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Second Annual
Loyola University
Chicago History Graduate Student Conference
Sponsored by the History Graduate Student Association, Loyola
University Chicago
NEW PERSPECTIVES IN
HISTORY:
GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
April 29, 2006
(Download paper conference program)
8-8:45
a.m.: Registration/Continental Breakfast
Damen Hall, Seventh Floor Lobby
9-10:45
a.m
Violence
and Safety: A Historical Perspective
Damen Hall, Room 730
Chair: Kevin Kaufmann, Loyola
University Chicago
Papers:
"Retreat and Save Yourselves: An Episode of Cowardice at the Battle of
Shiloh," Bjorn Skaptason, LUC
"Girl Scouts on Trial: Safety and Security after the 1977 Camp Scott
Tragedy," Amy Sullivan, University of Illinois at Chicago
"Brides of Christ and the Beasts: Cloistered Women and Their Narratives
of Violence," Ping-Yuan Wang, Yale University
Comment: Prudence A. Moylan, Professor, LUC
Segregation/Desegregation:
Erasing the Color Line
Damen Hall, Room 733
Chair: Frank Valadez, Director of Professional Development Programs for
Teachers, Newberry Library
Papers:
"The Orgill Appointment to the John Gaston Hospital Board: A Case Study
of Involuntary Segregation," Terence Johnson, University of South
Carolina
"Resisting the Struggle: Why Blacks Opposed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
in Chicago, 1966-1967," Darlene Gordon, DePaul University
"Warm Hearts and Warmer Mobs: The 'One Hundred Conventions' Antislavery
Lecture Tour of 1843," Dana E. Weiner, Northwestern University
Comment:
Christopher E. Manning, Assistant Professor, LUC
Transnational
Conceptions of Race
Damen Hall, Room 734
Chair: Jennifer Searcy, LUC
Papers:
"Why Is It Hard for a Black Man to Wear a Green Jacket?," Keith
Boring, LUC
"Homo Economicus Meets Workers, 'Wild Peoples,' and Women:
Class, Race, and Gender in Late Nineteenth Century German Economics,"
Jana Measells, Northwestern University
"Native Revolutionaries in the Heartland," Thomas Campion, LUC
Comment: Lewis
A. Erenberg, Professor, LUC
The
Midwestern Irish Experience
Damen Hall, Room 735
Chair: Michael Nicholsen, LUC
Papers:
"Studs Lonigan and St. Anselm's: Contested Space in History and
Literature on Chicago's South Side," Mark Smith, LUC
"'Keeping the Old Country Alive: The Cultural Component of Irish
American Identity in Chicago, 1900-1933," Jason Myers, LUC
"The Fenian Brotherhood and the Catholic Clergy in Indiana,
1858-1885," Douglas W. Cline, LUC
Comment: Ellen
Skerrett, Independent Scholar
11
a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Archaeological
Approaches to the Study of Medieval History
Damen Hall, Room 730
Chair: Andrew Donnelly, LUC
Papers:
"A Leprous State: English Attitudes towards Leprosy, 12 th and 13 th
Centuries," Jessica L. Ostrom, LUC
"Knives and Determination of Social Identity: Evidence from an
Anglo-Saxon Cemetary," Jennifer Stalec, LUC
"Hadrian's Wall: Impact of the Removal
of Roman Forces," Jennifer Mackall, LUC
Comment:
Leslie D. Dossey, Associate Professor, LUC
Gilded
Age and Progressive Era Reform
Damen Hall, Room 733
Chair: Frances Mitilineos, LUC
Papers:
"Competing Progressivisms in Progressive Era St.
Louis," Tom Collins, Washington
University in St.
Louis
"The Law and Order Movement of Gilded Age United States," Brian
Jolet, LUC
"Sacred Spaces, Public Spaces: The Place of Churches in Uptown's
Neighborhood Fabric, 1890-1930," Elizabeth Hoffman, LUC
Comment:
Harold L. Platt, Professor, LUC
Constructing
and Contesting Space
Damen Hall, Room 734
Chair: Ronald
Martin, LUC
Papers:
"Remembering Memorial Day: Changing Interpretations of a Labor
Massacre," Eleanor Mahoney, LUC
"Before Pullman: Industrial Development
on Chicago's Fringe Before the Civil
War," Tamsen Anderson, University
of California, Berkeley
Comment:
Patricia Mooney-Melvin, Associate Professor, LUC
1-1:45
p.m.: Lunch
Simpson Living/Learning Center, Multipurpose Room
Welcome
address: Barbara H. Rosenwein, History Department Chair, LUC
2-3:45
p.m.
Navigating
the Profession
Damen Hall, Room 735
Moderator:
Dominic Ferri, LUC
Panelists:
Dina M. Berger, Assistant Professor, LUC
Sarah Marcus, Historian and Managing Editor, Electronic Encyclopedia of
Chicago, Chicago History Museum
Kim M. Searcy, Assistant Professor, LUC
Gender
in America:
A Historical Perspective
Damen Hall, Room 730
Chair: Kenneth Kasperski, LUC
Papers:
"The Embodiment of Female Moravian Piety," Bettina Hessler,
Northwestern University
"Lipstick and Washing Machines," Shannon Skiles, Youngstown State
University
"'Homosexuality Goes Back to the Orientals': Gendered and Sexed U.S.
Visions of China," Christopher Dean Lee, University of South Florida
"'Fashion Favors the Mother-to-Be': Maternity Clothes and the Changing
Perceptions of Pregnancy from the 1910s to the 1960s in America," Cheryl
L. Lemus, Northern Illinois University
Comment: Susan
E. Hirsch, Professor, LUC
Policing
Sexuality
Damen Hall, Room 733
Chair: Melanie
Beaudette, LUC
Papers:
"Responsibility and Indulgence: American Medical Concepts of
Masturbation, 1870-1920," Diana T. Reinhard, Temple
University
"'In This Den of Inequity': Prisoners and the Discourses of
Reform and Civilization," Susan Fry, Northern Illinois
University
"Male Heterosexuality and the NIMH Task Force on Homosexuality
(1969-1972)," Joseph Lapsley, University
of Illinois at Chicago
Comment:
Elizabeth A. Meyers, LUC
4-5:45
p.m.
Conflict
and Citizenship: Negotiating Political and Social Communities
Damen Hall, Room 734
Chair: Kirsten DeVries, LUC
Papers:
"'The Colour Question Does Not Disturb Us As It Disturbs You': Race,
British Imperial Unity, and Dominion Nationalism in the Great War,"
David C. Atkinson, Boston University
"Reincorporating the Loyalists into Post-Revolutionary America: South
Carolina Loyalists and Debates on Citizenship, 1782-1790," Rebecca
Brannon, University of Michigan
"Erziehung zum Staat : Promoting Civility in Weimar
Germany," Eric Bryden, University of California-Davis
Comment: Robert
O. Bucholz, Professor, LUC
Landscapes
and Resources
Damen Hall, Room 735
Chair: Jason Myers, LUC
Papers:
"The West and Its Water: New Western History and the Environmental
Perspective," Katherine L. Macica, LUC
"Navigating Open Space: Forest Preserve
Land in Chicago's
Edgebrook Neighborhood," Maria Reynolds, LUC
Comment:
Thomas Greene, LUC
Sex in
the Windy City: Transgressing Norms
Damen Hall, Room 730
Chair: Jessica L. Ostrom, LUC
Papers:
"Don't Drag Me Down: the Boundaries of Afrohomosexualities in
Bronzeville's Nightlife,1935-1965," Tristan D. Cabello, Northwestern
University
"W.I. Thomas and the Chicago
Newspapers," Brant Downey, Brandeis
University
"The 'New Town' of Chicago:
Leisure, Community, and Identity, 1975-1985," Erika Jackson, Michigan
State University
Comment: Cord
Scott, LUC
Reading
Cultures: Texts and Ideologies
Damen Hall, Room 733
Chair: Patrick R.
Mallory, LUC
Papers:
"A Revolution Nevertheless: The Constitution and Republican Ideology in the
Civil War and Reconstruction," Michael T. Caires, San
Francisco State University
"Jacques Barzun and the Philosophy of Engagement," Colin Church, University
of Colorado, Boulder
"'Til Woman Cometh Unto Her Own': A Comparative Analysis of Female
Suffragist Ideology to Marxism, 1848-1920," Rachel Moses, Youngstown
State University
Comment: David B. Dennis, Associate Professor, LUC
6-9
p.m.: Post-Conference Reception
Hamilton's
Pub
6341 North Broadway
(1/2 block south of Devon
Avenue/W. Sheridan Road; On the East Side of
Broadway)
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2005-2006
History Graduate Student Association Officers:
President: Jennifer Searcy
Vice-President: Elizabeth Hoffman
Treasurer: Jason Myers
Secretary: Jennifer Bridge HGSA
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Susan E. Hirsch
HGSA Conference Organizers and Volunteers: Kirsten DeVries, Dejan Kralj,
Katherine Macica, Maria Reynolds, Jilana Ordman, Jessica Ostrom
The HGSA
Organizing Committee would like to thank all of the departmental staff,
faculty and student volunteers for their participation and assistance with
this event.
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