Eleven students from the Class of 2025 have submitted their theses and will present them at a colloquium at the Faculty Club on Tue, May 6 and Wed, May 7. Here is the schedule:
TUE, MAY 6
4:15 pm – 5:30 pm
Lucy Cumming
Manxness in Motion: The Creation of a Manx Identity in the Thirteenth Century
Advisor: Joel Pattison
Faculty Reader: Alexander Bevilacqua
Faculty Reader: Alexandra Garbarini
Student Reader: John Aste
Will Schnall
Free Burma Incorporated: American Activism, Neoliberalism, and the 1990s Internet
Advisor: Anne Reinhardt
Faculty Reader: Magnús Bernhardsson
Faculty Reader: Hongdeng Gao
Student Reader: Nadia Joseph
Fanely Caba
Charting a Black Atlantic: Hope Reynolph Stevens as a Caribbean “Awayman” and Harlem Advocate, 1935-1982
Advisor: René Cordero
Faculty Reader: Carmen Whalen
Faculty Reader: Mason Williams
Student Reader: Grace Kaercher
TUE, MAY 6
5:45 pm – 7:00 pm
Dylan Kelemen
Reshaping Chilean History: Exilic Narratives and Identity in the National Memory Box
Advisor: René Cordero
Faculty Reader: Hongdeng Gao
Faculty Reader: Roger Kittleson
Student Reader: Will Schnall
David Ming Wignall
“No More Fish, No Fishermen”: Resettlement and Remembrance in Rural Newfoundland, 1911-1993
Advisor: Karen Merrill
Faculty Reader: Chris Waters
Faculty Reader: Steve Nafziger
Student Reader: Lily Napach
Nadia Solange Joseph
“Beyond the Purple Valley: Exploring the Hostility Black Residents in the 19th Century White Oaks, Williamstown Encountered”
Advisor: Andrew Grim
Faculty Reader: Tyran Steward
Faculty Reader: Gretchen Long
Student Reader: Fanely Caba
WED, MAY 7
7:00 pm – 8:15 pm
William Vaccaro
To Forge a New World Order: Iraq Sanctions and Breaking the Promise of the Post-Cold War Moment (1989-1998)
Advisor: Magnús Bernhardsson
Faculty Reader: Roger Kittleson
Faculty Reader: Ben Twagira
Student Reader: Dylan Kelemen
John Michael Aste
“Since You Know How to Paint Speech” Indigenous Voices and Jesuit Writing in Seventeenth-Century New France
Advisor: Alexander Bevilacqua
Faculty Reader: Joel Pattison
Faculty Reader: Tyran Steward
Student Reader: David Wignall
Emma Nathanson
Women Wage War: Reconsidering the Failures of the New York Wages for Housework Movement (1972-1980)
Advisor: Sara Dubow
Faculty Reader: Karen Merrill
Faculty Reader: Jessica Chapman
Student Reader: Lucy Cumming
WED, MAY 7
8:30 pm – 9:45 pm
Lily Napach
Parting the East China Sea: Jewish Exodus from China and the Making of Post-Holocaust Refugee (1945-1952)
Advisor: Alexandra Garbarini
Faculty Reader: Anne Reinhardt
Faculty Reader: Maud Mandel
Student Reader: Emma Nathanson
Grace Kaercher
“Of A Future, I Am Positive”: Restoring the Memory of Matilda Joslyn Gage (1827-1898)
Advisor: Christine DeLucia and Sara Dubow
Faculty Reader: Jessica Chapman
Faculty Reader: Ben Twagira
Student Reader: Will Vaccaro