Panel Schedule
All of the following conference panels will be held in Stowe Hall (see location #3 on the campus map).
Names marked with a (G) indicate graduate student status.
Session I: 9:00-10:00
Panel 1: Kingship and Religion in the Early Medieval Period (Room 213, Stowe Hall)
Micah Shull, College of Charleston – One Kingdom: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Anglo-Saxon Kings of the Ninth Century
David Stone, Belmont Abbey College – The Spread of Christianity into the North Atlantic through Viking Settlements
Preston Jones, Belmont Abbey College – Harald Bluetooth and Denmark
Chair: Clayton Drees, Virginia Wesleyan University
Panel 2: The Contested Canvas: Art as a Means of Exploring Politics, Identity, and War (Room 204, Stowe Hall)
Katalina Lopez, Belmont Abbey College – The Living Memory of the Casta Paintings
Shannon Rogers, Elon University – Art for the Industrial Working Class: Ruskin’s Educational Experiment
Kerry Toggweiler, Queens University of Charlotte – Unassuming but Determined: The Forgotten Women of the MFAA
Chair: Troy Feay, Belmont Abbey College
Panel 3: Accommodation and Resistance in Nazi-Era Germany (Room 215, Stowe Hall)
Caleb Kualii (G), North Carolina State University – An Education of Blood and Faith: The Rise of the Nazis, Völkisch Ideology, and the German Protestant Educational Profession in 1933
Elizabeth Henry, Francis Marion University – A Historiographical Exploration of German Youth Resistance
Chayyim Holtkamp (G), College of Charleston and the Citadel – Cattle, Gold, and Spectacle: The Role of the Railroads in Dehumanization during the Holocaust
Chair: V. Scott Kauffman, Francis Marion University
Session II: 10:15-11:30
Panel 4: Explorations of American Society in the Wake of World War I (Room 205, Stowe Hall)
Sarah Hickey, University of Scranton – False Memories: The History of Racism in the Women’s Suffrage Movement
Jessica Muniz, UNC-Pembroke – Underneath America: The Buried Legacies of Puerto Rican War Workers
Angela Harris, Belmont Abbey College – Minority Voices in the Loray Mill Strike
Kaitlyn McCort, Erskine College – The Rise of Sears, Roebuck, and Company: A mail-order business surviving the decades
Chair: Emily Davis, Belmont Abbey College
Panel 5: Perspectives on Roman History (Room 215, Stowe Hall)
Richard Seyler, Belmont Abbey College – Domitian: Sources on his reign analyzed
Allyson Tuffy, Winthrop University – From Caesar to Augustus: A Transition of Power
Jay Murray, Winthrop University – From Meek to Militant: The Evolution of the Role of Women in Roman Society
Evan Schultheis (G), Winthrop University – Greco-Roman Fencing: A Reexamination through Functional Hoplology
Chair: Ian Crowe, Belmont Abbey College
Panel 6: Faith and Identity in Early American History (Room 213, Stowe Hall)
Kayla Blanchard, Queens University of Charlotte – The Roots of Rootwork: West African and Christian Influence on Hoodoo
Samantha Nelson, Tusculum University – Witchcraft in Colonial New England: Race, Gender and Government
Amber Mattalyn Lockliear, Francis Marion University – The Truth that is Seldom Heard
Wesley Constandse (G), UNC-Pembroke – A Matter of Faith? Examining Convert Departures from the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies
Chair: Jeffrey Perry, Tusculum University
Panel 7: Confronting Turbulent Moments in Contemporary U.S. History (Room 205, Stowe Hall)
Maverick Huneycutt, UNC-Charlotte – “So Rude and So Crude”: Charlotte’s History with Urban Renewal and the Annihilation of the African American Community and Culture of Brooklyn: 1960-1970
Alyssa Martin (G), UNC-Charlotte – “A Modern Form of Barbarism”: Environmental Inequality in Cancer Alley, Louisiana
Daniel Duffy, Queens University of Charlotte – Scratching a Conservative: Harold Covington, and the Mainstreaming of Neo-fascism in the early 80s
Jessica Austin, Queens University of Charlotte – Weaponizing Weapons: The Infamous Legacy of the “Gun Free School Act of 1994”
Chair: Patrick Wadden, Belmont Abbey College
Session III: 1:45-3:00
Panel 8: Identity and Nationalism in the Era of the U.S. Civil War (Room 215, Stowe Hall)
Laura Wallace, Anderson University – Irish Confederates
Clare Grider, Anderson University – Confederate Nationalism: Identity as Reason for War
Maggie Vickers, Tusculum University – East Tennessee Church Loyalties in the Post-Civil War Era
Chair: James Martin, Campbell University
Panel 9: Explorations and Journeys in World History (Room 213, Stowe Hall)
Helen Behe, Belmont Abbey College – “We Are Not Yet Daunted”: How Captain De Long’s Leadership Impacted the U.S. Arctic Expedition
Aedyn Campbell-Poole, UNC-Pembroke – The Silk Road as a Model of Pre-Modern Cultural Exchange
Jordan Ennis, Elon University – The Economics of Ethnicity: A Case Study of the Maasai and the Batwa Peoples
Chair: Erica Johnson, Francis Marion University
Panel 10: Assessing Education, Propaganda, and Foreign Policy in U.S. History (Room 212, Stowe Hall)
Emily Iknayan, Queens University of Charlotte – “Reverse that”: How Evolving Perceptions of U.S. National Security Officials Influenced the Coup and Assassination of Bolivian President Juan Jose Torres
Elizabeth Wilcox (G), Austin Peay University – The Government’s First Propaganda Machine: Past and Future Impacts
Mary Pratt, Erskine College – One Nation, Under God, Two Education Systems: The Biblical Education Debate in America during the Founding Era
Chair: Barry Robinson, Queens University of Charlotte
Panel 11: Combat and Collaboration during the Second World War (Room 205, Stowe Hall)
James Cobb, Queens University of Charlotte – Partisan Warfare in the Baltics and Missed Opportunities, 1918-1940
Nicholas Gallagher, Coastal Carolina University – The Doolittle Raid
Nico DiAlesandro, Coastal Carolina University – Compromise, Accommodation, and Collaboration: France During World War Two
Chair: Daniel Hutchinson, Belmont Abbey College
