Kendrix Reynolds has received her BA in History and she is currently a graduating MA history student at Cal State University San Marcos. Her favorite areas of study include: American social, cultural, and political history, eighteenth to twentieth-century United States history, world history, world civ, social and cultural movements, women’s history, Ancient Rome, medieval Europe, Middle East social, cultural, political, and religious history, and the Renaissance and Baroque periods of Europe.

Kendrix has served as treasurer of the only graduate student centered organization on the CSUSM campus, the Graduate Representatives Council for two years. She is also a member of the CSUSM History Club and the Phi Alpha Theta: National History Honors Society CSUSM Alpha Zeta Chi chapter. She has been a passionate student and educator of history, and hopes to be able to bring understanding and deeper meanings to the world around us through innovative historical research and interpretations.

Kendrix first found her interest in this thesis topic when she was looking at topics related to women. She found Mata Hari after talking to her retired military father about female portrayals in the military mostly pertaining to gender inequity and sexual implications. This led her down the path of researching “honeytraps,” in which she found one of the most famous ones, Mata Hari.