Chosen from among juniors who apply each spring for admission into the program during their senior year, students participate in a year-long research and writing seminar. The seminar includes weekly group meetings, individual tutorials, readings in historiography, discussions of current research in the field, and lectures by department members and visiting historians.
2010-2011 Kelley Scholar Theses
Felix Fabiny - "Civilizing Landscapes: Place and Identity on the Patagonian Frontier, 1865-1902"
Alex Kowaleski - "Food Supply and Conflict in Civil War North Carolina"
Kayla McCann- "Propelling A Movement: Women's Jury Service Campaign in North Carolina,
1920-1947"
Amanda Preston - "We Were Pioneers": British Female Educators in India in the Early Twentieth
Century"
Alicia Siani - "After the Massacre: Crown and Radical Mobilization in 1770"
2009-2010 Kelley Scholar Theses
Francesca Balboni "Rendering Woman: Comic Books and Youth Culture, 1945-1959"
Anna Coon "Academic Freedom and the Red Scare in New York City in Public Schools,
1947-1958"
Jennifer DeKnight "Defending the Path: Charting Salvador Allende's Presidency Through
Words"
Marja Kunz "American Missionaries, the Armenian Genocide, and the Turkish
State, 1894-1917"
Emily May "Liberty and Her Limits: Free Women of Color in New Orleans"
2008-2009 Kelley Scholar Theses
| Robert Broughton: |
"A Crusader from the Olympic Village: Constructing the Legacy of Avery Brundage" |
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| Samual Diamant: |
"Local Civil Rights Litigators: Durham's African American Attorneys, 1922-1954" |
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| Charles Horwitz: |
"Local Civil Rights Litigators: Durham's African American Attorneys, 1922-1954" |
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| Randall McLeod: |
"Scotland's Sovereignty Asserted: The Darien Scheme as an Example of Scottish National Identity, 1695-1707" |
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| Nancy Waldrop: |
"Reclaiming the Indian in Colonial Architecture: The Senate House of Madras" |
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2007-2008 Kelley Scholar Theses"
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