History and American Studies Symposium
Preliminary Program
University of Mary Washington – Department of History and American Studies
Friday, April 25, 2014
SESSION ONE. 9 AM. Monroe 210—Histories of World War II
Moderator: Dr. Porter Blakemore
Grace Christenson—In It All the Way: Propaganda of World War II
Jason J. Ellington—Interservice Rivalries and the World War II Unification Battle
Conner Allen—A Fleet for a Fleet: The Struggle for Mediterranean Dominance from Djerba to Lepanto, 1560-1571
SESSION TWO. 9 AM. Monroe 211—Explorations in American Mass Media and Television
Moderator: Dr. Jason Sellers
Leah Tams—The Korean War in the 1960s and 1970s: A Cultural Analysis of the First Six Seasons of M*A*S*H
Jason Milton—Black, White, and Read All Over: The Month Following the Wounded Knee Massacre through the Lens of American Newspapers
Daniel Russell—Ho Chi Minh: Through the Lens of TIME
SESSION THREE. 9 AM. Monroe 111—Studies in American Life
Moderator: Dr. Jess Rigelhaupt
Kearsten Lehman—Female Scientists Through the Ages: Focusing Primarily on Dr. Sara Josephine Baker
Amanda Vercruysse—The Good Eats Fandom: An Analysis of Audience Participation in the Digital World
Rebecca Sherman—Dorothy Mae Taylor and Anti-Discrimination in Mardi Gras
SESSION FOUR. 10 AM. Monroe 210—Totalitarian Regimes and Mass Death in Modern Times
Moderator: Dr. Steven E. Harris
Andrew Broedel—The Assyrian Genocide
Ian Millar—Felix Dzerzhinsky: Father of The Soviet Secret Police
Maxwell Reinhardt—The Pink Triangle behind the Iron Curtain: Social Policy and the Treatment of Gay Men and Lesbians in Communist East Germany
SESSION FIVE. 10 AM. Monroe 211—Explorations in American Society and Culture
Moderator: Dr. Al-Tikriti
George Hareras—The Native American Mascot Controversy: A History of Racial Stereotyping
Emily Broton—Black and White Newspapers: Loving or Not Loving?
Frank Zare—Navy SEALs in Hollywood
SESSION SIX. 11 AM. Monroe 210—Women in American History
Moderator: Dr. Susan Fernsebner
Courtney Collier—“The Almost Perfect First Lady”: Jacqueline Kennedy and How She Strategically Promoted the Kennedy Administration and Her Image as a First Lady
John Gordon Crowell-Mackie—Sensationalism and Societal Standards: How Female Serial Killers Were Depicted in Newspapers at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Carly Winfield—The Last of the Ladies: The Ladies Memorial Association of Fredericksburg and the Ladies Memorial Association of Petersburg
SESSION SEVEN. 11 AM. Monroe 211—Topics in European and American History
Moderator: Dr. Claudine Ferrell
Meaghan Sullivan—Guardians of Culture: The Significance of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Division of the Armed Forces During the Second World War
Rebecca Hoehn—Abominations of Nazi Medicine
Arthur Deegan—Basque Influences: Societal Changes in Eleventh-Century Navarra
SESSION EIGHT. 11 AM. Monroe 111–Topics in American History
Moderator: Dr. Jason Sellers
Katherine Tryon–Patriarchy in Virginia’s Female Education in the Nineteenth Century
Kristina Rader—Blood on the Cobblestones of Kings Street: Media after the Boston Massacre
John Ball—Foundations of the Fifth Amendment: Just Compensation for Expropriated Property in Colonial America
SESSION NINE. 1 PM. Monroe 210—Histories of Slavery, Incarceration, and Civil War
Moderator: Dr. Bruce O’Brien
Stephen Campbell—Colonial South Carolina’s Heart of Darkness: The Indian Slave Trade
Stefanie Lilly—“God Is a Spirit, Ain’t He?” The Intersection of Conjure and Christianity in Antebellum Slave Resistance
Sean Redmiles—“Meade’s Position Proved Embarrassing To Me If Not To Him”: The Relationship between Grant and Meade during the Campaigns of 1864-1865
SESSION TEN. 1 PM. Monroe 211—Examining American Politics and Culture
Moderator: Dr. Allyson Poska
Kasey Moore—Alcatraz: A Defensive Narrative
Candice Roland—Acres Made Sacred”: Ferry Farm, the Cherry Tree, and the Manipulation of Memory
Mary Wendt—Advertising “America” in the 1964 Presidential Campaign
SESSION ELEVEN. 2 PM. Monroe 210—Troubled Times in American History
Moderator: Dr. Will Mackintosh
Chelsea Chin—Two Distinct and Hostile Forces: American Imperialism and the Debate on the Chinese Exclusion Act
Samuel Taylor— “American Progress”: The Frontier, Gender, and the Spanish-American War
Kevin Parker–Roger Sherman’s Religion and its Effect on his Politics
SESSION TWELVE. 2 PM. Monroe 211—Adventures in Digital History
Moderator: Dr. Jeff McClurken
Then and Now: Images from the Past and Present
Alexandria Parrish
Carly Winfield
Conner Allen
Jessica Reingold
Meaghan Sullivan
1960s Scrapbooks from MWC
Alex Young
Ellen Peiser
Jessica Chrisman
Laura-Michael Balderson
Ronald Vest
3D Scanning and the James Monroe Museum
Amanda Vercruysse
Eric Greenlaw
Ike Copperthite
Victoria Skaggs
Century America
Candice Roland
Jack Hylan
Julia Wood
Leah Tams
