Featured Projects
Here are a few projects that exemplify the wonderful research students from the History department have done over the years.
Additional Research Projects
These are all the projects the History department has presented at SSRD in the last few years.
2018
- Hades: Where Has Time Taken Him? - Heidi Thompson (Independent Research)
- Dragons and Evil: An Examination of the Dragons in Beowulf and Volsung Saga - MacKinnon Hart (Independent Research)
- Shakespeare's Outsiders - Olivia Barry (Independent Research)
2016
- Sending Back to the Samoas: A Comparative Study of American Samoa and Samoa's Relationship with Transnationalism - Jared Tupuola (Colloquium Grant)
- Chinese Doctors in Oregon - Gabriel Cook (Independent Research)
- Dining in Valhalla: an Analysis of Norwegian Immigrants' Ethnic Identity in Oregon, 1880-1945 - Kelci Jacoby (Independent Research)
- Hearing Chinese Voices of Salem Under the 1882 Exclusion Act - Ivy Major-McDowall (Independent Research)
- Creating the Queer: Searching for Sexuality in the Early Oregon State Hospital - Jesse Sanchez (Independent Research)
- The Campaign of Julius Meier - Vincent Tachiyama (Independent Research)
- Shell Shock: A Historical Look at PTSD In Oregonian World War I Veterans - Nick Wagener (Independent Research)
2015
- American Evil: The Legacy of the 2002 State of the Union address - Adam Lewis (Independent Research)
- The Changing Nature of American Zionism - Cathryn Priebe (Independent Research)
- Church, State, and Culture: American Civil Religion and Separation of Church and State in the Early 19th Century - Benjamin Fischberg (Independent Research)
- The Categorical Evil: Kant's Legacy in the Nazi Regime - Soren Underdahl (Carson Grant)
- Wolf-watching - Elize Manoukian (Independent Research)
- Control of the Other: How and Why the French Perceived and Portrayed Cannibals in the 16th and 17th Centuries - Natalie Pate (Independent Research)