MA Graduates

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December 2007 Graduates

James Bailey

"American Bastille? Fort McHenry and Civil Liberty, 1861-1862"
Committee: Anne Rubin (Chair)
James Grubb and Clay Laurie

Arthur Hirsch

"Dixie Camp: Performance and Anxiety in the Cold War South"
Committee: Michelle Scott (Chair)
Anne Rubin and Terry Bouton

David Lande
"Turning Theory into Reality: Ira C. Eaker and the Implementation of Daylight Precision Bombing"
Committee: Joe Tatarewicz (Chair)
Kriste Lindenmeyer and Barry Lanman

Karen Lubieniecki

“'Scarce Any Ways or Means': The Separated Woman in Colonial Maryland, 1634-1776"
Committee: Terry Bouton (Chair)
Marjoleine Kars and Amy Froide

Misty Meyer

"Voiceless: Representation of Chechnya in the Russian Press"

Committee: Kate Brown (Chair)
Brad Simpson and Clay Laurie

Robert Webber

"Plantation Overseers and Their World: The Myth, Life, and Image"
Committee: Anne Rubin (Chair)
Michelle Scott and Terry Bouton

May 2007 Graduates

Marcella Callahan
"The British Conservative Party in the Twentieth Century"

Committee: Dan Ritschel (Chair)
Jim Grubb and Amy Froide

Ryan Grubb

"Children and Youth in America: Interpreting Primary Documents in the Digital Age"

Committee: Kriste Lindenmeyer (Chair)
Michelle Scott and Barry Lanman

Angelica Marini
"'There Was No Such Thing As Outness': Building a Gay and Lesbian Community in Baltimore, MD 1925-1965"
Committee: Kriste Lindenmeyer (Chair)
Barry Lanman and Anne Rubin

Regina Ravenelle

"Convict Labor Versus Indentured Servitude in Pre-Revolutionary War America"

Committee: Terry Bouton (Chair)
Kriste Lindenmeyer and Michelle Scott

2006 Graduates

Kenneth Bechtel
"The Mounted Rangers of Charles County, Maryland and the Piscataway Indians: 1675-1701"

Committee: Marjoleine Kars (Chair)

Terry Bouton, Anne Rubin

William Darrow

"Dunmore’s Navy: The Last Royal Governor’s Failed Counterinsurgency In Virginia, 1775-1776"
Committee: Terry Bouton (Chair)
Anne Rubin, Joe Tatarewicz

Susan Wood Goodall
"Mine is Better Than Ours: Natives, Settlers, and Conflict Over Land, New Netherland, 1638-1664"

Committee: Marjoleine Kars (Chair)

Terry Bouton, Kriste Lindenmeyer

Derrick Lapp

"Take None But Gentlemen? Class and the Composition of the Officer Corps of the Maryland Line"

Committee: Terry Bouton (Chair)
Anne Rubin, Joe Tatarewicz

Dennis McIver
"Rotten Fruit and Tattered Sleeves: A Study of Male Homosexuality in Chinese History"
Committee: Ka-che Yip (Chair)
Kriste Lindenmeyer and Michelle Scott

Jennifer Moran
"Green Ink on a Red, White, and Blue Press: Dennis Driscoll and the Radical Irish Press in Jeffersonian Baltimore, 1802-1803"
Committee: Terry Bouton (Chair)

Brad Simpson and Anne Rubin

Lauren Morton
"Baltimore’s First Birth Control Clinic: The Bureau For Contraceptive Advice, 1927-1932"
Committee: Kriste Lindenmeyer (Chair)
Barry Lanman, Carole McCann

Gary Tolbert-Smith
"Relations Between the United States and Taiwan During the Vietnam War"
Committee: Warren Cohen (Chair)
Brad Simpson and Ka-che Yip

Jeremy Spahr
"A Lesson Mis-Learned: The Media, the Military, and the Ministry of Defense in the Falklands War, 1982"

Committee: Dan Ritschel (Chair)
Clay Laurie and Brad Simpson

Elizabeth Tapscott
"Popular Culture and the Scottish Reformation: History Through Plays, Ballads, Poetry, and Nursery Rhymes"
Committee: Jim Grubb (Chair)
Amy Froide and Marcia Peri

Kevin Webb
"Marine Railways on the Chesapeake Bay: Four Case Studies"
Committee: John Jeffries (Chair)

Barry Lanman, Kriste Lindenmeyer

Fall 2005

Kimberly C. Bowling

“The Baltimore City YWCA, 1920-1941”

Committee: Kriste Lindenmeyer (Chair)
Michelle Scott and Anne Rubin

Donna R. Omata

“The Life and Times of Joseph Heco (1837-1897)”

Committee: Constantine Vaporis (Chair)

Warren Cohen and Anne Rubin

James L. Scott

“The S.S. William H. Welch: A Case Study That Examines America’s World War II Production Myth”

Committee: John Jeffries (Chair)
Barry Lanman and Joe Tatarewicz