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Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference

April 5, 2025

East Texas Baptist University
Second Floor of Ornelas Student Center

Cost: $35 
Registration open now - April 2

Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference
Saturday, April 5, 2025
8:30am
Registration

Check-in on the second floor of Ornelas Student Center
Coffee and breakfast pastries

9:15am
Welcome and Announcements

Cornish Great Room

9:30am
Sessions 1A-1D

Cornish Great Room, Session 1A: Dr. Antay Waters
 

Hannah Shepherd, Graduate Student, East Texas A&M University
“I had no children, so I adopted the world.” Juanita Craft and the Dallas NAACP Youth Council: Preparing Youth for Civil Rights Activism 1940 - 1960s”

Reagan Powers, Undergraduate Student, Tarleton State University
"Nonessential": Women's Employment in the 1950's & Today”

Janna Payne, Graduate Student, East Texas A&M University
“One Common Goal: The Divisions of Women Inside Second Wave Feminism, 1964-1978”

 

Edwards Governance Room, Session 1B: Dr. Lisa Seeley
 

Brooke Byrd, Undergraduate Student, University of North Texas
“Innocent or Guilty? Exploring The Myth of The Wehrmacht and Its Role in The Holocaust”

Robert Shannahan, Undergraduate Student, Texas Wesleyan University
“The Role of Pseudoscience in Nazi Eugenics with Josef Mengele”

Corliss Emery, Graduate Student, East Texas Baptist University
"We Meet - We Part - Only to Meet Again": People of Japanese Ancestry in Texas Internment Camps During World War II”

 

Calvert Meeting Room, Session 1C: Dr. Sandy Hoover
 

Anna Thomas, Undergraduate Student, East Texas Baptist University
“The Pursuit of Happiness”

Aaron Goins, Undergraduate Student, Tarleton State University
“Political Movements and Ideologies in the United States: The Rise of the Republican Party, The Democratic Party’s Defense of Slavery, and the Foundation of the Ku Klux Klan (1815-1860)”

Elizabeth Wickstrom, Undergraduate Student, Texas Women’s University
“The Search for Independence: Why Cuba and not Puerto Rico?”

 

Blankenship Meeting Room, Session 1D: Dr. Brenda Matthews
 

Lily Comstive, Graduate Student, Stephen F. Austin State University
“Brothers or Enemies: Rats and Lice in the Trenches of World War I”

Evan Davis, Undergraduate Student, John Brown University
“1641 Remembered: An Analysis of Irish Romantic Nationalist Interpretations of the 1641 Rebellion”

Alexander Chanaa, University of North Texas
“Some Kind of Liberties: Why Did Early Russian Constitutionalism Devolve into “Sham Constitutionalism”

10:45am
Break
11:00am
Sessions 2A-2C

Cornish Great Room, Session 2A: Dr. Jeanna White
 

Jack Magness, Undergraduate Student, Texas Wesleyan University
“News Media in the Case of Viola Liuzzo”

Joshua Murphey, Undergraduate Student, Texas Wesleyan University
“CIA Reform in the 1970’s”

Nikolaus Roudkovski, Undergraduate Student, East Texas Baptist University
“Censoring Pinky: The Supreme Court & Civil Rights in Marshall, Texas”

 

Edwards Governance Room, Session 2B: Christopher Ohan
 

Olivia Purdy, Undergraduate Student, John Brown University
“The Mania of Dionysus”

Spencer Carey, Graduate Student, East Texas Baptist University
“The Constitution of Lacedaemonians: Xenophon and Lycurgus Observations and Rules for Sparta”

Michael York, Undergraduate Student, Texas Wesleyan University
Ambient Pathways: The Technological Essence of New Age Music”

 

Calvert Meeting Room, Session 2C: Dr. Antay Waters
 

Miranda Adams, Undergraduate Student, Texas Women’s University
“The Civilian Conservation Corps in Texas State Parks: Education During the Great Depression”

Melissa Luz Walters, Graduate Student, Texas Women’s University
“Rewriting History: How Arthur Penn’s 1967 Bonnie and Clyde Influenced Popular Memory”

12:15pm
Break
12:30pm
Lunch

Woods Great Room
Catered lunch provided by Wright On Taco
Guest Lecture: Dr. Taylor Weaver
Recognition of Award Winners
Final Announcements

2:00pm
Tour Fenton Collection in Jarrett Library (Optional)
Name/Title Division Phone
Dr. Jenny Hoover
Associate Professor of History
School of Christian Studies and Humanities 903.923.2087 Send Message View Bio