RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM: HISTORY, AMERICAN STUDIES, AND SOCIOLOGY (HASO)
Friday, December 6th, 2024, 9-Noon
DuPont 209 and 2015
SESSION ONE. 9 AM. DuPont 215. Gender, Genres, and Monsters: Voices of the Past. Moderator: Prof. Krystyn Moon
Miranda Lenihan – “Legitimacy in Blood: The Omission of Timur’s Wives in Sharaf al-Din Ali Yazdi’s Zafarnama”
Haley Cotton – “Gender in Monsters in the Edo Period: How Gender Morphs Yōkai Bodies”
Lexi Jackson – “Chinese Cultural Revolution Memoirs and Their Significance in Understanding the Impacts of Collective Violence”
SESSION TWO. 9 AM. DuPont 209. Selected Papers in U.S. History. Moderator: Prof. Claudine Ferrell
John McDowell – “Questioning the Validity of N. B. Forrest’s Attitude of Racial Reconciliation in the 1870s”
Cameron McKeon – “The Major League Baseball Ballpark Boom of the 1990s-2000s”
SESSION THREE. 10 AM. DuPont 215. Of Disney and the Field of Law: Senior Projects in American Studies and Sociology. Moderator: Prof. Erin Devlin
Madeline MacArthur – “Disney: The Happiest Company on Earth?”
Colin Tuttle and Haley Miller – “Balancing Acts: How Motherhood May Diminish Career Prestige for Lawyers”
Hallie Perry, Makai Milton, and Donald Glander – “Selective Connectiveness: Do Lawyers’ Political Views Shape Their Involvement in External Organizations”
SESSION FOUR. 11 AM. DuPont 215. Case Studies in Empire: The Mamluk Sultanate and the Ottoman Imperium. Moderator: Prof. Will Mackintosh
Hayden Oyos – “The Foundations of a Slave Empire: How the Mongol Expansion Directly Led to the Establishment of the Mamluk Sultanate”
Aidan Smagh – “The Links Between Tommaso Campanella’s City of the Sun and the Ottoman Empire”
Sean Jones – “Sir William Muir’s The Life of Mohomet: An Example of a Failed Secondary Source”
