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UH Graduate Research Colloquium - Spring 2008
Posted: February 14, 2008
The University of Houston Department of History announces the Spring 2008
edition of its Graduate Student Research Colloquium. Jointly sponsored by the local graduate chapter of Phi Alpha Theta (the international history honor society), this colloquium provides a forum in which MA and PhD candidates discuss their research with fellow students and faculty. The Department also welcomes the participation of under-graduate history majors and the general public.
All sessions will be held on the UH Central Campus in Agnes Arnold 520. Unless subsequently changed, all sessions will be on Thursdays from 3- 4:30 p.m.
GRADUATE STUDENTS AND ARCHIVAL RESEARCH:
A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION
Courtney DeMayo
Staatsbibliothek, Bamberg, and Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Amy O'Neal
British Library
Clayton Lust
National Archives, Library of Congress, Center for American
History, Harris County Archives, Houston Metropolitan Research
Drs. Bailey Stone, Cathy Patterson, and Gerald Horne
Comment
March 27
RACE AND GENDER IN U. S. HISTORY
Lee Berlet
"Transcending Race: Emerson, Antislavery, and Changing Racial Identity in Antebellum Boston"
Malachi Crawford
"Name Brand Nationalism: Garment-Making, Gender Empowerment and the Creation of Ethno-Religious Identity in the Early Lost-Found Nation of Islam, 1931-1947"
Dr. Eric Walther
Comment
April 24
STUDIES IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICA
Dan Donalson
"A Convenient Engine of Oppression: Preliminary Findings on the Other Uses of the Espionage and Sedition Acts of 1917-1918"
Stephanie Fuglaar
"Streetcars, Land, and Energy in Houston, Texas"
Commentator: Dr. Nancy Young
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