The Fictional Chinaman: Chinese in American Popular Culture 1880-1930

This was for transnational America. I think we were supposed to write about how American pop-culture depictions of some ethnic group developed.

Greek philosophy paper

This was for Hellenistic Greece and Rome. Were were supposed to pick on the major ancient Greek philosophical schools and argue for it and not just copy the arguments in the book.

Response to Augustine’s confessions

This was for Ancient Hellenistic Greece and Rome. I was supposed to read parts of the New Testament, then Augustine’s confessions and a secondary source about church history, then write about how Christianity had developed in the interim. Note: Confessions is a really long book. This was one of my biggest marathon papers because of that, despite it not being very long.

Alexander the Great in the movies

This was for Hellenistic Greece and Rome. I was supposed to read our actual historical sources on Alexander, then watch Oliver Stone’s movie, then write about how and why they are different.

Aeneid response

This was for my class on Hellenistic Greece and Rome. I was supposed to read the Aeneid, then write a paper explaining what it was about about what it tells us about Rome.

The Nature of Change in Peronism

This was for my modern Latin America class. I was supposed to write about Peronism.

Presenting Pinochet

This was for a class called modern Latin America. We were supposed to write a response to several articles about Pinochet, IIRC.

Chinese American Cuisine: Americanization as Marketing

I wrote this for a class called immigrant America. I believe it was a broad assignment to write about how the absorption of immigrant culture.

Slavery and Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa: How Two Institutions shaped Each Other

This was for history of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa. The assignment was:  Discuss slavery as an Islamic institution. Account for its legitimacy and historical role by drawing on examples from West and East African societies.

Causes of the Sokoto Jihad: Leadership and Doctrine

This was for history of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa. I was supposed to answer the question “How can we account for the revolutionary movement in the 18th and 19th century West Africa? Why are these movements knows as ‘jihads’?”