Past Distinction Comps Papers
Copies of Older Comps Paper. As many Comps papers as we could collect - whether or not they received distinction - are stored in the Carleton Gould Library Archives. Although the collection of comps is incomplete, it is possible that we filed a copy of your Comps paper in the Library Archives. Please contact Eric Hillemann if you would like him to check for you, ehillema@carleton.edu
2008-present, how to obtain a copy of your e-comps paper. I started an e-file in 2008-09. The e-copy you submitted to me Spring term of your senior year is kept for you in case you ever need it in the future. Your e-comps paper is not given to anyone, unless you ask us to send it somewhere on your behalf. Contact me at nlambert@carleton.edu.
Gould Library Comps Collection. The Carleton faculty would like to make all comps papers in every department accessible electronically. However, the Gould Library only has your e-comps if you sent it to them and submitted a permission form. See: http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/library/now/news/?story_id=520612 click on the Archiving Student Work: Individual Submission Form (bottom right corner of page, top choice). For info, contact: Carol Eyler, Librarian, ceyler@carleton.edu.
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RECENT DISTINCTION PAPERS LIST
2010-11, Advisers: Annette Igra, Serena Zabin
- Alecci, Mira B., Botanic Diversions: Mary Somerset’s Plant Collecting in Enlightenment Science, SZ/VM
- Goldburger, Dustin, “This Thing Will Give St. Louis a Black Eye!” The Cold War, Regional Identity, and the Fight to Integrate Jim Crow Schools in St. Louis, MO 1949-1952, AI/HMW
- Harris, Zoe, Communities in the Ether: Depression Era Radio & the American Homemaker, SZ/AI
- Knight, Hunter, “The Times Demand the Sacrifice of Our Convictions”: Childhood Changed in World War I France, SZ/DT
- McIntire, Ross, With Saints on Our Side: Hagiography, Ecclesiastical Authority, & the Maintenance of Timor Sanctorum in Gregory of Tours’ Gaul, AI/WN
- Nash, Logan, Middle-class Castle: Modernism, Gentrification, & Urban Space at London’s Barbican Estate, AI/DT
- Rodriguez, Julio, Resistance under Franco (1959-1975): Exploring the Role of Basque Clergy & Their Involvement with Euskadi ta Askatasuna (ETA), AI/DT
- Taketomo, Kristina, Home Is Where You Park It: Cold War Caravans & the Mobile Domestic Space, AI/SZ
- Wada, Anna, Imagining a Timeless Unity: The Moment of Silence in 1930s Japan, SY/AI
- Yarett, Roger, Politics, Progress, & the End of Time: Evangelical Fundamentalism & the Making of a Political Movement, SZ/AI
2009-10, Advisers: Clifford Clark, Annette Igra, Victoria Morse
- Bradley, Julia T., Nationalism, Islam and the Algerian Future: Elite Conceptualizations of an Islamic Past, AK/CEC
- Collins, Rory F., "What Culture?" Defining National Culture in Tanzania, 1961-1974, OM/AI
- Donahue, Andrea N., We Once More Take the Liberty of Writing”: Ex-Slaves Negotiating Freedom in Britain’s Sierra Leone Colony, 1791-1800, SO/AI
- Finn, Samuel A., Blue on Black: A Study of the Oakland Police in the Context of the Black Panthers, HMW/VM
- Huckestein, Erika M., “I’ll Never Change, I’ll Always Wear Green”: New Representations of Erin in Irish Nationalist Political Cartoons, 1900-1921, SO/AI
- Nakamura, Lauren C., Incorporation, Rejection, and Re-Imagination: India’s Neo-Liberal Policies and Education Reforms, 1984-2004, BL/AI
- O’Brien, Joshua M., Locating Authority in Carolingian Debates on Image Veneration c. 825: The Case of Agobard of Lyon’s De picturis et imaginibus, VM/WN
- Reed, Katherine A., Toward a Standardized Communal Identity: The Muslim Women’s Reform Movement in Late Colonial India, BL/AI
- Rutherford, Leslie A., The English Sweating Sickness and Henry VIII: How the King’s Personal Life Shaped Public Health Policy in England, SO/VM
- Smith, Jordan B., “More Rude and Anticque than ‘ere was Sodom”: Piracy and the Tavern Community in Port Royal, Jamaica, 1680-1692”, SZ/AI
- Smoak, Katherine L., Unproductive Women & Troubling Men: Humor and Republican Marriage in Women’s Magazines, 1792-1830, SZ/AI
2008-09, Advisers: Clifford Clark, Annette Igra, Susannah Ottaway
- Carr-Lee, Keith, “The Rise and Fall of the Great Illusion”: A Study of the Role of E.H. Carr in the Formation of Modern Opinion about the Work of Sir Norman Angell SO/WN
- Harrisville, David, Strategy and Survival: Commanders, Crewmen, and the Sherman Tank in World War II CEC/AI
- Hirsch, David, American Imperialists: The Supporters of American Actions in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, 1915-1925 CEC/AI
- Landkamer, Steve, The Formation of the National Meiji Elementary School System in Aichi Prefecture, 1868-1879 SY/AI
- Langer, Melissa, The Architecture of Empire in Rabat: Reimagining the Colonial City Under Lyautey SO/AK
- Litwin, Emily, Nationalism, Feminism, and the Women of Ireland‟s Revolutionary Period CEC/SO
- Lopez, Sarah, Rebellion and Celebration in 18th c. Mexico: The Request for a Propaganda Fide Hospice in the Town of Uruapan CEC/AF
- Marshall, Wyatt, Leaving the Arena in Ruins: The Manipulation of Visuality in Early Christian Martyrdom Texts AI/WN
- Olmsted, John, Poverty, the Pulpit, and the Polis: John Chrysostom‟s Sermons on Wealth & Poverty SO/WN
- Persaud, Alexander, Rodney, History, and the Dialectic: Rethinking Walter Rodney‟s Marxist Methodology SO/HMW
- Prochaska, Erica, The Imperial World of Verrier Elwin SO/GV
- Robson, Lucy, “Reading Past the Label: Exploring Second World War Evacuation in Britain Through the Child‟s Perspective”
- Tragert, Emily, “Swearing, Roaring and Daming all the Night long”: Prostitution, Promiscuity and Social Order in England 1680-1750” SO/AI
- Vendell, Dominic, “Feeding the Body, Feeding the Soul: Swami Vivekananda, Religious Universality, and Social Welfare in an Anglo-American Imperial World, 1893-1897” SO/AI
2007-08, Advisers: Clifford Clark, Susannah Ottaway, Annette Igra
- Bardes, John Kilpatrick, Dashikis or Bullets? False Oppositions between Organization US and the Black Panthers
- Bates, Katie, "With so much credit": The Iconicization of Common Sense
- Du, Yanging (Claire), Gaitu Guiliu Reform on the Miao Frontier in High Qing Dynasty
- Fritz, Peter, Are You Qualified to be Abbot? A Culture of Leadership and Authority in the Case of Late 12th Century Bury St. Edmunds
- Lee, Peter, How the Fourth Estate Opened Its Doors to Longshoremen: Media and the San Francisco General Strike
- Perkins, Jason, May 1970 in New York City: Student Activists, Construction Workers and the Future of American Society
- LaChapelle, Heather, Museums and Memory: "Remembering Slavery" at the Slave Lodge
- Komatsu, Yotaro, Power and Money: Money Exchangers and Japanese Monetary Transformation, 1858-1879
- White, Madelyn, Soldiers of Liberty: Tirailleurs Sénégalais and French West African Independence
- Soon, Wayne, Subnationalism, Education, Wealth and Power in Fujian and Singapore: Tan Kah Kee and Chen Yi from the 1910s to 1940s
- Ward, Megan,The Queue and the Illustration of Chinese Men in American Pop Culture, 1838-1915
2006-07, Advisers: Clifford Clark, Annette Igra, Serena Zabin
- Bergquist, Rawdon, Walking in the Forest of Knowledge: King Alfred‟s Soliloquies and the ninth-century West Saxon Literary Revival
- Barale, Kelsey, “In all ages have not the Saints of God been persecuted?” Memory, History, and Reinterpretation of the Early Mormon Colonies in Mexico
- Gurian, Mollie, Mother Knows Best? The Women‟s Co-Operative Alliance of Minneapolis Creates Professional Motherhood 1917-1932
- Hanagan, Julia, Fighting the Last War Nationalist Memories in Serbian Americans
- Hintzen, Amelia, No Stage Large Enough Josephine Baker and the Performance of Social Action
- Lelic, Emin, The making of orthodoxy in early modern Islam using a case study of the Bosnian Hamzeviyya: Comparing Ottoman history, Sufism, and Islamic institutions,
- Lowry, Sam, Rules of Illusion: Growth in the Study of Jean Renoir
- Vongsathorn, Kathleen, Saved and Sinner: The Ambiguous Identity of the African Leper as Constructed by Christian Missionaries, 1900-1950
2005-06, Advisers: Clifford Clark, Annette Igra, Serena Zabin
- Adler, Antony, Sailing in Uncharted Seas: European Encounters with Polynesians in the Age of Discovery
- Brimsek, Emily, “Pursue me at law, but I will not give up my property”: Honor, Property Crime, and the Middle Class in Eighteenth Century Scotland
- Chomski, Cara, No Place for Pastoralists: Land Laws and the Ideologies of Development in Tanzania, 1961-1991
- Goddard, Meredith, Paying Tribute to Piracy and Early American Nationalism
- Kamin, David, The Cohesion of the Crusading Army During the Fourth Crusade
- Larson, Annaka, Beyond Mountains and Office Walls: Revolutionary Reconceptions of the Guatemalan Indígena, 1944-1949
- Mooar, Ethan, Nature in the National Parks: Policy and Perception in the Late 20th Century
- Tulloch, Andrew, The Nanjing Massacre Memorial and the (Im)Possibility of Institutionalized Memory
- Wilson, Eric, Shrine, Patron, Icon, Sufferer, Martyr: Visibility in the Lives of the Simeon Stylites and Daniel the Stylite







