2020 CBU History Conference

he conference aims to provide a forum for discussing historical scholarship and post-graduation planning for undergraduate history majors.  This year’s conference will feature a panel of CBU graduates discussing how the study of history prepared them for success in their career. It will also include three panels of sophomore and junior CBU history majors presenting their own original research.   You are welcome to attend all or part of the conference.

There is no fee to attend the conference, but you must pre-register.

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Alumni Panel: Careers for History Majors
Chair: Ben Jordan, Professor of History
1:00-1:35 pm
Caroline Mitchell Carrico (History ’10)
Supervisor of Exhibits and Graphic Services at the Pink Palace Family of Museums
Veronica Virgen-Miguel (History ’15)
Children’s Project Law Clerk at Mid-South Immigration Advocates
Michalyn Easter-Thomas (History ’13)
Instructional Facilitator at Overton High School and Memphis City Councilwoman, District 7
Ramon Ramirez (History ’16)
School Operations Manager at Bluff City High School

Student Panel 1: Political Change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries
Chair: Karl Leib, Associate Professor of Political Science (CBU)
1:45-2:20 pm
Soka Lado, The Role of Social Media in the Arab Spring
Olivia Gambrell, Teaching and the Collective Memory of Apartheid in South Africa
Jesus-Reyes Solis, Pinochet’s Chile: The Implications of Cold War Policy & Foreign Influence on Chile

Student Panel 2: Beliefs about Death, Virtue, and Women
Chair: Neal Palmer, Associate Professor of History (CBU)
2:25-3:10 pm
Arielle LeMieux, Ancient Egyptian Ideas about Death
Zach Johnson, Bushido Values in Samurai Tales
Coby Sills, Early Modern European Witch-Hunting and the Trial of Elizabeth Bathory
Abbey Sedlak, Changing Opinion of Marie Antoinette

Student Panel 3: The Importance of Ideas: The Prison, Racism, and the 1980 Presidential Election
Chair: Marius Carriere, Professor of History (CBU)
3:15-3:50 pm
Courtenay James, Petrus Camper and the Racial Categorization of Facial Angles
Fatou Sow, Foundational Prison Ideas
Austin Brown, “The Southern Strategy”