All sessions and activities will take place in the Williams Center, in Rooms S204 A-E
8:30-10:30: On-site registration and coffee/tea and snacks: outside S204A
SESSION ONE: 9:00-10:15
Session 1A: Media, Ideology, Reform, & Slavery in the Antebellum U.S. S204B
Chair/Commentator: Prof. Tamara Thornton, University at Buffalo
Kansas in the 1850s: A Decade of Violence Caused by Propaganda
Morgan Rybak, SUNY Fredonia
The New England Emigrant Aid Company and Propaganda in Kansas
Gregory Pinto, SUNY Fredonia
The Ideological Influences Preparing the Grimke Sisters
Jonathan Makeley, Alfred University
Session 1B: Education and Politics in the Ancient Mediterranean
Chair/Commentator: Prof. James Williams, SUNY Geneseo
S204C
Education of History in Greece: Cultural Not Formal
Samantha Cripe, Ithaca College
Session 1C: Women and the Appropriation of Power S204D
Chair/Commentator: Prof. Katherine Clark, SUNY Brockport
Sir Thomas Elyot’s The Defense of Good Women (1540, 1545): Arguing for the Moral and
Political Status of Women in Henrician England
Emily Gallik, Ithaca College
Isabel I of Castile’s Influence on the Reign of England’s Mary I
Jennifer Futterman, Alfred University
Appropriating from Within: Alternative Implications of the Practice of Footbinding
Margaret Luddy, SUNY Geneseo
Session 1D: The Evolution of Revolutionary Ideology S204E
Chair/Commentator: Prof. John Staples, SUNY Fredonia
“Through Justice the Nation Will Have It All”: What Is the Third Estate? And National Identity
in Revolutionary France
Christopher Whalen, Ithaca College
Reification, Consciousness, and Resistance: Twentieth Century Marxism on Global Capitalism’s
Effect on the Mind and Body
Janna Nunziato, SUNY Geneseo
Domestic Discord: The 1st World Adopts Che’s Revolution
Geoffrey Alden, SUNY Geneseo

Session 1E: Poster Session
France Divided: The Everyday Life around the Demarcation Line (1941-1945)
S204A
Charlotte Bouard, Buffalo State College exchange student from Toulouse University
Jean Jaurès
Sarah Sinfield: A Digital History Project
Natalie Malick & Emily Zane, SUNY Fredonia
SESSION TWO: 10:30-12:15
Session 2A: Power, Ideology, and Race
Chair/Commentator: Prof. Steve Fabian, SUNY Fredonia
Examining White Dominance in Jamaica and Saint Domingue
S204A
Jason Pandich, SUNY Fredonia
The Asiento from 1640 to 1715: A Story of Competition Over the Spanish Slave Trade
James Coughlin, SUNY Fredonia
Servant of “Civilization”: Sir Richard Francis Burton and His Impact on European Perceptions of Africa
Harrison Oldham, Buffalo State College
“The Heir to All That Had Been”: Rhodesian Front Ideology and the End of Settler Rule (1965-
1980)
Jim Siniscalchi, Buffalo State College
Session 2B: Re-envisioning Rights in the Late 20 th Century S204B
Chair/Commentator: Prof. David Kinkela, SUNY Fredonia
The Most Un-American Thing in America: The Ramifications of the HUAC Proceedings in
Buffalo, NY, 1957-1964
Daniel Joseph Talbot, Buffalo State College
The Hippies: The Summer of Love, Drugs, Peace, and Distraction
Gabriella Ruocco, Ithaca College
20 th Century British Empire: 1971 Irish Internment
Cameron Rinaldi, SUNY Geneseo
Session 2C: Race, Rights, and Reform, 1893-1964
Chair/Commentator: Prof. Jennifer Hildebrand, SUNY Fredonia
S204C
African Americans’ Response to White Supremacy and Exclusion in the Chicago Columbian
Exposition, 1893
Alissa Moseley, SUNY Fredonia
Convergence of Colored Combatants: Transnational Racism in France during World War I
Sarah Nafis, SUNY Geneseo
Economic Cooperation in the Queen City: Investigation of the Buffalo Cooperative Economic
Society
Ryan Glauser, Buffalo State College
A Breath of Freedom: The Role of Freedom Schools in Politicizing Mississippi’s Black Youth
Todd Christensen, SUNY Geneseo

Session 2D: Arts, Politics, and Power S204D
Chair/Commentator: Prof. David Devereux, Canisius College, & Prof. Ellen Litwicki, SUNY
Fredonia
Nazi Confiscation of Fine Art and Culture
Meredith Scott, Alfred University
Cold War Ideology or Corporate Profit? The Motivation behind Hollywood’s Movietime U.S.A.
Tours, 1951-1952
Lauren Wehner, University at Buffalo
“Like a Rat in a Maze”: Student Attitudes towards the Architecture of the University at
Buffalo’s Amherst Campus, 1968-1985
Jack Ding, University at Buffalo
Commodifying Slave Culture: The Gnawa and World Music Festival and Morocco’s Tourism
Vision
Regina Carra, SUNY Geneseo
LUNCH: 12:30-1:30, S204AB
Keynote Speakers: Dr. Jennifer Hildebrand & Dr. John Staples, SUNY Fredonia, “Doing
Historical Biography’’
SESSION THREE: 1:45-3:00
Session 3A: Science & Environment
Chair/Commentator: Prof. Jacky Swansinger, SUNY Fredonia
S204C
Classifying God’s Work: Regional Natural History Collecting in 17 th , 18 th , and 19 th Century
Britain
Hannah Sigurdson, University at Buffalo
The Shutter, the Spectator, and the Specter: On Louis Agassiz, His Daguerreotypes, and
Scientific Modernity in the Nineteenth Century
Nikita Rumsey, SUNY Geneseo
Understanding the Unknown: U.S. Information Policy during the Palomares Nuclear Weapons
Accident
Sarah Smith, SUNY Geneseo
Session 3B: Perceptions & Construction of Race in the U.S.
Chair/Commentator: Prof. Jeffry Iovannone, SUNY Fredonia
S204D
Benjamin Franklin: A Glimpse of Imperfection
Michael Schojan, SUNY Brockport
Between Representation & Reality: Orientalist Imagining and Racial Construction of the Early
South Asian Diaspora in the United States
Bud Gankhuyag, Ithaca College
Black Tar/White Powder: Race, Class, Gender, and Heroin in New York and San Francisco
1966-77
Anthony Sole, University at Buffalo

Session 3C: Changing Ideas about Gender in the Late 19 th /Early
20 th Century U.S. and Germany
Chair/Commentator: Prof. Mary Beth Sievens, SUNY Fredonia
S204A
How the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893 Shaped Women’s Place in Society
Emily Mueller, SUNY Fredonia
Women, White Slavery, and the Greek Response to Modernity
Jacob Kotler, SUNY Geneseo
Little Girl—What Now? Women in Literature from the Late Weimar Republic
Cory Holzerland, Canisius College
Session 3D: Indigeneous Peoples and the State in the Americas S204E
Chair/Commentator: Prof. Eric Meringer & Prof. Nancy Hagedorn, SUNY Fredonia
Rethinking the Origins of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt
Martin Norment, SUNY Brockport
“Various and Sundrys for the Indians”: The Creation of an Anglo-Abenaki Middle Ground at
Fort Richmond, Maine, 1720-1755
Eric Trautman-Mosher, Ithaca College
The Lasting Legacy of Sendero Luminoso: An Account and Analysis of the Social and Economic
Impacts of the Shining Path Guerrillas
Christopher Rider, Canisius College
S204AB ADVISERS, CHAIRS, EVALUATORS MEETING: 3:00-3:20
AWARDS CEREMONY & CLOSING REMARKS: 3:30-4:00 S204AB