Research

Every year senior Susquehanna history majors have the opportunity to do in-depth research on an original project of their choosing. They work closely with a faculty advisor to complete the capstone of their Susquehanna academic career.

2010-11

• A University at Risk: The Susquehanna University Curriculum Change of 1984 – Elizabeth Beatty
• Generation XXX Pornifying America: Kinsey to Bratz – Amanda Blackman
• Under Pressure: Washington at Valley Forge and Monmouth – Christopher Blake
• The True Reactions Toward the Hashshashin – Michael Boley
• The Puppeteer of the Internment Camps – Christopher Chamberlin
• Transcripts of Resistance: Examining Spanish and Aztec Accounts of the Conquest of New Spain – Megan Culkin
• Mes esame Lietuviai! We are Lithuanians!: A Study of Lithuanian Festivals, Culture, and Religion in late 20th century Anthracite Pennsylvania. – Natasha Eisenhart
• Ain’t I a Reformer?: Slave Women’s Narratives as Participating in and Extending Progressive Discourse in the Nineteenth Century – Kathryn Falvo
• Masculinity in Overdrive: Power Within Nineteenth Century Frontier Mobile Communities – Dakota Gessner
• To Be, Or To “Boondoggle”? That is the Question: The Conflicts of Art, Relief, and Economics within the Federal Theatre Project – Rachel Gilbert
• Why Pick Athletics Alone? The University of Miami Ohio and the Civil Rights Movement – Cameron Henry
• The Embrace of Private Religion and its Failure to Hinder Genocide: An Examination of the Rwandan Genocide – Nolan Kennedy
• The CIA at War: The Shift from Covert to Overt Operations in the War on Terror – Joseph Klass
• Samizdat to Dissident: De-Stalinization through the Publication of Gulag Narratives in the USSR during the 1960s and 1970s – Kenneth Lakes
• Two Approaches to Medicine at the End of the Middle Ages – Charles Lamade
• Nationalism on Trial: Competing Views of Serbian Nationalism in the Early Twenty-First Century as seen through Slobodan Milosevic's War Crime Trials – Kristin Lemunyon
• A Teacher's Guide to Les Salonières: The Philosophers of Eighteenth-Century Paris – Jessica Maillie
• Soviet Military Culture during World War II: A Lesson on how Losers Became Winners – Sean Metz
• The Middleton Family: South Carolina’s Forgotten Legacy – Cody Miller
• The German Mob: Dutch Shultz's Effect on New York Law Enforcement – Jenifer Moore
• America’s Response to the Jewish Question Immigration Policy and Practice 1941-1945 – Jacqueline Morton
• Stopping the Cycle: the Rise of Shamokin’s Miners’ Hospital – Jacob Mowery
• Sunbury, PA: Demonstrating Proper Reasoning, Economics and Construction of Flood Control – Michael Roan
• The Wonder Year, 1566‐1567: The Politicization of the Dutch Iconoclasm – Emily Rummel
• “Driving the Majestic Highway:” Consumer Marketing and the Pennsylvania Turnpike, 1935-1942 – Ryan Shanely
• The Witch-Hunt in Andover, Massachusetts – Jennifer Tarbox
• Dust Clouds, Dump Sites, and the DER: Pennsylvania’s Local Environmental Movement 1970-1986 – Anthony Valusek
• Mastery over Mammoth Cave – Nolan Wilbur
• Forgive Her, She is only a Woman – Alycia Woodruff
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: How to Fight for Rights in a Media Culture – Laura Zanetti
• The Not-So-Little Phil Sheridan – Philip Zuhusky

2009-10

• Intersecting Identities: A Study of Parisian Market-Women and Their Involvement in the October Days – Amande Bongard
• Track to Interethnic Identity: Historical Case Study of Sayre Pennsylvania 1900 to 1940 – Connor Dugan
• “A Perfect Gentleman:” The Use of an Idealized Ethnic Identity in the Italian-American Mafia through a Case Study of Hit Man, Jack “the Dandy” Parisi – T'rese Evancho
• Little League HITS!: The Case of Little League Baseball's Change in Structure and Ideology from 1939-1956 – Andrew Girio
• A Republic in Name Alone: Rethinking the Fall of the Roman Republic – James Hendershot
• Counterculture to Common Culture: Tattooing in America from 1960 to 2009 – Jennifer Hero
• A Nietzschean Odyssey: The History of Overcoming Nihilism in Modern Animation – Jacob Mazel
• “Take them out, Squeeze them out, Buy them out:” The United States, USSR, Cuba, and the Politics of the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 – Hailey McCord
• Postwar Anime: Japanese and American Values – Janice Middleton
• Dirt and Skirts: Sex Appeal in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League – Jennifer Neitz
• ‘The Suffocation of Gilboa:’ The Construction of the Schoharie Reservoir 1917-1926 – Chelsea Smith
• An Uncertain Depiction: The Spanish Civil War and Women of the Popular Front, 1936-1939 – Rebecca Swanger
• Destruction: Desolation of the Shenandoah Country – William Tasker
• The History of Track and Field at Susquehanna University – Paul Thistle

2008–09

• Faith of the Fallen: American Reactions and Responses to the Armenian Genocide, 1915 and After – Tim Allison
• Woven by Infant Hands: Child Labor and Constitutional Conflict in early 20th-century America – Sarah Biglow
• Commercial Warfare: Observing the Use of the American Industry’s Technological Developments during the Gulf War – Rob Campbell
• Love to Hate You: The Transformation of Afghanistan from Friend to Foe, 1979-2000 – Vince Castellucci
• Blooming of the Garden Spot: Tourism to Lancaster County 1948-1963 – Jessica Eickhoff
• Civic Responsibility Amidst the Preservation of Natural Resources: The Conservation Movement from 1901-1939 – Brandon Ewing
• Doin' it in the Dirt: How Dirt Track Racing in Central Pennsylvania Became More than just a Hobby – Kurt Gladfelter
• As written by Beveridge: The Construction of the British Welfare State 1945-1951 – Derek Husar
• Hear No Evil: Propaganda on the Radio from 1933-1945 – Stuart King
• Nazis, Feminists, and Superman…Oh My!: The Embodiment of Political and Popular Thought in Comics from 1938-1954 – Andy LeClere
• From Access to Achievement: The US Government’s Goals for the Education System, 1954-1983 – John Lunardi
• Anthracite and Pigskin: Deindustrialization in the Coal Region – Cecilia Lytle
• 'Welcomed Mexican Invasion': Catalysts of Mexican Immigration on Both Sides of the Border 1890 to 1920 – David Rimkus
• German vs. American: The Role of Language in Lutheran Church Splits in 19th-century Pennsylvania – Phil van Orden

2007–08

• The Last “Night at Birdland: The Decline of American Jazz in the 1960s – James Baublitz
• Janes in the Gin Joints: Women’s Illegal Use of Alcohol During the Prohibition Era (1919-1933) – Anne Brockman
• Under the Cover of Darkness: Rumrunners Rise from Renegades to American Icons – Nicholas DeFoe
• The Boston Red Socks, Trading, and Baseball in the 1970s – Thomas Driscoll
• Purchasing Power: Women’s Economic Involvement In Early Republic Philadelphia, 1790 – 1850 – Amanda K. Hawk
• The Formation of Snyder and Union Counties, Pennsylvania – Edward Jones
• To Blame an Innocent Man: J.E.B Stuart and The Controversy About the Confederate Loss at Gettysburg – Kirk Ryan
• Hate Among the Hated: Irish Immigrants and African Americans in the Five Points, 1860-1870 – Tommy Rogers
• A Better Understanding: Advocacy and Activism in the Irish Traveller Community since 1960 – Whitney Rozelle
• Anti: The Punk Counter-Culture in Fanzines – Brian Sheppard
• From Masculinity to Versatility:The Changing Function of Tattoos in Magazine Advertising,1950-2007 – Joseph Thompson
• The Molly Maguries: Public Terrorism from 1860 -1910 – Thomas Trembulak
• Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: The Canal Era (1833-1869) – Thomas Weeks

2006–07

• Combat and the Crucifix: The Reliance on Religion by Irish American Catholics during the American Civil War – Damian Buggy
• Out of Chaos Comes Order: Franklin Roosevelt and the Rebirth of America – John Clay
• Separating the Old France from the New Cinema: The Mise en scène of the Post-War and New Wave Film Industries – JP Connolly
• It Ain't Me, Babe: Bob Dylan and the Counterculture – Allison Handman
• The Mifflinburg Buggy Museum: A Phenomenon of American History – Rachel Hawley
• The Origin of Violence: How Post-Independence Nationalism Created Decades of Irish Terrorism – Kelsey Keiffer
• Finding Centralia: Recreating a Tourist Attraction on the Internet – Caitlin Mahoney
• Alcohol and Student Tragedies: The Wide-open Relationship Between Universities and Students – Ryan McFadden
• Surgeons and Soldiers: How the Union’s Medical Divisions during the Civil War Influenced Today’s Military – William Morgan
• Clara Barton, America’s Mother: How Clara Barton’s Efforts with the American Red Cross Epitomize her Role as America’s Mother – Meghan Murray
• The Hardships Endured by All: Snyder County and the Civil War – Tristan Norbert
• "Them Damned Pictures": Thomas Nast's Not-so-hidden Campaign against the Irish – Brad Rousse
• Mums the Word or the Greatest Show on Earth?: Propaganda Techniques in the Cold War and the Space Race – John Salvatore
• No Guts, No Glory: The Sacrifice and Resolve of Black Civil War Soldiers in the Face of Discrimination – Jennifer Siegenthaler
• The Ties That Bind: The Power Behind the Munera Gladiatorum – Kevin Stewart
• Roll Over Goebbels: Rock 'n’ Roll and Americanization in West Germany after WWII – Jonathan Swartz
• If Only for a Moment: Why Amos Alonzo Stagg Sr. is Memorialized at Susquehanna University – Justin Van Fleet
• A Welcoming Like No Other: The Return Home of the Vietnam Veteran – Lindsay White