The Eight Annual Undergraduate History Conference kicks off Wednesday, April 16, with a plenary talk by Dr. Jessica Roney at 5:30 p.m. in the Lindley Room at the Ohio University Inn. Student presentations follow in Thursday, April 17.
Roney will discuss “Setting Up for Themselves: Voluntarism, Democracy & Citizenship in Revolutionary America.”
Student Panel Schedule
Student panels run from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, in Bentley Annex Conference Room 431.
9:30 – 9:40 a.m.—Conference Opening, Dr. Katherine Jellison, Professor and Chair of History.
9:45 – 11:45 a.m.—What rebels & heroes were made of in post-revolutionary to post-Civil War United States, chaired by Dr. Brian Schoen
- Ryan Bartlett, “The Crown of Oceanus: American Privateers during the Revolutionary War”
- Daryl Presson, “The Contribution of the Renicks in Ohio’s Cattle Country”
- Corey Brown, “Changing Perspectives on General Custer”
- Kayla Speakman, “Defending Their Land: The Battle over the Black Hills”
1:00 – 2:45 p.m.—Sex, Gender & Empowerment in World History, chaired by Dr. Miriam Shadis
- Katie Conlon, “Egypt for Which Egyptian? Feminist Reactions to Western Influence in Post-Colonial Egypt: 1919-1956”
- Lindsay Schneider, “OU’s First Female Dean: Irma Voigt”
- Kyle Serrot, “Sexual Deviance: Same-sex relations on the compounds of the Witwatersrand Goldmine of South Africa”
3 – 5 p.m.—Political culture & the politics of culture from WWII to the Cold War Era, chaired by Dr. Chester Pach
- Eric Buckenmeyer, “Emperor Hirohito: the Supreme Commander and his Rogue Military”
- Sam Miner, “Crushing Liberalism: Liberal Politicians in Nazi Germany and Communist East Germany”
- Eric Michael Burke, “’NOT ONLY OF SIGHT AND SOUND, BUT OF MIND’: Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone in the Kennedy Era”
- Mary Norton, “America’s Cross: Religion and American Foreign Policy in the Early Cold War”
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