Undergraduate Lightning Round: Research Across the Fields

This session features three-minute presentations by undergraduate historians describing their research to fellow historians. Interested in presenting? Contact annualmeeting@historians.org for information about how to apply. The “Research across the Fields” lightning round highlights the full range of student research across themes, periods, and topics.

We encourage members to attend the session and hear about the work being done by undergraduate history majors and students.

Presentations

The Bohemian Grove and the Feminist Anti-Nuclear Movement, 1980–89 Lianna Augusto, University of Richmond

Animal Experimentation in MKULTRA Ryan Livingston, Concordia University

Imagining American Ideals through the Torrijos–Carter Treaties Hugo Lopez Plascencia, University of California, Riverside

Unpatented Lands and University Power in the Virginia Military District Reese McIntyre and Isabel Crissinger, Ohio State University

Turning Survival into Profit: The Historical Development of Texas Prison Commissaries Liceth Meza, Texas A&M University

Resilient Lawmaking: The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak of 1965 and the Critical Turning Point in Disaster Legislation Jamison Stone, University of Iowa

“A Perfect Pattern of Christianity”: Good, Christian Wives and Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Britain Leah Stringer, University of Iowa

What Would Hildegard Say? Embodying Medieval Thought to Critique AI Corinne de Syon, University of Chicago

Wearing Many Hats: Familial and Labor Structures on Late 19th-Century Hoosier Farms Rachel Waller, Indiana University

Worlds That Hold Us: Immersion and the Making of Theatrical Experience in China Xiner Wu, University of Wisconsin–Madison