Department of History and American Studies

Ella Baker, perhaps the civil rights movement’s most effective organizer, learned on her family’s Halifax County farm that local people have the knowledge and the capacity to shape their own lives. This summer, the Ella Baker Interns will work in the 20-county eastern North Carolina “Black Belt” to greatly increase voter education and civic engagement in the region. As they do so, they will stitch together a human “quilt” committed to what Miss Baker and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called “the beloved community,” a vision of redeeming goodwill for all. http://csc.civic.duke.edu/main/opportunities/2012/05/17/now-seeking-summer-applicants-ella-baker-internship-program-2012 The Ella Baker Interns Program will accept and train about fifty young community organizers who will work and learn from June 1st until at least August 15th. Applications are due by May 23, 2012. Early applications are encouraged. Late applications may be considered but only if slots and funding are still available. Ella Baker Interns will attend seminars with some of the best scholars, leaders, activists, and artists in North Carolina while they register voters, mobilize volunteers, organize events, make friends, develop skills, establish credentials, and document their own experiences. The executive director of the Ella Baker Interns Program is Jennifer Dixon-McKnight, currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The faculty includes Dr. Timothy B. Tyson, Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and a historian of the African American freedom movement in North Carolina. Questions should be directed to her at ojdixon@gmail.com and copied to Dr. Tyson at timothy.tyson@duke.edu. The Ella Baker Interns experience offers: • Community organizing work to increase registration and turnout and change the course of the region’s history. • Seminars on North Carolina history; community economic development; African American and Southern religious, cultural and political traditions. • Long hours, hard work, new friends and personal growth. Benefits to participants include: • Generous stipend and allowance for food and gas. • State-of-the-art training in electoral database technologies. • Certificates of Achievement. • Opportunities for letters of recommendation from our faculty. • Chances to develop professional contacts, skills and experiences. Requirements and financial support: • Interns will receive a stipend of $2500.00 for those who participate from June 1st to August 15th plus gas and a modest expense allowance; those who participate until Election Day, will receive an additional $1500.00 for a total of $4000.00. (Payment will be made in installments.) • Long hours and weekend work will be common; adapting to shifting scheduling needs will be necessary. • Most interns will live with their own families or otherwise make their own housing arrangements. The program will attempt to help arrange housing for others, probably with families in the region. Who is eligible: • College (Undergraduate and Graduate) students and high school juniors and seniors anywhere. • Young people with demonstrated potential for thoughtful leadership, hard work, cheerful persistence and a clear commitment to a better future for eastern North Carolina Preference may be given to: • Students from N.C. with family ties in Granville, Vance, Warren, Halifax, Northampton, Hertford, Chowan, Gates, Perquimans, Pasquotank, Bertie, Washington, Martin, Lenoir, Pitt, Greene, Nash, Edgecombe, Wilson, or Wayne counties. • Students able to work until Election Day, November 5th, 2012, though we realize most interns will need to stop in mid-August. • Students with special skills, talents and networks that may be useful to the campaign. • Students who can provide their own transportation. Those selected as Ella Baker Interns will become part of an enduring community that wins a brighter day in eastern North Carolina by empowering young people. We intend to celebrate the record turnout when the polls close on Election Day. But for Ella Baker Interns, the struggle is not over when the summer ends or any particular Election Day comes. We hope that you will join us to explore in a community setting what it means not just to make a living but to build a life. How to Apply Answer the questions below as fully as possible within the limits given. Applications should be sent to EllaBakerInterns@gmail.com and copied to ojdixon@gmail.com and timothybtyson@gmail.com. If you do not receive confirmation within 48 hours, please re-send. 1. Please list your name, age, school, college or university where you are enrolled, your email address, telephone number, permanent home address, and whether you will have access to a car during the summer or campaign. (A car is not absolutely required. We just need to make transportation arrangements.) 2. Name and briefly describe any personal or family contacts you have in the 20-county eastern North Carolina Black Belt, not to exceed ten persons. (If you do not have any contacts in the region, please do not feel like you need to explain.) 3. Name any institutional, church, political or group affiliations in this region that you or members of your immediate family currently hold. If you or your family members hold any offices in these organizations, please indicate that. 4. List the three or four most important skills or qualities that you bring to the struggle for eastern North Carolina’s future. 5. List the three or four most important things that a new friend or co-worker should know about you. 6. Write a paragraph describing a specific individual who knows you well. Then write a paragraph about how that person would describe you. (limit of 500 words total) 7. List complete contact information of four people who have agreed to provide references for you. Only one should be a family member. At least one should be a current or recent teacher. All references should know you well; pastors, coaches, employers, teachers, or guidance counselors may be good choices. 8. Please attach a one-page resume. Faculty Biographical Information Jennifer Dixon-McKnight is executive director of the Ella Baker Interns program. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina Central University and holds B.A. degrees from both institutions in addition to a M.A. degree from NCCU. She has been part of the teaching team of “The South in Black and White” a public course in Southern history and culture taught every spring through the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, North Carolina Central University, UNC, Durham Technical Community College, North Carolina State University, and the Duke Divinity School for five years. She is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of History at UNC, completing a dissertation on the civil rights-based labor movement in Charleston, South Carolina. Timothy B. Tyson is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and Visiting Professor of American Christianity and Southern Culture at Duke Divinity School, and also holds a faculty position in the Department of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Best known for his prize-winning Blood Done Sign My Name, chosen for the UNC Summer Reading Program, Tyson serves on the executive boards of the North Carolina NAACP, the Center for Civil Rights at UNC Law School, and the Institute for Southern Studies. Tyson was Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1994 to 2004, when he came home to become the John Hope Franklin Senior Fellow at the National Humanities Center. In 2006, he founded “The South in Black and White” and continues his work with the teaching team. Along with gospel singer Mary D. Williams, Tyson has taught “Wilmington in Black and White” since 2007 at the historic Williston School. Mary D. Williams, Adjunct Professor at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and “gospel powerhouse,” is one of the great interpreters of the African American spirituals in the United States. She has been an African American history and culture educator and performer for twenty years and has traveled to more than 35 colleges and public universities, dozens of public schools and hundreds of churches. She has also appeared in two feature films and the play, “Blood Done Sign My Name” by Mike Wiley. Her scholarly presentation at the Afro-American Studies Colloquium at Luther College has evolved into her own forthcoming musical based on the life of Mahalia Jackson. Williams helped to found “The South in Black and White” since 2006 and taught it since 2006. Since 2007, she has also taught “Wilmington in Black and White” with Dr. Tyson. As Professor Craig Werner, chair of the Afro-American Studies Department, writes, “When you hear Mary D. Williams, you are hearing one of our greatest voices, but you are also hearing an historic chorus of the elders and the ancestors.” Theo Luebke is an organizer and an educator from Durham, NC. He holds a B.A. in Biology and in Public Health from Brown University (2001) and a Masters of Divinity from Duke University (2012). He is a licensed North Carolina public school teacher, holding certifications in middle and high school science and in high school social studies. He has been part of the teaching team for “The South in Black and White” for five years. He also has 15 years of experience in community organizing, broad-based coalition work, and movement building. Mike Wiley, acclaimed actor and playwright, has spent the last decade in educational and documentary theatre, performing for and engaging young audiences and actors across the country. He was the 2010 Lehman Brady Joint Professor at Duke University and the University of North Carolina. His eight African American history plays include “The Parchman Hour,” which premiered at Kenan Theater in Chapel Hill in the fall of 2010, toured Mississippi from March 5 to 14, 2011, and was the keynote event at the 50th Anniversary Freedom Ride Reunion in Jackson, Mississippi on May 26, 2011. “The Parchman Hour” ran to rave reviews from October 26 to November 13, 2011 at Paul Green Theater in Chapel Hill. They also include “One Noble Journey: The Life of Henry “Box” Brown and “’Dar He’: The Lynching of Emmett Till,” which was recently made into an award-winning film. He wrote and still performs, along with Mrs. Williams, “Blood Done Sign My Name,” based on the book by Dr. Tyson. Wiley has an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina. More About Ella Baker On June 24, 2012, the state of North Carolina will dedicate a Historical Marker at Highway 158 and East End Avenue in Littleton, North Carolina, where Ella Baker grew up. “The most powerful person in the movements of the 1960s, was Miss Ella Baker,” recalled Stokely Carmichael, “not Martin Luther King.” Her leadership differed from that of Dr. King—she was an organizer, not an orator—but Baker stood among the decisive engines and visionaries of the freedom movement that transformed this nation. Few Americans recognize her name, but her legacy continues to shape their lives. Programs that cultivate local leadership and empower young people and women, Baker believed, would make lasting social change. “Instead of the leader as a person who was supposed to be a magic man,” Baker said, “you could develop individuals bound together by a concept that benefited the larger number of individuals and provided an opportunity for them to grow into being responsible for carrying out a program.” Baker, who graduated from Shaw University, became Director of Branches of the NAACP from 1943 to 1946. Under her leadership, NAACP membership grew more than 900 percent in three years, building a mass base for the movement as she stitched a quiet quilt of revolt from Virginia to Texas. In 1957, she organized the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and became its first executive director. If all she had done was to build the first mass base for the NAACP in the South, or if she had merely organized the SCLC, whose campaigns immortalized Dr. King and won the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, Baker would stand among the giants of the movement. Baker is best remembered, however, as the midwife of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, whom Dr. John Hope Franklin called “probably the most courageous and the most selfless” activists of the 1960s. As the sit-in movement spread from North Carolina across the South in 1960, Baker convened a conference at Shaw University where the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was born. Through the NAACP, the SCLC, and SNCC (pronounced “Snick”), Baker became the most influential organizer and grassroots intellectual of the Southern freedom movement that captured the moral imagination of the world.

Congratulations to the new department representatives elected by our students and announced at our department banquet last week!

History Reps

• Erin O’Neill
• Julia Wood
• Sarah Tagg
• Hannah Laughlin

 

American Studies Reps 

• Hannah Weeks
• Amanda Vercruysse

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History and American Studies Symposium
Spring 2012
University of Mary Washington – Department of History and American Studies

Friday, April 27, 2012

 

SESSION ONE. 8 AM. Monroe 210 – Ideology and Motivation in Warfare
Moderator: Dr. Porter Blakemore

Kathleen Hughes—Motivation to Fight: Combat Soldiers in Vietnam [CF]

Lindsey Smith—Armed with the Quran and a Kalashnikov: A Study in the Ideologies that Influenced Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, and the Key Events that Led to 9/11 [NA]

Rebecca Welker—”Put the Boys In”: Young Soldiers in Civil War Fiction [KM]

 

SESSION TWO. 8 AM. Monroe 211 – Constructing Social Identities
Moderator: Dr. Will Mackintosh

Lindsay Kyle Cutler—Wampum and Dice: Contested Indian Identity at Foxwoods Casino and the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center [JR]

Aubrey Elliott—The Weakness of the Visigoths during the Moorish Invasion of 711 [NA]

Sara Krechel—Sex, Luxury, and Power:  The Stereotype and Reality of Ottoman Imperial Harems in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century [NA]

SESSION THREE. 8 AM. Monroe 111 – Topics in History
Moderator: Dr. Jeff McClurken

Olivia Colville—Mother of Mercy: The Marian Cult of the Twelfth Century (BO)

James Montgomery—The Storming and Plunder of Badajoz 1812: Conditions Which Led to Atrocities (AP)

Kathryn O’Keefe—Inquisitorial Authority in the Spanish Basque Witch-trial [AP]

 

SESSION FOUR. 9 AM. Monroe 111 – Victims and Perpetrators of Terror and Coercion
Moderator: Dr. Allyson Poska

Jessi Bell—“I Didn’t Think I Would Suffer So Much:” Exploitation of Migrant Women in Latin America, 1980-Present [AP]

Daniel Garcia—Information Overload: A History of Stasi Informers and Their Impact on the East German Political System [SH]

Catherine Kennedy—The Civil Rights Movement, Hurricane Betsy, and Hurricane Katrina: How American Memory is Constructed through Photography and the Media [JR]

 

SESSION FIVE. 9 AM. Monroe 210 – The Media and Other Cults of Information
Moderator: Dr. Matthew Johnson

Sarah Eye—Undecipherable Turns of Phrases: The Ancient Greeks and the Delphic Oracle [BO]

Ashley Lightburn—The Panic of 1907: The Media’s Interpretation [JM]

Eric Lugg-Paramore—The Change in Function of the Roman Imperial Cult from Augustine to Theodosius I [BO]

 

SESSION SIX. 10 AM. Monroe 210 – The Politics of Memory
Moderator: Dr. Nabil Al-Tikriti

Denise Acors—Bound by Memory: The Evolution of the Inextricably Linked Memories of the Jews and the Resistance of World War II in France [SH]

Matthew Gonzalez—The Past Is Not Dead [NA]

Kayla Lester—Liberating the Liberty Bell: The Use and Reshaping of Collective Memory at Independence Historic National Park [KM]

 

SESSION SEVEN. 10 AM. Monroe 211 – Veterans, Governesses, and the Great Blue Yonder
Moderator: Dr. Claudine Ferrell

Shellye L. Burrow—A Study of Agnes Porter: The Ideal Eighteenth Century Governess [AP]

Samantha Warring—Into the Wild Blue Yonder: The Advocacy of General Billy Mitchell for an Independent Air Force [PB]

 

SESSION EIGHT. 11 AM. Monroe 210 – Crime and Punishment in Europe
Moderator: Dr. Bruce O’Brien

Sarah Bachmann—Infanticide and Petty Treason in Early Modern England [AP]

Lauren Birkhold—Fanya Kaplan and the Origins of the Red Terror [SH]

Katelyn McManus—Le Pouvoir du Pouf: How Marie Antoinette Revolutionized Fashion and France [SH]

 

SESSION NINE. 11 AM. Monroe 211 – Race and Racism in the US
Moderator: Dr. Jess Rigelhaupt

Andrew Frisk—Enduring Legacies: Thomas Jefferson’s “Indelible Lines of Distinction” and the Emergence of Racism in America [JM]

Diana Hoins—African American and Italian Lynching in the American South: A Comparison  [CF]

Andrew Becken—Not Really Free Labor: Hired Slave Labor for Industrialization in Antebellum Virginia   [WM]

 

LUNCH. 12pm.

 

SESSION TEN. 1 PM. Monroe 210 – Women and Power
Moderator: Dr. Bruce O’Brien

Jocelyn Lewis—The Ideal of the Univirae and the “Emancipation” of the Roman Matron within Augustan Rome [BO]

Kirsten van der Noordaa—Andean Women: Confronting a Cultural Collision (AP)

Cassandra Trumbetic—Women’s Fluctuations in Power during the Twelfth Century: A Critique of Empress Matilda and Eleanor of Aquitaine [BO]

 

 

 

SESSION ELEVEN. 1 PM. Monroe 211 – National and Imperial Identities and Their Consequences
Moderator: Dr. Nabil Al-Tikriti

Will Devlin—The Evolution of Turkish Nationalism from the Ottoman Empire through Atatürk’s Turkish Republic [NA]

Josh Heigle—American Opposition to Jewish Immigration during the Nazi Era [PB]

Michael Roche—T.E. Lawrence: Legendary Leader or Political Puppet [NA]

 

SESSION TWELVE. 1 PM. Monroe 111 – Women and War
Moderator: Dr. Steven Harris

Mallory Baker—American Quaker Women and First Wave Feminism [WM]

Claire Brooks—Nursing in Civil War Virginia [JM]

Jamie L. Waite—The History of The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association during the Civil War [KM]

 

SESSION THIRTEEN. 2PM. Monroe 210 – Gender, Technology, and Advertising
Moderator: Dr. Krystyn Moon

Kyle F. Allwine—A Bug in the System: Women’s Involvement in the Early Development of Computers [JM]

Charles Girard—”Fuck Yeah” Trans* People: Trans* People on Tumblr [KM]

Morgan Mangold—Cleaning Your Counter-Tops and Lady Parts All-In-One: Lysol Advertising and the Secret Language of Birth Control (1920-1960) [KM]

 

SESSION FOURTEEN. 2 PM. Monroe 211 – Understanding American and European Military History and Propaganda
Moderator: Dr. Porter Blakemore

Jonathan Doblix—Justifications Advocating General Robert E. Lee’s Orders on July 3, 1863 [PB]

Carol Killian—World War I Poster Art and the Influences of Propaganda in the United States and Great Britain [PB]

Dylan McCartney—Between Us We Shall Use Him Up: Hooker, Sedgwick, and the Loss of Control at Chancellorsville, 2^nd May 1863 [PB]

 

SESSION FIFTEEN. 2 PM. Monroe 111 – American Cultural Representations of Nation and Masculinity
Moderator: Dr. Will Mackintosh

Riley Baver—1984 Los Angeles Olympics: A Success Story [CF]

John McNair—Alternative Outlaws: The Hells Angels and the Creation of the American Biker Mythos  [CF]

MacKenzie Woodruff—Ia Drang The Reason We Lost The War  [CF]

 

SESSION SIXTEEN. 3 PM. Monroe 210 – Digital History
Moderator: Dr. Jeffrey McClurken

James Farmer Lectures — Laura Donahue, Caitlin Murphy, Michelle Martz, Kelsey Matthews

James Monroe Museum Political Cartoon Archive — Heather Thompson, Rachel Icard, Rachel Luehrs, Andrew Becken

Historic Buildings of UMW — Cameron Carroll, Cassandra Trumbetic, Kay Washechek, Kayle Partenheimer, Samantha Warring

Southeastern Virginia Historical Markers — Sarah Eye, Lindsay Smith, Ryan Montgomery, Michael Powers

 

SESSION SEVENTEEN. 3 PM. Monroe 211 – Spies, Musicians, and Superheroes in Popular Culture
Moderator: Dr. Jess Rigelhaupt

Brian Auricchio—Popular Culture’s Revolutionary Potential: Kanye West and Ideology  [JR]

Amanda Sorby—The Spy Who Lived Forever: An Examination of the Life and Legacy of Mata Hari in American Pop Culture [SH]

Cameron Bither—Defender and Dissenter: Captain America and the Historical Role of the American Superhero  [KM]

 

“13th-Century Food Fights Helped Fuel The Magna Carta”

NPR talks to our own Bruce O’Brien about the many ways food was a part of the Magna Carta.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/04/18/150872598/13th-century-food-fights-helped-fuel-the-magna-carta

WHEN: April 21, 2012, 1 – 5 pm

WHERE: Fredericksburg Baptist Church

COST: This event is FREE, registration is not required

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please contact Sara Poore, spoore@famcc.org, John Hennessy,John_Hennessy@nps.gov, or Jeffrey McClurken, jmcclurk@umw.edu

Following on the successful Years of Anguish speaker’s forum at Dodd this past November, and the Fisk Jubilee Singers concert last Saturday evening, the Fredericksburg Area Museum, the National Park Service, and UMW welcome Dr. David Blight and Dr. Thavolia Glymph as they examine slavery and emancipation on a national, state, and local level.

Dr. David Blight is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the US Civil War and its legacy.  Blight is the author of American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, and A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Narratives of Emancipation.  This book combines two newly discovered slave narratives in a volume that recovers the lives of their authors, John Washington, a Fredericksburg slave, and Wallace Turnage, as well as provides an incisive history of the story of emancipation.

Dr. Thavolia Glymph is an associate professor of history and African and African American studies at Duke University where she teaches courses on slavery, the U.S. South, emancipation, Reconstruction, and African American women’s history. She is the author of Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (2008) and a coeditor of two volumes of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (Ser. 1, Vols. 1 and 3, 1985 and 1990), a part of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project. Her current writing and research focuses on women in the Civil War, and the geography of the plantation household.

BOOK SIGNING IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING AT THE FREDERICKSBURG AREA MUSUEM AND CULTURAL CENTER.

This event is part of the Civil War 150th Observance in the area, cosponsored by UMW, the Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center, and the National Park Service.

Come join us at the

Twelfth Annual

Department of History and American Studies

MAJORS BANQUET

 

Sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta and underwritten by the Department

Brock’s Riverside Grill

Friday, April 27, 2012

5:30 pm

 

Join your friends and professors to celebrate the end of the year at a festive gathering, featuring:

 Cash bar and delicious dinner in a great location overlooking the Rappahannock River.

Recognition of majors’ achievements; announcement of scholarship recipients; presentation of Department’s annual awards

Fun and relaxing conversation with faculty and fellow majors

 

Cost: $15 majors & prospective majors; $25 faculty and $20 guests

Payment: See Mrs. Patton (x1066) in Monroe 228 by April 20th

Dress: Business attire recommended

The Department of History and American Studies will host a workshop on internships on Tuesday, April 3, at 6pm, in Lee Hall 411. The workshop will feature a panel of current majors who have held internships and will discuss their experiences, advice on getting internships, and how to use them to gain employment. They will also answer any questions you have. If you’re interested in getting an internship this summer or in the future, you do not want to miss this information session! In addition to useful advice, refreshments will be served.

The Department of History and American Studies will host a workshop on internships on Tuesday, April 3, at 6pm, in Lee Hall 411. The workshop will feature a panel of current majors who have held internships and will discuss their experiences, advice on getting internships, and how to use them to gain employment. They will also answer any questions you have. If you’re interested in getting an internship this summer or in the future, you do not want to miss this information session! In addition to useful advice, refreshments will be served.

 

 

 

Each scholarship application requires a 250-word essay about why one should be considered for that scholarship. See below for more information on the individual scholarships and the application essays. Applications for the 2012-2013 school year are accepted here through Monday, April 2, 2012.

Oscar H. Darter Scholarship in History by the Class of 1940
The Oscar Darter Scholarship honors former faculty member and historian Oscar Darter and is awarded to a rising junior or senior interested in world history and who holds the high standard of achievement demonstrated by Dr. Darter.

Joseph C. Vance Memorial Scholarship in History
The Joseph Carroll Vance Scholarship honors former department chairperson and historian Joe Vance and is awarded to a rising senior who is concentrating in American history. Preference is given to those with financial need.

James Farmer Scholarship
The James Farmer Scholarship is awarded annually to a rising junior or senior major in the Department of History and American Studies. The criteria for the Farmer Scholarship, as stated by the Board of Visitors resolution establishing the award, are:

1. The recipient must maintain an overall GPA of 3.0 or better in his or her major.
2. The recipient will be “an individual who exemplifies in daily life, intended career field, and commitment of service to others the ideals espoused and practiced by Dr. James Farmer through his lifetime as one of the world’s leading advocates of human rights.”

The application for this scholarship requires you to explain why you think you would be a good candidate for the Farmer Scholarship.

Hamlin A. Caldwell, Jr. Scholarship in History
The Hamlin A. “Ham” Caldwell, Jr. Scholarship is awarded annually to a rising junior or senior major in the Department of History and American Studies. The scholarship requires:

1. The recipient have and keep an overall GPA of 3.0 or better in his or her major.
2. The recipient be an individual whose academic work and career preparation reflect the concerns Professor Caldwell expressed for social justice and environmental issues and to the free, open and intelligent discussion of public policies and legislative actions related to them.

The application for this scholarship requires you to explain your career goals and how you think your academic coursework is preparing you to participate in the discussion of public policies that touch on social justice and environmental issues.

William B. Crawley, Jr. Scholarship

The scholarship shall be awarded to a student with a declared major in history. Terms of the selection process are:

1. The recipient have at least a 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0 system in his or her major.

2. Special consideration shall be given to female students.

3. In the event that no applicant completely meets the above criteria, the University shall be permitted to award the scholarship to the student most closely meeting the spirit of the criteria.

Both Lindsay Cutler and Debbi Shepherd presented their research at the Chesapeake regional chapter of the American Studies Association conference at American University on Saturday, March 10.  Lindsay presented her research on Native American activism in South Dakota, which she studied last summer while she attended school at Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Reservation.  Debbi presented her senior thesis research on the “Typical American Family” at the 1939-40 Worlds Fair in New York City.  Congratulations to Debbi and Lindsay!