Department of History and American Studies
Senior Thesis Symposium
December 5, 2014
9 am – 1 pm
Open to all, light refreshments will be served!
PANELS
9:00 am
SESSION ONE: Topics on Race & Gender in U.S. History
Monroe 210
Moderator: Dr. Porter Blakemore
Chris Macko, “‘A caravan of wild beasts could bear no comparison with it’: Female Camp Followers and Their Motivations in the American Revolution”
Carla Williams, “The Sportman: White Masculinity in the Late 19th Century”
SESSION TWO: Military History
Monroe 111
Moderator: Dr. Jeffrey McClurken
Will Rogers, “The Saga of John Elphinstone: An Analysis of his Naval Expedition and Service to the Russians in the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774”
Jack Hylan, “Black Officers in the Great War and the Division within The African American Community”
10:00 am
SESSION THREE: Gender in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Room 210
Moderator: Dr. Allyson Poska
Katelyn Lewis, “Peace-weaving Wives and Warrior Women: Measuring Mutual Impact on Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian Women in the Viking Age”
Gwendolyn Buyze, “Hernando de Solarte: The Spanish Inquisition and the Basque Witch Persecution”
Kaitlyn Connolly, “Gender, Drinking, and Violence in Early Modern England”
SESSION FOUR: Topics in U.S. History and American Studies: Then & Now
Room 111
Moderator: Dr. Jess Rigelhaupt
Joanna Jourdan, “‘In Remembrance of His Goodness and Truth’: American Contemporary Mourning for President James Garfield”
Trevor Pennington, “The Silent Participant: Study of the Symbiotic Relationship between the Ku Klux Klan and the Baptist Church in 1920s America”
Margaret D’Amico, “Women: The Forgotten Victims of the War on Drugs”
11:00 am
SESSION FIVE: Cultural History of the United States
Room 210
Moderator: Dr. Krystyn Moon
Drew Seymour, “The Grand Ole Opry Insurance Company: How Synergy Between Radio and Insurance Transformed ‘The Athens of the South’ Into Music City”
Morgan Hayes, “The Battle between Two Women: Nancy Drew as an extension of Mildred Wirt Benson and Harriet Adams Stratemeyer”
Jess Reingold, “Mount St. Helens: A Tourist Hot Spot”
SESSION SIX: U.S. Civil War History
Room 111
Moderator: Dr. Bruce O’Brien
Andrew Masters, “‘Deception is the Ethics of War’: An Analysis of the Campaign of John Singleton Mosby and His Partisan Rangers”
Ryan Quint, “’You snatched Washington out of our Hands’: The Battle of Monocacy and the Redemption of Lew Wallace”
1:00 pm
SESSION SEVEN: 20th Century U.S. Military History
Room 210
Moderator: Dr. Claudine Ferrell
Elizabeth Henry, “Wish Me Luck as You Wave Me Goodbye: The Organization and Public Opinion of the Evacuations of Schoolchildren in Great Britain During the Second World War”
James Moore, “Tank Design from the Interwar Period to 1950”
Steven Roper, “Bullets and Brushstrokes: American Military Equipment Art’s Culture Connotations, 1917-1975”
SESSION EIGHT: Topics in United States History
Room 211
Moderator: Dr. Will Mackintosh
Lauren Garcia, “To Cultivate Cordial Peace and Friendship: The Evolving Views of Thomas Jefferson Toward Native Americans”
Ronald Vest, “1887: A Year in the Press – The Cherokee Nation, The Dawes Act, and the Local, Regional, and National News”
SESSION NINE: European History – Two Studies
Room 111
Moderator: Dr. Susan Fernsebner
James Eichner, “The Devolution of Carolingian Statehood”
Emily Hummel, “The Jews of Europe and Germany on the Eve of the First Crusade”
