Graudate Student Conference Papers

Conference Papers from our Graduates

     Below are the conference papers given in the past academic year. Congratulations to all our graduates for their recognition and thank you for continuing to promote the History Department's innovative research.

Jonathan Geelen:

Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS) Conference, Ottawa, ON (November), "Remember, Repent, and Return: Narrative and Memory in the Resurgence of the Christian Right in the United States."

Nicole Hutchinson:

Dalhousie Graduate Student Conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (March 17, 2012), "Peter Bruegel the Elder, The Onset of the Dutch Revolt, and 16th-Century Netherlandish Identity."

Nick Hrynyk:

Underhill Graudate Student Colloquium, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON (March 2, 2012), "Colouring Outside the Lines of Masculinity: The Peacock Revolution, 1967-1973."

Krista Kermer:

Dalhousie Graduate Student Conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (March 18, 2012), "Passing Fashions, Fleeting Symbols: Coding Homosexuality from Stage to Cinema 1920-1934."

Kristie Nairn:

Dalhousie Graduate Student Conference, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS (March 17, 2012), "Negotiating Reform in 17th-Century Rome: Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew, 1600-1." 

Stephan Pigeon:

Underhill Graduate Student Colloquium, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON (March 1, 2012), "Republican Motherhood in the American Periodical Press: A Study of Sarah Hepburn Hayes (1817-1902)."

McGill-Queen's Conference in History, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Shaping Space(s), Telling Time(s) (March 2, 2012) "Republican Motherhood in the American Periodical Press: A Study of Sarah Hepburn Hayes (1817-1902).

Federation Symposium on Rhetoric, Texas Women's University, Denton, TX (April 20, 2012), "Didactic Fiction and the Ideology of Domesticity in the American Periodical Press." - Unanimously selected for the Best Graduate Paper Award by a panel of five professors from the Federation of North Texas Universities

Panel Presentations:

From Here to There: 2nd Annual Graduate Student History Conference, The University of Western Ontario

The Success and Failures of Masculine Pursuits: Rebellion, Journalism, and Automobiles

Christopher Chappus, University of Windsor, “Native Opposition to European Colonialism: Pontiac’s Rebellion at Fort Detroit 1763”
Stephan Pigeon, University of Windsor, “Modernist Visions: W. T. Stead, Review of Reviews, and ‘England at the End of the Century’”
Evan Suntres, University of Windsor, “Products of Industrial Capitalism: American Automotive Opulence and the Contrived Ideals of the 1950s”