Throughout my undergraduate college experience, I have been privileged to take many upper-division history and philosophy classes, all of which required capstone papers. Attached are some of them, to give a better perspective on my writing proficiency and experience
Confucianism and Women in Choson KoreaThis paper is a primary source analysis written for a class I took on Choson Korean history, and it focuses on the impact of the regime’s prevailing ideology, Neo-Confucianism, on gender relations and roles during the Early Modern period. Click here to download.
Crimean Tatars (1)This paper was the capstone of my HIST 395 seminar class on the history of Islam in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and it concerns the story of the Crimean Tatars, their ethnic history, deportation, and subsequent return to the peninsula in the 1990s. Click here to download.
Augustus CaesarThis paper served as the final exam of my HIST 395 seminar on Roman Republican history, and concerns the deification of the figures of Julius and Augustus Caesar and their significance to Roman political culture. Click here to download.
Ethnicity and Citizenship in Rome and China (1)This paper comes from a graduate class I took comparing the Han Chinese and Roman civilizations, and particularly their political cultures, and in this paper I analyzed the similarities and differences between Classical Chinese and Roman conceptions of ethnicity and citizenship. Click here to download.