Fall 2017 Symposium – Friday, 12/8

Fall 2017 Symposium
Department of History and American Studies
Friday, December 8, 2017
9 am – 2 pm, Monroe 210 and 111

All are welcome!

 

SESSION ONE. 9:00 AM. Monroe 210 – Selected Papers: Culture, Gender, and a New Military History
Moderator: Susan Fernsebner

Elisha Sese-Khalid – “The War Theatre of Jazz and Jim Crow”

Emily James – “Girls in 2-D with Real Significance: Paper Dolls and Girlhood in the 1940s and 1950s”

Clenda Membreno – “Guerillas: How the Salvadoran Civil War Impacted the Lives of Women”

 

SESSION TWO. 9:00 AM. Monroe 111 – New Looks at the Second World War
Moderator: Steve Harris

Jacob Carter – “Steel Behemoths: Evolution of Tank Combat and Design, 1919-1943”

Buffy Schilling – “Churchill and Roosevelt: Common and Conflicting Interests that Helped Win World War II”

Joshua Hunt – “Chemistry and Collaboration: The Nuremberg Trial of the IG Farben Executives”

 

SESSION THREE. 10 AM. Monroe 111 – Race, Gender, and Education
Moderator: Krystyn Moon

Steven Albright – “The Role of the G.I. Bill in Changing Higher Education and Society in America”

Kierra Wormley – “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder: Black Women, the Black Press and White Beauty Standards, 1960-1980”

Raven Sharrieff – “Shades of Femininity: Colorism in Adolescence in the 21st Century”

 

SESSION FOUR. 11 AM. Monroe 210 – Selected Papers: History and Media
Moderator: Bruce O’Brien

Nicole Spreeman – “The Representation of the Armenian Genocide in The New York Times in 1915”

Darron Lockett – “Perception: Understanding Thomas Edward Lawrence and His Effect on Historical Literature”

Samuel Goad – “Bandits, Billionaires, and Bombers: A Historical Analysis of Western Film Depictions of the Middle East”

 

SESSION FIVE. 11 AM. Monroe 111 – Creating and Destroying Group & National Identities in American History
Moderator: Erin Devlin

Kasey Mayer – “The Cherokee and Their Reactions to the Dawes Act of 1887”

Christopher Noebels – “The Boy Scouts of America and Wilderness”

 

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Lunch Break

 

SESSION SIX. 1 PM. Monroe 210 – Spouses, Asylums, and the Stage: Papers in US History and American Studies
Moderator: Will Mackintosh

Claire Gunnell Goode – “The Husbands of the Women’s Movement: James Mott, Theodore Weld, and Henry Stanton”

Anna Brooks – “The Women of the Western State Lunatic Asylum”

Lindsey McCuiston – “For America: The Story of Hamilton and its Message to the World”

 

SESSION SEVEN. 1 PM. Monroe 111 – Topics in Global History
Moderator: Nabil Al-Tikriti

Kyle Powers – “Napoleon: Revolutionary or Betrayer to a Nation?”

Curtis Smedley – “The Middle Path”

John Guidon – “The Sakartvelian Charade: An Investigation Into the Use of Media as Russian Soft Power and the Involvement of Organization Crime Syndicates in the Coup of Zviad Gamsakhurdia”

 

SESSION EIGHT. 2 PM. Monroe 210 – Rivers and Bays: Environmental History in the Chesapeake Watershed
Moderator: Allyson Poska

Woodie Walker – “Land of Transition: A Bioregional Discussion of the Fall Line of the Rappahannock River, From Pre-contact through the Early Colonial Era”

Neil Sargent – “The Battle of the Bay: Humankind versus the Chesapeake”