High School seniors participating in the History Capstone Project shared their research findings to date to test ideas and gather feedback from an audience of peers, parents, and faculty.
This year’s participants Charlotte Klein '22, Sydney Feldman '22, Alyssa Shah '22, Shravya Pant '22, Jodi Robinson '22, Maxwell Menin '22, and Jesse Eick '22 are engaged in the projects listed below. Finished work will be available to the community at the end of the first semester.
Jesse Eick: “From Rabin to Michaeli, Peace Plans to Nation-State Laws: The Fall of the Israeli Labor Party and the Rise of the Right Wing”
Sydney Feldman: “Healthcare in Modern America: Told Through the Lens of Gender, Racial, and Admission-based Disparities”
Charlotte Klein: The Einstein Effect: Albert Einstein’s Embrace of Zionism, Stardom, and the American Jewry’s Adoption of Zionism in the early Twentieth Century
Maxwell Menin: “Coming to Terms with the Past: Holocaust Education in Germany and the Effort to Reckon with the Past and Teach about Genocide”
Shravya Pant: “On Court, Off Court, and Always on Camera: Women’s Tennis and the Media”
Jodi Robinson: “From Aunt Jemima to Fannie Lou Hamer: The Role of Black Women in 20th-Century Food Justice Movements”
Alyssa Shah: “‘First, Do No Harm: Medical Misconduct and the Evolution of Clinical Research in Post-War America”