Phi Alpha Theta Oklahoma Regional Conference

The Rho Lambda chapter of Phi Alpha Theta at the University of Central Oklahoma invites you to participate in the 2024 Phi Alpha Theta Oklahoma Regional Conference.

All undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in history are encouraged to present at the conference, but only Phi Alpha Theta members will be eligible for conference paper prizes.

For information on becoming a Phi Alpha Theta member or any other questions about the conference, please email Erik Huneke, Ph.D., associate professor of history at UCO.

Conference Date: Saturday, Feb, 24, 2024

 

2024 Oklahoma Regional Phi Alpha Theta Conference

Feb. 24, 2024

University of Central Oklahoma

 

Conference Co-Sponsors

 

 

Keynote Speaker

Jake Krumwiede

Executive Director of the OKPOP Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Jake Krumwiede got his start at the Will Rogers Memorial Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma in 2007, which activated his interest in Oklahoma-inspired popular culture. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from Rogers State University in Claremore, and a master’s degree in American history from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater. He served as the assistant director at the Will Rogers Memorial Museum and the executive director at the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid before coming to OKPOP in 2023. Jake has also taught college courses in U.S. History and the history of the American West for Rogers State University and Northwestern Oklahoma State University.

 

Event Schedule

7:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: The reception table will be in the Lower Atrium of the Liberal Arts Building South Wing (LAS). If you have reserved a spot at the conference luncheon, please pay for and pick up your meal ticket here; payment will be accepted in cash, by check made payable to UCO, or via Venmo or Cash App. The cost of meal tickets for UCO students who are presenting at the conference has been covered in advance. There may be a limited number of meal tickets available for conference participants who did not reserve a spot for the luncheon, but their availability cannot be guaranteed.

7:30-11:30 a.m.: Continental Breakfast (Muffins (including gluten-free muffins), bagels, and coffee will be available in the LAS Lower Atrium…while supplies last.)

8:00-8:10 a.m.: Orientation Session for Panel Judges/Moderators (LAS 275)

8:15-9:30 a.m., 9:45-11:00 a.m., 11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: Conference Panels (LAS 263, 264, 265, 273, and 275)

1:00-2:30 p.m.: Luncheon with remarks by Katrina Lacher (Chairperson of the Department of History and Geography at UCO), announcements by Erik Huneke (on behalf of the national Phi Alpha Theta office), the keynote address by Jake Krumwiede, and the conferral of conference prizes (Nigh University Center Ballroom B)

 

Conference Panels

8:15-9:30 a.m.

 

Panel 1 in LAS 263: Europeans’ Religious and Philosophical Musings

Judges: Andrew Magnusson (University of Central Oklahoma)

Rebecca Quoss-Moore (University of Central Oklahoma)

 

• The Stabilizing Force for Society: Democracy and Religion in Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America

Jake Saunders (Oklahoma Baptist University)

• Christeos Ialprt: Toward an Understanding of John Dee’s Angelical Language

Eva Veith (Northeastern State University, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• Adornment or Repair?: Examining Cistercian Parchment Production and Ornamental Embroidery in a Medieval Hymnal

Haley “Cate” Kurtz (Oklahoma State University, Phi Alpha Theta member)

 

 

Panel 2 in LAS 264: Rethinking Native American History

Judges: Sarah Eppler Janda (Cameron University)

Michelle M. Martin (Northeastern State University)

 

• Native Americans and the Evolution of Civil Rights

Caleb Pike (University of Central Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• Truths Untold: Unveiling the Role of Sexual Conquest in the Exploitation of Native Women in Killers of the Flower Moon

Sarah Wilson (University of Central Oklahoma)

• The Central Role of the Indian Civilization Fund Act of 1819: Early Education, Indian Policy, and the Press

Kayla Erickson (Oklahoma State University, Phi Alpha Theta member)

 

 

Panel 3 in LAS 265: Innovative Perspectives on the History of Women and Gender

Judges: Anne Hyde (University of Oklahoma)

Emily Smith (Oklahoma Christian University)

 

• Mystery, Misogyny, and Modern Findings: The Curious Case of Geoffrey Chaucer and Cecily Chaumpaigne

Kendra Dittmer (University of Central Oklahoma)

• On the Course: Not Always the Kitchen: American Women’s Golf in the 1950s

John Sadler (University of Central Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• Invoking Power: Sacred Feminism and the Motherhood of the Mississippians

Trista Wilmot (University of Central Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• Lotuses on the Battlefield: Vietnamese Women’s Roles and Treatment During the Vietnam War

Alexis McKernan (University of Central Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

 

 

9:45-11:00 a.m.

 

Panel 4 in LAS 273: (Re)negotiating Gender Roles

Judges: Patti Loughlin (University of Central Oklahoma)

Lindsey Churchill (University of Central Oklahoma)

 

• Who’s Paying for Dinner?: An Analysis of Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn’s Behavior in Romantic and Screwball Comedies from 1938-1940

Brooklyn Pfennig (Oklahoma Baptist University)

• Bewitching Beauty: The Intertwining of Fashion, Politics, and Beauty in Empress Elizabeth of Austria

Elizabeth Marble (Oklahoma Christian University, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• Etta Palm d’Aelders: Bi-National Citizeness and Early Radical Feminist

Arden Skrine (University of Oklahoma)

• Traditional Guardians of Culture: The MVLA and Women in Historic Preservation

June Parker (Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Phi Alpha Theta member)

 

 

Panel 5 in LAS 275: New Directions in African, Atlantic World, and Middle Eastern History

Judges: Becky Bruce (Southwestern Oklahoma State University)

John Powell (Oklahoma Baptist University)

 

• “The White Man’s Burden” to “Afrocentrism”: The Ideology of British Imperialism

Migisha Eva Sangwa (Oklahoma Christian University, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• John Kirk and the “End” of the East African Slave Trade

Logan Ray (University of Central Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• Pirates Undefined: A Closer Look at the Historiography of Atlantic Pirate Studies

Noelle Buffo (University of Central Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• A Question of Sovereignty and Motivation: The Hashemites and the Kurds

Kaitie Mannis (University of Central Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

 

 

Panel 6 in LAS 263: The American Civil War and Its Legacies

Judges: Matt McCook (Oklahoma Christian University)

Thomas F. Jorsch (Oklahoma State University)

 

• “They Are Building Something Which May Stand a Thousand Years and Longer”: The Confederacy and Southern Identity in Dallas, Texas

Grayson Grant (University of Oklahoma)

• The Recruitment of Black Soldiers in Kentucky from 1863-1865

Sharon Ogden (University of Central Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• Sherman’s Validity

Candice Fields (University of Central Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• Sixteen Meets Seventeen: The Union of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson

Christopher Parker (Liberty University, Phi Alpha Theta member)

 

 

11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

 

Panel 7 in LAS 264: Reevaluating Nazism, the Holocaust, and the Second World War

Judges: Lance Janda (Cameron University)

Lisa Guinn (Tulsa Community College)

 

• The Intentionalist vs. Functionalist Debate of the Holocaust: A Historiographical Analysis

Hanna Hodge (Oklahoma Christian University, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• How General George Patton’s “Race to Messina” Allowed the Evacuation of German Troops from Sicily, 1943

Trevor Menge (University of Central Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• Nazis in the Newspapers: The American Press and Hitler’s Rise to Power

Benjamin Winterscheidt (University of Central Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• Hiroshima & Nagasaki: The American Public’s Initial Reaction to the Atomic Bombings

Olivia Neeley (Rogers State University, Phi Alpha Theta member)

 

 

Panel 8 in LAS 265: The Politics of Race in the Americas

Judges: Michael Beauchamp (Rogers State University)

Anna Davis (Oklahoma Historical Society)

 

• The Forgotten Shadows of the Asian American Movement

Brianna Behnke (University of Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• Grassroots Movements, Civil Rights Period, Greensboro Sit-Ins, Greensboro, North Carolina

Chandler Leamon-Webb (University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma)

• “White Flight” and Oklahoma Educational Integration

Meghan Nguyen (University of Central Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• The Power of Performance: Counterculture in Candomblé

Elle Prather (University of Central Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

 

 

Panel 9 in LAS 273: Reflections on the Role of Activism and Propaganda in LGBTQ+ and American Political History

Judges: Sunu Kodumthara (Southwestern Oklahoma State University)

Jake Krumwiede (OKPOP, a part of the Oklahoma Historical Society)

 

• The Origins and Impacts of the Lavender Scare

Hope Cunningham (Cameron University, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• Unmasking Queer History: Examining Lesbian Activists from the AIDS Epidemic

Chloe Gotes (University of Central Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• Theorizing Lesbian Utopia: A Historiography of the Lesbian Separatist Movement

Emma Stewart (University of Central Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• Propaganda That Ignited a Revolution

Angela Kolander (University of Central Oklahoma, Phi Alpha Theta member)

 

 

Panel 10 in LAS 275: Changing Political and Gender Norms in the 19^th– and 20^th-Century United States

Judges: Chelsea Ball (University of Central Oklahoma)

Michael Weeks (University of Central Oklahoma)

 

• A Third Way in Congress: The Leadership of Mike Mansfield in the Senate in 1961

Jeston Laney (Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• The Creation of America’s Modern Political System

Aiden Wilson (University of Oklahoma)

• Oklahoma City National Stockyards: The Transformation of the Cattle Industry in Early Twentieth-Century Oklahoma

Madelyn Powers (Oklahoma State University, Phi Alpha Theta member)

• Here Comes the Bride (and Her Good Housekeeping Magazine Articles): Wedding Day Advice from 1893 to 1944 and Thematic Changes

Brooklyn Pfennig (Oklahoma Baptist University)

 

Submitting Judge Evaluation Forms

Judges, please submit your Judge Evaluation Forms between 9:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. to the Conference Prize Team:

Travis Chambers (University of Central Oklahoma)

Katrina Lacher (University of Central Oklahoma)

Matthew Pearce (Oklahoma Historical Society)

Olivia Reyes (Oklahoma Hall of Fame | Gaylord-Pickens Museum)

 

In the event of tied scores for papers within the four judging categories (Undergraduate U.S. History, Undergraduate World History, Graduate U.S. History, Graduate World History), the members of the Conference Prize Team will evaluate the papers and cast the tie-breaking vote(s).

 

With Gratitude

The Rho Lambda chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, as represented by its faculty advisor Erik Huneke and its student officers—John Sadler (President), Logan Ray (Vice President), Emma Stewart (Treasurer), Trista Wilmot (Historian), Noelle Buffo (Secretary), and Greg Mitchell (Member-at-Large)—would like to express gratitude for the following people and institutions who have made this conference possible:

• Jake Krumwiede (Executive Director of the OKPOP Museum, a part of the Oklahoma Historical Society) for serving as our keynote speaker
• Panel judges and moderators from Cameron University, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma Baptist University, Oklahoma Christian University, Oklahoma Hall of Fame | Gaylord-Pickens Museum, the Oklahoma Historical Society, the OKPOP Museum, Oklahoma State University, Rogers State University, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Tulsa Community College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and the University of Oklahoma
• University of Oklahoma Press, Conference Co-Sponsor
• Oklahoma Historical Society, Conference Co-Sponsor
• Elizabeth Maier, Ph.D., Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
• Jessica Bass, Administrative Specialist for the Dean’s Office of the College of Liberal Arts, for handling our room and furniture reservation requests for the Liberal Arts Building
• Brendan Maxwell, Marketing Specialist for the UCO College of Liberal Arts, for designing the conference website
• Katrina Lacher, Ph.D., Chairperson of the Department of History and Geography, for her unwavering support of Phi Alpha Theta and of this conference
• Wendy O’Brien, Administrative Assistant for the Department of History and Geography, for her time, talent, and dedication to making this a successful event
• Patti Loughlin, Ph.D., Professor of History, for her assistance in planning the conference
• Sophia Clark, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of German, for her graphic design prowess and assistance with conference logistics
• UCO volunteers for helping everything run smoothly on the day of the conference
• Catina Johnson, Director of Auxiliary Services for Conference and Event Services in the Nigh University Center, for handling our room reservation request for the luncheon
• Camill Doak, Assistant Director for Catering, for ensuring that conference participants are well fed
• Andrew Will, Nigh University Center Technical Support, for setting up the audiovisual equipment for our keynote speaker
• UCO catering, setup, and maintenance staff members