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.

Presentations

Science as a Legitimizing Force in Indigenous Assimilation and Land Rights Denial in Early 20th-Century Philippines under American Colonization
Tristan Burchett, City University of New York

“A Square Deal for Everybody”: D.W. Newsom and Racial Ideology in Jim Crow Durham
Megan Corey, Duke University

Pioneering Midwifery in Colonial Uganda
Amanda Grant, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Shanghai Ghosts: Death and Disease in the Shanghai International Settlement
Kristy Lee, City College of New York

Unnaming New York: Examining the Violent History Embedded in Lower Manhattan Places and Their Names
Lauren Male, Pace University

McPotempkin Village: Globalization of Post-Soviet Russia
Emma McCormack, Eastern Connecticut State University

Medieval Maritime Bengal and the Indian Ocean
Ridwan Mahfuz Rahman, City College of New York

The Moral Arbiter of Youth: America’s Covert Network and the Ideological “Rescue” of Refugee Youth, 1956–62
Benjamin Toyryla, College of William and Mary

Colonial Threads: How British Economic Policies Crippled India's Industrial Power and Shaped Its Present-Day Poverty
Yash Wadwekar, Yale University