Event Details

History Department Capstone Celebration!

Monday, December 2, 2024

Presentations: 4:45pm-6:45pm, THDA 204 and THDA 205

Reception: 6:45pm-7:30pm, Reissner Lounge on the second floor of Art Commons

Note for attendees: there will be two panels happening concurrently in different rooms so please make sure to check the time and room carefully! We look forward to sharing our work with you!

4:45-5:40pm Panel 1a: Distortion and Cooptation of Marginalized Identities

THDA 204

● Fátima Ortega Barba, “Embodied Myth and Masculinity: Zapata’s

Vaquero and Roosevelt’s Cowboy as Emblems of National Identity”

● Alma Angantyr, “Legacies of Love: Lesbian (Non)Existence in the

Holocaust”

● Leah Long, “A White Middle Class Club: Trans Feminist Clashes Over Race

and Class”

Comment by Professor Tara Hollies

4:45-5:40pm Panel 1b: Revolution and Reaction: Government Policy as Violence

THDA 205

● Manas Kapoor, “Red Storm in Princely India: The Role of the Communist

Party in the Rise and Fall of the Telangana Rebellion and it’s role in shaping

Indian Politics, 1946-1951”

● Fabio “Don” Padilla, “La Raiz de Paz/The Root of Peace: How The

Honduran Government Avoided Revolution In The Central American Cold War”

● Liz Matlin, “Just Say No, and Other Inadequate Suggestions : American Political

Reactions to Methadone Maintenance Therapy, 1965-1989”

Comment by Professor Niharika Yadav

5:50-6:45pm Panel 2a: Displacement and Emplacement: Possession of Land in the

THDA 204 Americas

● Andres Diaz-Kirk, “The Sole Conservator of Liberty: Land and Violence in

Jacksonian New York”

● Taylor Sibthorp, “Land Dispossession is American: The Impact of the

Colonization of Northwest Ohio on the Farm Debt Crisis of the 1980s”

● Maya Saidel, “The Jesuit Martyrs of the Corpus Coloniae Mysticum:

Dismemberment and Consolidation in the Northwestern Borderlands of Nueva

España”

Comment by Professor Katie Phillips

5:50-6:45pm Panel 2b: Media, Manipulation, and the State: The Soviet Union and

THDA 205 the Americas

● Emma Henry, “Countering Colonial Childhood: Representations of Indigenous

People in Children’s Literature in the Northeastern United States, 1815-1860”

● Wesley Hearne, “Fujimori’s Phantasm: The Radical Subversion of the Peruvian

Media Ecosystem”

● Talia Ostacher, “‘Standard-Bearers of Peace’: Youth Internationalism in

the Post-Stalin Soviet Union, 1953–1979”

Comment by Professor Masha Federova

6:45-7:30pm Reception / Remarks by Prof. Pearson + Prof. Capello