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Journey and Exile in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Mediterranean
Sophomore Essay topic: Cold War rhetoric and the 1953 Iranian coup
Junior Essay topic: Constructions of Arab masculinity at Abu Graihb
Senior Thesis Title: Family Matters: Spinning the Story of Tunisia's Transnational Jihadists

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Medieval World
Sophomore essay topic: St. Ethelberga and the celebration of virgin martyr feast days
Junior essay topic: Catholic liturgy and the Maternity of St. Anne
Senior thesis title: Mater Matris Domini: Holy Motherhood and the Cult of St. Anne

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European Studies: France and Germany
Sophomore essay topic: Gender and sexuality in 19th-century French psychiatric photography
Junior essay topic: Magnus Hirschfield, sexological photographs, and Claude Cahun's surrealist photography
Senior thesis title: Seeing Beyond the Binary: The Photographic Construction of Queer Identity in Interwar Paris and Berlin

Field Worksheet: Ethnic Studies: Race and Cultural Citizenship in the United States
Sophomore Essay Topic: The 1932 La Matanza Massacre and Salvadoran Indigeneity
Junior Essay Topic: Constructing Salvadoran-Americanness in Javier Zamora's Unaccompanied
Senior Thesis Title: "Please / No American Mierdas": Shattering Silences, Salvadoran (In)Visibilities, and Imagined Nation in Javier Zamora’s Unaccompanied

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Early Modern World
Sophomore essay topic: Sea monsters, maps, and curiosity in the early modern period
Junior essay topic: Magic and the supernatural in Shakespeare's plays
Senior thesis title: Scenes of Smoke and Scarlet: Cochineal and Tobacco in the Early Modern English Theater

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Modern World: US and China: Transnational Relationships
Sophomore essay topic: Rose Greenfield and British missionaries in India
Junior essay topic: Food and the Chinese American diaspora
Senior thesis title: Made in the USA: The Cultural Production of China's First Lady, Soog Mei Ling, in 1943

Field Worksheet: Ethnic Studies: Asian American Studies
Sophomore Essay Topic: The Politics of Race and Gender in California Women's Suffrage
Junior Essay Topic: The Boston Chinatown Public Libtary
Senior Thesis Title: "Take Root": Community Formation at the San Francisco Chinatown Branch Public Library

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American Studies
Sophomore essay topic: The nomadic "refugee" in contemporary hip hop
Junior essay topic: NeoSoul and nostalgia in India Arie and Lauryn Hill
Senior thesis title: "With Every Tear Comes Redemption": Heartbreak as a Form of Protest in Blues, Beyoncé, and #BlackLives Matter

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American Studies

Sophomore essay topic: Self-Fashioning in Paris is Burning
Junior essay topic: Homonormative Haunting in The Inheritance
Senior thesis title: Dancing in the Dark: The Burden of Liveness at G.G.'s Barnum Room

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European Studies: Great Britain
Sophomore essay topic: British family law and Walter Payne’s The Cruelty Man
Junior essay topic: Parent-child relationships and Great Britain’s WWII evacuation scheme
Senior thesis title: Anna Freud and the Hampstead War Nurseries, 1941-1946: A Study on Displacement, Loss, and Reconciliation

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Latin American Studies: Global Health
Sophomore essay topic: The U.S. public health campaign during the Panama Canal’s construction
Junior essay topic: The Bolivian film Yawar Malku and the Peace Corps in 1960s Bolivia
Senior thesis title: Tracing Trauma: Discourses and Narratives of Experience in Post-Conflict Peru

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Modern World: French-Ottoman Encounters
Sophomore Essay Topic: 17^th-century French literary depictions of Ottoman nobility
Junior Essay Topic: Enslavement and French Romanticism in a 19^th-century travelogue
Senior Thesis Title: "Murmurs on the Orient Express: Ottoman Tracks in European Railway History

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Medieval World
Junior essay topic: The symbolic importance of female hair in Medieval French romance
Senior thesis title: Hair and Female Agency in the European Middle Ages

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Latin American Studies: Mexico
Sophomore essay topic: Juan Rulfo’s Es que somos muy pobres and post-Revolutionary Mexico
Junior essay topic: Nationalism and representations of the Mexican working class at the Cananea mine
Senior thesis title: La Mulata and the Nation: Narratives of Fear and Desire in Post-Revolutionary Mexico