Poster Session #1

AHA Session 174
Saturday, January 10, 2026: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Salon A (Hilton Chicago, Lower Level)
Papers:
The Reef in the Oilfield: American Petroleum Geologists in Belize, 1955–2001
Kamil Ahsan, Yale University
Materializing Inka–Colla Interaction in the Viceroyalty of Peru
Henry Bacha, University of Chicago
Re-Evaluating the Cotton Gin in the Antebellum US South: Labor, Space, Technology
Sam Bisno, Brown University
Body Snatching in Chicago and Its Environs
David Kendall Casey, Northwestern University
Selling the Nature Cure, 1890–1950: How German “Life Reformers” Shaped US Wellness Culture
Laura Cremer, University of Chicago
Anatomy Trade in India and the West, 1810–1985
Nilanjana Dutta, University of Oxford
Parasites and Predators in Paradise: Biological Control and Species Introduction in Early 20th-Century California
Wenzheng Fang, University of Notre Dame
Mapping the Seepsah: A Caste History of River Management in Sunderbans
Nabaparna Ghosh, Babson College
The Vanishing Schools of Franklin County, Virginia
Abraham H. Gibson, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Public Diplomacy, Women's Philanthropy, and World War II: Soong Mayling (Madame Chiang Kai-shek), Sino–Indian, and Sino–British Relations
Esther Hu, Boston University
Postmemory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation: The Wall, the Website, and the Work of Mourning
Michelle Iden, County College of Morris
Beyond the Classroom: The Supervisory Leadership of Georgia’s Jeanes Teachers in Rural Black Education
Brittney Kilgore, University of Georgia
Did Comic Books Help Elect Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman?
Anthony Letizia, writer
Adopted Hatred: Antisemitism in China’s Long 20th Century
Yuang Marcus Liu, independent researcher
Is a Book Needed? Felix Cohen and the Department of the Interior in Puerto Rico, 1944–46
Carmen Lopez Villamil, Yale University
Sanctuaries in the South: Spanish Missions and the Underground Railroad to Mexico
Breahna Luera-Peck, University of Texas at San Antonio
Archival Queeries: Documenting LGBTQ Histories in San Antonio and Addressing Silences in the Archive
Alexandra Medina, University of Texas at San Antonio
The White Lie: The Myth of Pure Marble and the Color of Antiquity
Robert Staton, Loyola University Chicago; Seungho Moon, Loyola University Chicago
Think Ethnic: American Folk Music, the Popular Music Marketplace, and the Ethnic Other, 1958–65
Stephen I. Moore, Vanguard University
Defective Secularisms: A Comparative History of Pentecostalism in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1959–99
Maricelis Nogueras-Colón, Atlantic University
AKTION P: Survival of 540K Mercedes-Benz (Chassis #408377) from World War II
John J. O'Leary IV, University of Connecticut
Funding the Memory War: Economics of Civil War Monuments
Kris Plunkett, Tulane University
Women of the Indigenous Repatriation Movement: A Story of Cultural Reclamation
Sara Shaffer-Henry, independent scholar
From Haight–Ashbury to Kolkata: The Symbiotic Relationship Between the American Beats and the Bengali Hungryalists
Meenal Srivastava, Johns Hopkins University
The Collaboration of Exclusionary Laws: Anti-Miscegenation Law in the Central Valley of California, 1870–1967
Julia Torres, University of California, Riverside

Session Abstract

The Program Committee encourages all meeting attendees to visit the posters on display and engage in considered dialogue and engaging interaction with the presenters. The following presenters will be available to discuss their posters between 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 10.
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