Alex F. Krupp

History and political science graduate from the University of Kentucky. Former Gaines Fellow and Carter Center research intern. Atlanta native.

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30th March 2017

Crossing that Fine Line: How Steely Dan Defied the Trends and Complicated the 70s with "Deacon Blues"

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.
25th March 2017

Nixon v. The Newspaper: How the Press and the Presidency Changed each other During Watergate

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.
25th March 2017

From the Past, For the Future: How the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe has evolved the Modern Memorial

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.
25th March 2017

Complicated Commanders: Nixon, Ford, and Carter in Popular Thought and Scholarly Research

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.
25th March 2017

Historiographical Analysis of the 1920s in America

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.
25th March 2017

A Defense of Atonement: Examining the Synchronicity between War Memoirs and War Novels

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.
25th March 2017

The Growth of Democratic Urbanism: Sorkin, Crawford, Gehl, and the Future

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.
25th March 2017

Buford Highway: More than a Simple Melting Pot

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.
25th March 2017

A New Breed of Mafia: Causes and Ideas on Transnational Organized Crime in the 21st Century

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.
23rd March 2017

In the Eye of the Storm: The Causes and Events of the Franco-Siamese War

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.
23rd March 2017

The Rivonia Trial: How Did Mandela Escape Hanging?

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.
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