SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
PROGRAM
Draft program, subject to revision (29 March 2021)
FRI 4/9
Session 1:
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
1a. Christians and Muslims:
Comment: Jeanette Fregulia, Carroll College
Chair: Ellen Kittell, University of Idaho
Francesca M. Duncan, University of Portland, undergraduate student
“A Collaborative Crusade: Economic Incentives for Religious Tolerance in Sicily, 1061–1189”
John Franzwa, Western Oregon University, undergraduate student
“The Space Between Love and Hate: Coexistence During Convivencia”
James M. Masnov, Portland State University, graduate student
“Religious Freedom Matters, At Home and Abroad: Thomas Jefferson in Paris in the 1780s”
1b. The Politics of Division:
Comment: Shaun S. Nichols, Boise State University
Chair: Caoimhin De Barra, Gonzaga University
Tyler Durbin, Western Washington University, undergraduate student
“‘They’re Building A Wall’: The Separation Barrier in Palestine/Israel”
Maxwell McPherson, University of Idaho, undergraduate student
“Fallout from the Wall Street Bombing”
Isabel Wagner, Seattle University, undergraduate student
“A Side Divided: The Role of Pre-Existing Republican Disunity in the Spanish Civil War”
1c. Public Commemoration:
Comment: Larry Cebula, Eastern Washington University
Chair: Bradley Franco, University of Portland
Shaina Lynch, Boise State University, undergraduate student
“The No-Color of Women: Women and Commemoration in the Treasure Valley of Idaho”
Liza J. Schade, Portland State University, graduate student
“Finding a Community Niche: Rethinking Historic House Museums in Oregon”
Emma Williams, University of Idaho, undergraduate student
“Portraiture, Patriotism, and Politicking: The Political Effect of Visual Histories”
1d. Activism and Protest:
Comment: Jeff Kyong-McClain, University of Idaho
Chair: Dale E. Soden, Whitworth University
Jesse Du, University of Washington, undergraduate student
“Bad Neighbors: The 1967 Zenrin Student Hall Incident and Transnational Student Radicalism in China and Japan”
Kyle Evers, Whitworth University, undergraduate student
“Whitworth University’s Response to the Vietnam War: A Historical Record of News”
Ashley M. Lambert, Eastern Washington University, undergraduate student
“Cesar Chavez: The 1965 Grape Boycott and the 400-Mile Pilgrimage”
FRI 4/9
Session 2:
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
2a. Labor History:
Comment: Patricia Schechter, Portland State University
Chair: Shaun S. Nichols, Boise State University
Avonlea Bowthorpe, Western Washington University, undergraduate student
“Seamen and Sinners: Piracy and the Labor Culture of the Early Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World”
Camille Daw, Boise State University, undergraduate student
“Chain Gang of the North: The Idaho State Penitentiary and Penal Labor (1872–1973)”
Brenden L. Hoffmann, Eastern Washington University
undergraduate student, “Bloody Sunday: The Everett Massacre of 1916”
2b. Unconventional Weapons:
Comment: Dane J. Cash, Carroll College
Chair: Tom Taylor, Seattle University
Sophia Johnson, Whitworth University, undergraduate student
“From Counterinsurgency to Chemical Warfare: Technology Dependence and Agent Orange”
Dawson M. Neely, Gonzaga University, undergraduate student
“Project MKULTRA: How the CIA Used the Cold War to Commit Horrors on US Citizens”
Linda R. Zhang, University of Washington, undergraduate student
“The Blood Logs: Factors in the U.S. Decision to Classify the Japanese Biological and Chemical Warfare Program”
2c. Indian Wars:
Comment: J. William T. Youngs, Eastern Washington University
Chair: Roger Wiblin, Brigham Young University-Idaho
Brant Gorham, University of Idaho, undergraduate student
“We were Like Deer, They were Like Grizzly Bears: How the United States Government Stole Nez Perce Land and along with it Tribal Culture and Sovereignty”
Dameon Hansen, Idaho State University, graduate student
“Evolution of the Mexican American Border: How the Victorio Campaign in 1880 Changed Mexican American Border Management”
Darren L. Letendre, Portland State University, undergraduate student
“A ‘Superlicious’ Feast: A Rhetorical Analysis of Davy Crockett’s Almanacs as an Early Form of White National Identity”
2d. Weapons of the Weak:
Comment: Dale Graden, University of Idaho
Chair: Lauren MacDonald, Idaho State University
Mary C. Babcock, Gonzaga University, undergraduate student
“Outlaw Heroes: A Beacon of Hope for the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Irish Peasantry”
Jack Donahue
Western Washington University, undergraduate student
“Jonestown: A Means of Control and Rebellion through Basketball”
Hannah May Swartos, Western Washington University, undergraduate student
"'Out of the Way': Slave Property and the Subversive Construction of Subterranean Space"
FRI 4/9
Session 3
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM
3a. Police Reform:
Comment: Steven Garfinkle, Western Washington University
Chair: Dale Graden, University of Idaho.
Nicholas Pisani, University of Portland, undergraduate student
“Cops of the Crescent City: New Orleans and the Origins of Police Racism”
Jack Reuter, Gonzaga University, undergraduate student
“Police Militarization in the US: A Transition from Servants of the People to Armed Authorities”
Ethan C. Siddall, Portland State University, undergraduate student
“The Descent of Law Enforcement in Ancient Egypt from the Ptolemaic Empire to the Early Roman Empire”
3b. Family and Gender:
Comment: Marie Stango, Idaho State University
Chair: Jennifer Kerns, Portland State University
Jordan D. Hallmark, Portland State University, graduate student
“Parody, Performance, and Conspiracy in Early Eighteenth-Century France: The Subversive Court of Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, Daughter-in-Law of the Sun King (1700–1718)”
Richard Merrell, Seattle University, undergraduate student
“The Kings Have Daddy Issues: Masculinity and Generational Kingship of the Plantagenet Dynasty”
Amanda Mills, Western Washington University, undergraduate student
“Before Menstruation: The Upholding and Downfall of Child Marriage in India”
3c. Historical Memory:
Comment: Caoimhin De Barra, Gonzaga University
Chair: William Burghart, University of Washington
Isabeau Newbury, Carroll College, undergraduate student
“Cleopatra VII: How Modernity Altered One of Egypt’s Most Infamous Pharaohs”
Avery Powell, Western Washington University, graduate student
“Monuments in the Dark: Memory and its Preservation in Twelfth-Century Orkney”
Felicia Thompson Zaleski, Idaho State University, graduate student
“Red, White, and Blue Tartan: Modern Scottish Cultural Preservation in the American West”
3d. Race and Desegregation:
Comment: Michael F. Conlin, Eastern Washington University
Chair: Jeanette Fregulia, Carroll College
Victor Curiel, Idaho State University, graduate student
“The Sun Only Sets on Black Britons: Sexuality and the Notting Hill Riots”
Jared Kimball, Brigham Young University-Idaho, undergraduate student
"World War II and Racial Relations"
Gerrit Sterk, Western Washington University, undergraduate student
"Elmore v. Rice et al.: The Court Case that Defies a Narrative"
FRI 4/9
Session 4
3:15 PM – 4:50 PM
4a. Society at War:
Comment: Charity Urbanski, University of Washington
Chair: Dane J. Cash, Carroll College
Melina Arciniega, University of Alaska Fairbanks, undergraduate student
“Born and Bred in Blood: The Fall of the Aztec Empire”
Rebecca Devereaux, Whitworth University, undergraduate student
“Charlemagne: Nuancing the Conventional Narrative”
Luke Lambert, Gonzaga University, undergraduate student
“Sicut Regale: An Analysis of the Sovereignty and Rule of the Welsh Marcher Lords”
Craig J. Verniest, Seattle University, undergraduate student
“The Manifestation of Total War in the Mexican Revolution”
4b. Theological Politics:
Comment: Elizabeth M. Swedo, Western Oregon University
Chair: J. William T. Youngs, Eastern Washington University
Jonathan R. Hayes, Gonzaga University, undergraduate student
“After Aidan: Irish Peregrini and English Ethnogenesis from Aldhelm to Boniface”
Chancellor T. Jenniges, Eastern Washington University, undergraduate student
“The Significance of Oomoto: Why Imperialization of Japan led to an Alternative Religion”
Shinjin Lee, Brigham Young University-Idaho, undergraduate student
“Religious Language and the American Presidency”
Sydney E. Rue, Portland State University, undergraduate student
“The Watchman: Charles Chauncy’s Defense of the New England Clerical Establishment during the Great Awakening”
4c. Sickness and Death:
Comment: Tom Taylor, Seattle University
Chair: Alyson Roy, University of Idaho
Ben Hecko, University of Portland, undergraduate student
“Plague and Progress: An Analysis of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron and Reform during the Initial Outbreak of the Black Death”
Anika Esther Martin, Eastern Washington University, undergraduate student
“The ‘English Bath’: English Sweating Sickness and the 1529 Continental Outbreak”
Patricia A. McManigal, Boise State University, undergraduate student
“The Holodomor: The Trickle-Down effect of Political and Economic Choices”
Brian O’Riley, Eastern Washington University, graduate student
“The Klondike Gold Rush and the Dead Horse Trail”
4d. Order and Disorder:
Comment: Bradley Franco, University of Portland
Chair: Steven Garfinkle, Western Washington University
Petra Ellerby, Western Washington University, undergraduate student
“May the Grass Grow Long: Hierarchy and Destruction in Ancient Mesopotamian Lamentation”
Zion G. Flores, Eastern Washington University, undergraduate student
“Practical Anarchism: The Makhnovist Movement in the Ukraine, 1917–1921”
Gabrielle Goodwin, University of Idaho, undergraduate student
“Changes in the Relationship Between the Horus and Seth: Set-tling the Score”
Mary Sweeney, Seattle University, undergraduate student
“Cursing in Medieval England: ‘By God’s Bones’ and Other Obscenities and Expletives”
SAT 4/10
Session 5
9:00 AM – 10:15 AM
5a. Environmental Justice:
Comment: Jason Knirck, Central Washington University
Chair: Elizabeth M. Swedo, Western Oregon University.
Kole A. Dawson, Boise State University, graduate student
“The Amungme and the Environment: Environmental Justice History and Consumerism”
Margaret M. Reuter, Eastern Washington University, undergraduate student
“Hanford: Leaking Tanks and Human Health”
Angela M. Wood, Eastern Washington University, undergraduate student
“Uranium Natives: Mining for the Cold War”
5b. Witch Trials:
Comment: Theresa Earenfight, Seattle University
Chair: Charity Urbanski, University of Washington
Strangely Doesburg, Western Washington University, undergraduate student
“Allotrioemeis: Or, a Preposterous Preponderance of Pins Produced”
Ryan P. Mealiffe, University of Washington, undergraduate student
“Familiar Ecology: The Demonization of Spirit Knowledge in Early Modern England and its Ecological Ramifications”
Brooke Nicole Nicholson, Eastern Washington University, graduate student
“A ‘Confessed’ Witch: Tituba and Salem Witchcraft, 1692–1693”
5c. Partisan Politics:
Comment: Dale E. Soden, Whitworth University
Chair: Susan Larrabee, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Sophie C. Carter, University of Washington, undergraduate student
“Days of Decision: San Francisco’s 1960 House Un-American Activities Committee Protest as a Turning Point of the New Left”
Audrey J. Hanson, Seattle University, undergraduate student
“Testing the Framework: How the Trump Administration Violated the Principles of Government Established by the Framers”
Nick Schofield, University of Idaho, undergraduate student
“Moses Alexander: Idaho’s Prohibition Politician”
SAT 4/10
Session 6
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM
6a. Guerrilla Warfare:
Comment: Lauren MacDonald, Idaho State University
Chair: Jeff Kyong-McClain, University of Idaho
Ryan Hill, University of Idaho, undergraduate student
“The Cause and Effect of Paramilitary Groups”
Simon Mai, Whitworth University, undergraduate student
“Pacification Gone Awry: The U.S Failure to Underpin Hearts and Minds in South Vietnam, 1966–1968”
Peter K. Moran, Eastern Washington University, graduate student
“A Spokane Monument: Warfare in the Samoan Islands, 1899”
6b. Systemic Racism:
Comment: Roger Wiblin, Brigham Young University-Idaho
Chair: Marie Stango, Idaho State University
Neave Carroll, University of Washington, undergraduate student
“The LA Uprising on Camera: The Changing Mediascape and Its Influence on Conceptions of Race and Poverty”
Jacob Taylor, Boise State University, undergraduate student
“The Revival of Termination: Fragmenting John Collier’s Bureau of Indian Affairs”
Caitlin Troyer, Carroll College, undergraduate student
“Suppressing the Black Male Vote: Ronald Reagan and the War on Drugs”
6c. The Status of Women:
Comment: Ellen Kittell, University of Idaho
Chair: Theresa Earenfight, Seattle University
Hana Cooper, Seattle University, undergraduate student
“The Voices Left Out: Women and the King-Crane Commission”
Tyler Holman, Idaho State University, undergraduate student
“Women in Burmese Society: The Traditional High Status of Burmese Women and the Aftermath of Colonization”
Hannah A. Reynolds, Portland State University, graduate student
"'I just had to do most everything': Colonial Implications of Settler Women’s Roles in Nineteenth-Century Oregon"