Registration
8:00 - 11:45 a.m.
KU West Ballroom
Session One: 9:15-10:45 a.m.
The United States and Reactions to War
Moderator: Edward Roach
Location: KU 207
Casey Schuster, University of Dayton
“Distant Thunder: The University of Dayton and the Spanish Civil War”
Samantha L. Lewis, Ohio Northern University
“Perry vs. Elliott: The Battle over the Battle of Lake Erie”
Benjamin Wilkens Wollett, Ohio Northern University
“Bias in German- and English-Language Newspapers in Ohio, 1916-1917”
Latin American History
Moderator: Dr. Michelle Tabit
Location: KU 211
Lydia J. Bottoni, Ohio Northern University
“’Cool but Correct’ – and Covert: U.S. Destabilization of the Allende Regime”
Brett A. Simmons, Xavier University
“Misinterpreting Haitian History: the case for a contested concept of freedom”
Early US History I
Moderator: Galen Wilson
Location: KU 311
Thomas Middleton, University of Dayton
“Why Fight? Sailors’ Involvement in the Philadelphia Election Riot of 1742”
Patti J. Stiger, Ohio Northern University
“William Henry Harrison: Friend of Government?”
US Leadership in the 1960s: Kennedy and King
Moderator: Dr. Janet R. Bednarek
Location: KU 312
Brenda Delarber, Defiance College
“Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Individuals who impacted his Leadership”
Benjamin Hunt, University of Dayton
“The Questioning of the Kennedy Myth: John F. Kennedy 45 years later”
Session Two: 11:00-12:15
Revolution and Nationalism
Moderator: Dr. John Lomax
Location: KU 207
Nicholas Weber, Defiance College
“Rise of the Khmer Rouge: Causes of the Communist Revolution in Cambodia”
Caitlin Tyler-Richards, College of Wooster
“’I am Redemption’: The Unsteady State of Nigerian Nationalism in Chris Abani’s Graceland”
Civil War United States
Moderator: Edward Roach
Location: KU 211
Zachary Ara Elmassian, Denison University
“The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Southern Identity in Music During the Civil War”
Brian Hoefel, Ohio Northern University
“A Divided House: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates and the Presidential Election of 1860”
Graduate Papers: US History
Moderator: Dr. Laura Hume
Location: KU 310
Kathryn Chambers, The University of Akron
“Patriotic Support: The Girdled Pin-Up during World War II”
Steven Haynes, Kent State University
“Emerging Consensus: American Internationalism and the Election of 1920”
Chad Lower, Kent State University
“’A Few Most Important Articles’: Congregationalist Religious and Political Ideology in Nineteenth Century Connecticut”
The United States in the 1960s and 1970s
Moderator: Dr. Janet R. Bednarek
Location: KU 311
Katherine Brausch, The College of Wooster
“Seize the Time: The Black Panther Party and Revolutionary Imagery”
Matthew J. Alen, Ohio Northern University
“The Death of a Dream: The Disappearance of the Campus Antiwar Movement in 1970”
Laura Derov, Defiance College
“The Vietnam War According to Hollywood”
US National Government Programs: From the Second Bank to the Space Shuttle
Moderator: Galen Wilson
Location: KU 312
Andrew P. Adamus, Ohio Northern University
“Andrew Jackson, Nicolas Biddle, and the Demise of the Second Bank of the United States”
Kyle Shong, Defiance College
“How FDR used the Tennessee Valley Authority to pull the country out of the Great Depression”
Adam Fullenkamp, Defiance College
“Into the Great Black Beyond: The Building and Implementation of the Space Transportation System”
Luncheon
Location: KU Barrett Dining Room
12:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m.
Luncheon Speaker: Dr. John Heitmann
Topic: Car Culture in US
Session Three: 2:00-3:30
European History
Moderator: Dr. Laura Hume
Location: KU 207
Michael S. McCullough, The University of Akron
“Death in Renaissance Florence: The Social Importance of Funerary Rites, Rituals, and Burials”
Christine Misterka, Denison University
“The Contextualization of John Stuart Mill’s Thought on Individuality as presented in his work On Liberty”
Jason Lyon, University of Dayton
“Too Many Things to Worry About: Europe in 1946”
Early US History II
Moderator: Dr. Michelle Tabit
Location: KU 312
Carol M. Wilson, Ohio Northern University
“The Lies of Aaron Burr and the Demise of his Western Dreams”
Heather Chewing, The University of Akron
“Harmony and Hostility: An Analysis of Indian and White Relations in the Connecticut Western Reserve, 1795-1812”
Foreign Policy and Constitutional Issues in the United States
Moderator: Dr. John Lomax
Location: KU 311
Jason K. Bauer, Ohio Northern University
“The ‘Irreconcilables’ and Senate Rejection of the Treaty of Versailles”
Ashlee E. Bell, Ohio Northern University
“The Path to Present Practice: The American Jury System”
Graduate Papers: European History
Moderator: Dr. Russ Crawford
Location: KU 211
Jacob Glicklich, The University of Akron
“The Russian Other to Victorian Eyes: Transnational colonial gendering through nineteenth century periodicals”
Amanada Stevens, Marshall University
“’Last Survivors of the German Race’: The Postwar Freikorps and the Weimar Republic’s Assisted Suicide”
Awards and PAT Advisors Meeting
3:45-4:30
KU West Ballroom