Graduate Student Professional and Research Activities

Conference Presentations

Becker, Brian. "Genoese Slaving in Thirteenth-Century Caffa." Thirty-ninth International Congress on Medieval Studies, 6-9 May, 2004, Kalamazoo, MI.

Bruce, Travis. "Legitimacy as a Motivating Factor in the Politics of Eleventh-Century Spain." 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies, 1-4 April, 2004, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

Bruce, Travis. "The Politics of Trade and Violence: Denia and Pisa in the Middle Ages." 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 6-9 May, 2004, Kalamazoo, MI.

Bruce, Travis. "Denia and Barcelona in the Eleventh Century: The Politics of Trade and Violence." 7th Annual Mediterranean Studies Association Conference, 26-29 May, 2004, Barcelona, Spain.

Jass, Stephanie. "The 'Great American-Makers': Foodways and Americanization at Chicago Settlements." Annual Convention of the American Historical Association, 8-11 January, 2004, Washington, D.C.

Kain, Kevin. "Verbal and Artistic Images of Patriarch Nikon Created by Old Believers in the Nineteenth Century." 2004 Midwest Slavic Conference, 26-28 February, 2004, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

Kain, Kevin. "The Ikon 'Christ Pancrator with Kneeling St. Metropolitan Philip and Patriarch Nikon.'" 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 6-9 May, 2004, Kalamazoo, MI.

Koenig, Joshua. "The Lives of Material Goods: Material Culture Evolution During the Fur Trade Rendezvous, 1825-1840." Center for Rupertsland Studies Colloquium, Kenora, Canada.

Lawrence, Thomas C. “The Codices Bonifatiani: The Making of a Myth.” Michigan Academy, 5 March, 2004.

McCandless, Jamie. "Corpses Abroad: Medieval Encounters with the Animated Dead." Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, 13-16 May, 2004, Durango, Colorado.

Ngovo, Samuel. "The Establishment of Liberian Government Authority in Bandiland in Northwestern Hinterland, 1884-1920." 36th Annual Conference of the Liberian Studies Association, 25-28 March, 2004, Durham, NC.

Solberg-Viar, Heidi, Sarah Townsend, and Dale Winling. "Taking Time for Local History: An Outdoor Museum for St. Joseph and Benton Harbor." Michigan Museums Association Annual Meeting, 2 October, 2003, Marquette, MI.

Winling, Dale. "'It Used to Be a Bloody Mess': Oral History and Sense of Place at the Wolf Lake Fish Hatchery." Biennial meeting of Society for American City and Regional Planning History, November, 2003, St. Louis, MO.