Theses and Senior Papers from 2024
Arthur Before the Romances: Exploring Arthur's Evolution as a Literary Figure, Austin Long
Theses and Senior Papers from 2023
Pierce County, Washington: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Public Health, Colton Abbey
Theses and Senior Papers from 2022
The 1980 Eruptions of Mount St. Helens: Disregard for Volcanic Hazards and its Effects on State Preparedness, Jeffrey DeRouen
The Forgotten Floods: Examining the Consequences of the Yellow River Disaster, 1938-1947, Ryan Mantle
The Dixie Mission, Patrick J. Hurley, and America's Diplomatic Failure in China, 1944-45, Sarah Moody
Captain James Cook and His Fight Against the Invisible: A Closer Look at the Diseases that Plagued the Voyages of Discovery, Gabby Quinnett
A Deep Voice: How Newspapers Talk About Harry Allen, 1900 - 1923., Oryan Widdowson
Theses and Senior Papers from 2021
Assimilation’s Role in the Treatment of Native Girls at Federal Indian Boarding Schools, Molly Howerton
The Aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion: How British Reformatory Measures and Chief Complicity Destroyed Clanship in the Scottish Highlands, Kyreston Jones
The 1918 Flu: Lessons Learned from Seattle, Heather Somers
Theses and Senior Papers from 2020
The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine’s Influence on Nineteenth-Century Middle-Class Women, Amber Cook
Plowing for Pennies, Protesting for Pride: An Examination of the United Farm Worker Union’s Impact in Washington State, 1965-1972, Israel Cuevas
The Blitz, Britain, and The People: Reassessing the “Blitz Spirit” in the Lives of British Civilians, Olivia Gee
A Reexamination of Emperor Hirohito's Military and Political Role in Wartime Japan, 1926-1945, Kazuaki Suhama
Theses and Senior Papers from 2019
A Clear and Present Danger: Portrayals of Destruction in Modern American Cinema before and after the September 11 Attacks, Ember Ashford
A Most Interesting Time: The Militarization of Containment after the Czechoslovakian Coup d'Etat of 1948, Abraham Buri
Mortality and Meals: The Black Death’s Impact on Diet in England, Jessica Cordova
Contextualizing Filipina/o Experiences through the Life and Lens of Virgil Duyungan, Benjamin Huff
The Rise of the New White Nationalism in America, Megan Padgett
Politicizing Our Waters: An Examination of the Boldt Decision’s Role in Anti-Indian Activism in the Pacific Northwest, Drew Slaney
Creating an Indigenous Multicultural Faith: The Russian Orthodox Mission in Alaska and the Centrality of Cosmology, Niklaus von Houck
Theses and Senior Papers from 2018
“Kinder, Küche, und Kirche”: Women’s Work in the Third Reich, Margarete Crelling
Death and Taxidermy: How the Process of Taxidermy Ties in to Modern Society’s Discomfort with Death, Caitlin Monroe
Crafting of an American Dream: The Skansie Shipbuilding Company, Nathan Patrick
The Role of Continuing Revelation in the Early Latter Day Saint Church Under the Leadership of Joseph Smith, Robbie Wood
Theses and Senior Papers from 2017
Think of the Children: Child Labor through the Progressive Era in Early Twentieth-Century America, Thomas Clark
Concurrent Challenges: Military and Diplomatic Connections between the U.S Civil War and Taiping Rebellion, Yueyang Hu
The Integrated Alien: Chinese in the American West and Their Political and Legal Responses to Mob Violence, 1885-1886., Gabriel Lanham
The Mau Mau Insurrection: The Failed Rebellion That Freed Kenya, Joshua Scullin
Theses and Senior Papers from 2016
Hibakusha and the Japanese Supreme Court: Judgement Long Overdue, Timothy J. Duefrane
The War of 1812: The Rise of American Nationalism, Paul Hanseling
Finding Manilatown: The Search for Seattle’s Filipino American Community, 1898 – 2016, John D. Nonato
From “Destroying Angel” to “The Most Dangerous Woman in America”: A Study of Mary Mallon’s Depiction in Popular Culture, Claire Sandoval-Peck
Empress Dowager Cixi and Western Women, Melissa Workman
Theses and Senior Papers from 2015
Race, Labor, and Migration: The Legacy of the FEPC and Puget Sound Navy Yard, Aaron Chapman
The City of Destiny’s Darkest Hour: Tacoma and the Depression of the 1890s, Ian W. Clogston
A Massacre at China Point, Michael P. Hartman
The Irish Ordnance Survey's Six Inches to One Mile Map of Ireland: Anglicization and Otherness, Reese C. Hentges
Mental Health for the Everyman: World War II's Impact on American Psychology, Aeron S. Lloyd
1898: The Start of American Imperialism, or its End?, Tyler G. Miller
The Aleut Kayak: How Aleut Technology Shaped History, Andrew M. Wilson
Theses and Senior Papers from 2014
Divided They Fall: The Pacific Coast League’s Failed Attempt to Turn Major, Sean Beireis
Fire and Gold Build Seattle, Jeffery K. Blair
The Evoluion of Pacific War Cinema, Dylan J. Eldridge
Arrival From Abroad: Plague, Quarantine, and Concepts of Contagion in Eighteenth-Century England, Talei ML Hickey
The Memetic Evolution of Alchemy From Zosimos to Timothy Leary, Ryan J. Hutchinson
From Bread and Jam to Woolton Pie: Food Rationing and Improved Nutrition in WWII Great Britain, Jennifer G. Joyner
Southern Injustice and Radical Discontent: The Black Panther Party in the Post-Civil Rights South, Adam Nolan
The Truth is in the Lye: Soap, Beauty, and Ethnicity in British Soap Advertisements., Michelle I. Parker
Wobblies in Washington: The Radicalism and Downfall of the IWW in the Northwest, Zachary A. Smith
Send in the Mouse: How American Politicians Used Walt Disney Productions to Safeguard the American Home Front in WWII, Jordan M. Winters
Creating Spaces for Salmon: How Dams and Eurocentric Resource Management Techniques Destroy Salmon and Culture, Jordan L. Woolston
Theses and Senior Papers from 2013
Face Down In The Wishkah, Andrew Osborn
Forgotten Glory: African American Civil War Soldiers and Their Omission from Civil War Memory, Connor E. Seaman
Theses and Senior Papers from 2012
Soaring Eagles of the High Qing: Women’s Writing as a Path to Social Advancement in Patriarchal China, Vincenzina Robertson