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History Department Honors Theses Defense
Phi Alpha Theta goes to Gonzaga University
Five History Departmental Honors students presented at the Phi Alpha Theta History Conference at Gonzaga University on April 23-24, 2026: Stephanie Mendez, Zooey Redmond, Ella Grayzel, Owen Daryani and Natalie Sepulveda. Eighty students and faculty from fourteen universities participated.
The History Department Honors Defense will be on Friday May 22, 2026, 2-4 pm in Casey Commons:
Stephanie Mendez, “How Women’s Participation Transformed the Spanish Anarchist Movement”
Zooey Redmond, “Revolution and Women: A Look at Feminist Organizing Before and During the Mexican Revolution”
Ella Grayzel, “Portending Movements: Analysis and Comparison of Colonial and Climate Migration”
Natalie Sepulveda, “The Duality of Mao Zedong: Revolutionary Leader and Architect of Catastrophe”
Owen Daryani, “Labor and Trade in the American Philippines: 1901-1907”
Al Mann Lectures
Come join the History Department for their annual 2026 Al Mann Lecture:
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Emily Lieb is a Seattle-based writer and historian. She has her A.B. in U.S. History from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and her PhD in U.S. History from Columbia University in New York. After completing her PhD, she taught history and urban studies at Seattle University for more than 10 years; now she funds her life as a historian by writing about global health and climate change for a small writing firm in Seattle, Derfner and Sons, where she is the editorial director. Her scholarly work focuses on the building, rebuilding, and unbuilding of American cities, schools, and neighborhoods in the 20th century: Road to Nowhere: How A Highway Map Wrecked Baltimore, published by the University of Chicago Press in November 2025, is her first book. She lives in an old-ish house in a new-ish city with her husband and the best dog in the world, a black Lab named Orvy.