Join the senior majors in the Department of History as they present their research.
Session One 3:10 – 4:00 p.m.
Panel 1: Making Stories, Reality and the Imaginary
Oden 110 - Chair: Professor Patrick Bottiger
- Elizabeth Redmond, “Pamphlet Production, Royal Reproduction, and Catholic
Conspiracy” - Matt Kovan, “Constructing a Hero: An Examination of Humanist Portrayals of John
of Austria and the Battle of Lepanto in the 16th Century” - David Livingston, “How Colonial American Media Helped Shaped the Perception of
Native Americans on the Eve of the French and Indian War”
Panel 2 : Resistance, Resilience and Restoration
Oden 120 - Co-Chairs: Professors Christian Petersen & Sidney-Paige
Patterson
- Aleksa Dobric, “Echoes of Resilience: Serbian Cultural Expression During the First
World War” - Hill Carter, “Literature as Resistance: How Siouan Authors Shaped Indigenous
Identity and Cultural Preservation, 1887-1937” - Peter Haas, “Strategies of Jewish Survival: Rezső Kasztner’s and Oskar Schindler’s
Resistance Through Nazi Collaboration” - Theresa Phung, “Beyond Borders: Cherokee Sovereignty and the Intersection of Geographical Organization and Political Agency in Colonial North America, 1715-1791”
Panel 3: Warfare
Oden 130 - Chair: Professor Hilary Buxton
- Alex Austin, “Furnished and Made by the Department of War”: The Legion of the
United States and The Creation of an American Standing Army, 1789-1802 - Trey Loizzo, “The Wars of Louis XIV and the French State”
- William Wilson, “Individual Liberty or National Advancement: Impressment in the
British Royal Navy, 1794-1812” - Molly Dean, “Barbarie senza uguali nella storia moderna”: Terrorism as Construct in
the Murder of Aldo Moro
Session Two 4:10 - 5:00 P.M
Panel 1: Representation, Identity and Culture
Oden 110 - Chair: Professor Alex Novikoff
- Cyrus Griffin, “So Ancient and so Wonderfully Composed:” Language as Cultural
Criterion in Early British Sinology” - Luca Segalla, “The Americanization of Judaism in the 1920s: How Jewish
Masculinity Conformed to American Culture and Defied Zionism” - Peter Plaggenborg, “The Greatest and Worst of All:” The Execution of Captain
William Kidd and the Foundation of a Cultural Legacy”
Panel 2: Health and Medicine
Oden 120 - Chair: Professor Wendy Singer
- Alex Xu, “Zhao’s Caterpillar: Empire and Medical Knowledge Production in Qing
China” - Alex Carrigan, “Wrapping the Womb: The Intersection of Religion and Medicine in
Medieval English Birthing Girdles” - Caroline Brady, “Sell Wellcome!:” Defining the Historical Significance of the ACT UP
Protest at the New York Stock Exchange on September 14, 1989”
Panel 3: Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights
Oden 130 - Chair: Professor Lauren Jannette
- Rose Winston, “Liberation and Marginalization: The Treatment of Sexual Minorities
During the French Revolution” - Elizabeth Smith, “‘Blood on the Walls:' The Weaponization of Femininity, Prison
Protests, and the Politics of Recognition for Irish Republican Women During the
Troubles in Northern Ireland, 1969-1998”
Session Three 5:10 - 6:00 p.m.
Panel 1: Economics and Power
Oden 110 - Chair: Professor Stephen Volz
- Preston Henigan, “The 'Spirit of Slavery' Persists: White Southern Planters, the
Freedmen's Bureau, and Andrew Johnson’s Role in Making Sharecropping a
Replacement to Slavery in the Early Years of Reconstruction” - Rakim Cabrera-Scarlata, “Real and Imagined Moroland: American Imperialism, Agriculture and the Muslim Philippines”
- Ziyi Yang, “From Imagination to Implementation: China's Reform and Opening Up, 1978–1998”
Panel 2: Sports and Politics
Oden 120 - Chair: Professor Lin Li
- Thomas Nelson, “Cold War on Ice: International Hockey as a Battleground of
Ideologies, 1947–1980” - Evan Manley, “Birth, Bournemouth, and Superbrat: Britain’s Shifting Role in
Modern Lawn Tennis, 1874-1980”