Modern U.S. History Workshops

  • Fall 2024 Wokshop
    Catgut in God鈥檚 Hands: The Marynkoll Sisters, Gender, and Medical Aid to Korea, 1950-1960
    • Presenter: Hannah Ontiveros, Lecturer, 91社区
    • Commentator: Naoko Shibusawa, Associate Professor of History, Brown University

    The Lesson of History: The Politics of the `White Backlash鈥 from Reconstruction Through the Civil Rights Movement   
    • Presenter: Larry Glickman, Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor in American Studies, Cornell University
    • Commentator: Bryant Simon, Laura H. Carnell Professor of History, Temple University

    Developing Entrepreneurs: Race, Psychology, and Management Training During the War on Poverty
    • Presenter: Jeremy Boyd Goodwin, Ph.D. Candidate, Cornell University
    • Commentator: Laura Hill, Associate Professor, CCPA Human Development,        91社区

    Playing with Gender: Modern and Medieval Sex in Fantasy Role-Playing Games, 1970 - 2000
    • Presenter: Geoffrey Ramirez, Ph.D. Candidate, 91社区
    • Commentator: Michelle M. Sauer, Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of English (medieval) & Gender Studies, University of North Dakota
  • Spring 2024 Workshop
    Writing the Biography of a Best-Selling Memoirist: Anne Moody鈥檚 Sit-In at the Jackson, Mississippi Woolworth鈥檚 on May 28, 1963
    • Presenter: Leigh Ann Wheeler, Prof. of History, 91社区
    • Commentator:  David J. Garrow, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Biography; author of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama

    Black Women鈥檚 Letters to Mary Church Terrell: Exploring Epistolary Relationships
    • Presenter: Alison Parker, Richards Professor of American History, University of Delaware 
    • Commentator:  Leigh Ann Wheeler, Prof. of History, 91社区

    The Edmunds-Tucker Act and the Policing of Sex in the Territories 
    • Presenters: Katie M. Hemphill, Associate Professor of History, University of Arizona
    • Commentator: Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, Associate Professor of History at Montana State University
  • Fall 2023 Workshop
    Death as a Coworker
    • Presenters: Professor Julia Haager, Assistant Professor of History, Western Carolina University; Professor Sean Massey, Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, 91社区
    • Commentator: Professor Jennifer Brier, Director and Professor of Gender and Women鈥檚 Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago

    Sowing the Wind: The Road to Revolution in Washington County, Texas, 1840s-1865[1]
    • Presenter: Professor Donald G. Nieman, Professor of History, 91社区
    • Commentator: Professor Gregg Cantrell, Professor of History and the Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair in Texas History at Texas Christian University

    [1] Hosea 8:7 "For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."


    Chicago and Its Suburbs Belong to Us鈥: United Power鈥檚 Strategy
    • Presenter: Professor Dennis Deslippe, Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Department Chair of American Studies, Franklin & Marshall College
    • Commentator: Professor Benjamin Looker, Associate Professor of American Studies, St. Louis University

    Return of the Artisans in the Modern Cities: Masculinized Urban Reforms of Robert A. Woods
    • Presenter: Yong Hyeon Kim, Ph.D. Candidate in History, 91社区
    • Commentator: Professor Kathryn Kish Sklar, Professor Emerita of History, 91社区
  • Spring 2023 Workshop
    Degrees of Marginalization: LDS Missionaries and Mormon-Armenians in the Late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Middle East (1890-1928)
    • Presenter: Kent Schull, Associate Professor of History, 91社区
    •  Commentator: David Gutman, Associate Prof. of History, Manhattanville College
  • Fall 2022 Workshop
    A New Right Emerges, 1969-1980
    • Presenter: Don Nieman, Professor of History, 91社区
    • Commentator: Alison Kibler, Professor of History, American Studies and Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Franklin & Marshall College

    They're Coming to Build What Reagan Destroys: The Urban Footprint of Activist Brigades to Nicaragua and the Divergent Growth of Local-level Foreign Policy
    • Presenter: Keith Riley, Adjunct Professor of History, Rutgers-Camden
    • Commentator: Emily Hobson, Chair, and Associate Professor of GRI and History, University of Nevada, Reno

    'He鈥檚 Irish and So Am I, Let Us Get To It': The Influence of Irish-American Masculinity on Violent Working-Class Subcultures in Chicago, 1890-1928
    • Presenter: Colin Kohlhaas, Ph.D. Candidate, 91社区
    • Commentator: James R. Barrett, Professor Emeritus of History and African American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Spring 2022 Workshop
    1964
    • Presenter: Donald Nieman,  91社区 Provost and Professor of History.
    • Commentator: Kevin  Boyle,  William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern 
      University.
    The Zoonotic Nature  of Tuberculosis
    • Presenter: Daniel Vandersommers, Asst. Prof. of History, University of Dayton.
    • Commentator: Fa-ti Fan, Professor of History, 91社区.
    鈥淪orry, Waldman, We  Just Couldn鈥檛  Help It": Socialist State Legislators  in New York, 1912-1922
    • Presenter: Joshua  Kluever,  Ph.D. Candidate, 91社区.
    • Commentator: Robert Chiles, Co-editor of New York History, and Senior  Lecturer, University of 
      Maryland.
    "Disabled,  Yet on Active  Duty": The Union Army鈥檚 Veteran Reserves Corps and Soldiers鈥 Views of 
    Disability during the Civil War
    • Presenter: Erika Grimminger, Ph.D. Candidate, 91社区.
    • Commentator: David  Gerber,  Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Buffalo.
  • Fall 2021 Workshop
    Family Relations and Sex Education in San Francisco, 1930-1945
    • Presenter: Julia B. Haager, Ph.D. candidate, 91社区
    • Commentator: Sharon Ullman, Professor of History, Bryn Mawr College

    鈥淭hey Have Had Several Dates Since the Dance鈥: Sex, Dating, and the Black Family in Postwar Washington
    • Presenter: Miya Carey, Assistant Professor of History, 91社区
    • Commentator: Stephen Vider, Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Public History Initiative, Cornell University

    Developing Transnational Feminism Duringthe UN Decade for Women
    • Presenter: Jessie Frazier, Associate Professor of History, University of Rhode Island
    • Commentator: Jocelyn Olcott, Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies; Professor of History & International Comparative Studies, Duke University

    Boys Will Be New Boys: Masculinity in the Boys鈥 Club Activities of the Eastern Urban Settlement House, 1900-1930
    • Presenter: Yong Hyeon Kim, Ph.D. candidate, 91社区
    • Commentator: Kevin Murphy, Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota
  • Spring 2021 Workshop
    Regulation, Restriction and Demand: French Vice in the United States and Cuba
    • Presenter: Elisa Camiscioli, Associate Professor of History, 91社区
    • Commentator: Katie Hemphill, Associate Professor of History, University of Arizona

    Black Feminists on Television in the 1970s
    • Presenter:  Alison Kibler, Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Franklin and Marshall College
    • Commentator: Aniko Bodroghkozy, Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia

    A Noxious Example of Corruption": Irish Labor Sluggers in the Chicago Building Trades, 1896-1925
    • Presenter:  Colin Kohlhaas, Ph.D. candidate in History at 91社区
    • Commentator:  David Bates, Assistant Professor of History, Concordia University Chicago.

    An Absolute Whiteness: Jack the Clipper as Radical Racist Counter-Fiction in Late-      Nineteenth-Century America

    • Presenter:  Sean Cosgrove, Ph.D. candidate in History at Cornell University
    • Commentator:  Diane Sommerville, Professor of History, 91社区
  • Fall 2019 Workshop
    鈥楧ancing on the Glass Ceiling鈥: A History of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration
    • Presenter: Kwelina Thompson, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University
    • Commentator: Leigh Ann Wheeler, Professor of History, 91社区

     鈥溾楯ust the Kind a Man the Uncle Wanted鈥: Native American Soldiers in the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars鈥 
    • Presenter: Kerry Roe, Ph.D. candidate, 91社区 
    • Commentator: Ryan Hall, Assistant Professor of History and Native American Studies, Colgate University 

    鈥溾榃ise Spending is My Hobby鈥: The General Federation of Women鈥檚 Clubs during World War II鈥
    • Presenter: Katie Stankiewicz, Ph.D. candidate, 91社区
    • Commentator: Alison Kibler, Professor of American Studies and Chair ofthe Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Franklin & Marshall College 
  • Spring 2019 Workshop
     鈥溾楾he future of the race depends upon the children鈥: Disability, Reproduction, and Sex Education in Chicago Public Schools鈥
    • Presenter: Julia Brooke Haager-Devin, Ph.D. Candidate, 91社区
    • Commentator: Professor Mallory Szymanski, Assistant Professor of History, Alfred University

    鈥淎nne Moody: Leaving Mississippi and Writing Coming of Age, 1964-1968鈥
    • Presenter: Leigh Ann Wheeler, Professor of History, 91社区
    • Commentator: Deborah Gray White, Board of Governors Professor of History and Professor of Women鈥檚 and Gender Studies at Rutgers University

    鈥溾榃e Shall Not Be Moved鈥: SNCC Veterans Shaping the History They Made鈥
    • Presenter: Emilye Crosby, Professor of History, SUNY-Geneseo
    • Commentator: Robyn C. Spencer 鈥90, Associate Professor of History, Lehman College
  • Fall 2018 Workshop
     鈥溾楲ike Throwing Away Your Umbrella in a Rainstorm鈥: The Color-Blind Challenge to Civil Rights, 1989-Present鈥
    • Presenter: Donald Nieman, 91社区 Provost and author of Promises to Keep African Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present
    • Commentator: Evan Faulkenbury, Assistant Professor of History, SUNY-Cortland

    鈥溾楾he Worst Divorce Case that Ever Happened鈥: The New York Times Women鈥檚 Caucus鈥 Fight Against Sex Discrimination, 1972-1978鈥
    • Presenter: Marama Whyte, Visiting Scholar at New York University and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sydney.
    • Commentator: Leigh Ann Wheeler, Professor of History at 91社区

    鈥淲hen Indians Were White, then Not: Denaturalization and the Precarity of Racial Citizenship in Early 20th-Century America鈥
    • Presenter: John Cheng, Associate Professor of Asian and Asian-American Studies, 91社区
    • Commentator: Derek Chang, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University 
  • Spring 2018 Workshop
    鈥淒r. Spock and Donna Reed: Celebrity Recruitment and Respectable Protest in theEarly Anti-Vietnam War Movement.鈥
    • Presenter: Sarah King, Ph.D. Candidate, 91社区
    • Commentator: Jessie Frazier, Assistant Professor, Marine Affairs, History, and Genderand Women鈥檚 Studies, University of Rhode Island

    鈥溾榃e believe there is need of caution鈥: Prescribing Opiates in the Civil War Era鈥
    • Presenter: Jonathan Jones, Ph.D. Candidate, 91社区
    • Commentator: Gwen Kay, Professor of History, SUNY-Oswego

    鈥楤eing Well Born鈥: How Social Hygiene and Sex Education Moved into New York City鈥檚 Public Schools, 1900-1920鈥
    • Presenter: Julia Devin, Ph.D. Candidate, 91社区
    • Commentator: Mario Rios Perez, Assistant Professor in the History of Education,Syracuse University
  • Fall 2017 Workshop
    鈥淭he Church Amendment Reconsidered: Lost Ethical Assumptions of the First Federal Health Care Conscience Clause鈥
    • Presenter: Ronit Stahl, Fellow, Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
    • Commentator: Leigh Ann Wheeler, Professor of History at 91社区

    鈥溾榃e Didn鈥檛 Know We Were Making History鈥: The UAW Women鈥檚 Auxiliaries and the Flint General Motors Sit-Down Strike, 1936 - 1937鈥
    • Presenter: Tiffany Baugh-Helton
    • Commentator: Randi Storch, Professor and History Department Chair, SUNY Cortland
  • Spring 2017 Workshop
    鈥溾橳he Flames which they Seek to Extinguish鈥: Catholics, Human Rights, and U.S. -Guatemalan Relations, 1976-1980鈥
    • Presenter: Michael Cangemi, Ph.D. Candidate, 91社区
    • Commentator: Timothy A. Byrnes, Charles A. Dana Professor and Chair of Political Science, Colgate University

    鈥溾橳he Fiercest Energy of the Movement鈥: Americans鈥 Gendered Understanding of Nihilism鈥
    • Presenter: Chelsea Gibson, Ph.D. Candidate, 91社区
    • Commentator: Claudia Verhoeven, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University

    鈥淐ountering the 鈥楥ampaign of Slander鈥: How Suffragists Mobilized Sexual Morality鈥
    • Presenter: Jessica Derleth, Ph.D. Candidate, 91社区
    • Commentator: Faye Dudden, Charles A. Dana Professor of History Emerita, Colgate University

    鈥淭he General Federation of Women鈥檚 Clubs Crusade for Morality in the Mass Media during the 1950s and 1960s鈥
    • Presenter: Katie Stankiewicz, Ph.D. Candidate, 91社区
    • Commentator: Whitney Strub, Associate Professor and Director of Women鈥檚 andGender Studies, Rutgers University, Newark