Andrea Suihkonen, “Atomic Panacea: The Radium Fad of the Early 20th Century” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History Radium- a revolutionary, Nobel Prize-winning element- was discovered by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898. Less than a decade after its successful isolation in…… Read More
Nadia Tabit, “Betrayal by Treaty?: Refuting the Notion of Maroon Betrayal in the Treaties of 1739” Mentor: Rebecca Shumway, History In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jamaica, during the late Spanish and early British periods, the Maroons were Africans who fled slavery…… Read More
Alison Maciejewski, “Cat Control” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History Domestic and feral cats in the United States have become an invasive species. Cats are not “native” to North America therefore they are a threat to the wildlife. However, cats have roamed…… Read More
Paul Newcomb, “Community Archiving and Safety Concerns in Documenting Social Activism” Mentor: Rachel Buff, History The police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, reignited an ongoing global movement demanding the abolishment of police and the dismantlement…… Read More
Michael Vazquez, “Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Students During the Trump Administration” Mentor: Rachel Buff, History In 2012, President Barack Obama created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The DACA program has allowed young people who were…… Read More
Eli Frank, Paul Newcomb, Pilar Sharp, Caroline Tietjens, and Agnes Lopez, “Documenting Wisconsin’s Black Lives Matter Demonstrations” Mentor: Rachel Buff, History The police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020 ignited an ongoing global movement that has…… Read More
Jacob Sanner, “From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream Waters, This Land is Made from Trees” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History Alongside a main road in California in 1917 was made public a growing separation between nature and human ambition……. Read More
Allison Fredrick, “Gaming Then and Now: A Dungeon and Dragons Tale” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History Looking into how gaming has changed over the years, I plan to look in to how in the past gaming has had this negative aura…… Read More
Corinne Kronschnabel, “Gathering Places: Applying Metadata Standards to Religious Communities in Milwaukee” Mentor: Christopher Cantwell, History Religion is a complex topic that reaches deep into personal and cultural biases, and therefore is often difficult to categorize. On the other hand,…… Read More
Jonathan Gitter, “Mothman: A Cold War Touchstone” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History In 1966, sightings were reported in Point Pleasant, West Virginia of a creature who would eventually become known as Mothman. This would soon spark investigations into the existence of…… Read More
Valerie Edgington, “Pepper: The History of a Spice” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History When looking at different spices, pepper is often overlooked, despite it’s everyday appeal to elevate different dishes with its flavor. In this paper, I will be highlighting the…… Read More
Margaret Stelmacher, “Pigeons, the Birds of War” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History War heroes are often thought of as soldiers that risked their lives, scientists that created new weapons, or dogs that kept their humans safe in battle. Rarely do the…… Read More
Alina Frias, Alyssa English, and Edie Redwine, “Recruitment and Retention of Historically Underrepresented Students: UWM’s Experience” Mentors: Chia Youyee Vang, History and Maurina Paradise, Electa Quinney Institute Barriers to academic success for historically underrepresented students are well documented in the…… Read More
Henry Wehrs and Lillian Pachner, “The Birth of Zero at the Washington Park Zoo” Mentor: Amanda Seligman, History In the fall of 2021, History 450 students will study Milwaukee history around the theme of the Washington Park Zoo, where the…… Read More
Lillian Pachner and Henry Wehrs, “The Birth of Zero Bibliography Curation” Mentor: Amanda Seligman, History Our objective for this undertaking is to curate a collection of sources about the birth of the polar bear “Zero” at the Washington Park Zoo…… Read More
Hannaleigh Jennings, “The Great Potato Revolution” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels The goal is to understand how potatoes changed the Irish agricultural, political, economic, and social landscapes from the 16th to 18th centuries. To understand that, several questions must be answered. When did potatoes…… Read More
Marissa Zarda, “The Impact of The Feminine Mystique: How One Book Can Change Society” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History Books have an immense power that people may not realize. They can change how people think, control a society, and spread ideas…… Read More
Stephen Drena, “The Influence of Monsoon Season on Buddhist Monasticism” Mentors: Nigel Rothfels and David Divalerio, History Buddhism was founded in India rooted in an environment and culture in which the monsoon season was a major part of life. This…… Read More
Elaina Nelson, “The Maribel Caves Hotel: Health Spa and Hotel of Hearsay” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History While compiling the history of the Maribel Caves Hotel, this project will frame it through the wider lens of the effects of prohibition and…… Read More
Katie Schneider, “The Story of a Korean Farmer in an Anti-Asian America” Mentor: Nigel Rothfels, History For this paper I would like to explore that racism and the racist culture in America during the time of World War Two to…… Read More