Twenty-Sixth Annual Student History Conference
February 24, 2023
L.A. Pittenger Student Center
All conference events are free and open to the public.
This conference is organized by the Ball State Department of History with generous financial support from the Department of History, the Middletown Studies Center, and the Honors College
8:30-8:50 a.m.
Music Lounge
Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Refreshments
Pat Collier, Associate Dean & Bruce Geelhoed, Chair of History
First Panel Session
9:00-10:40
Cardinal Hall A
The Evolution of Getting a Living in Middletown
Jordan Bratt, Digital Scholarship Strategist, Comment
Kathleen Donoho*, Samantha Kidder, Katrina Partlow, Isaac Porter, Haylee Shull, & Jamie Reeder, collaborative project directed by Jim Connolly
Cardinal Hall B
Cause and Community in the U.S. Civil War
Nicole Etcheson, Department of History, Chair & Comment
Brooke Walter* (Ball State), The Defense of Cincinnati: A Complex Society’s Quick Defense
Samantha Shepherd (Ball State), Navigating Freedom: Finding Black Community Amidst White Segregation Efforts in Emancipated Baltimore, 1864-1870.
Samuel Steck* (Ball State), Women, Art, Patriotism, and the 1864 Indianapolis Sanitary Bazaar
Hannah Sprenger (Ball State), Tragedy of the Commons’ versus Stewardship: A Case Study of Man and Nature and the Early American Environmental Movement, 1848-1877
Cardinal Hall C
Interpreting Religions
Matthew Hotham, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Chair & Comment
Zoe Olesker* (Ball State), Origin and Destination: Where the Quran Comes From and Why It Matters
Payton Glesing* (Ball State), The Divine Madness of Maria B. Woodworth
Kenneth Deetz (Ball State), Vodou: A Misunderstood Religion
Virginia Carter (Ball State), “I am bringing my roots and powders”: The Evolution and Life of Afro-Brazilian Spiritual and Herbal Practices
Keynote Address
11:00-12:00
Student Center Ballroom
Dr. Margaret Mih Tillman, Associate Professor of History, Purdue University
Building a Better World in an Atomic Age: UNESCO’s Mass Communications Platforms for Student Voices Introduced by Shiau-Yun Chen, Department of History
12:00-1:00
Lunch Break
1:00-1:30
Cardinal Hall A
Public History Internship Showcase
Wendy Soltz, Department of History, & Brittany Miller, Director of the Eastern Regional Office of Indiana Landmarks, Co-chairs
Kathleen Donoho* (Ball State), Minnetrista Collections Mgmt.
Thomas Fuller (Ball State), Limberlost State Historic Site
Divine Holmes (Ball State), NFL films: Photo research intern
Samantha Shepherd (Ball State), Indiana Dept. of Administration and the Indiana Archives and Records Administration
Second Panel Session
1:40-3:10
Cardinal Hall A
20th Century Transnational Histories
Sergei Zhuk, Department of History, Chair & Comment
Emma Gifford (Butler), Remembering Harriet Noble, Prominent, Transnational Suffragette from the State of Indiana
Jared England (U of Indianapolis), Hope for a New International: The Cuban Revolution and the American Left, 1959-1962
Joshua Hainer (Purdue), Good Neighborliness: Finnish Security Policy and National Identity in the Cold War
Zoe-Rose Dieguez* (Ball State), Transnationalism and Cultural Identity within Contemporary Chinese Expatriate Art
Cardinal Hall B
Britain in War and Peace during the Twentieth Century
Carolyn Malone, Department of History, Chair & Comment
Kristen Jeanveau (Western – Ontario), A Place of Delightful Prospects: Railway Advertising Depictions of the Suburbs in Early Twentieth Century London
Katie Turner (Ball State), British Propaganda in News & Film during World War II
Jamie Reeder (Ball State), Stories of Evacuation and their Effect on Britain
Cardinal Hall C
Memory and History: Personal and Collective
Abel Alves, Department of History, Chair & Comment
Ciera Boyes (Ball State), In the Arms of the Midwest: A Collective Memory of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin
Eilish Kelly (Ball State), My Father’s Keeper: Exploring Generational Trauma in an Irish-American Family
Jadzia Kelsay* (Ball State), Child-Like Play: Adult Realities in Scale and Miniatures
Third Panel Session
3:20-4:50
Cardinal Hall A
Spotlight on Muncie History
Melissa Gentry, Bracken Library Map Collections Supervisor, Chair & Comment
Kathleen Donoho* and Katrina Partlow (Ball State), Notable Women of Muncie – Julia Coleman
Sophia Halfman and Halle Pressler (Ball State), Notable of Women: Hallie Shaffer
Samantha Kidder and Griffin Hamilton (Ball State), The Narcotics Trade of Muncie
Cardinal Hall B
Intersectional Identities in Modern History
Jessica Reuther, Department of History, Chair & Comment
Madeleine Mills-Craig * (Ball State), Tiger Women: Analyzing the Chinese American Women Experience in Western United States from 1850-1885
Emily McGuire (Ball State), 1939’s Gone with the Wind: Gender & Race in the Symbol of Southern Mythology
Katy Evans (U of Illinois-Chicago), “El hombre hace valer a la mujer:” The Perception of Women and Their Participation in the Revolution
Delaney Fritch* (Ball State), Chicana Lesbians: The Attempt to Tame their Tongues
Cardinal Hall C
Diverse Perspectives on Museum Collections
Lara Kuykendall, School of Art – Art History, Chair & Comment
Hailee Loar (Ball State), Missing “Middletown” Photographs: Historical Record of the Black Community of Muncie
Jacqueline Craft (Ball State), Revealing and Concealing the Female Nude in Photography
Madi Garrett* (Ball State), Sharing the Spotlight: Diversifying American Art Museum Collections in the Twenty-First Century
5:00 – 5:20
Music Lounge
Reception and Awards Ceremony
Max Felker-Kantor, Bruce Geelhoed, Jessica Reuther, and Scott Stephan
* The asterisk next to the presenters’ names indicates that they are members of the Honors College at Ball State University.