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UH History/Phi Alpha Theta Spring 2007 Research Colloquium
Posted: February 05, 2007
Once again, the University of Houston History Department is sponsoring, in conjunction with the graduate chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, an ambitious schedule of monthly presentations by UH graduate students with comments by faculty members. This semester, the three sessions are scheduled for Thursday afternoons, 3-4:30, in Agnes Arnold Hall 549.
Undergraduate History Majors and members of the general public are invited to join UH faculty and graduate students at these sessions, which are designed to highlight some of the latest trends in advanced graduate research in history. Phi Alpha Theta is the international history honor society.
The schedule is as follows:
22 February: THE PURSUIT OF WORLD HISTORY: AN AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE
- Philip Sinitiere, “Africa in World History and World History in Africa”
Faculty Commentator: Dr. Kairn Klieman
22 March: POLITICS AND POLITICAL CULTURE: CASE STUDIES FROM INDIANA AND TEXAS”
- Greg Peek, “A Great Middle Conservative Course: The Rise of the Republican Party in Indiana”
- Tim O’Brien, “Kill the Poor: Lenwood Johnson and the Battle of Allen Parkway Village, 1983-1996”
Faculty Commentator: To Be Announced
26 April: WOMEN IN HISTORY: FROM MEDIEVAL EUROPE TO THE OLD CONFEDERACY
- Amy O’Neal, “Anglo-Norman Women: I’ve Got a Knight in Shining Armor, Now What?”
- Gary Bryant, “The Expansion of the Female Labor Force in the Confederate South and Its Long-Term Effects”
Faculty Commentators: Drs. Sally Vaughn and Linda Reed
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