Student Paper Topics from the Newberry Library Undergraduate Seminar
Art History
- Marsha Abrahams, "Early 20th Century Road Map Cover Art and Its Consumer Implications." DePaul, 2005.
- Laura Bailey, "Representing American Indians in Photography." Roosevelt, 1999.
- Elisa Ciaglia, "Women in Photography: Their Portrayal of the Southwest." Loyola, 1999.
- Kethleen Sheehan, Indian Art Patronage." Roosevelt, 1999.
- Andrew Sigler, "Images of Andrew Jackson." Loyola, 1998.
- Carissa Tonner, "An Interesting-Looking Giraffe: Exotic Beasts in Sixteenth-Century European Art." Roosevelt, 2006.
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History
African
- April Andry, "In Search of Conrad's Congo: European Visions of Africa Through the Centuries." Roosevelt, 2006.
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African American/Race/Slavery
- Gena Brooks, "Mulatto Identity: Myths and Realities." DePaul, 1999.
- John Broxton, "[Nat] Turner and Trickster: And Exploration into the Dark Heart of Antebellum Southern Ideology." DePaul, 1997.
- Herman Carroll, "El Negro y the Negro: Representations of Blackness in the Harlem Renaissance and the Movmiento Afro-Cubanismo." DePaul, 1999.
- John DiPrima, "Lincoln and his Approach to Emanicipation." Loyola, 2001.
- Sylwia Ejmont, "The Ultimate Integration: Interracial Marriage." UIC, 1997.
- Rebecca Hatch, "Proslavery Inferiority Argument." UIC, 1998.
- Olga Khaniaeva, "Richard Hildreth: Anti-slavery Novelist and Writer." Roosevelt, 1998.
- Chang Lee, "Vocies in the Dark: The Authorship of Female Slaves." UIC, 1998.
- Guinevere Moore, "Slaves and Self-Emancipation in Kentucky During the Civil War." DePaul, 2001.
- Kathryn Smolik, "The American Colonization Society and the Abolitionist Movement." DePaul, 1998.
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Asian
- Ben Manglos, "Fact, Fiction and the Harquebus: Fernao Mendes Pinto's Peregrinations through Japan." DePaul, 2006.
- Liam Mannix, "Pursuing a Knowledge More Precious than Gold and Silver: France, Botanists, and Asia in the Eighteenth Century." DePaul, 2006.
- Dustin Quebedeaux, "The Siberian Silk Road: An Untold Story of the World's Most Dangerous Trade Route." Loyola, 2006.
- Mark Rieman, "An Ecounter between Two Cultures: The Macartney Embassy of 1793." Roosevelt, 2006.
- Jose Santamaria, "Searching for Souls, Gold or Glory? A Spanish expedition to South China in the 16th Century." Roosevelt, 2006.
- Emily Siedlik, "Constructing Phaulkon, Constructing Self." Loyola, 2006.
- Christopher Van den Berge, "17th Century Asian Trade, French Designs on the Dutch Model." UIC, 2006.
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British
- Audra Adomenas, "The Rise of the Merchants-Elizabethan Merchant Adventurers." UIC, 2003.
- Kristen Bertholomey, "Elizabeth I and the Divine Right of Kings." Roosevelt, 2003.
- Joseph M. Cherry, "Dissent and Persecution: Elizabeth I and Dissenters." UIC, 2003.
- Brian Gillis, "Magic and Medicine at the Elizabethan Court." Loyola, 2003.
- Bethany Harding, "Elizabethan Exploration and Colonization." Loyola, 2003.
- Alana O'Reilly, "Pirates and Privateers in Elizabethan England." Loyola, 2003.
- Bethany Panozzo, "The Privy Council Tackles the Dutch Problem." DePaul, 2003.
- Lucia Rios, "Court Flattery and Flatterers in Elizabethan England." Roosevelt, 2003.
- Lesley Skousen-Chio, "Elizabeth I's Attitude toward Capital Punishment and its Alternatives." UIC, 2003.
- Matthew Smith, "Elizabeth I and her Family." DePaul, 2003.
- Lisa Villarreal, "Sixteenth-century Theories of Revolt and Rebellion." Loyola, 2003.
- Lisa Waldschmitt, "The Influence of the Indian Textile Trade on Great Britain in the 17th & 18th Centuries." Loyola, 2006.
- Aimee Wodda, "Bitter, Sweet and Sublime: The Craze for Coffee, Sugar and Tea in Early Modern Britain." UIC, 2006.
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Chicago/Illinois
- Reneé Burdulis, "Masculinity in Social Clubs: The Union League Club of Chicago." DePaul, 2005
- Martha Espinoza, "Mexican Women's Immigration to Chicago and their Representations in the 1920's and 30's." UIC, 1999.
- Maureen Golga, "The Chicago Columbian Exposition, the Protestant Work Ethic, and Principles of Exclusion of the Cultural/Racial Order." DePaul, 1997.
- Jeff Nowak, "The 1918 Chicago War Exposition and America's Vision of World War I." Loyola, 2005
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Classical
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Latin American
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Medieval/Renaissance European
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Modern European
- Brian Dooely, "Wondrous Encounters: Depictions of Persia and Paris in 17th Centruy French Letters." Roosevelt, 2006.
- Carly Kus, "Being Outside the Box: Identity and Context in Pyrard de Laval." UIC, 2006.
- Kate Looby, "The European Looking-glass in the East; the Appropriation of Imported Power." Loyola, 2006.
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Native American
- Heather Cramond, "Making and Native American Identity." Loyola, 1999.
- Jean Jansen, "Representations of the Hopi Snake Dance." DePaul, 1999.
- Leliane Hayes-Linn, "Native American Identity in Dance." Loyola, 1999.
- Erin Macauley, "Generating Nationalism: Erasing the Natives in Children's Literature, 1820-1840." DePaul, 2004.
- Cassandra Matthias, untitled on Bureau of Indian Affairs. DePaul, 2004.
- Maria Medvedova, "Noble Savages and Savage Beasts in the Writings of Thomas Jefferson." Roosevelt, 1998.
- Candice Rai, "The Red Stick Rebellion: A Prophetic Movement to Redefine Identity in the New World." Roosevelt, 1998.
- Rachel Seed, "Gender in Native Americna and Western Cultures: The Role of teh Berdache v. The Role of Third Gender." UIC, 1999.
- Tony Steinike, "Land claims and Native American Identitiy in the Southwest: Taos Tales Revisited." DePaul, 1999.
- Gretchen Woertendyke-Rohde, "Mary Jemison's Captivity Narrative: The Gender Frontier, a Cultural Exchange." DePaul, 1998.
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North American (Through 1860)
- Michael Badino, "The Jacksonian Self-made man: Andrew Jackson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Orestes Brownson in the Antebellum Northeast." UIC, 1997.
- McIver Browning, "The Decision to be Southern: The Case of East Tennessee." UIC, 1997.
- Melissa Clark, "The Frontier Farmer: Finding America in the (Mid)West, 1820-1890." DePaul, 1997.
- Dan Conners, "Content Analysis of Newspaper Advertising in the Early Republic." Loyola, 1998.
- Elizabeth D'Agostino, "German Labor Unions in the Midwest: Issues of Class and Assimilation." Loyola, 1997.
- Brian Dichter, "Standard Time: Trains, the Closure of Agrarian Identity, and the Maturation of Industrial America." Roosevelt, 1997.
- Salvador Gutierrez, "The Annexation of Texas: Whig and Democratic Perceptions of Its Impact on New York and Its Economy." Loyola, 1997.
- Michael Kadela, "A Legacy of Spin: The Partisan Rhetoric Surrounding the Louisiana Purchase." DePaul, 2004.
- Helen Long, "How to Become a Historical Landmark in Twenty Years or Less: The Evolution of the Boston Atheneum." DePaul, 2004.
- Paul Luka, "Concept of Property in the Early Republic." Roosevelt, 1998.
- Zdenko Mandusic, untitled on the ideology of schoolbooks in the early American republic. UIC, 2004.
- Emily Petrella, untitled on the early evolution of the United States Military Academy. Loyola, 2004.
- Jana Pospichal, "Nineteenth-Centry Scandinavian Immigration to the Midwest, 1840-1860: Expectations and Realities as Presented and Propagated Through Letters, Guide Books, and Diaries." UIC 1997.
- Amy Richardson, "The Gulf Between Theory and Practice: Icaria in America." DePaul, 1997.
- Joanna Rotgers, "Gentility, Honor and Gentlemanliness in the Old South." Loyola, 1998.
- Morgan Shipley, "From Colonial Oppression to Social Revolution: Herman Husbands, Political Violence, and Legitimacy in Late Colonial North Carolina." DePaul, 2004.
- Rebekah Sundin, "Sectionalism in Virginia: Mythologies of Culture." Roosevelt, 1997.
- Jenny Tromski, "The Resistance and Response of the 18th Century Pennsylvania German Community: Contamination of and Contribution to Cohesive American Identity." DePaul, 2004.
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North American (Since 1860)
- Garrison Burk, "Early American Auto Travel and the AAA." UIC, 2005.
- Jennifer Cassell, "Camp Douglas as portrayed by former POW's in the pages of the Confederate Veteran." UIC, 2001.
- Maegan Cieciel, "Boy Soldiers and their roles in Camp Life and Soldiering during the Civil War." Roosevelt, 2001.
- A.D. Detrick, "Prison Reform in Nineteenth-Century America: Principles and Practices." Roosevelt, 1997.
- Megan Green, "Changing Views of Masculinity in the North During and After the Civil War." DePaul, 2001.
- Andrea Greenwell, "Greenwich Village Political Movements." Loyola, 1999.
- Kieran Normoyle, "The Irish American Baseball Player." Loyola, 2005.
- Ana Petrovic, "Seeking Democracy and Difference: Early Auto Touring." UIC, 2005.
- Julie Schilf, "Fostering Tourism in Yellowstone National Park, 1870-1930." Roosevelt, 2005.
- Leah Ujda, "Apprentice and Mercantile Libraries of New York." Roosevelt, 2004.
- Lah Wardak, "Visual Propaganda of the White Slavery Hysteria." DePaul, 1999.
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Women's
- Tiffanie Amirante, "Portrayals of Women and Children in Godey's Lady's Book Before, During and After the Civil War." Roosevelt, 2001.
- Becky Barnhart. "Ought Women to Learn the Alphabet?": Opposition to the Advancement of Female Intellect." Loyola, 2004.
- Jaime Bochantin, "Performing the Female Body: the Ziegfeld Follies of the 1920s." DePaul, 2005.
- Kandy M. Christensen, "Cross-dressing Women in Elizabethan England." UIC, 2003.
- Nancy Conger, "Women's Fashions During the 1920s." Loyola, 2005.
- Silvana Dmitrova, "Margaret Fuller's Radicalization and Journalism." Roosevelt, 2004.
- Alison Ferrari, "Women and Fashion Ideology in the Pre-War Period, via Harper's." DePaul, 2001.
- Lindsay Giggey, "Representations of the Working Girl in Popular Magazines." DePaul, 2005.
- Valerie Johnson, "Under the Big Top: An Analysis of Gender in the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, 1919-1930." Loyola, 2005.
- Amanda Krupman, "Free Love and Expressionism: The Makings of the Female Bohemian, 1910-1920." UIC, 2005
- Andy Lowry, "From Voluntary-Motherhood to Family Planning: Birth Control 1870-1945." Roosevelt, 1999.
- Cheryl Loy, "The Power of Virginity: Christina Markyat and Elizabeth I as Models of Virginity." Roosevelt, 2003.
- Maureen O'Brien, "Women on Stage: Representations of Women in Elizabethan Drama." DePaul, 2003.
- Jacqueline Ott, "Etiquette for Women: 1920's and 30's." UIC, 1999.
- Tia Parks, "Experiences of Confederate Women on the Homefront." UIC 2001.
- Susan Riddle-Mojica, "Better Living through Science: Selling Products and Points of View to Early 20th Century Women." Roosevelt, 2005.
- Kristine Schoo, "Little Women, Big Ideas: Behind the Seneca Falls Convention." UIC, 2004.
- Jody Shipka, "The Woman Who Will Read": Cookbooks, the Role of Women, and the Science of Home Economy in the Northeast." Loyola, 1997.
- Karen Trimberger, "Mercy Otis Warren and John and Abigail Adams." Loyla, 1998.
- Erin Walker, "Harem as the East: An Unveiling." DePaul, 2006.
- David Welch, "Elizabeth I's Family Experience and its Influence on her Sexuality." DePaul, 2003.
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Literature
American
- Dejan Bajic, "Livelier Kinds of Propaganda: Radical Observations of American Popular Culture in The Masses." Roosevelt, 2005.
- Keith Beyer, "Hawthorne, the Landscape, and the Female Body." Loyola, 1998.
- Justin Joyce, "Women Editors, Modernist Writers, and Little Magazines: 1910-1930." UIC, 1999.
- Dan Julius, "Deadly Serious: Outing Magazine's Role in the Popular Indoctrination of American Hunting." Loyola, 2005.
- Carmela Lopriore, "W.E.B. DuBois." Loyola, 1999.
- Kelli Lydon, "Representing the Hobo as American Icon in the Novels of L.R. Livingston." DePaul, 2005.
- Erin Naumann, "Advice Manuals and American Culture." Roosevelt, 1998.
- Feyi Ogunbnowale, "Ben Hecht: Journalist and Social Observer." Roosevelt, 2005.
- Jim Oliver, "Bad Guys Wear (Blank): The Construction of the Outlaw in American Mythology, and Why We Love Him" [dime novels]. UIC, 2005.
- Eric Piper, "The Place of the Southwest in the Critique of Modernity." UIC, 1999.
- Jim Redden, "Differing Cultural Attitudes Toward the Novel in the Early American Republic." Roosevelt, 2004.
- Laura Watkins Ryner, "Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie in the Nineteenth-Century American Literary World." DePaul, 1998.
- Kyle Thomas Smith, "Drum-Taps and Calamus Poems: Greco-Roman Thunderbolts in Whitman's America." UIC, 1997.
- Alana Sobelman, "The Radical Poetry of Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters, 1910-1920." UIC, 2005.
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British
- Alicia Fedro, "Elizabeth and the Language of Drama." Roosevelt, 2003.
- Laurel Martinez, "Elizabethan England as Fairyland." Roosevelt, 2003.
- Brian Solem, "Englishness Reimagined Through the 18th Century Indo-British Lens." Loyola, 2006.
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Comparative
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Medieval/Renaissance European
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Modern European
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Music
- Lauren Jennings, "1920s Social Dancing and America's Post-World War I National Identity." Roosevelt, 2005.
- Bethanne Stone, "The Music of John Carpenter." Loyola, 1999.
- Kevin Troiano, "Music in Early American Periodicals." Roosevelt, 1998.
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Philosophy
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Religion
- Molly Beaird, "Legitimacy and Salvation: Tales of Martyrdom in the Jesuit Relations." DePaul, 2006.
- Jamie Carlstone, "Catholic Purification of the St. Thomas Christians on the Malabar Coast of India, 1546-1660." DePaul, 2006.
- Sarah Lasken, "Conversion or Conversation: Jesuits at the Court of King Akbar (1580-83)." UIC, 2006.
- Kathleen Manning, "Mary and the Spanish Connection: Religious Influence between Mary I and Juana of Spain." Loyola, 2003.
- Aaron Poncine, "Anti-Catholicism in Early American Fiction." DePaul, 1998.
- Eric Her, "Matteo Ricci in China: Language and Interpretation." UIC, 2006.
- Brian Russo, "Aethiops Catholicorum in ut Novus Americus Respublica." Roosevelt, 2004.
- Angeline M. Tomcik, "Elizabeth I's Religious Faith." UIC, 2003.
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