{"id":7887,"date":"2026-05-04T02:57:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=7887"},"modified":"2026-05-19T01:37:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:37:55","slug":"fox-center-honors-fellows-bell-and-raykher-present-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2026\/05\/04\/fox-center-honors-fellows-bell-and-raykher-present-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Center Honors Fellows Bell and Raykher Present Theses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2026\/05\/fox-ug-fellow-26-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2026\/05\/fox-ug-fellow-26-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2026\/05\/fox-ug-fellow-26-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2026\/05\/fox-ug-fellow-26-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2026\/05\/fox-ug-fellow-26-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2026\/05\/fox-ug-fellow-26.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/>Senior History majors <a href=\"https:\/\/fchi.emory.edu\/fellowships\/fellow-bio-pages\/daniel-bell.html\">Daniel Bell<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fchi.emory.edu\/fellowships\/fellow-bio-pages\/leo-raykher.html\">Leo Raykher<\/a> recently presented their honors theses as part of the 2025-&#8217;26 cohort of Fox Center Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellows. A senior double-majoring in Economics, Bell&#8217;s thesis examines the life and career of Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta\u2019s influential twentieth-century police chief. Raykher&#8217;s research explores espionage, surveillance, and political freedom in the United States through the life of his great, great-uncle, David Drucker, a strident advocate for socialist causes and political exile in Mexico. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both projects echo the Fox Center&#8217;s  2025-&#8217;26 theme, <a href=\"https:\/\/fchi.emory.edu\/programs\/theme-25-26.html\">Life\/Story<\/a>, which &#8220;draws its inspiration from the many ways humanities fields and disciplines often approach a single life as the entry point for examining broad political, socio-cultural, and historical phenomena.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior History majors Daniel Bell and Leo Raykher recently presented their honors theses as part of the 2025-&#8217;26 cohort of Fox Center Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellows. A senior double-majoring in Economics, Bell&#8217;s thesis examines the life and career of Herbert Jenkins, Atlanta\u2019s influential twentieth-century police chief. Raykher&#8217;s research explores espionage, surveillance, and political freedom in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-research","category-uncategorized","category-undergraduate-students","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7890,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7887\/revisions\/7890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}