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Schedule of Events for Phi Alpha Theta Kentucky Regional Meeting

and History Undergraduate Research Conference

Western Kentucky University

Saturday, April 15, 2023

 

Conference outline (all times Central)
8:15 – 9:00	Registration & coffee (Cherry Hall 210)
9:00 – 9:55	Session 1 (see below for details)
10:00 - 10:55	Session 2 (see below for details)
11:00 - 11:30	Berkshire historians meeting & break
11:30 - 12:30	Plenary lecture (Cherry Hall 125):     Dr. Katherine Lennard     Frockt Family Chair of Civil War Studies     “Unsettled in the Archive: Encountering the Assassin's Hood”
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch (Cherry Hall 210)
1:30 - 2:25	Session 3 (see below for details)

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Session 1
Panel A (Cherry Hall 204)
Madeline Hart	University of Tennessee Martin	Undergraduates Author OER Text: Portrait of the Twenty-First-Century World
Christina Henry	University of Tennessee Martin	Undergraduates Author OER Text: Portrait of the Twenty-First-Century World
Lilly Slipher	University of Tennessee Martin	Undergraduates Author OER Text: Portrait of the Twenty-First-Century World
Panel B (Cherry Hall 209)
Clare Coleman	Western Kentucky University	The Overlooked Edge. Rosalie Barrow Edge, The First Modern Environmentalist of Her Kind
Ava Gyurcsik	University of Cincinnati	‘Tis Woman, Woman Rules Us Still: The Roles of Royal Women during the early English Reformation
Haley Pettit	Eastern Kentucky University	"We...should have been the pioneers in this great reform": Mormon Leadership Strategies during Utah's Prohibition Movement
Panel C (Cherry Hall 215)
Breezy Edmiston	Union University	Seized by the Passions: An Essay Highlighting the Controversy of the Great Awakening
Jonathan Billings	University of Louisville	Jewish Messianism and Christian Origins: Continuity and Novelty
Prentis Serrano	Western Kentucky University	Judeo-conversos, New Christians, Crypto-Jews, and Calidad: What it Meant to be Jewish in Sixteenth- and-Seventeenth-century Spanish
Session 2
Panel A (Cherry Hall 204)
Hailey Miller	Campbellsville University	Anne Braden and Her Long-Lasting Effects on Louisville
Jacob Van Bibber	University of Southern Indiana	The Oriental Eye Through the Lens of Japanese Kabuki and Victorian Theater
David Hunter Hartlage	Western Kentucky University	The Devil's in the Details: How Heavy Metal Music became the Target of a Moral Panic
Panel B (Cherry Hall 209)
James Michael Cassese	University of Tennessee Martin	The Battle of Naseby and the success of the New Model Army
Kaylene Bliss	Western Kentucky University	Hannibal's Elephants: Help or Hindrance?
Evelyn Shrader	Belmont University	The Big Push: British Introduction of Chemical Warfare
Panel C (Cherry Hall 215)
Alyssa Murphy	Thomas More University	True Believers: Gilded Age Political Scandal
Anthony Thibus	Belmont University	The Gorbachev Years: Inside Perspectives from the Era of Perestroika and Beyond
Derek Thomas Howard	Campbellsville University	The great game in the graveyard of empires
Session 3
Panel A (Cherry Hall 204)
Chris Young	Union University	Killing The Indian, Saving The Man: America's Answer To Native American Education and Culture
Megan Tims	Belmont University	The Abolition of the British Slave Trade in the Caribbean Colonies
Tristan Fox	Western Kentucky University	Warping Minds: Early Childhood Education in Hitler's Germany
Panel B (Cherry Hall 209)
Bridget Beavin	Western Kentucky University	Frivolity and Hysteria: The Double Bind of American Cosmetics Advertisements in the 1950s
Eden Baize	University of Louisville	Birth Control and the Sixties: The Dialogue Surrounding the First Oral Contraceptive
Jack Jenkins	Union University	American Interstates: The Connecter and Divider
Panel C (Cherry Hall 215)
Nicholas Ryan Herrud	Austin Peay State University	A Borderland of Ideologies: The Polish Army and Western Ukraine 1918-1921
Emily Aisenbrey	Thomas More University	Irrationality over Intellect: Cincinnati Radiation Tests
Abigail Gilbert	Union University	Robin Hood: Man or Myth?