Honors Theses Supervised

I have had the opportunity to serve as an honors advisor for many, and this can be a capstone for study in either the Asian Studies Program or the History Department. Here is a list of the honors projects that I have supervised as the primary academic advisor.


Charles Prechtl Legg. "Shogun: Ideals of Warrior Rule in Japan" (Honors thesis, Department of History, 2007). Recipient of the Bland Prize

David Edwin Samuel Sokolow. "The Global Impact of the Russo-Japanese War" (Honors thesis, Department of History, 2007).

Eric James Davis. "Realism, Liberalism, and Pan-Asianism: The Evolution of the Japanese Empire (1905-1945)" (Honors thesis, Asian Studies Program, 2007).

Daniel Maier Bensen. "Taiko: The Formation and Professionalization of a Japanese Performance Art" (Honors thesis, Asian Studies Program, 2006).

Sarah Mari Damerville. "Imposition and Adaptation: The Japanese Confrontation and Manipulation of European Notions of the "East," 1860-1905" (Honors thesis, Asian Studies Program, 2006).

Christina Emiko Goto. "International Trade and the Economic Development of Japan 1858-1899" (Honors thesis, Asian Studies Program, 2004).

Nathanial Anderson. "Channeling the Flood: The Disseminatin of European Scientific Knowledge in the "Closed Country" of Tokugawa Japan. (Honors thesis, Department of History, 2000). Recipient of the Bland Prize