Phi Alpha Theta Conference
Marist College, April 25, 2015
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
8:30-9:00
Registration and Breakfast (Henry Hudson Room)
9:00
Welcoming Address (Henry Hudson Room)
Dr. Rasheed Hosein, United States Military Academy, West Point and
Regional Representative for Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society
9:10-10
Keynote - “Fear of a Queer (East) Germany: The Stasi’s Surveillance of Gay
Men in the GDR, 1983-1989”
Scott Harrison, Doctoral Candidate in History, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign and Marist College Alumnus
10-11:30
SESSION 1
Panel 1: Gender in the Medieval and Early Modern World (FN 103)
Chair: Dr. Janine Larmon Peterson, Marist College
“Mystics and Madwomen: A Comparison of Cases of Demonic and Divine
Possession in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Women”
– Jenny McInerney, Hartwick College
“Arthurian Knights: A Study of Chivalry and Homosocial Bonds in the
Arthurian Legends”
- Hunter Reed, SUNY Oneonta
“Joining the Conversation: Women’s Contributions to Salon Culture in Paris
during the Eighteenth-Century”
- Caihlan Snyder, Hartwick College
Panel 2: National Identity and Memory (FN 104)
Chair: Dr. Nicholas Marshall, Marist College
“Samuel Curwen: American Loyalist”
- Brianna Riley MacMahon, Hartwick College
“The Grant Family: New Beginnings in Sports and Home Life”
- Ryan Stanek, Castleton College
“The Recipe for Success: The Tannenberg Monument’s Capture of
Germany’s Heart and Mind”
- Adam Saccardi, SUNY Plattsburgh
Panel 3: Unexpected Radicalism (FN 105)
Chair: Dr. Connie Shemo, SUNY Plattsburgh
“The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Women’s Suffrage and the
Policing of Prohibition in Rutland, Vermont”
- Ethan Burke, Castleton College
“’Bad Things’: The Closure of the Brandon Training School”
- Jenifer Leary, Castleton College
“The Real War: Agency and Limitations of American Soldiers in Vietnam”
- Rosemarie Martens, Marist College
11:30-11:45
Coffee Break (Henry Hudson Room)
11:45-1:15
SESSION II
Panel 4: U.S. Foreign Policy (FN 103)
Chair: Dr. Kristin Bayer, Marist College
“Global Embargo: The Causes and Effects of the American Decision to
Freeze Japan’s Assets in July, 1941”
- Luke Murphy, SUNY Oneonta
“Remembering Nanking: U.S. Media Perspectives”
- Matthew Currier, Castleton College
“Big Trouble in Little Nepal: U.S Foreign Policy and The Nepalese Peoples
War (1996-2006)”
- Adam Enes, Castleton College
Panel 5: Religion and Politics (FN 104)
Chair: Dr. Sally Dwyer-McNulty, Marist College
“The Phenomena of Jesus and Jewish Messianism”
- Erica Stockman, SUNY Oneonta
“Constantine: The Rise of Christianity in the Empire”
- Ben Detar, Hartwick College
“George Boleyn: ‘A Mighty Debater of the Word of God’”
- Danielle Alesi, Hartwick College Alumna
Panel 6: Challenges in Modernity (FN 105)
Chair: Dr. Steven Garabedian, Marist College
“Earl Butz and Technology on the Farm: Making Sense of a Controversial
Figure in American Agriculture”
- Grace Carlic, SUNY-Plattsburgh
“Steel Dreams: The Skyscraper Race and New York City”
- Jordan Kortright, Hartwick College
“Why Chernobyl will be a Disaster the World Never Forgets: The Human
Errors and Politics Involved in a Nuclear Meltdown”
- Melissa Montoni, Fordham University
1:15-2:15
Lunch break and advisor meeting (Henry Hudson Room/FN 302)
2:15-4:00
SESSION III
Panel 5: Political Legacy (FN 104)
Chair: Dr. Mette Harder, SUNY Oneonta
“The Realities of Cicero’s Ideal Statesman in the Late Republic”
- Alex Van Den Eynde, Siena College
“Katherine of Aragon as Ambassador and Queen”
- Angela Vincent, Hartwick College
“Her Majesty’s Favorites: Patronage in the Court of Queen Elizabeth I and
its Evolution throughout the Tudor Monarchy”
- Anna Doren, Hartwick College
“The Young Pretender”
- Christopher Gardner, Marist College
Panel 6: Technologies of Power (FN 105)
Chair: Dr. Edythe Ann Quinn, Hartwick College
“The Price of Freedom in British America”
- Daniel Goodstein, Marist College
“You Can’t Do That”: Adrian Scott and the Hollywood Ten”
- Bryan Witt, SUNY Plattsburgh
“’The Right Kind of Woman’: Matrons, Motherhood, and Surveillance in the
British Concentration Camps of the South African War, 1900-1902”
– Stephen Vitale, Castleton College
“Prostitution’s Destructive Legacy in Vietnam”
– David Marthy, Marist College
4:00
Prize Ceremony and Closing Remarks (Henry Hudson Room)