HONORS

Some of our students undertake advanced honors work
in their junior and senior years. Working closely with
their advisors, these students select a topic that interests
them personally and that arouses their intellectual
curiousity. These honors projects are substantial works
of orginal scholarship. In addition to researching and
writing their papers, students also take a written honors
exam in the fall and an oral exam in the spring. Though
some honors students who go on to graduate school in
history or in related fields such as museum studies or education use their projects to prepare for their professional careers, most do not pusure history beyond college and instead prize the honors experience for giving them greater
confidence in their intellectual abilities and for allowing them to create their own
work. Here's a list of honors projects undertaken in recent years:

Honors Theses, Since 1992:

"Kwame Nkrumah: A Study in African Leadership,' undertaken by Nicola J. Couchman, advised by Gebru Tareke. 1992.

" The Irony of Memorial Day: A Study of Waterloo, New York and the Civil War," undertaken by Betsey J. Clement, advised by Clifton Hood. 1993

" Birth of a Legend: General Thomas J. 'Stonewall' Jackson at First Manassas, July 21, 1861: Historical Fiction," undertaken by Brett C. Mercier, advised by James Crouthamel. 1993.

... The Forgotten Man"': The Political Culture of William McKinley," undertaken by Roger G. Schwartz, advised by Daniel Singal. 1993

" Thenceforward, and Forever Free: Northern Abolitionist Reaction to the Emancipation Proclamation," undertaken by Karoline A. Hope, advised by Carol George. 1993.

" The Distorted Mirror: Women's Magazines in America, 1920-1940," undertaken by Emily W. Greenlaw, advised by Clifton Hood. 1994

" Child Welfare Legislation in Nineteenth Century Britain: The Impact of Ideologies and Politics," undertaken by Pamela S. Becker, advised by Derek Linton. 1995
" Boundary Anxieties in Renaissance Nuremberg," undertaken by David H. Gillespie, advised by Maureen Flynn. 1995

" Poverty, Power and Politics: The Community Action Program in Syracuse, New York, 1964 to 1967," undertaken by Nathaniel G. Lambright, advised by Clifton Hood. 1995.

" We Fight for Our Families Who Are Not Yet Free: Two Black Regiments in the Civil War," undertaken by Scott Bissell, advised by James Crouthamel. 1995.

" The Black Market in the American Zone of Post-World War Two Germany, 1945-1948," undertaken by Matthew Sheley, advised by Derek Linton. 1996.

" Leaming From the Past: A Study of Three American Educational Reformers," undertaken by Amanda Waterman, advised by Daniel Singal. 1996.

" Avicenna's Integration of Aristotelianism and Mysticism with Regard to Soul, Intellection, and the Ruh," undertaken by John C. Bames, advised by Maureen Flynn. 1998.

" From 'We Shall Overcome' to 'A Nation Once Again': The Civil Rights Movement and Rebirth of Republican Nationalism in Northern Ireland, 1966-1972," undertaken by Patrick Metke, advised by John Shovlin. 2000.

" Farmers to Fighters: An Examination of the Background and Experiences of the Men of the 126' Regiment of New York State Volunteers in the American Civil War," undertaken by Melissa Pangburn, advised by Clifton Hood. 2000.

" Embodiment of Memory: Irish Family Commemoration and the 1982 Hunger Strikes," undertaken by Colleen A. Logan, advised by John Shovlin. 2001.

"From Village to City: The Impact of Railroads on Geneva, New York during the Nineteenth Century," by Heather T. Hawkins, 2003, advised by Clifton Hood.