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QUAESTIO - Social Sciences Division - UCLA

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Quaestio<br />

Maneesh Karna is a third year Sociology and History double<br />

major and Accounting minor who is currently pursuing college,<br />

departmental, and Latin honors. Maneesh’s paper was written<br />

under the instruction of graduate student Jesse Sadler for lower<br />

division seminar, History 97D: Freemasonry, Civil Society, and<br />

American Democracy. His research focuses on the dynamic<br />

interrelations of U.S. Freemasonry and Christianity; he is<br />

particularly interested in examining how Masonic texts challenge<br />

Christian Bible. As far as his extracurricular involvements go,<br />

Maneesh is the Scholarship Chairman and Vice President Elect<br />

of the Beta Alpha Chapter of Theta Chi Fraternity and the<br />

current president of a <strong>UCLA</strong> student group, called OX Value<br />

Investing. Maneesh’s professional goal is to become a financial<br />

analyst and he hopes to continue his hobby of writing fiction on<br />

the side.<br />

Ethan Scapellati is a fourth year History and Political Science<br />

double major. Ethan conducted the research and writing of his<br />

senior thesis (an excerpt of which is included in this journal)<br />

under the direction of Professor and History Department Vice<br />

Chair Joan Waugh. Ethan's interest has always been grounded in<br />

nineteenth century American history, and accordingly, his senior<br />

thesis focuses on Civil War soldierhood and it's manifestations<br />

during the Gilded Age and the formation of the American nation.<br />

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