3rd Annual Phi Alpha Theta History Conference

Warrior Knights and Sea Gahzis

Presenter | Dr. Nabil al-Tikriti
Title | Warrior Knights and Sea Ghazis in the Age of Empire
Filmed | November 15, 2014

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  • 2014 Phi Alpha Theta Conference Presentations

    • Commentator | Dr. Bryan Mann

      • Heather Haley (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) - "Manpower and Munitions: The Foundations of the Modern English Navy from King Henry VIII to Oliver Cromwell"
      • Ashley Eddy (Graduate Student, Texas A&M University) - “The Rockingham Whigs and the American Conflict in British Politics, 1763-1783”
      • Rachael Lunsford (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) - “Jack the Ripper”

    • Commentator | Dr. Dwight Watson

      • Roger Booker (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) - “The Houston Riot of 1917"
      • Courtney McClure (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) - "The Lawless Quest for Law and Order: Texan Vigilantism and the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Oil Boom Towns, 1920-1923"
      • Jamie Ross (M.A. in History, Texas State University-San Marcos) - (title to be determined)

    • Selecting and Surviving your PhD Program
      With Dr. Mary Brennan, Dr. Nancy Berlage, and Dr. Bryan Glass

      Workshop: Oral History
      With Mr. Utley, Heather Haley, and Ed Erdman

    • Commentator | Mrs. Margaret Vaverek

      • Malak Carrillo (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) - “The Hampden Family of Buckinghamshire”
      • Kathleen DesOrmeaux (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) - “Roman Egypt Under Marcus Aurelius & Septimius Serverus”
      • Heather Haley (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) - "Romanticized Renegades and Ostentatious Outlaws: The Perpetuation of the Pirate Image"
      • Mary Murphy (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) -“The Decline of the Zuni Lhamana”
      • Jamie Ross (M.A. History, Texas State University-San Marcos) - "Praying for Rain: The Justification of the Timber Cultue Act and the Place of the Great Plains in U.S. Land Policy"

    • Commentator | Dr. Elizabeth Bishop

      • Brendan Larimore (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) - “Administration of the Mandate”
      • Jerick Roberts (Undergraduate, Texas State University-San Marcos) -"The Political Consequences of an Oil Pipeline Explosion in Syria"
      • Hayden Russell (Undergraduate, Texas State University-San Marcos) - “1958 Iraqi Revolution”

    • Commentator | Dr. Ellen Tillman

      • Gaetan Carpentier (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) -“Casualty of History: A WWII Prisoner of War at the San Antonio National Cemetery”
      • Mary Murphy (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) -"Exporting Gender and Race through American Imperialism during WWII"
      • Rachel Toronjo (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) -“The Reich Nature Protection Law: the Application and Implementation of Environmental Protection Legislation During the Third Reich”

      • Michael Ely (Graduate Student, University of Texas-San Antonio) - “From Discipline to Control Societies”
      • Todd Richardson (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) - “Muffled Voices of the Past: Historians, Mental Health, and HIPPA”
      • Virginia Pickel (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) - “Don’t You See I Want a Home and Children?”: A Deaf Woman’s Experiences in Twentieth-Century Texas

    • Commentator | Dr. Bryan Glass

      • James Scanlan (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) - “Gandhi & Tolstoy”
      • Danielle Smith (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) - “A Gay Gandhi?: Considering Homosexuality and Satyagraha”

    • Commentator | Dr. Jessica Pliley

      • Ivan Arteaga (PhD candidate, University of Houston) - "Race and Prejudice: The Role of Telenovelas in the Construction of Race in Mexico"
      • Samantha Torres (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos) ""Writing the Good Housewife: The Birth of Southern Living in 1966"

    • Commentator | Dr. Shannon Duffy

      • William Clark (Undergraduate, Texas State University-San Marcos)- “Monroe’s Intent:  An End to Non-Entanglement”
      • Joseph Fox (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos)- "Immigrant Narratives of the Great Comanche Raid"
      • Christopher Simons (Graduate Student, Texas State University-San Marcos)- “A Contest of Colonial Patrons: the Johnson-Kirkland Rivalry and the Road to Revolution”