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.

2008 Kelley Scholar Theses

Robert Broughton:	A Crusader from the Olympic Village: Constructing the Legacy of Avery Brundage"
Samual Diamant:	"Local Civil Rights Litigators: Durham's African American Attorneys, 1922-1954"
Charles Horwitz:	"Local Civil Rights Litigators: Durham's African American Attorneys, 1922-1954"
Randall McLeod:	"Scotland's Sovereignty Asserted: The Darien Scheme as an Example of Scottish National Identity, 1695-1707"
Nancy Waldrop:	"Reclaiming the Indian in Colonial Architecture: The Senate House of Madras"

2007 Kelley Scholar Theses

Lee Barrow:	"Contact Dynamics: Hawaiians' Interactions with Western Merchants and Missionaries,   1778-1832"
Bobby Bridges:	"From the Ashes: The First Stages of Postwar Recovery During the American Occupation of Wuerzburg, 1945-1947"
Amy Freeman:	"Soviet and American Female Pilots in World War II: The Politics of Gender"
Omer Hashmi:	"Antinomies of Rebellion: An Unarmed Army in the Northwest Frontier, 1919-1947"
John Hoke:	"'Ye Merchants That Go About to Dishonour All Sides': Interlopers and the East India Company, 1679-1701"
Lauren Kalodner:	"Foot-Ball to Futbol: Soccer and the Formation of Argentine National Identity, 1867-1930"
Emily Kota:	"Revising the Recipe: An Examination of Fannie Merritt Farmer's Legacy as a Cookery     Expert, 1896 to 1915"
Mary Alice Richter:	"The Colonial Zoo, Paris, 1931"