hestia Zhang

• Blurring the Lines: Paintings of Public Gardens in Late-Nineteenth-Century Paris

James Samuel Daniel V

• Reading Possession: Demonic Possession and National Identity Formation in Early Modern England

Irina Bakhareva

• Impact of Migration on National Security of Receiving States A European perspective

Kathryn Fuselier

• Subjects “Old” and “New”: Ceded Colonies and Imperial Reform in British Quebec and Spanish Louisiana, 1759-1774

Sarah Holzworth

• Russian Identity and Preferences in Status-Seeking, 2008-2018

David Labastida Rodríguez

• A Godly Desire for Transcendence: The Figure of the Biblical Scapegoat in Weimar’s Nazi Mentality and Buchenwald’s Christian Symbolic Meaning

Isabel van Paasschen

• Distinctively Dutch: Women, Marriage, and Commerce in Colonial New York, through the Lives of Robert and Alida Livingston and their Descendants

Nathan Phair

• “That which is interest differs totally from usuries”: A Reexamination of Peter Canisius’ Augsburg Mission

Emma Simmons

• Affective Revolutions: Time and Emotion in Pil’niak’s The Naked Year and Olesha’s Envy

Darya Smirnova

• Between Real and Imagined: Depicting National Identity During the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict (2014-2016)

Ruoxi Sun

• Financial Markets and Political Crises in Europe, 1750–1960

Harutyun Derderyan

• Western Balkans: Actors and Factors Influencing Post-Communist Democratization

Sergii Drobysh

• Failing the Liberal Order: NATO’s Response to War in Georgia as a Factor in Russia’s Current Aggression Against Ukraine

Hayk Esaghoulyan

• “The Only Armenian, Out of Several Thousands”: Reading “The Life and Adventures of Joseph Emin” as Enlightenment Text

Charles R. H. Littlewood

• Russian Relations with the States of the Arabian Peninsula: The Long View

Kyle Mancuso

• “Fuimus Troes:” The German “Discovery of Sicily” from Riedesel to Goethe

Patrick McNeill

• Murder in the Salt Marshes: Labor, Migration, and the Aigues-Mortes Massacre

Jeffrey Michels

• Electronic El Dorado Silicon Valley as a Vision for West Germany’s High-Tech Future 1977-1987

Mariia Muzdybaeva

• Remembering Forgotten Wars: William Faulkner’s Military Discourse in Russian Adaptations

Kamila Orlova

Shelby Alexus Pinkerton

• From Empire to Nation: Origins of Hungarian National Identity in the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Benjamin Spikol

• Money, Trade, and the Transformation of Economic Systems: New Approaches to Industrialization in New England, 1740-1820

Daniel Bottino

• Landscape, Memory and the Early Modern Sense of the Past

Matthew Dudley

• Micro and Macro Perspectives on the Early Modern Sephardic Diaspora

Stephen R. Eesley

• The Conception of the Carolingian Empire: The Dynamic Creation of the English Empire under Charles II to Counter Continental Claims to Universal Monarchy

Colin Hoch

• Witness to Ruin: the Long Reformation, Iconoclasm, and Violence in Early Modern Memory

Zytha Kock

• NOT FROM HERE, BUT OF HERE Moluccan commemoration and identity in the Netherlands, 1951-2012

Jacob McAuliffe

Brendan Murphy

• “Reconfiguring the Geopolitical Framework in Western-Russian Energy Security”

Qiyang Niu

• Cooperation Unnecessary? Russian Far East and Northeast China in the Context of Stagnant Regional Economy

Joan Robledo-Palop

• The Rise of Empathy: Goya and the Disasters of War

Max Shafer-Landau

• The Novus Cursus Honorum: Practical Pedagogy for Training the Modern Demos

Kristina Arakelyan

• Addressing Human Trafficking in Armenia

Harry Leech

• The Interpretation of Mercantilism in the Readmission of the Jews to England, 1656

Thomas Morley

William Schreiber

• Case Studies of Municipal Reform: Challenges and Opportunities in Kyiv, Ukraine 2014-2016

Julia Sinitsky

• Competing Ideas About Identity and Reforms in Perestroika and Post-Perestroika Era Russia

Ruoyin Zheng

• Russia’s China Policy at the Turn of the 20th and 21th Centuries

Wendi Bootes

• The Narrative Shape of Violence: Georg Lukács, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Subject Formation in Andrei Bely’s Petersburg

Lauren Young

• Peter’s Curious Cabinet: Peter the Great’s Kunstkamera in European Context

Zixiang Zhao

• Weather as a Cause of the Turmoil in Spain in the Mid-17th Century

Liqi Dong

• Sino-Russian Energy Cooperation The Economic and Political Factors in Energy Relations

Rachel Fleig-Goldstein

• Russia and the European Court of Human Rights: Between Politics and Law

Jake Robert Nelson

• The Hollande Doctrine: Counterterrorism and the Rhetoric of a New French Renaissance

Laura Leigh Neville

• Russia’s Multifaceted Role in the Syrian Conflict: Evaluating Security, Geopolitical, and Economic Interests

Andrey Semenov

• Free Market Meets Monopoly or Geopolitics of European Gas Trade

James Wang

• Contesting Mitteleuropa

Matthew Thomas Wormer

• An Empire of Luxury? Patriotism, Imperial Politics, and the Birth of Neo-Toryism, 1748 – 1763

Matilda Curtis

• ‘Mostly British, but with a tiny little bit of European’: Examining Student Experiences of the Year Abroad and European Identity Change

Earl Joshua Hodil

• Russian Diplomacy and the German Wars of Unification: Otto von Bismarck, Alexander Gorchakov, and Dmitrii Miliutin

Tiffany Rechsteiner

• Sweetheart, Mistress, Friend: Wives’ Roles and Strategies in Caroline and Restoration England

Brian Salant

• Political Participation of Immigrants in Belgium: the Quest for Equal Political Knowledge

Sara R. Softness

• Pathologizing the Jewish Image: The Legend of the Wandering Jew in the Modern Era

Brian Davidson

• Divisions Among the Elite: Georgian Advertisements for Books in London and the English Provinces

Dana LaMendola

• The New Old Boys’ ‘Club : Voluntary Associations and English Middle Class forays into polite and political society. A Case Study of the Mock Corporation of Sephton

Deirdre A. Shannon

• Falling Out of Love with the Market: The Influence of the European Economic Crisis of 2007-2012 on European Identity

Alexandra Sukalo

• Better a Hundred Friends than a Hundred Rubles: The Soviet Union, A State of Survival

Nicole Bauer

• The Copernican Sun: Jesuits, the Sun King and Symbolic Imagery

Jolanta Jasina

• Katyn 1940 - Smolensk 2010 National Trauma and a Possiblity of Reconciliation

Jeppe Mulich

• The Absolutist Turn Monarchical coups and political transitions in Northern Europe, 1648-­1682

Elizabeth Rogers

• The Trials of Danton and Bukharin

Nora Anderson

• For His Love of War: Toward a Gendered Narrative of the Falklands War

Frank Brown

• Mountain Jews

Virginia Insley

• Framing Culpability: a Critical Analysis of the Woyzeck-Wozzeck Morphology in Opera and Literature

Major Robert R. Johnston II

• European Security After the Lisbon Treaty: an Opportunity for Russia?

William Jones

• Marxist Methodology: Melancholy and Form in Adorno, Benjamin and Lukacs

Kathleen Minahan

• The Struggle for Identity in the Interwar Polish Education System

Tricia Ross

• International Calvinism and the Synod of Dort

Rachael Streeter

• Dalle Ceneri: The Theology of Seventeenth-Century Italian Alchemy

Emily Yao

• Maghrebian Masculinities: Spaces and Selves in Mohammed Dib, Rachid Boudjedra and Tahar Ben Jelloun

Claire Morelon

• 1918 Bohemian Lands

Jeanette Norris

• Identity, Structure, and Regionalist Parties

Elizabeth Sterling

• From Immigration to Immigrant Policy: Shifting the Balance Across the European Union

Tao Zeng

• The Relationship between Russia and the EU with a Focus on the Energy Issue

Jennifer Gardner

• Responding to the Nazis: Narratives of Russian Emigres in German-Occupied France

William Ko

• Applying the “Third-Generation” Theoretical Approach to Soviet Strategic Thought: Implications and Framework for Cross-National Studies in Strategic Culture

Marc Ozawa

• Toward a New Growth Model? The Russian Defense Industry in the 21st Century

Maryam Shahabi

• The European Union’s Democratic Deficit: Myth or Reality?

Silvio Pitter

• Russian Multinational Energy Companies: LUKoil’s Global Expansion

Patrycja Podracjik

• European Union’s Common Security and Defense Project a Decade Later: Case Study of the War in Lebanon in 2006