History Graduate Student Conference
The HGSA would like to thank the participants and attendees of the Second Annual HGSA/CHS Graduate Student Conference, held on Friday, 9 February 2007. We would also like to thank the Miller Center for Historical Studies for their funding and support.
We hope to see everyone next year!
2007 Conference Program
| 8:00-8:45 | Breakfast Service Offered |
| 8:45-9:00 | Introductions and Opening Remarks |
| 9:00-10:30 | Panel Session I |
| 10:30-10:45 | Morning Break |
| 10:45-11:30 | Keynote Speaker: Roy Rosenzweig, the Founder and Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University |
| 11:30-12:30 | Lunch |
| 12:30-1:45 | Panel Session II |
| 1:45-2:00 | Afternoon Break |
| 2:00-3:30 | Panel Session III |
| 3:30-3:45 | Afternoon Break |
| 3:45-5:00 | Panel Session IV |
| TBA | Reception |
Panel Session I:
Panel A: “Visions of the Other at Home and Abroad”
“The Chrysanthemum Revealed: Ruth Benedict and the Beginnings of Postwar America’s Discourse on Japan, 1943-1947”
Brian Phelan, University of Maryland
“Opposing Visions: Travel Writing and the Representations of Spain, 1965-1985”
Karl Trybus, University of Connecticut
“Hemispheric Thinking: John Collier, Manuel Gamio, and the ‘Development’ of the Inter-American Indian”
Sheyda Jahanbani, Brown University
Commentator: Jessica Wagner, University of Maryland
Panel B: “Nation Building and Myth Making”
“Divine Nationalism – Beginnings of the Divine Nation-State in Mid-Nineteenth Century Central Europe”
Jason Konik, University of Virginia
“The Jefferson Davis Myth: Post Civil War Southern Identity and Nation-Building”
Kirk Strawbridge
“Rethinking Chinese Nationalism: The Twenty-one Demands and the Anti-Japanese Movement of 1915”
Robert Peterson, University of Maryland
Commentator: Andrew Kellett, University of Maryland
Panel Session II:
Panel A: “Constructing Urban Community”
“A Sport to ‘Puzzle the Knowing Ones:’ Horse Racing in Milwaukee, 1850-1880”
Monica Witkowski, Marquette University
“Appeals to Harmony in the Land of Eden: Perrine Palmer and the Contradictions of Class in 1930’s Miami”
Thomas Castillo, University of Maryland
“Before the Storm: Galveston’s Italian Community in the Late Nineteenth Century”
Stacy Lowe Bondurant, George Washington University
Commentator: Leandro Benmergui, University of Maryland
Panel B: “American Protestantism: Redefining Religious Identity”
“What’s Behind the ‘Sugar Cane Curtain?:’ U.S. Protestants Survey the Cuban Revolution”
Sara Berndt, George Washington University
“‘One Body and One Spirit:’ The Congregationalists and Presbyterian Journey Toward Christian Unity in the Early Republic”
Harrison Taylor, Mississippi State University
“Constructing Outsider Identity in the First Great Awakening: The Moravian Litany of the Wounds”
Jason Leto, Florida State University
Commentator: Janel Kragt Bakker, Catholic University of America
Panel Session III:
Panel A: “Sexuality and the Control of Women’s Bodies”
“Nine ‘Bad’ Girls: The Uniquely Individual Inmates of Philadelphia’s Midnight Mission, 1915-1918.”
James Adams, Temple University
“Using the Language of Eugenics: Female Physicians in Weimar and Nazi Germany”
Melissa Kravetz, University of Maryland
“Sanity, Shame, and Sexual Passion: Negotiating the Meaning of Nymphomania in Victorian America”
Diana Reinhard, Temple University
Commentator: Sarah Walsh, University of Maryland
Panel B: “Gaining Power: American Social Movements”
“‘A Champion Had Come’: William Pitt Fessenden and the Republican Party, 1854-1860″
Michael Landis, George Washington University
“Theodore Roosevelt and the Failed Struggle for Black Civil Rights: Hodges v. US and Powell v. US”
Michael Caires, San Francisco State University
“Anarchism and the Wobblies”
Paul Gibson, University of Maryland
Commentator: Darren Speece, University of Maryland
Panel Session IV:
Panel A: “Managing Memory in North America”
“Por que?: Language and Social Movements in 1968 Mexico”
Shane Dillingham, University of Maryland
“The 1957 Jamestown Festival and the American Civil Rights Movement”
Megan Stubbendeck, University of Virginia
Commentator: Courtney Michael, University of Maryland
Panel B: “Imperialism and Methods of Control”
“Liberia in the Age of Tubman”
Erik Christiansen, University of Maryland
“Conflict on the Kadei: German and French Imperial Conduct in Cameroon”
Jeremy Best, University of Maryland
Commentator: Mike Soracoe, University of Maryland
Reception location and time to be announced.
Additional information:
- Call for Papers (the submission and acceptance process has now been completed; no further entries will be accepted)