• Superdome Services, Inc.: Tracing the Convergence Between Black Enterprise and Neoliberalism in a Post-Civil Rights Era New Orleans, 1974-1977 

  Pantini, Daniel (2022)

  Utilizing records drawn from New Orleans’ Times Picayune and Louisiana Weekly newspapers, this research paper will attempt to explore early manifestations of neoliberalism during the 1970s Superdome controversy. In 1974 ...
• Korean Transnational Adoption as an Act of Violence 

  Titcomb, Isabelle (2022)

  Building on an emergent  eld of critical adoption studies, this paper traces the transformation of the Korean orphan into adoptee through the army camp, orphanage, women’s magazine, and family. In doing so, it demonstrates ...
• Remembering “Der Noether”: The Gendered Image and Memory of Women in Mathematics 

  Rak, Gwendolyn (2022)

  German mathematician Emmy Noether (1882-1935) is known today for her contributions to abstract algebra and a 1918 theorem foundational to many theories of physics. She is also remembered as one of the most notable women ...
• “Either on Account of Sex or Color”: Policing the Boundaries of the Medical Profession During Reconstruction 

  Lloyd-Jones, Adam (2022)

  In 1868, the American Medical Association (AMA) was asked to permit consultation with female physicians and admit them as delegates. In 1870, a delegation of Black doctors sought entrance to an Annual AMA meeting. The ...
• “The Music Did All the Talking:” Community, Resistance, and Improvisation in Louis Armstrong’s Cultural Diplomacy 

  Posel, Leo (2022)

  This paper examines the many meanings and implications of Louis Armstrong’s role in the Jazz Ambassadors program, and his tours of West and Central Africa in the 1950’s and 60’s. Specifically, I argue that musical evidence ...
• Behind the Smoke Screen: Literary Resistance to the Trujillo Dictatorship, 1943-1947 

  Francisco, Sokeyra (2022)

  Several scholars have engaged with the era of the Dominican Republic’s history, approximately 1930-1961, defined by Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship, focusing on the political and economic repercussions of the regime. ...
• Panic at the Picture Show: Southern Movie Theatre Culture and the Struggle to Desegregate 

  Broun, Susannah (2022)

  This paper explores the complex desegregation process of movie theatres in the southern United States. Building off of historiography that investigates regulations of postwar teenage sexuality and recent scholarly work ...
• The Culture Wars and the School District of Philadelphia's African American History Mandate: 1980-2005 

  Schlaker, Ruby (2022)

  In February 2005, the School Reform Commission of the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) convened and unanimously passed the “Resolution for African American Studies.” The resolution made Philadelphia the first and ...
• The Pennsylvania County Fair: A Snapshot of America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 

  Duda, Sarah (2013)

  This paper explores the controversial popularity of horse races at Pennsylvania agricultural fairs at the turn of the twentieth century. While the excitement of horse races and the gambling that surrounded them attracted ...
• Let Not a Red Come in Thy Bed: Construction of Hair in 17th Century England 

  Smith, Holly (2013)

  This paper analyzes three seventeenth century English ballads in order to understand the complex factors that contributed to the views and understandings surrounding hair. It was around this time that the view of men and ...
• Critical Politics in a Neoliberal Institution: Gay and Lesbian Organizing at Swarthmore College, 1988-1993 

  Roseberry-Polier, Ali (2013)

  This paper studies gay and lesbian organizing at Swarthmore as part of national trends of neoliberalism, multiculturalism, and queer politics in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Students in this period achieved numerous ...
• Immigration, Nationality, and Xenophobia in Late-19th Century Marseilles 

  McNeill, Patrick (2013)

  This paper investigates the “Vêpres Marseillaises,” a June 1881 anti-Italian riot in Marseilles, in order to discuss the intersection of working class nationalism, immigration, and French political and social discourses. ...
• Native American Military Participation in World War 1: What Kind of Victory? 

  Lipnick, Abigail Rose (2013)

  This paper questions the supposed linkage between Native Americans’ military service in World War 1 (1914-1918) and the Native American Citizenship Act of 1924 that granted citizenship to the remaining 125,000 noncitizen ...
• The Space Between “Justice” and “Expediency” in Woman’s Suffrage Speech, 1870-1920 

  Lane, Heather (2013)

  This paper explores the rhetoric of the woman suffrage movement from a historical perspective. It maintains that suffragists were making arguments about justice and rights much more often—and for longer--than previous ...
• Knowing Nothing: Labor, Nativism, and Class Divisions in turn-of-the century Pittsburgh 

  Kober, Jay (2013)

  This paper examines the labor movement in Pittsburgh between the years 1892-1919. The labor movement at the turn of the century met new challenges as a new wave of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe flooded the ...
• In Radical Defense of Themselves: Women Prison Organizing in the 1975 Raleigh Revolt 

  Jacome, Andrea (2013)

  As an intervention in the limited, male-centric historiography of prisoner organizing in the 1970s, this paper focuses on a weeklong revolt in the North Carolina Correctional Center for Women in 1975 in Raleigh, North ...
• The Evolution of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in American Cinema and Culture 

  Hackeling, Patrick (2013)

  This paper traces the emergence and progression of cultural representations of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the United States from 1976-1988, as well as their impact on the present day. Due to the ambiguities ...
• The mass lynching of Italians in 1891 New Orleans: Marking Italians as racially “Dago” 

  Borkowski, Nicholas (2013)

  This paper contextualizes the 1891 mass lynching of Italians in New Orleans as a moment in which Italians in New Orleans are marked as racially “Dago.” This paper draws from historical scho ...
• Seward Collins as Provocateur: A New View on Collins’s Fascism and the American Review 

  Becker, Tyler (2013)

  This paper explores a new view of Seward Collins, the publisher of the 1930s journal known as the American Review—as a provocateur par excellence. Normally labeled a “fascist” in historical literature, this paper tries ...
• Detroit, Theory, Practice: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers and Black Power at the Point of Production, 1967-1971 

  Aronoff, Kate (2013)

  This paper examines the work of the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as it developed out of the Detroit Rebellion of 1967, the city’s prosperous auto industry, the labor movement and the Black Freedom struggle. ...

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