Thesis/dissertation topics?

[kotov]

Or, if you aren't that far along yet, whatever you're planning on doing. If y'all don't want to disclose yours for privacy reasons, I understand that. I was just kinda trying to get an idea of what everyone here was working on at the moment.

[GradSchoolTruther]

Devopment of rudimentary forms of social media among Anabaptists in the Swiss Cantons in the 17th Century.

[mvlchicago]

Broadly speaking, I'm interested in questions + uses of difference as a coercive state practice within the 16th century Hispanic Atlantic World. More specifically, I'm looking at a range of sources right now dealing with the process of racialization in the context of Jewish-converso identities in the mid-15th century and comparisons of them with Black + Native categorizations in the 16th century. 

[elinen]

I'm researching Central American relations with Western Europe in the final decades of the Cold War, both at a diplomatic and a transnational level. 

[kotov]

I guess I started this thread and didn't include my own topic. Whoops.

I'm working on Jewish forced labor in Romania during the Holocaust. Basically looking at how forced labor related to other aspects of the Antonescu governments Jewish policy and its economic policy as a whole, and whether the state was willing to compromise its economic policies to achieve racial-ideological goals.