The Department of History is proud to present the 2023 Senior Capstones.

The presentations are given on different dates during May of Spring Term in Hauge Administration Building, Room 204A.

Click on each student name to see their presentation title.

May 2, 2023

3:45-4:15 - Emma Hazenberg

``Wish You Were Here``: Postcards, Tourism, and Visitor Colonialism in Hawai'i after Pearl Harbor

4:15-4:45 - Donovan Long

``Hey, I live here!``: Parallax of the Medicine Creek Treaty, From Leschi to Billy Frank Jr.

4:15-5:15 - Delilah McCarter

The Hypocritical Oath: Reckoning with Racial Inferiority in the Nazi Typhus Experiments and the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments in the United States

5:15-5:45 - Kara Atkinson

The Smoke of Law and Democracy: Settler Colonialism and Lawfare in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories
May 9, 2023

3:45-4:15 - Venice Jakowchuk

``Whoever was here before, Indians maybe``: Settler Colonial Narratives in the Westerns of the 1930s-1960s

4:15-4:45 - Franklin Brogan

``Canoes Through a Lake of Human Blood``: Abolitionist Vilification and Colonization of Dahomey

4:45-5:15 - Sam Zielke

``Das griechische Festland ist fest in deutscher Hand``: Occupied Greece as a Colony of the German Empire, 1941-1944

5:15-5:45 - Rachel Benton

``Boop-Oop-A-Doop``: Betty Boop & Gender Colonization During the Great Depression
May 16, 2023

3:45-4:15 - Kaelin Lor

From Colonization to Killing Fields: Cambodians and their Rulers in the Mid-Twentieth Century

4:15-4:45 - Thoran Grauman

``There's a lot of things that I love about Hitler``: Kanye West and the Ongoing Spread of Antisemitism

4:45-5:15 - Dylan Barnett

Dictators and Bananas: The United Fruit Company's Economic and Political Colonization of Guatemala, 1901-1958