Undergraduate Lightning Round: Community Organizing, Activism, and Political Engagement

AHA Session 254
Sunday, January 5, 2025: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Sutton Center (New York Hilton, Second Floor)
Chair:
Crystal M. Moten, Obama Presidential Center

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.

Presenters

Teaching History as an Act of Nonviolent Protest: SNCC's Freedom Schools and History Curriculum
Axell Boomer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Organize Everything that Works: An Analysis of Two Strikes in Bayonne, New Jersey, during 1912 and 1913
Sophia Burns, New Jersey City University

Respecting Unrespectability: Solidarity between Female Moral Reformers and Prostitutes
Jenna Deep, Dickinson College

“One of the Faithful Few": Uncovering a Philadelphia Church's Role in the Underground Railroad
Abbigail Ealer, Rowan University

From Yellow Power to the Chinese American Right: Black and Asian American Solidarity in the 1960s versus the 2010s
Sanjna Kaul, University of Richmond

Red Golgotha: Religion and Revolutionary Culture of the Russian Underground
Gregory McEvoy, City College of New York

Students of Revolution: The Role of Higher Education in Mobilizing Resistance before the Salvadoran Civil War
Sofia Portillo, Franklin and Marshall College

In Search of a Right: Collegiate Reproductive Activism, 1965–72
Sophia Powell, University of Pennsylvania

A Nation of Grrrls? Riot Grrrl as an Imagined Community
Brandon Ronquillo, St. Joseph's University

Shock Troops for the New Deal: The Amalgamated Clothing Workers in Rochester, 1929–39
Zachary Roussie, Houghton University

The Ladies' Pioneer Society: Patterns of Thinking in One of the Oldest Women's Clubs in the United States
Annfaye Sternberg, University of Houston

Building Memory, Respecting Silence: Social Technologies, Pittsburgh Queer History, and the Ethics of Archival Use
Silas Maxwell Switzer, University of Pittsburgh

“Women on the Waterfront”: The Evolution of a Lesbian Community Organization in Hoboken, 1978–85
Leo Yu, Princeton University

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