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, “Plundered Patrimony: The Expropriation of Republican Private Art Collections and the Politics of Cultural Property under Franco, 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”