A Special Thank to Our Supporters:
Provost Toll
Dr. Nicola Foote
Dr. TC Yih
Dr. Jim Wohlpart
Tiffany Jackson
Carey Walker
Lou Kirk
Amy Lawson Ross
All Student Volunteers
FGCU Faculty and Staff
The FGCU History Program
The Performers of 12 Angry Men
Florida Gulf Coast
University:
Phi Alpha Theta Regional
Conference
March 21, 2015
Fort Myers, Florida
Program Overview
Registration and Coffee
8:00am-9:00am; Table
Welcoming Note by Provost Toll
National Representative Anne Koening
Keynote Speaker: Matt Johnson
9:00am-9:45am CC247
Session One
10:00am -11:00am
Session Two
11:15am-12:30pm
"Why History Matters in the Modern Job Market"
Matthew Johnson
CC247 9:20am
Matthew Johnson is the Director
of the City of Fort Myers Department of
Cultural & Historic Affairs and Interim
GM of the Harborside Event Center.
The Cultural and historic Affairs
Department includes the SWFL
Museum of History and the Imaginarium Science Center, as
well as the historic Burroughs & Langford-Kingston Homes.
After beginning his studies at Florida State University, Matt
received his B.A. in History from Florida Gulf Coast University
as part of the inaugural graduating class in 2001.
Lunch
12:30-1:00pm CC245
Performance (A scene from 12 Angry Men)
12:45-1:30pm CC247
Faculty Advisor Meeting
12:30-1:00pm CC 246
Session Three
1:30-2:45pm
Session Four
3:00-4:15pm
Awards and Closing Words
4:15-4:45pm CC247
Matt is active in the local community and within
professional organizations, serving on the board of directors of
the Florida Attractions Association, Lee County Community
Sustainability Advisory Committee, and the S.T.E.M. Team of
SWFL. He is also a member of the Florida Association of
Museums and the American Association of Museums.
Session Three; 1:30pm -2:45pm
Church and Christ
Moderator Jillian Patch-CC 247
James L. Pearson, Flagler College, Undergraduate, “St. Augustine’s
Response to the Pagans of Rome”
Sarah Barrick, University of South Florida, Post-baccalaureate,
“Neurophysiology of Penances as a Civilly-Binding Force During the
Crusades”
Joshua Britt, University of South Florida, Graduate, "The
Construction and Salvation of the Superstitious in Ludovico Antonio
Muratori's Il Crislianesimo Felice"
Latin America
Moderator Chris Harrison- CC 162
Sean Mallen, Florida Atlantic University, Graduate, “The Crusading
Archbishop: Claret, Marriage, and Race in 1850s Cuba”
Raphael Quintero-Altuve, University of South Florida,
Undergraduate, “The Transformation of Revolutionary Politics in
Venezuela: Del Foco a Miraflores en 40 anos (1958-1998)”
Cameron Black, Stetson University, Undergraduate, “Was the
Mexican Revolution a Revolution”
Gender over Time
Moderator Lori Boegershausen-CC 249
Annie Polzella, University of South Florida, Graduate, “The Body on
Tour: Lady Anna Miller’s Grand Travels in Eighteenth Century Italy”
Dani Drew, Florida Gulf Coast University, Undergraduate ,
“Intellectuals in the Attic: A Historical Biography of Rahel Levin
Varnhagen”
Rebekkah Balint, Flagler College, Undergraduate,“The “Rosie”
Effect”
Welcome to the 2015 Phi Alpha Theta Florida Regional
Conference!
The Alpha Lambda Theta chapter at Florida Gulf Coast
University is pleased to be hosting the conference this year. We
have 36 undergraduates and graduate students from eight
different chapters here today—a wonderful representation of
student research in service to the historical profession!
Over the course of this conference, you will have the
opportunity to meet undergraduates, graduate students, and
faculty who are performing exciting original research.
Presenters will be covering a variety of periods, places, and
topics appealing to historians of all stripes, from ancient Rome
to the 21st century United States. I urge you to attend a variety
of panels, and chat with students and faculty from these various
chapters.
Again, we are delighted that you have made the trip to our
campus for what promises to be a day filled with fascinating
presentations and new friendships. Welcome!
Frances E. Davey, Ph.D.
Faculty Advisor, Alpha Lambda Theta chapter
Florida Gulf Coast University
Session One; 9.45 am to 11.00 am
Session Two; 11:15am to 12:30pm
African American
Moderator Danielle Drew-CC247
Rhonda Cifone, “An Atlantic World study of the Ethnogenesis and Creolization
of African American Funeral Rituals”
Legacies of World War I
Moderator Hanna Lipsey -CC 247
Taylor Neff, FGCU, Undergraduate, “Seeking Independence: The Creation of Irish
Independence and Northern Ireland.”
Kimberly Reading, Stetson University, Undergraduate, “A Pineland Understory:
Women and African Americans in the Historical Environment of Orange City,
FL”
Christopher Harrison, Florida Gulf Coast University, Graduate, “Sacrificing the Less
Efficient: British Eugenics and Genocide Studies”
Shannon Noe’lani Schmidt, Flagler College, Undergraduate, “Lost and Disarmed:
Hemingway’s Farewell to the Honor Ideal”
U. S. Society;
Moderator Patrick Gallagher-CC 162
Lori Boegershausen, FGCU, Undergraduate, “Rum, Whiskey, and America”
Kaitlyn Colborne, Flagler College, Undergraduate, “The Perversion of Liberty
by Means of American Imperialism”
Science and Civilization
Moderator Christopher Meinert, Graduate-CC 162
Khali I. Navarro, University of Central Florida, Graduate, “To Form and Perfect Men”:
Auguste Comte and the Origins of Positivism in France, 1819-1856
Bradley L’Herrou, University of South Florida, Undergraduate, “The Dissemination of
Information During the Scientific Revolution: Lorenzo Magalotti's Diplomatic Reports.”
War and Identity
Moderator Hanna Lipsey-CC 249
Eduardo Garcia, University of South Florida, Undergraduate
“Ἡράκλεις,’ εἶπεν, ‘ὡς ψυχρὸν ὑμῶν τὸ βαλανεῖον’: The Discourse of Armor
and the Male Body in Roman Warfare and Imperial Rhetoric”
Jonathan Papanikolaou, Florida Gulf Coast University, Undergraduate, “Murder
on the Last Resort”
John Dieck, Stetson University, Undergraduate, “Assimilation, Association, or
Heterotopia? French Colonialism and Urban Planning in Algeria and Morocco, 18301936”
Disease and Conflict
Moderator Danielle Drew -CC 249
Christina Hotalen, University of South Florida, Undergraduate, “Understanding the
Trends of the Justinian Plague”
Joe VerValin, University of South Florida, Undergraduate, “Disease, Diplomacy, and
Decolonization: The Smallpox Eradication Campaign in the Nigerian Civil War.”
Savannah Peiffer, Palm Beach Atlantic University, Undergraduate, “ Are Good and Evil
Relative? The Effects of Martyrdom on Terrorism”
Gender and Society
Moderator Jessica Brimer Graduate-CC 246
Timothy Walsh, University of South Florida, Graduate, “ Male Conceptual Ambiguity on
Female Role Models in Ancient Rome”
Philip Davis, University of South Florida, Graduate, "Hiding the 'Secrets of Nature':
Writing on Nakedness and Dress in William Lithgow's Seventeenth Century' Travel"
Chelsea Esposito, University of South Florida, Graduate, “Preserving Virtus: How
Roman Men Maintained Masculinity Under an Emperor.”
Theater Performance
CC247 1:00pm
Synopsis of Play:
Twelve Angry Men examines the story of an eighteen year old boy
from a low class neighborhood who is charged with the murder of
his very own father. A jury of both twelve men and women must
truthfully deliberate the faith of this boy based solely on the given
evidence. It is a careful exploration of the prejudice that was found
in the American legal system both in 1954 when this story was
initially conceived and that still resonates in recent cases more than
60 years later; today.
Cast list:
Juror 1 (Foreman): Nicole Oldja
Juror 2: Melissa Cardenas
Juror 3: Daniel Cancio
Juror 4: Harleigh Rodriguez-Connor
Juror 5: Nuniez Philor
Juror 6: Adrian Serrano
Juror 7: Troy Burte
Juror 8: Megan Shindler
Juror 9: Shannon Carrol
Juror 10: Tyler Grey
Juror 11: Laura Frederick
Juror 12: Taylor Sweat
Director: Vishal Seemangal
Too see the whole performance of 12 Angry Men:
Friday April 17th, 7:30pm
Saturday April 18th, 7:30pm
FGCU Theater lab in the Arts Complex
Session Four; 3:00-4:15pm
Near Eastern Perspectives
Moderator Patrick Gallagher-CC 247
Levente Bajan, University of South Florida, Undergraduate, “ByzantineHungarian Political Relations in the 12th Century- An argument against the
Personal Union Theory”
Richard Shafer, Florida Gulf Coast University, Undergraduate, “Pirates of the
Mediterranean”
Julio C. Medina, University of South Florida, Undergraduate,“The Tomb”
U. S. in the 20th Century
Moderator Hanna Lipsey-CC 162
Douglas Provenzano, Florida Atlantic University, Graduate, “AIG Why It
Couldn’t Fail”
Christian Gowan, Stetson University, Undergraduate, “Disney’s America:
The Re-Imagining of History and the Corporate Interpretation of History”
Garrett Lowell Hillyer, University of Central Florida, Graduate, The
Community’s Game: Central Florida Diamondball and Community Identity,
1926-1946
The Medieval Age
Moderator Chris Harrison-CC 249
Elizabeth Snyder, Florida Gulf Coast University, Undergraduate,
“Ecclesiastical Condemnations of Homosexuality in the Middle Ages”
Mary J. Gratton, University of West Florida, Graduate,“The Medieval
Anchoritic Life: Freedom or Bondage”
Jillian Patch, Florida Gulf Coast University, Graduate,“Women's Gender and
Authority in Religious Societies”