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American Studies

In its Honors Program the American Studies program awards Honors, High Honors, or Highest Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

• Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
  Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2023-2024

• Mary Elizabeth Bauermann,  (Highest Honors) 
  Charles McGovern + Francesca Sawaya, Joan Gavaler
• John VanHousen Monday, (High Honors) 
  Charles McGovern + Simon Stow, Annie Blazer, Mary Lynn Weiss
•  Elizabeth Abigail Paras, (Highest Honors)  
  Charles McGovern + Max Katz, Simon Stow 
• Caroline Marie Schneider, (Honors)
   Charles McGovern + M. Lynn Weiss, Melvin Patrick Ely

2022-2023

• Kyle Joseph Mahoney, "" (High Honors) 
  Charles McGovern + Francesca Sawaya, Jamie Bartlett

2021-2022

• Jonathan Newby, "" (Honors) 
  Leisa Meyer + Jerry Watkins, III, Monika Gosin
• Miranda Huffer, (Highest Honors) 
  Francesca Sawaya + Charles McGovern, Jerry Watkins, III

2020-2021

• Rachel Kidd, "" (Highest Honors)
  
  Charles McGovern + Francesca Sawaya, Maureen Fitzgerald 

2019-2020

• Maxwell Cloe, "" (Highest Honors)
  
  Leisa Meyers + Charles McGovern, Jerry Watkins III 

2018-19

• Zachary Meredith, ""
  Arthur Knight + Jamel Donor, Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Jody Allen
  

2017-18

• No Honors students this year

2016-17

• Ashley Richardson, "" (Honors) 
  Charles McGovern + Sarah Glosson, Arthur Knight
• Megan Sonner, "" (High Honors) 
  Kara Thompson + Charles McGovern, Julie Hugonny 

2015-16

• Megan Haney-Claus, "" (High Honors) 
  Charles McGovern + Lisa Szykman and Sarah Glosson

2014-15

• Melanie Wiggins, (Highest Honors) 
  Alan Braddock + Charles McGovern and Frederick Corney

2013-14

• Kathryn McLane, (High Honors) 
  Michelle Lilièvre + Leah Glenn and Arthur Knight
• Kayla Meyers, "'Obscene Odes on the Windows of the Skull': Deconstructing the Memory of the Howl Trial of 1957" (High Honors)
  Charles McGovern + Arthur Knight and Marc Raphael
  

2012-13

• Meagen Monahan, "" (High Honors) 
  Jennifer Putzi + Arthur Knight, Jeremy Pope and Elizabeth Schlabach 

2011-12

• Charles Fliss, "" (Highest Honors)
  Charles McGovern + Rachel DiNitto and Hiroshi Kitamura 
• Stephanie Monohan, "" (High Honors) 
  Grey Gundaker + Timothy Barnard and Kara Thompson 
• Andrew Ojeda, "'" (Honors) 
  Elizabeth Schlabach + Jody Allen and Elizabeth Neidenbach  
• Jacqueline Stykes, "" (High Honors) 
  Leisa Meyer + Leah Glenn and Arthur Knight 

2010-11

• Amanda Cottingham, "Racial Contest for Space and Power in Richmond, Virginia's Urban Landscape, 1890-1920" (High Honors)
  Kimberley Phillips + Melvin Ely and Heather Huyck
  

2009-10

• Emilie Raymer, "Real Control of the Fantastical: Escapism, Economics, and Consumerism in Love Book Magazine" (High Honors)
  Charles McGovern + Tim Barnard and Sasha Prokhorov

2008-09

• Ryan Lintelman, (Highest Honors)
  Charles McGovern + Tim Barnard and Susan Kern
• Rachel Morris, (High Honors)
  Tim Barnard + Charles McGovern, Susan Kern and Chandos Brown
• Justin Reid
  Jody Allen (December 2009)
  

2006-07

• Anne Gessler, "'I Don't Know Much About History': WCWM's Educational Radio Format and its Battle for Self Definition" (Highest Honors)
  Charles McGovern + Arthur Knight and Eun Jung

2005-06

• Jonathan Adams, "Federal Policy and Societal Change in the Suburbanization of Fairfax County, Virginia: 1930-2000" (Honors)
  Charles McGovern + Chandos Brown and John McGlennon

2004-05

• Heather Debby
  Jennifer Putzi + Kim Phillips, John Moore, Scott Nelson and Carol Sheriff
• Sarah Reeder
  Alan Wallach + Sibel Zandi-Sayek and Charles McGovern