History Colloquia Spring Semester 2026
Department of History Library, 121 Mason Hall @ 4:15 p.m.
Thursday, February 26
Sergio Maldonado, Department of History, Pomona College
"Lessons in Ruin: The Veracruz Earthquake of 1973, Floods, and Disaster Politics"
Thursday, March 26
Josh Hodil, Department of History, Pomona College, TBA
Thursday, April 23
Penny Sinanoglou, Department of History, Pomona College, TBA
History Colloquia Fall Semester 2025
Department of History Library, 121 Mason Hall @ 4:15 p.m.
Thursday, October 23
Annsh Kapoor, “Sanskrit Drama at the Vijayanagara Court: Performance and Power in Early Modern South Asia”
Aden Cicourel, “Melodic Dissonance: Jazz and Raga in India’s Urban Soundscapes, 1930-1980”
Abigail Krenz, “Managing the Pastoral Periphery: Colonial Legacies of Development and Governance in Eastern Sudan”
Thursday, October 30
Jemma Stollberg, “Heaven by Torchlight: Pagan Imagery in Tudor and Stuart Court Masques”
Elena Townsend-Lerdo, “Museum at War: Cultural Custody as Statecraft in Civil War and Postwar Spain, 1936-1959”
Sophie David, “La revolución chilena no la para nadie: Muralism in Chile and Its Legacy”
Thursday, November 20
Arenaria Cramer, “Eugenic Care: Institutionalization and Sterilization in Oregon, 1913-1983”
Gabriel Dalton, “The Case of Claremont within Pathologies of Smallpox and Native Peoples”
Yadira Barrale-Lopez, “Cooks and Criminals: Street Food Vending in Los Angeles in the Early Twentieth Century”
Luke Brown, “Road to Nowhere: The King Coal Highway”
History Colloquia Spring Semester 2025
Department of History Library, 121 Mason Hall @ 4:15 p.m.
Thursday, March 13
Scott Doebler, Department of History, Pomona College
"Into the Belly of the Forest: The Early Modern Maya Woods of Yucatán and Guatemala, 1550-1625"
Thursday, April 3
Megan Gilbert, Department of History, Pomona College
"Bound by Messengers: The Intermediaries Who Held Together Fifteenth-Century Japan"
Thursday, April 10
Nicolette Rohr, Department of History, Pomona College
"The Folk Furor: Histories of Fandom and Community in the Folk Music Revival"
Thursday, April 17
Niyati Shenoy '15, Humanities Program, University of California, San Diego
"The Body as Threshold: Sexuality and Disability in Colonial India"
Thursday, April 24
Lindsay O’Neill '01, Department of History, USC
"The Two Princes of Mpfumo: An Early Eighteenth-Century Journey into and out of Slavery"
History Colloquia Fall Semester 2024
Senior Thesis Projects
Department of History Library, 121 Mason Hall at 4:15 p.m.
Thursday, October 31
Adam Osman Krinsky, “Urban Planning, Public Space, and Visions of the Sanitary City in Nineteenth-Century New York”
Colin McAfee, “Frontier Injustice: Cattle, Violence, and Vigilantism in the Nineteenth-Century American Southwest”
John Gibson, “Expectations and Convictions: The Trial of Bighohaden, Indian Law, and the Navajo Nation, c. 1900”
Eloisa Tirres, “Reaching New Heights in the Sierras: College Alpine Clubs in Postwar California”
Thursday, November 7
Dahlia Locke, “The Militarization of Honolulu’s Prostitution System During World War Two: Colonial Violence through the Imposition of Gender and Racial Hierarchies”
Jenna McMurtry, “’Play a Part in History’: How the LA84 Olympics Shaped the City’s Neoliberal Turn”
Caroline Welch, “The Making of the East Bay ‘NIMBY’: An Analysis of Contra Costa Antigrowth Movements, 1970-2000”
Lesly Lepes, “Young and Displaced: The Post-9/11 Security Paradigm and its Impact on Mexican Dreamers in California”
Thursday, November 14
Ben Brady, “Jerusalem and the New World: Abrahamic Eschatology and Columbus’ Enterprise of the Indies, 1492-1506”
Ben Cheng, “Lost Frontier: Spanish Encounters in Early Modern Taiwan”
Emma Grace Howlett, “Moving Mountains: Gender, Science, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century British Mountaineering”
Duncan James, "Paul Rohrbach and Southwest Africa: Colonial Ideology and Continuity in Germany"
Thursday, November 21
Dhani Srinivasan, “Colonial Imaginations and Realizations of Land in Pre-Mandate Palestine”
Anisa McLain, “Heavenly Gastronomy: Royal Thai Cuisine in Nineteenth-Century Siam”
Lea Wong, "Kabyle Women’s Jewelry as Resistance in the Algerian War of Independence"
Alexander Chao, “Schoolbooks, Geography, and Identity Formation in Colonial Hong Kong, c. 1930s-1950s”