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The Senior Program

The senior seminar paper or honors thesis is the culminating experience for history majors at Hamilton. It is a semester-long research project in which students draw on their accumulated skills and knowledge to produce focused, high-level scholarship on a specific topic or problem.

Recent projects in history include:

  • Mythic Mobilizations: The Frontier Myth and America’s Imperial Projects, 1898-1902.
  • The Development of the Mid-Atlantic Black Catholic Community from 1807 to 1889
  • Physick in thy Mother Tongue: Nicholas Culpeper & the Use of Vernacular Cheap Print for the Radical Democratization of Medical Knowledge in the English Commonwealth c. 1649 to 1660.
  • Francesco Carletti and the Land of Giants: Paleontology, Deep History, And The Globe In The Renaissance
  • Designing a New History of the World: A Study of the Text-Image Relationship in the Nuremberg Chronicle
  • “Opprobrious Names:” Levels of Description in Medieval English Coroner Rolls and Their Causes
  • Conceiving a Global Population: The Rockefeller Foundation, Imperial Laboratories, and Reproductive Politics in 20th-Century Puerto Rico.
  • The Battle of Algiers and its Afterlives: Interrogating the Tactics and Transmission of Modern Power, 1950s-1960s.
  • Physician Inside the System: The Botanical Contributions of Euricius Cordus’ Botanologicon, Laurent Joubert’s La Pharmacopee, and Andrea Cesalpino’s De Medicamentorum Facultatibus
  • An American Conundrum: How Notions of Morality, Race, Immigration and Gender Have Shaped the Debate over the Legislation of Prostitution.
  • From Imperial to Secular: The Symbolism of Rashtrapati Bhavan
  • Conflicts of Interest, Conflicts of Sovereignty: New York’s Dispossession of the Oneida
  • “I Was Taken Out and Put to Work”: The Abandoned Memory of Black Prisoners of War at Andersonville Confederate Prison
  • After the Swim: Women Swimming as a Case Study for Changing Gender Relations in England over the Long Nineteenth Century
  • Constructing a Russian Identity: The Role of the Slavophile-Westernizer Debate in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual Circles
  • Quantitative Killing: Measuring Success in Vietnam
  • Construction and Control of Insanity: Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond’s 19th-Century Asylum Portraits as Science, Treatment, and Art
  • Nadich and the Jews
  • Chinese Laborers: Depiction of Chinese Laborers in Newspapers During and After the Building of the Transcontinental Railroad
  •  Stuart Little’s Big History: The Changing Roles of Mice in Literature
  • The End of Open Carry Without a Permit in California: How the Black Panthers Inspired and Guaranteed the Success of the Mulford Act
  • How Air India Marketed India to the World in the Jet Age (1947-1970)
  • Franklin Benjamin Sanborn: John Brown’s Most Ardent Friend and Defender
  • In the Presence of the Divine: Transcending Worldly Boundaries within the Sacred Spaces of South Asian Sufi Saints

Contact

Department Name

History Department

Contact Name

Shoshana Keller, Chair

Office Location
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323

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