28th Annual Milton Plesur Graduate History Conference
Friday, March 8:
4:30 – 5:30 pm: Registration – Harriman Ballroom
5:30 – 07:00 pm: Keynote Address [Dr. Katherine Ott, National Museum of American History] (DFN 146)
Saturday, March 9:
8:00 – 9:00 am: Registration & Breakfast – Harriman Ballroom
9:15 – 10:45 am: Conference Presentations, Panel I
Room A (Diefendorf 4): “Concepts of Freedom”
Chair: Dr. Cari Casteel, University at Buffalo
- Gregory Cross, Mercyhurst University, “The Freedom to Enslave: British Challenges to Colonial Slavery and Virginian Patriotism on the Eve of Revolution”
- Olivier Péloquin, McGill University, “Mississippi in the Fall of 1875: Guns, God, Government, Citizenship and Race”
- Johnathan M. Parker, University at Buffalo, Alumnus, “A Review of the Colored Musicians Club”
- Shuko Tamao, University at Buffalo, “Some Heavy Piece of Apparatus Being Pushed into Place Behind His Head”: Experiences of Shock Treatment in Mid-20th Century America”
Room B (Diefendorf 5): “On the Margins”
Chair: Dr. Victoria Wolcott, University at Buffalo
- Eric A. Deutsch, University at Buffalo, “Exile on Delancey St.: Working-Class Poetry and the Historiographical Erasure of Identity”
- Marcia Esteves Agostinho, University of Rochester,“What Comics can tell about Racial Relations in the Brazil Old Republic”
- Aura S. Jirau, University of Pittsburgh, “A House of Studies Under Invasion: The University of Puerto Rico in Print, 1952-1971”
10:45 am – 12:15 pm: Conference Presentations, Panel II
Room A (Diefendorf 4): “The Material Politics of the Cold War”
Chair: Dr. Susan Cahn, University at Buffalo
- Daniel P. Ward, University at Buffalo,“Samuel Fuller and the Korean War on Film”
- Asri Saraswati, American Studies Program, University at Buffalo, “Writing Between Tall Corns: Iowa’s International Writing Program and Cold War Politics”
- Taylor J. Moore-Hutton, Mercyhurst University, “The Soviet Union and Active Measures Targeting the United States”
- Aubrey Fan, University at Buffalo, “Material and Methodology”
Room B (Diefendorf 5): “Nineteenth Century Transformations”
Chair: Dr. Katherine Ott, National Museum of American History
- Jonathan Makeley, University at Buffalo, “The Place of the Temperance Pledge in 19th-Century New York”
- Thomas J. Howard V, Westfield State University, “A Dangerous Road to Success: Thomas Sheldon’s Quest to Research and Finance the Westfield Canal”
- Daniel Gorman Jr., University of Rochester, “Fair Traveler: May Bragdon at the Columbian and Pan-American Expositions”
12:15 – 1:15 pm: Lunch – Harriman Ballroom
1:30 – 3:00 pm: Conference Presentations, Panel III
Room A (Diefendorf 4): “Fashioning Identity”
Chair: Dr. Averill Earls, Mercyhurst University
- Erum Hadi, St. John’s University, “Designed by Diversity: The Syncretic Cultural History of Gujarati Textiles”
- Antonio Hernández Matos, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras Campus, “The Roaring ’20s in the Tropics: Fashion, Modernity, and the Female Body in Puerto Rico, 1920-1930”
- Dean J. Guarnaschelli, St. John’s University, “Flax Shirts in All Sizes: Identity and the Gottscheer Germans of Past and Present”
- Zeinab Eskandari, University of Cincinnati, “Analyzing the Main Differences of Hijab’s Usage among Urban and Rural Women in Nineteenth-Century Iran”
3:00 – 4:30 pm: Conference Presentations, Panel IV
Room A (Diefendorf 4): “Morality and Method”
Chair: Dr. Ndubueze Mbah, University at Buffalo
- Jungmin Kim, Independent Scholar, “Against Covering Laws: Narrative, Causation, and Historical Method”
- Arranne Paige-Rispoli, University at Buffalo, “Between the Pulpit and the Gallows: The Dissemination of Execution Sermons and the Cultivation of Moral Authority in Early America”
- James F. Taylor III, Independent Scholar “Contesting Enslavement: Lockean Conceptualizations and the Slave’s Sense of Self in Frederick Douglass’s Printed Words”
- Marissa C. Rhodes, University at Buffalo, “Get Your Globular Nipple Cases Here!: Using 18th-Century Marketing Materials as Evidence”
4:30 pm: Closing Reception – Harriman Ballroom