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Welcome
Welcome everyone to the 2015 Phi Alpha Theta Northwest Regional
Conference! Our setting this year is the idyllic Campbell’s Resort in Lake
Chelan, Washington. Nestled in the low-lying Cascade Mountains that
flow into Lake Chelan, Campbell’s Resort offers us a unique environment to
showcase Phi Alpha Theta’s talented students and professors. We thank you
all for making the journey to Lake Chelan to participate in what is sure to be
another fantastic Phi Alpha Theta Conference!
The 2015 conference reinforces the sustained devotion that both students and
faculty have to Phi Alpha Theta. Our program consists of over one-hundred
undergraduate and graduate student presenters and over thirty faculty
members. In total, twenty-one colleges and universities are represented. We
received a wide array of papers that demonstrate the diversity of historical
interests and the engagement of students with aspects of the past from
nearly every continent. It is our hope that the themes we have developed
will stimulate rich conversation. The students’ papers and panels foreground
the importance of historical context but also help us rethink events, ideas,
and cultural encounters across time and space: the meaning of violence; the
performance of religious beliefs and rituals; the relationship between humans
and their environment; and, the construction of political power. To reward the
outstanding work of our students, we will continue the tradition of offering
three paper prizes: the Harry Fritz Best Paper Prize; the Best Graduate Student
Paper Prize; and, the Best Undergraduate Paper Prize.
Alongside the dedication of students and faculty, the 2015 conference has
been supported by a number of individuals. We would like to thank the
Associated Students of the University of Washington, Tacoma, the UWT School
of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, the officers of UWT’s AZG Chapter of Phi
Alpha Theta for their support, and Terrence Cole of the University of Alaska,
Fairbanks. From Montana State University Billings, Dr. Christine Shearer, Dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Provost’s Office provided financial
support and much encouragement. We would especially like to thank Patrick
Williams, Multimedia Design Specialist at MSUB, for designing our beautiful
program. Kelli Donnelly and Glenda Holbrook of MSUB’s History Department
were integral in making the name tags, and Dr. Tom Rust took up the task
of creating and maintaining the website. Finally, we would like to thank
Campbell’s Resort for hosting nearly 150 members of Phi Alpha Theta.
Pack your swimsuit and your thinking cap, as our conference will mingle
the rigor and excitement of an academic meeting with the fun of a resort
destination!
Jennifer Lynn and Joseph Bryan, Montana State University Billings
Michael Allen, University of Washington, Tacoma
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College of Arts & Sciences
To the Members of Phi Alpha Theta:
I would like to extend my best wishes and
welcome on behalf of the College of Arts
& Sciences at Montana State University
Billings and its Department of History,
a co-sponsor for the 2015 Northwest
Regional Phi Alpha Theta conference held
in beautiful Lake Chelan, Washington.
The engaging, intellectually-stimulating
conference program will undoubtedly yield
new conversations, ideas, and research
opportunities for all. In addition, you will
develop lasting friendships and potential
partnerships with faculty and students
from all over the region. Montana State University Billings is committed
to its student-centered educational mission and transforming students’
personal and professional lives. We are extraordinarily proud to partner with
the University of Washington Tacoma to host this event, and the faculty at
both institutions have worked diligently and collaboratively to create a rich,
diverse series of events.
Enjoy all that the conference has to offer in terms of presentations, panel
discussions, and conversations in lovely Lake Chelan.
Christine Shearer, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Montana State University Billings
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Schedule
Thursday, April 9
3:00 – 7:00
Registration & Packet Distribution
Stehekin Foyer
No-host Faculty Mixer, B.C. McDonald’s
5:00 – 7:00
Friday, April 10
7:15 – 8:45
Breakfast
Stehekin Ballroom
Welcome and Announcements: Mike Allen, University of
Washington – Tacoma, Jennifer Lynn and Joseph Bryan,
Montana State University Billings
7:00 – 9:00
Registration & Packet Distribution
Stehekin Foyer
9:00 – 10:30 Session 1
10:45 – 12:15
Session 2
12:30 – 2:00
Lunch and Keynote Address
Stehekin Ballroom
Dr. Harry W. Fritz, University of Montana
“From Sarajevo to the Schlieffen Plan: The ‘Last Word’
on the Origins, and Blame, for the Great War”
2:15 – 3:45
Session 3
4:00 – 5:45
Session 4
Saturday, April 11
7:15 – 8:45
Breakfast
Stehekin Ballroom
9:00 – 10:30
Session 5
Session 6
10:45-12:15
12:30 – 1:30
Faculty Business Lunch
Stehekin A
3:00
Comedian Jim Stewart Allen at Campbell’s, Cash Bar
Stehekin B
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7:15–8:45am
Breakfast (Stehekin Ballroom)
7:00–9:00am
Registration & Packet Distribution (Stehekin Foyer)
SESSION 1
9:00-10:30am
1A
Ballroom I
Examining Empire
Tyler G. Miller, University of Washington – Tacoma (Undergraduate),
“1898: The Start of American Imperialism, or its End?”
Nate Christiansen, Western Washington University (Graduate), “A
Difficult Climb to a Great Height: French Colonialism in Algeria”
Dean Pavlakis, Carroll College
Chair: Comment: 1B
Ballroom II
Chair: Erika Kuhlman, Idaho State University
Military Strategies and Responses to War
Terrence Cole, University of Alaska - Fairbanks
Alexandra Honican, Eastern Washington University (Graduate), “The
American Civil War: A Fight Between the Military and the Environment”
Julie Okamura, Boise State University (Undergraduate), “Broken Trust:
The Fight of Japanese Americans and the Japanese American Citizens
League to Gain Equal Rights and Improved Immigration Laws”
Jillaine Cook, Linfield College (Undergraduate), “Unwanted Canadians:
The 1942 Conference on Japanese Problems and the Removal and
Confinement of Japanese Canadians”
Steve Balzarini, Gonzaga University
Comment: 1C
Ballroom III
Chair: The Direct and Indirect Power of Royal Women
Brian Carroll, Central Washington University
Taylor McMillan, Eastern Washington University (Undergraduate), “The
Reign of Elizabeth I in Ireland”
Madelyn R. Glasco, Seattle University (Undergraduate), “Eleanor of
Castile: A Power Beyond the Bedchamber”
Celina Muñoz, Western Washington University (Undergraduate),
“Mistresses Under the Absolute Power of Louis XIV”
Thomas M. Luckett, Portland State University
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1D
East Room
Chair: Revisionism: Rethinking and Reexamining Historical
Narratives
Jennifer Seltz, Western Washington University
Amelia White, University of Idaho (Graduate), “Richard III: His Historians
and Writers”
Joel Gabriel Grey, George Fox University (Undergraduate), “Conflict:
the Story of American Slavery”
Mark Alexander Webster, Idaho State University (Undergraduate),
“F.D.R. and Pearl Harbor: The Nature of Conspiracy Theories in
American Culture”
Ann Le Bar, Eastern Washington University
Comment: 1E
West Room
Foreign Relations and the Projection of Power
Robert Moser, Central Washington University (Undergraduate), “Friend
or Foe: Foreign Diplomacy in 1861 Civil War America”
Alex Kastens, Carroll College (Undergraduate), “Denmark, Greenland,
and the Origins of NATO: An Analysis of U.S. Influence on the Defense
of the North Atlantic in Cold War Europe, 1947-49”
Chloe Keil, George Fox University (Undergraduate), “Civil Defense
Films and the American Public”
Scott Smith, Linfield College
Chair:
Comment:
John Rector, Western Oregon University
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SESSION 2
10:45am-12:15pm
2A
Ballroom I Chair:
Comment:
Waging War and Violence in the Ancient and
Medieval Worlds
Michael Conlin, Eastern Washington University
Kevin Jensen, University of Portland (Undergraduate), “Periclean
Strategy: A New Perspective on the Battle of Pylos and its
Significance for the Peloponnesian War”
Klayton Tietjen, Idaho State University (Undergraduate), “Assassins:
The Sometimes Diabolical, Sometimes Comical Violence of
Germanic Tribal Leaders in the Early Middle Ages”
J. Dane Johns, Boise State University (Graduate), “Inevitable: The
Hundred Years War”
Steven Garfinkle, Western Washington University
2B
Ballroom II Chair:
Comment:
2C
Ballroom III Chair:
Displaced Identities
Sarah Zimmerman, Western Washington University
Camille Kammer, Seattle University (Undergraduate), “A Map to
Survival within Roma Oral Folktales”
Eamon Ormseth, University of Montana (Undergraduate), “The
Swarthy Syrians: Religion and Politics in Little Syria, Brooklyn from
1890-1930”
Emma DeFontes, Seattle University (Undergraduate),
“Remembering Manchuria: A Global Microhistory of Japanese
Imperialism in China during WWII”
Dane Cash, Carroll College
Commodities and Consumption Through an
Historical Lens
Dean Pavlakis, Carroll College
Sydney Owen, Linfield College (Undergraduate), “The Diffusion
of Cultural Caffeine: An Analysis Of England’s Coffee and Tea
Consumption”
Brandon Emerson, Whitworth University (Undergraduate),
“Transregional Cultures: Beer in the Germanic States”
Zach Martin, Western Oregon University (Undergraduate), “The
Foods of the Aztec Empire”
Emily Arendt, Montana State University Billings
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2D
East Room Chair:
Comment:
Negotiating Conflict: War, Commerce, and
Perceptions of American Indians
Harry Fritz, University of Montana
Kelsey Gilman, Western Washington University (Graduate),
“Knowing the New World: Exploring European Responses to Native
Histories during the Enlightenment”
Tyler Brock, University of Idaho (Undergraduate), “Why the Iroquois
Differed on Deciding Which European Power to Ally With”
Peter Lindgren, Western Washington University (Undergraduate),
“The Pequot War: A Conflict of Political Destruction”
Robert Carriker, Gonzaga University
2E
West Room Chair:
Comment:
2F
River Room Chair:
Comment:
Global Religions and the Power of Belief
Ann Le Bar, Eastern Washington University
Savannah Krug, Western Washington University (Undergraduate),
“Violence and the Occult: A Discussion on the Ways in which
Language Influences Power”
Kyeann Sayer, University of Montana (Graduate), “Ernst Johann
Biron’s Silesian Church: Diplomacy, ‘The Protestant Interest,’ and
The War of The Polish Succession”
Nichole A. Lund, Montana State University Billings (Undergraduate),
“James Davenport: The Rabble Rouser of the Great Awakening”
Tom Taylor, Seattle University
Ancient Rome and Its Legacy
Charity Urbanski, University of Washington
Daniel K. Christensen, Eastern Washington University
(Undergraduate), “Alien Apostle: Luke’s Literary Purpose Behind
Paul’s Roman Citizenship”
Abigail Russell, Western Washington University (Undergraduate),
“Liberty’s Chains”
Evan Jones, Western Washington University (Graduate), “The
Symbol, the Salute, and the City: History in the Service of
Unification”
Caitlin Corning, George Fox University
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12:30 - 2:00pm
Lunch and Keynote Address
Greetings and Announcements: Dr. Robert Carriker, Gonzaga University
Phi Alpha Theta National Representative
Keynote Address: Dr. Harry W. Fritz, University of Montana
“From Sarajevo to the Schlieffen Plan: The ‘Last Word’ on
the Origins, and Blame, for the Great War”
Dr. Harry W. Fritz, University of Montana
For 48 years, Professor Harry W. Fritz has taught American
History to thousands of University of Montana students. His
courses have spanned all of American History and included
the Revolution and early Republic, Civil War, Montana History,
and American Military History. He has authored or co-edited
six books and, as Phi Alpha Theta chapter adviser and National
Councilor, helped create the highly successful model for the
Pacific Northwest Regional Phi Alpha Theta conferences. The
“Fritz Prize” is awarded each year to the best all-around regional
conference paper. Although he “retired” 8 years ago, Professor
Fritz continues to teach part-time at UM, including a class on
World War I, the topic of his luncheon address.
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SESSION 3
2:15-3:45pm
3A
Ballroom I Chair:
Science, Medicine, and Disease in the Americas
Kerry Irish, George Fox University
Kelly Leahy, Western Washington University (Undergraduate),
“‘The Most Dangerous Vaccine’: Women and Anti-Vaccination
Sentiment in Progressive Era America”
Catherine J. Valentine, Portland State University (Graduate),
“Disease and the Transatlantic Slave Trade”
Aimee Clark, Gonzaga University (Undergraduate), “The Eugenic
Dilemma: Bad Science with Good Intentions?”
Michael Conlin, Eastern Washington University
Comment:
3B
Ballroom II Chair:
Challenges to Religious Hegemony
Matt Redinger, Montana State University Billings
Jennifer Hight, Western Oregon University (Undergraduate),
“Legacy of the Black Death on the Catholic Church”
Nicole Jennings, Western Washington University (Undergraduate),
“Anti-Catholicism and Misogyny in Reformation Europe”
Kira H. Lesley, Portland State University (Graduate), “Religious
Trends in Early Modern English and Scottish Balladry”
RaGena DeAragon, Gonzaga University
Comment:
3C
Ballroom III Chair:
Women and the Politics of Education, the Family,
and the Body
Dane Cash, Carroll College
Nocona Frame, Montana State University Billings (Undergraduate),
“Aletta Jacobs: Advocating for Birth Control and Women’s Rights to
Control their Bodies”
Elizabeth Seelye, Central Washington University (Undergraduate),
“The New Radicals: Literature and Education for the Emancipation
of Russian Women”
William Forrest Holden, Portland State University (Undergraduate),
“Feminine Domesticity and National Character in Early Nineteenth
Century Imperial Russia”
Ellen Kittell, University of Idaho
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3D
East Room Local Terror and Community Violence
Chair:
Mike Allen, University of Washington – Tacoma
Matt McCune, University of Idaho (Undergraduate), “An
Examination of the Causes of the Mountain Meadows Massacre”
William Hathaway, Idaho State University (Graduate), “Idaho’s War
against the Wobblies: Swatting at Gadflies”
Kellie Hedgers, Central Washington University (Graduate), “Deviant
Sexuality in the Civil War”
Keith Edgerton, Montana State University Billings
Comment:
3E
West Room German Culture and Memory: Contestation and
Division
Thomas M. Luckett, Portland State University
Chair:
Anastasia Utke, Eastern Washington University (Undergraduate),
“Nietzsche and Wagner: From Tristian and Isolde to Ruin”
Michelle Wilcox, University of Portland (Undergraduate), “A
Divided Mentality: The Prevailing Existence of the German
Democratic Republic in the Minds of East Germans Born in the
1970s”
Erik Hadley, Boise State University
Comment:
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SESSION 4
4:00-5:45pm
4A
Ballroom I
Creating Knowledge and Criminalizing Behavior
Andrew Layton, University of Idaho (Undergraduate), “A Light in a
Dark Time”
Nathaniel R. Hoe, Seattle University (Undergraduate), “Sir John
Mandeville and the Medieval Mind in Transition”
Thomas E. Breysse Jr., Eastern Washington University
(Undergraduate), “An Unexpected Presentation of the Spanish
Inquisition: Examining the Circumstances and Procedures
Surrounding the Inquisition and the European Witch Trials”
Hannah Tweet, Whitworth University (Undergraduate), “The
Viceroy and the Cristo Aparecido: the Iconography of Power in
Central Colonial Mexico, 1521-1700”
Peter Diehl, Western Washington University
Chair:
Comment:
4B
Ballroom II
Chair:
RaGena DeAragon, Gonzaga University
Place and Space in the Pacific Northwest
Kerry Irish, George Fox University
Nick Cantonwine, Linfield College (Undergraduate), “Henry Villard:
Oregon’s Original Empire Builder”
Alex McIntire, Central Washington University (Undergraduate),
“Growth and Decline within an Empire: The Rise of Spokane and
the Inland Empire”
Carla E. Curtis, Portland State University (Graduate), “Contested
Narratives of the Astoria Column – 1926”
Alexandra A. Hawes, Portland State University (Graduate),
“‘A Marvel in its Place’: Portland’s Twice – Civilizing Pioneer
Courthouse, 1875-1975”
Dale Soden, Whitworth University
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Ballroom III
Chair:
Violence, Power, and the Law
Kevin Chambers, Gonzaga University
John Petrinovich-Bartich, Western Washington University
(Undergraduate), “Kleptocracy and the Paradox of the Plenty”
Sara Leonetti, University of Washington (Undergraduate), “Rape and
the Law: An Examination of the Relationship between Sexist Cultural
Attitudes and Washington State’s 1975 Rape Law Revision”
Karly Muller, Eastern Washington University (Undergraduate), “Closing
The Green Book: Qaddafi’s Reign of Negligence and Subsequent
Demise during the Arab Spring”
Erika Kuhlman, Idaho State University
Comment:
4D
East Room
Chair: Ordering and Protecting the Environment
Peter Diehl, Western Washington University
John T. Menard, Washington State University (Undergraduate), “The
Civilian Conservation Corp: A Case Study of the Fort George Wright
District and Camp F-188”
Patience Collier, Central Washington University (Undergraduate),
“Preservation of the Race: Gender Roles in the Conservation
Movement”
Martin Jarvis, Western Oregon University (Graduate), “Cars and the
Coast: Technocracy versus Popular Opinion on Banning the use of
Motor Vehicles on Oregon Beaches”
Dominic Salle, Carroll College (Undergraduate), “Relief from Despair:
The Impact of the Civil Works Administration in Seattle, Washington”
Robert Stevens, Pierce College
Comment: 4E
West Room
Chair: Marginalized Voices: Fighting for Rights and
Recognition in the Americas
Steven Garfinkle, Western Washington University
Lucas McKinnon, Seattle University (Undergraduate), “The Rights of
Man: W.E.B. Du Bois on Black Identity, Communism, and Human Rights
from WWI to the Cold War”
Adam Behrman, Boise State University (Graduate), “Responding to
Disaster: Populist Mobilization After the 1985 Mexico City Earthquake”
Lindsay Malia Crisantos Little, University of Washington – Seattle
(Undergraduate), “The ‘Chicano Identity’: The Living Spaces and Labor
of Agricultural Migrant Workers in Bracero Era California Valleys”
Brian Reese, Western Oregon University (Undergraduate), “The Irish
Refuge: The Irish in Mexico and the Latin World”
Liping Zhu, Eastern Washington University
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7:15–8:45am
Breakfast (Stehekin Ballroom)
SESSION 5
9:00-10:30am
5A
Ballroom I Chair:
Status, Power, and Order in American History
Terrence Cole, University of Alaska – Fairbanks
Erika Van Horne, University of Washington (Undergraduate), “Widowhood in
Plymouth Colony: An Inquiry into Family Dynamics through Probate Material”
Ben Hanson, Western Washington University (Undergraduate), “The 1800
Bankruptcy Act”
Angela Hajihashemi, George Fox University (Undergraduate), “Securing a
Nation: How Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Use of Executive Orders Created an
Image of Safety and Stability During Wartime”
Mike Allen, University of Washington – Tacoma
Comment:
5B
Ballroom II Chair:
Women in Political Culture: 20th Century America
Soma Banerjee, University of Idaho
David Reamer, University of Alaska – Anchorage (Undergraduate), “Jane
Addams and the Missing ‘L’ Word”
Thomas Drake, Western Washington University (Undergraduate), “Real
People, Real Women, Red Politics: Assessing Wilma Mankiller in Historical and
Historiographical Perspectives”
Cathleen Buzan, University of Washington (Undergraduate), “All the
President’s Women: Barbara Hackman Franklin’s Womanpower in the Nixon
White House, 1971-1973”
Rebecca Jager, University of Idaho
Comment:
5C
Ballroom III
Chair:
The U.S. and the World: Cultural and Political Interventions
Tom Taylor, Seattle University
Barbara Hammersberg, Central Washington University (Undergraduate),
“Beyond Goodwill: Korean Adoption”
Emily Ing, Linfield College (Undergraduate), “Empires, Outsiders, and Women
in Central Asia”
Christy Haase, Whitworth University (Undergraduate), “A New Look at U.S.Cuba Relations: A Study of Hegemony”
Jennifer Seltz, Western Washington University
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5D
East Room Radical Unrest in the 1960s and 1970s
Scott Smith, Linfield College
Chair:
Meaghan Turgeon, Gonzaga University (Undergraduate), “East
German Influence of West Germany during the 1960s and 1970s”
Daniel Kamienski, University of Montana (Graduate), “‘My Friend
Works for the National Health—Dr. Robert:’ Media, the State, and
the Pathology of Political Violence”
Jose Rojas, University of Idaho (Undergraduate), “A Tale of Two
Wolves”
John Rector, Western Oregon University
Comment:
5E
West Room “Girls” in 20th Century U.S. Culture
Robert Carriker, Gonzaga University
Chair:
Erika Naficy, Central Washington University (Undergraduate)
“Elinor Glyn, Clara Bow and the Origin of the ‘It’ Girl”
Carissa Young, University of Portland (Undergraduate), “Girl Stuff:
1950s Romance Comics and Domestic Culture”
Kyle G. Volk, University of Montana
Comment:
5F
River Room Race in Modern America
Dale Soden, Whitworth University
Chair:
Justin L. Vipperman, Portland State University (Graduate), “‘The
Negro in Portland’: Discrimination, Partnerships and Bottom-Up
Theory in Portland, Oregon during World War II”
Rachael Guenthner, University of Idaho (Undergraduate), “Finding
the Economic Niche: Motown and A&M Records”
Tyler Jolly, Eastern Washington University (Undergraduate): “Race
Riot or Class Uprising? Socioeconomic Motivations and Media
Misrepresentation of the 1992 L.A. Riots”
Matt Redinger, Montana State University Billings
Comment:
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SESSION 6
10:45am-12:30pm
6A
Ballroom I Chair:
Strategies and Experiences of World War I
Robert Stevens, Pierce College
Scott Cardwell, University of Idaho (Undergraduate), “German
U-Boats in World War One and Why They Failed”
Matthew J. Biskey, Portland State University (Undergraduate),
“Mental Terror, Mathematically Insignificant: The Failure of Imperial
Germany to Properly Develop its Submarine Fleet in the First
World War”
Connor Litchman, Western Washington University (Graduate),
“‘Eye Deep In Hell,’ Censorship and Judgment: An Examination
of Letters, Diaries & Memoirs Penned by English Soldiers on the
Western Front”
Harry Fritz, University of Montana
Comment:
6B
Ballroom II Chair:
Crafting Political Power in Medieval Europe
Joseph Bryan, Montana State University Billings
Michael A. Ready, Western Washington University
(Undergraduate), “Pepin the Short and the Establishment of a
Papal State”
Adam Thompson, Western Washington University
(Undergraduate), “Carolingian Disintegration and Fontenoy”
Kelly M. Linss, Portland State University (Undergraduate),
“Friendship, Power and Intrigue at the Court of Henry II of England
during the Chancellorship of Thomas Becket, 1155-1162”
Charity Urbanski, University of Washington
Comment:
6C
Ballroom III Chair:
Historical Consumption: From the Licit to the Illicit
Caitlin Corning, George Fox University
Clinton Lawson, University of Montana (Graduate), “America’s
First War on Drugs: The Medical Profession Takes (Indirect) Aim at
Cannabis, 1890-1915”
Reed Smith, Seattle University (Undergraduate), “The Illustrious
Hippie Hash Trail”
Monica Stenzel, Eastern Washington University
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6D
East Room Chair:
Politics and Environmental Impacts
Rebecca Jager, University of Idaho
Jordan Lee Woolston, University of Washington – Tacoma
(Undergraduate), “Creating Spaces for Salmon”
Nicholas Canfield, Boise State University (Undergraduate),
“Modernizing the Roof of the World: The Environmental Impacts of
the Chinese Communist Party in Tibet”
Logan Camporeale, Eastern Washington University
(Undergraduate), “River of Denial: Consumption and Environmental
Degradation on the Rio Grande Border, 1973-2014”
Brian Carroll, Central Washington University
Comment:
6E
West Room Cold War Culture
Ellie Higbee, George Fox University (Undergraduate), “One Man’s
Mission: The Hollywood Blacklist”
James Vaughn, University of Montana (Graduate), “American
Perceptions on Early Cold War Cultural Exchange and the
Legitimation of Jazz”
Alexander Iverson, Western Washington University
(Undergraduate), “Goldfinger and the Man with the Golden Gun:
Representing the World”
Robert H. Greene, University of Montana
Chair:
Comment:
Erik Hadley, Boise State University
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SATURDAY, APRIL 11
12:30 – 1:30pm
3:00pm
Faculty Business Lunch
Stehekin A
Comedian Jim Stewart Allen (Campbell’s Cash Bar)
Stehekin B
Jim Stewart Allen
Jim Stewart Allen, who earned his BA in History from Western
Washington University in 2014, has been a standup comic for nearly
a decade. He has performed at comedy venues from Portland to
Vancouver, BC, including the Tacoma Comedy Club, the Seattle
International Comedy Competition (where he was a finalist), and
Seattle’s Pocket Theater, which has featured his popular “Oregon
Trail Live!” interactive video shows. Most recently, his video was
voted fan favorite in the Drunk History (Comedy Central) “Stumble
into History” competition.
Seattle writer Brett Hamil notes in the magazine CITY ARTS, “Jim
Allen is a hardcore history buff who’s been doing jokes about his
pet mania since he was a teenager. Unlike many “geek” comics,
Allen’s fascination with history isn’t just some newly-minted ironic
affectation or back-of-the-room bandwagon fandom — it’s a crucial
part of who he is, and it naturally bleeds over into his comedy. A
typical standup set by Allen might include a comparison between
Jagermeister and the Bubonic Plague or a discussion of Papal
Succession, all delivered with a disarming fearlessness borne of
uncontainable excitement for the subject matter. It’s fun to watch.”
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Photo: St. Mary Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana, by Ken Thomas (public domain).