Recent Research Topics in Honors History 598.02 Include:

• Memorializing the Past: Commemorations, Monuments, and Identity (Prof. Hoffmann) Group research projects on the formation of collective memory in a particular country or community.
  
• Strangers at the Gate: Euro-Japanese Encounters in the 17th-19th Centuries (Prof. Brown) Investigation of travel diaries, memoirs, and similar first-hand accounts as a means of understanding how cross-cultural perceptions developed at the dawn of the modern era.
  

Recent History Participation in Denman

In Spring 2004, four History Majors participated in the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum in St. John Arena.   A record number of more than 200 students from all across the University participated.

• Rubina K. Salikuddin won first place in the humanities with her thesis on "Conceptions of Normative Indian-Muslim Identity: A Study of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Muhammad Ali Jinnah." (Prof. Dale, adviser).

Other History majors who participated included:

• Christopher P. Bernhardt:  "Promise and Threat: Community Action Agencies in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, 1964-1968 (Prof. Boyle, adviser).
• Andrew J. Burton: "Cross-Strait Opium Politics 1949-1978" (Prof. Reed, adviser).
• Megan McGough:  "The Enemy Within: Race and Axis Prisoners of War in the United States during World War Two" (Prof. Kerr, adviser).

Honors Research Awards
Honors History Students Autumn 2004 Undergraduate Research Scholarships, which support research on their Honors Theses:

• Alana Shockey, "Comparative Studies of 19^th-Century Religious Utopian Sects as Presented in Local Ohio Newspapers" (Prof. John Brooke, adviser).
  
• James Rinto, "The First Crusade: As Seen by Contemporaries" (Prof. Joe Lynch, adviser).
  
• Adrienne Johnson, "Roles of Chinese Women in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Taiping Rebellion vs Qing Dynasty," (Prof. Cynthia Brokaw, adviser).
  
• Tiffany Preston, "Silencing the Soldiers": The Role of Women in the Black Panther Party" (Tiffany is a double major in history and African and African American Studies; Prof. Walter Rucker, AAAS, adviser).

For more information:

• History Honors Program
• OSU Honors Program