History Honors Forum
About the Department of History Honors Forum
The culminating event in the History Honors Program is the annual Forum held every April. At the Forum, Honors students present their original research to an audience of the faculty, their family, friends, and other guests from across the campus. The Forum includes a reception and an opportunity for photos, and a chance for faculty and friends to express their appreciation for the hard work that History Honors students have accomplished in order to complete this year-long program.
2026 History Honors Forum
Tuesday, April 21, 2026
SMTH 118
5:00-7:00 pm
Join us at the 2026 History Honors Forum. The event is free and open to the public. Download the event flyer.
The following students will be giving presentations:
Nate Albin
“The B1G-Time Instability: A Look at the Tumultuous Early Years of the Big Ten Conference”
Annemarie Bryans
“Lessons in Ordinary Resistance: exploring non-normative contentment and the everyday life of a twentieth century spinster”
Max Bury
“The Cost of Doing Business: Television, Revenue, and the Escalation of Corruption in Collegiate Athletics”
Jacob Hooker
“American Mythology: Blackness and John Ford”
Roma Koroneos
“I Will Bear Witness": Comparisons of Life in Postwar East Bloc Cities, Dresden and Prague”
Valerie Kossman
“You Can't Fool Mother Nature: Media and Mobilization in the STOP ERA Movement”
Leah Moyer
“Buried Behind Bars: Censorship and Conditions in Michigan Prison Newspapers from 1977-1992”
Fern Rice
“Science, Sex, and Socialism: Hermann J. Muller’s Eugenic Vision of Human Evolutionary Progress”
Hunter Rickman
“It Was a Promised Land: Black Land Ownership and Loss in Oklahoma, 1889-1921”
Robert Walls
“Choosing China: Why American Corporations Entered the China Market Throughout the 1970s”
Isidore White
“American Boundaries on Boumédiène’s Algeria 1969-1978”
2025 History Honors Forum
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
LWSN 1142
5:00-7:00 pm
Join us at the 2025 History Honors Forum. The event is free and open to the public. You can download the event flyer at this link.
The following students will be giving presentations:
Elijah Ahrens
“Buccaneers and Slavery: Port Royal and Piracy Acting as a Space of Freedom”
Becka Bash
“The Church Committee: How the CIA responded to Congressional Investigation in the Post-Watergate Era”
Jael Brown
“Global Perception and Interpretation of the 1876-1878 Bulgarian Independence Movement”
Jiahui Chen
“Interpreting Hitler: Nazism Perceived by British Union of Fascists, 1932-1939”
Allyson Dinwiddie
“The Role of 12th Century Greek Voices in Legitimizing Norman Sicilian Kingship”
Grace Evanoski
“Natural Life vs. Legal Life: An Examination of Abortion & Perceptions of Life in the Womb in the Nineteenth Century”
Elizabeth Lazar
“Dancing Towards Demise: Working-Class Leisure and Middle-Class Reform in Early 20th Century American Dance Halls”
Michael Strunk
“Cum Terraemotus Essent: Holy Men and the Development of Imperial Earthquake Response”
Johari Tello
“Resistance and Influence: Black Eugenics and Public Health Education in the Early to Mid-20th”
Nah'Shon Williams
“Echoes of Resilience: The Evolution of Soul and R&B as Social Consciousness during the Civil Rights and Black Power Eras”
Past History Honors Forums
2023 Department of History Honors Forum
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
5:00-7:00 pm
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