Graduate Student Professional and Research Activities

Conference Presentations

Adrian, Shawn. “A History of Pure Experiences: Tolstoy, Pasternak, and Pravda in the Russian Historical Novel.” The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association Conference, February 2005, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Black, Jennifer. “Gendered Anomalies: White Nudes and Female Agency in Orientalist Harems.” 27th Annual Warren I. Susman Graduate History Conference, April 16, 2005, Rutgers University. Also presented at 5th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium, May 20-21, 2005, Ohio University.

Debruler, Ray. “Agrarian Identity in the Old Northwest: 1787-1848.” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, March 2005, Eastern Michigan University.

Duke, Robert. “Regression in a Progressive City: Race Relations in Austin, Texas, 1919-1929.” Texas State Historical Association, March 4, 2005, Fort Worth, Texas.

Hampton, Valerie. “When Stones Speak: The Isle of Man as a Centre of Early Christianity.” 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 5-8, 2005, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Hampton, Valerie. “Gift-Exchange and Trade in the Kingdom of the Isles.” Society of Historical Archaeology Conference, January 5-10, 2005, York, UK.

Jannings, Christopher. “Those Championship Years: Blacks and High School Basketball in Benton Harbor, Michigan, 1955-1965.” North American Society of Sport History, May 2005, Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Lawrence, Thomas C. “Nationalism and the Ancient World.” Central States Anthropological Society, March 11, 2005.

Ngovo, Samuel. "African Americans and the Making of Liberia: The American background of African Americans' Civilizing Mission in Liberia during the Nineteenth Century." Liberian Studies, April 1-3, 2005.

Staggs, Stephen. “Predestined to Failure: Predikanten Missions to the Natives of New Netherland, 1621-1664.” Association for the Advancement of Dutch-American Studies’ Biennial Conference June 3, 2005, Sioux Center, Iowa,.

Vance, Thomas. “The Lives of Elliot Richardson: Early Mentors of a Public Servant.” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, March 2005, Eastern Michigan University.

Zanoni, Elizabeth. “American’s Women’s Sporting Attire, Consumer Culture, and Material Culture in the 1920s.” North American Society for Sport History 33rd Annual Conference, May 27-30, 2005, Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Zwart, David. “Staying Connected: The Christian Reform Church and Its Armed Services Members During World War II.” 15th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies, June 3-4, 2005.