Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Refreshments
8:30-8:50 Music Lounge
Sheryl Stump, Associate Dean, College of Sciences & Humanities
Abel Alves, Chairperson, Department of History
First Panel Session
Women & Gender in the U.S. Civil War
9:05-10:40 Cardinal Hall A
Scott Stephan, Chair & Comment
Darcy Robinson (Ball State): Womanhood in Transformation: Southern Female Spies during the Civil War and their Relationship with Gender
Tori Zeek (Ball State): The Gender of Opportunity: Why Women Enlisted in the Civil War
Sex, Alcohol, and Society: Gas Boom Muncie in Podcasts & Story Maps
9:05-10:40 Cardinal Hall B
Jennifer Mara DeSilva, Chair & Comment
Haleigh DeGrow (Ball State): Alcohol-Related Crime
John Williams & Christian Patino (Ball State): Saloons & Alcohol
Sophia Hoffert & Claire Enk (Ball State): The Sexy Side of the City: Prostitution and Social Reform
Ben Hettler & John Moynihan (Ball State): Black Migration & Irish Immigration to Muncie, 1870–1910
Poster Sessions
9:00-4:00 Terrace Lounge
1920s Indiana: A State of Organized Crime
Ball State History Club: Rose Winters, Joey O’Hara, Zoe Will, Genevieve McClure, Hannah Sako, Kara Nahrwold, Shelby King, & Virginia Carter
George Kennan’s Kamchatka Expedition
Kathleen Kilgore (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Keynote Address: “Helen Hamilton Gardener and the Secret History of How Women Got the Vote”
11:00-12:00 Student Center Ballroom
Dr. Kimberly Hamlin, Associate Professor of History & Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami University
Introduction by Melissa Gentry (Ball State University)
Lunch Break
12:00-1:30
History Master of Arts Program Informational Session
12:00-12:50 Cardinal Hall C
Daniel Ingram, Director of Graduate Studies
Second Panel Session
Expansion, Identity, & Inequality in Global Perspective
1:30-2:55 Cardinal Hall A
Jessica Reuther, Chair & Comment
Grace Rosenbaum (IU Bloomington): Protestant and Catholic Missionaries: Their Role in King Leopold II’s Congo Free State
Alessandra McLoughlin (Miami): Miami University: Higher Education, Expansionism, and Slavery on the Frontier
Ben Parnin (IU Bloomington): Athenian and Corinthian Colonial Relationships During the Peloponnesian War
Histories of Contemporary Controversies
1:30-2:55 Cardinal Hall B
James Connolly, Chair & Comment
Jaren Summers (Ball State): Being the Offspring of Heavenly Parents: Taking an Analytical Approach to the Historicity of the Mormon Theological Doctrine of Heavenly Mother
Jessica O’Brien (Loyola): Yeltsin, Populism, and the Russian Presidency
Graeme States (Anderson): A Comprehensive Study of Blackface: What it is and How it Affects Us Today
Taking It to the Streets: Meeting the Needs of the People – Ball State Public History Projects
1:30-2:55 Cardinal Hall C
Ronald Morris, Chair & Comment
Rachel Garland: Sons of the American Revolution Website
Maria Pizzo & Rachel Garland: Farm at Prophetstown Orientation Video
Caitlin Smith: Canal Society of Indiana Website and Newsletter & Putnam County Architectural History Phone Tours
Ben Wilson: Indiana Digital Civil Rights Museum
Molly Hollcroft: Whitewater Valley Industrial Sites
Third Panel Session
Native Americans in Actuality & Imagination
3:05-4:30 Cardinal Hall A
Daniel Ingram, Chair & Comment
Joseph Puckett (Miami): The Huestons of Butler County, Indian Removal, and Educational Privilege
Patrick Macy (Ball State): “The Fighting Indian”: A Brief History of Native Americans During the Great War
Paul Ross (Ball State): Native American Performers in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
Challenging Norms & Shaping Culture
3:05-4:30 Cardinal Hall B
Emily Suzanne Johnson, Chair and Comment
Lauren Jacobs (Purdue): A Historical Analysis of Food Safety in America: The Turn of the Twentieth Century
Leah Samples (Penn): Fine Lines: Plastic Surgery in Mid-Twentieth Century America
Zoe LaBonte (Ball State): Transphobia and Trans Exclusion: The Harmful and Incorrect Exclusion of Transgender Contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Ancient & Medieval Cosmologies
3:05-4:30 Cardinal Hall C
Abel Alves, Chair & Comment
Maxine Lightfoot (IU Bloomington): Human Sacrifice in Nordic Mythology
Caitlin Smith (Ball State): Depictions of Women in Medieval Folklore and Art
Reception and Awards Ceremony
4:40 – 5:15 Music Lounge
Abel Alves, Emily Suzanne Johnson, Jessica Reuther, Scott Stephan