Session Abstract
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