Alex F. Krupp

I wrote this piece for Dr. Ron Pen in the Gaines Center for the Humanities junior seminar in 2016. It analyzes the music of Steely Dan and its social and political message both in the time in which it was produced and today.

The University of Kentucky requires history students to author a graduation writing assignment, spread over the course of a semester. I wrote this paper in 2016 under Dr. David Hamilton for that purpose. It covers the history of American investigative journalism and argues how Watergate became a watershed moment for the profession.

A Paper I wrote in 2016 for Dr. Wallis Miller in Gaines Center for the Humanities junior seminar. Dr. Miller taught a section on memorial architecture. This piece analyzes the success of Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.

I wrote this for Dr. David Hamilton's "America in the 70's" course, a history seminar restricted to senior-level students. The paper is a historiographical analysis of the oft-satirized presidencies of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter.

A paper I wrote in 2015 for Dr. David Hamilton's upper-level course on American history between the world wars. It explores historians' interpretations of the social and political events of the 1920s in America.

A paper I wrote for Dr. Phil Harling in 2015 at the Gaines Center for the Humanities. Juniors in the program are required to take a rigorous seminar taught by a diverse range of faculty. Dr. Harling's section covered "war and remembrance" and, as such, this paper compares and contrasts the usefulness of war memoirs and war novels in understanding the experience of war itself.

I wrote this for Jeff Fugate, an urban planner working for the city of Lexington, at the University of Kentucky's Gaines Center for the Humanities in 2015. It analyzes the growth of democratic urbanism and discusses the concept through case studies.

In the junior year, fellows at the Gaines Center for the Humanities take on a community-oriented jury project. I wrote this paper as a final report for my project, which extended from fall 2015 through 2016. It discusses urban problems and solutions on Atlanta's Buford Highway, a suburban multi-ethnic neighborhood.

Political science students at the University of Kentucky all take a course on political analysis, which culminates in a final paper. When I took the course in 2015, I chose, under the instruction of political science graduate student Jaclyn Johnson, to write about transnational organized crime and how new criminal networks have developed in the 21st century.

A paper I wrote for Dr. Daniel Morey in 2016. Morey teaches political science with a focus on international relations: this class in particular covered international wars. In the paper, I use historical commentary and political theory to explain the 1893 Franco-Siamese War and its consequences.

In 2015, Dr. Renfrew Christie of Cape Town's University of the Western Cape came to the University of Kentucky as a guest professor. In his course on South African political history in the era of Nelson Mandela, I wrote this summary report of the famous 1963 Rivonia Trial, in which Mandela testified outwardly against Apartheid.