By: Liam W. Cooney | Staff Writer
This upcoming Friday, December 8th and Saturday, December 9th, Salve Regina’s history department will put forth the 40th annual senior thesis presentations. Showcasing the nearly year long work of senior history majors, this year’s topics are sure to intrigue any audience member.
The event is open to the public. All are welcome to attend.
A full list of the scheduled thesis presentations and defenses is as follows:
Friday, December 8, 2023
1:00 PM – Welcome
1:05 PM – Liam Cooney
Hitler’s Games: The Nazification of the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics
1:50 PM – Aoife Rouse
The Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia: Students, Organization, and Resistance
2:35 PM – Sarah Kraus
A Precedent for Peace: The Role of All Children Together in the Integration of Northern Irish Schools
3:20 PM – Shannon Kennedy
Strength and Survival: The 101st Airborne Division during World War II
4:05 PM – Daniel DiMeo
A Forgotten Genocide: The Ottoman Empire’s Plan to Exterminate the Armenian Race
Saturday, December 9, 2023
9:00 AM – Alicia Shook
“I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke”: An Examination of Coca-Cola’s Development as a Representation of American Culture in the Twentieth Century
9:45 AM – Nichols Valenti
He Watched Us Wither: President Ronald Reagan’s Silence towards the AIDS Epidemic in the 1980s
10:30 AM – Joseph Saccone
Lucky Luciano: The Godfather of Italian-American Crime
11:15 AM – Timothy De Petris
When Gulls Take Flight: The United States Basketball League’s Rhode Island Gulls
1:15 PM – Macarena Arrue Riofrio
The Spanish Crusade: George Orwell and the Spanish Civil War
2:00 PM – Jessica Roberts
Faith, Trust, and Richard Nixon: How Richard Nixon Utilized the Magic of Disney throughout his Political Career
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