Undergraduate Lightning Round

AHA Session
Saturday, January 8, 2022: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Preservation Hall, Studio 8 (New Orleans Marriott, 2nd Floor)

This session will feature three-minute presentations by undergraduate historians describing their research. People interested in presenting should contact annualmeeting@historians.org to register.

This lightning round highlights the range of student research and encourages students to practice explaining their work to fellow historians. We encourage members to attend the session and hear about the work being done by undergraduate history majors and students.

Session Abstract

This session will feature three-minute presentations by undergraduate historians describing their research. People interested in presenting should contact annualmeeting@historians.org to register.

This lightning round highlights the range of student research and encourages students to practice explaining their work to fellow historians. We encourage members to attend the session and hear about the work being done by undergraduate history majors and students.

Braden Paul Acton: Muncie Versus Influenza: A Website Chronicle of the 1918 Pandemic in an Average American City

Derek Brown: Empowering Justice: The Role of Survivors in Framing the Holocaust for Regional Museum Audience

Lescia Carline Valmond: Mothers of Gynecology: Medical Experiments in Antebellum America

Xiufan Cheng: The Fall of the July Monarchy ——Why Constitutional Monarchy Failed in France

Haden DeVilbiss: The Naginata: Form of the Samurai, Function of the Ashigaru

Daniel Draves: How 1990s Popular Culture both Reflected and Nurtured the Rise of Conspiracy Theories in American Life

Reagan Hart: “Injure Their Reputation, and Terminate Their Life”: The Promise of Privacy for Venereal Disease Patients in Early Modern England

Mackenzie Jones: Russian Historical Fiction and Soviet Identity Formation

Melissa Manestar: Tentative Title: The Gendered Politics of Racial Harmonization Advertisement

William Murphy: Facism in the Middle East: How Axis Collaborators spread Facism to the Middle East

Stephen Rogers: Extra, Extra – Antisemitism in France, the Dreyfus Affair, and the French Public Intellectual

Sean Silvia: The De-Ottomanization of the Olympieion: Deconstructing the Colonial Gaze of Western European Travelogues

Morgan Thomas: Speaking, Embodying, Living: Oral History and the 1963 Birmingham Children’s Crusade

Brooke Thompson: The Rise and Fall of the Extreme American Right: The Ku Klux Klan as a Case Study

Sandra Tzul: An Exchange between Latinxs and Houston

Shiyao Zhang: Communication Effect Research on the Anti-Racist Thought of African Americans

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