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2022
Florida Conference of Historians
Annual Meeting
 
February 25-27, 2022
Saint Leo University
Saint Leo, Florida

 
Hosted by Saint Leo University

Local Arrangements and Program Co-Chairs
Daniel DuBois
Saint Leo University
 
Jesse Hingson
Jacksonville University
 
Officers of the
Florida Conference of Historians, 2022-2023
 
President                    Daniel DuBois   Saint Leo University
 
Presidents-Elect       Beau Driver and J. Brian Freeman    Indian River State College
 
Treasurer                    Jesse Hingson    Jacksonville University
 
Secretary                    David Proctor    Tallahassee Community College
 
FCH Annals:
The Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians
Senior Editor
Michael S. Cole
Florida Gulf Coast University

We dedicate this year’s FCH to the loving memory of
our dear friend, colleague, and devoted teacher:
 
Dr. John “Jack” McTague
(1944-2022)
 


 
SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
 
DAY 1: Friday, February 25, 2022
5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Conference Welcome Reception
Hilton Garden Inn-Tampa/Wesley Chapel
The Garden Grille and Bar, Outside Patio Area
Registered attendees can pick up conference packets
Food and drink available
 
DAY 2: Saturday, February 26, 2022
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.             Registration  
Coffee and Refreshments Provided
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.                    Session One
10:30 – 11:45 a.m.                  Session Two
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.                    Lunch Break: Buffett Provided
FCH Business Meeting
1:00 – 1:45 p.m.                      Plenary Poster Session
2:00 – 3:15 p.m.                      Session Three
3:30 – 4:45 p.m.                      Session Four
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.                      Conference Banquet (Awards and Keynote Address)
 
DAY 3: Sunday, February 27, 2022
8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.           Registration   
Coffee and Refreshments Provided
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.                    Session Five
10:30 – 11:45 a.m.                  Session Six
 
FINDING GUIDE AND VIRTUAL ACCESS
Posters and display vendors will be displayed in the lobby of the College of Business.  All other panels will be in School of Business classrooms.  Participants must have a Zoom authorized account to access the meeting rooms virtually.
 
PANEL             ROOM LOCATION
A                      School of Business 114
B                      School of Business 130
C                      School of Business 225
D                      School of Business 325
E                      School of Business 330
F                      School of Business 334
G                      School of Business 208
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2022
 
SESSION ONE: 9:00 am-10:15 am
1A: Indigenous Fort Caroline and Digital Humanities
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/92193194998
Placing Fort Caroline in the Mocama World
Laura McNiel, University of North Florida (In Person)
 
The Failure(s) of Fort Caroline
Amarilys Sánchez, University of North Florida (In Person)
 
Charles E. Bennett and the Myth of Fort Caroline
Tanner Anderson, University of North Florida (Virtual)
 
Indigenous Digital Humanities and Public History
Emily Cottrell, University of North Florida (In-person)
 
Chair and Discussant: Denise Bossy, University of North Florida (Virtual)
 
1B: Biography and Power in the Modern World
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/99447868285
Italy's Royal Carabinieri Captain Ettore Chiurazzi at the Allied Military Commission of Constantinople & Rivalries over the Ottoman-Turkish Empire's Collapse, 1918-23
Marco Rimanelli, Saint Leo University (In Person)
 
Rev. J. Calvitt Clarke Reports: The YMCA and Interned Russians in France, 1919
J. Calvitt Clarke III, Professor Emeritus, Jacksonville University (Virtual)
 
Chair and Discussant: Marco Rimanelli, Saint Leo University (In Person)
 
1C: Newspaper Discovery: Life and Death in the Tropics
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/95182498877
Growth and Apprehension: Miami During the Spanish American War, 1898
Jameson Champion, Florida Southern College (In Person)
 
Murder in Paradise: Key West in the Great Depression
AJ Pearce, Florida Southern College (In Person)
 
“More Sinful than Anywhere East of Singapore”: Key West in 1950
Issac Long, Florida Southern College (In Person)
 
Chair: James M. Denham, Florida Southern College (In Person)
Discussant: Richards Plavnieks, Florida Southern College (In Person)
 
1D: Dogs, State, and Society during the Twentieth Century
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/93217949514
Entwined Experiences: The Influence of Dogs on the British Home Front, 1939-1941
Colin Cook, Eastern Florida State College (In Person)
 
The Dogs and the City: Mass Canicide and the State in Lima, Peru during the 1960s
Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University (In Person)
 
Chair/Discussant: Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University (In Person)
 
 
1E: Social Movements in the United States and China during the Early 20th Century
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/92439858638
Pentecostal Preacher, Aimee Semple McPherson Calls for "A Third Great Religious Awakening" during The Great Depression
Michael Epple, Florida Gulf Coast University (In Person) 
 
In the Name of Christ: YWCA Women and Christian Social Reform in Republican China,
1925 to 1945
Elizabeth Littell-Lamb, University of Tampa (In Person)
 
Chair: Jennifer Zoebelein, Charlotte County BCC Historian (In Person)
Discussant: Kathryn Beasley, Independent Scholar (Virtual)
 
 
1F: The Civil War and its Legacy in Florida (Virtual Panel)
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/95863467126
Military Crimes and Civil War Union Troops in Florida
R. Gregory Lande, Independent Scholar (Virtual)
 
Governors at War: A Critical Assessment of Governor Samuel Kirkwood and Governor John Milton's Wartime Response
Victoria Stewart, Northwest Florida State College (Virtual)
 
“Memoria In Eterna!”: Florida's Lost Cause and Southern Socio-Cultural-Economic Revisionism, 1890-1939
Isabel Hidalgo, Florida Atlantic University (Virtual)
 
Chair and Discussant: Seth A. Weitz, Dalton State College (In Person)
 

 
SESSION TWO: 10:30 am-11:45 am
2A: New Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Britain
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/93196547230
Welsh Hospitaller Properties and Their Value in 1338
Philip Handyside, University of Central Florida (In Person)
 
A Most Blasphemous Heresy: Questions of Protestant Orthodoxy in the Life of George Wishart
Reagan Vernon, The University of South Florida (In Person)
 
Chair and Discussant: Dr. Rowena J-M.H. Múzquiz,
St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary (In Person)
 
 
2B: Beyond the Mainstream: Alternative Visions of Pop Culture during the Twentieth Century
Special Interest Section: Media, Arts, and Culture
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/91276422925
Chasing the Magic: The Magician of Mars, Female Representation and the Emergence of the Superhero Genre (1938-1940)
Thomas Donaldson, Florida Southwestern State College (In Person)
 
Journey and Race: Cultural Appropriation in Corporate Rock
David Golland, Governors State University (In Person)    
 
How Prince and Tupac Used and Challenged the Emotional and Relational Rhetoric of Black Masculinity in the 1980s and 1990s
Zion McThomas, Auburn University (Virtual)
 
Chair and Discussant: David Golland, Governors State University (In Person)
 

2C: Representations of Asia in Media and Culture
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/91062053413
Patriarchal Presumptions: US-China Relations, Media, and Gender, 1911-1930
Kylie Culver, Saint Leo University (In Person)
 
Sumo Wrestling: Japanese Culture Reflected
Savannah Desrochers, Florida Southern College (In Person)          
 
Chair and Discussant: Douglas Benner, University of South Florida (In Person)
                                                                              
2D: Florida Women: Food, Fashion, and Activism (Virtual Panel)
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/95797658759
Fashioning Florida: Swimsuit Regulation in the State
Kimberly Voss, University of Central Florida
 
Carolyn Beatrice Parker: A Contributor to the Manhattan Project
Peggy Macdonald, Stetson University
 
Florida Food
Jennifer Denlinger, Valencia Community College
 
Chair: Christina Frederick, Director of Research, Sapience Practice (In Person)
Discussant: Lance Speere, University of Central Florida (Virtual)
 
2E: Thinking Beyond the World Wars of the Twentieth Century
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/97603683191
The Rise and Fall of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, 1900-1918
Stanley Carpenter, Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval War College
 
Building a Barrier to Disease:
Smallpox, Vaccination Certificates, and Colonial Medicine in Tanganyika, 1930-1950
Chau Kelly and Steven Garcia, University of North Florida (Virtual)
 
Soldiers Buried at Sea: The U.S. 81st Infantry Division, the Battle of Angaur, and Post-war Commemoration, 1944-1957
Erik Carlson, Florida Gulf Coast University (In Person)
 
Chair and Discussant: Marco Rimanelli, Saint Leo University (In Person)
 
2F: Modern Social and Political Movements in the United States
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/97560204549
The "School of Morals": Slavery and Progressive Hermeneutics
Daniel Whitehouse, New College of Florida (In Person)   
 
The Disabilities Rights Movement in the US, 1920-2008
Alesia MacMenomay, Flagler College (In Person)
 
"Self-Forgetful Service": Lou Henry Hoover's Great Depression Relief Efforts, 1929-1933
Presleigh-Anne Johnson, Flagler College (In Person)
 
Are There or Have There ever been Communists in the USA?
Chase Robinson, Florida Southern College (In Person)
 
Chair and Discussant: Audrey Koke, Saint Leo University (In Person)

 
LUNCH BREAK: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm
Lunch will be provided in TECO Hall accessible through the School of Business Lobby
FCH Officers will have their luncheon and business meeting in School of Business 101
 
PLENARY POSTER SESSION: 1:00 pm-1:45 pm
The History Classroom and the Examination of Critical-Skill Pedagogy
Doug Feldmann, Northern Kentucky University
 
My Opa
Dennis Fitzsimmons, University of Central Florida (Undergraduate)
 
 
SESSION THREE: 2:00 pm-3:15 pm
3A: Zora! Investigating the Life, Work, and Remembrance of Florida Author Zora Neale Hurston
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/94059202935
“Hoodoo and Black Magic”: Chronicling Black Culture in Florida and Beyond
Peggy Macdonald, Stetson University and Indian River State College
 
Saving the Past, Forging the Future:
The Zora Neale Hurston Festival, Community Activism, and Public Digital Humanities
Julian Chambliss, Michigan State University
Scot French, University of Central Florida
 
Retracing Hurston: Florida Memorials of the Author
Leslie Kemp Poole, Rollins College
 
Chair: Michelle Dusseau, University of Central Florida (In Person)
Discussant: Patricia Farless, University of Central Florida (Virtual)
 
3B: Newspaper Discovery: Tallahassee, Naples, and Lakeland
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/92566718826
Bloodshed in the Capitol: Homicide in Tallahassee, 1900
Robert McLaughlin, Florida Southern College
 
Florida's Last Paradise: Naples, 1964
Phillip Rodriguez, Florida Southern College
 
Homicide in Lakeland, 1994
Lea Schiefele, Florida Southern College
 
Chair: James M. Denham, Florida Southern College (In Person)
Discussant: Richards Plavnieks, Florida Southern College (In Person)


3C: The Power of Words in the Medieval and Early Modern Eras
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/93499447083
The Results of Failure: Evaluating the Second Crusade in Contemporary Sources
Hannah Ewing and Mitchell Shiffer, Rollins College (In Person)
 
The Language of Crisis in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain:
Actions, Conditions, and Outcomes in Provisioning and Administration
Rowena Múzquiz, St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary (In Person)
 
Southern Skepticism: Virginia's Witch Trial Tradition
Timothy Cotton, Florida State University (In Person)
 
Chair and Discussant: Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University (In Person) 
 
3D: Gender, Crisis, and Modernity during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/98565322584
"Medicine is a jealous mistress":
Women Doctors' Contributions to the British Suffrage & Women's Rights Movements, 1847-1918
Danielle Wirsansky, Florida State University (In Person)
 
Mobilizing Motherhood: Vichy's National Revolution, The French Communist Party, and Gender Roles in Resistance Propaganda (1940-1944)
Elizabeth Klements, University of Central Florida (In Person)        
 
"Read All About It": How the British Press Responded to State Censors Between D-Day and the Liberation of Paris (June-August 1944)
Jessica Oldham, University of Central Florida (In Person)
 
Chair and Discussant: David Harvey, New College (In Person)
 
3E: New Studies on Slavery in the Antebellum South
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/97599998094
“Safe Keeping:” Reconstructing an Enslaved Carceral Experience in Early Nineteenth Century Savannah
Kelly Westfield, Florida SouthWestern State College (In Person)
 
The Making of Citizen's Arrest Law in Antebellum Georgia
Craig Buettinger, Jacksonville University (In Person)
 
Beyond the Wilmot Proviso: Slave Rescues and the Crisis of 1850
Douglas Benner, University of South Florida (In Person) 
 
Chair and Discussant: Doug Feldmann, Northern Kentucky University (In Person)
 
3F: The Dark Side of the Sunshine State: Alternative Views of Florida’s Past (Virtual Panel)
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/92107404860
The Brutality of Punishment and Deaths in Historic Florida Prisons
Elizabeth Tarter, University of North Florida (Virtual)       
 
The Wild South: How Florida's Perceptions Informed Its History (1513-1971)
Logan Buffa, Florida State University (Virtual)
 
"Septic Siege" in Jacksonville, Florida during the 1970s and 1980s
Khoranhalai Washington (Virtual) and Charles Closmann, University of North Florida (In Person)
 
Chair and Discussant: Heather Parker, Saint Leo University (In Person)
 
 
3G: The Florida Civic Literacy Exam: Expectations and Implementations
Special Interest Section: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/92057877370
Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College (In person)
David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College (Virtual)
 
Chair: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College (In Person)
Discussant: Brandon Jett, Florida SouthWestern State College (In Person)
 
 
SESSION FOUR: 3:30 pm-4:45 pm
4A: Race and Ethnicity in Mid-20th Century Florida
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/95763117297
Black Thursday and its Memory at UF:
Race and Power in the Struggle for a Diverse Inclusive University
Alana Gomez, University of Florida (Virtual)
 
A Noble Experiment: Bilingual Education and Cuban Emigration in Miami
Emma Donnelly, University of Florida (Virtual)
 
Criminalizing Florida’s Youth: The Forgotten Story of the St. Augustine Four
Lauren King, University of Florida (Virtual)
 
Chair: Daniel DuBois, Saint Leo University (In Person)
Discussant: Steven Noll, University of Florida (Virtual)
 

 
4B: Forging a New Nation: The United States in the Revolutionary and Early National Eras
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/94607101354
Silas Mercer, Republican Government, and Religious Disestablishment in the American Revolution and Early National Era
David Moon, Perimeter College of Georgia State University (In Person)
 
Walk Out: New York Abandons the 1787 Federal Convention
Mitchell Prugh, Independent Scholar
 
Punished for Their Loyalty: The American Loyalist Movement and its Consequences
Constantinos Scaros, Colorado Technical University (In Person)  
 
Chair and Discussant: Stanley Carpenter, Professor Emeritus,
US Naval War College (In Person)
 
4C: Power and Resistance: Colonial Representations of Culture, Religion, and Politics
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/94633536297
Steadfast Faith: Chinese Christian and Western Missionary Perspectives in the Boxer Rebellion
Nicholas MacWhorter, University of Tampa (In Person)
 
The Lie of a Civilizing Mission: British Superiority and Imperial Expansion in India
Mariella Melidis, University of Tampa (In Person)
 
The National Identity of Rhodesia: Colonialism and Contradiction
Alexander Valentonis, University of Tampa (In Person)
 
Chair: Kelly D. Palmer, University of Tampa (In Person)
Discussant: Elizabeth Littell-Lamb, University of Tampa (In Person)
 
4D: Twentieth Century Florida Development (Virtual Panel)
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/96572826745
The Sunshine State Leads to Edible Profits: Rural Floridian Women and the Economic Use of Florida Tourism and Agriculture, 1919-1929
Kathryn Beasley, Independent Scholar (Virtual)
 
The Morikami Museum and Gardens: History, Culture, Functionalism, and Community Affairs
Mel Vasquez, The University of North Florida (Virtual)
 
Johnny Haynsworth and Florida Builders
Tom Adamich, Visiting Librarian Service (Virtual)
 
Chair and Discussant: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College (In Person)
 
4E: Olustee: Confederate Monuments at a US Soldier Burial Ground
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/98712901889
The Battle of Olustee and its Immediate Aftermath
Barbara A. Gannon, University of Central Florida (In Person)
 
Reconstructing the Dead: The Legal Obligation to Honor Olustee’s Fallen
Alexi Reams, University of Central Florida (In Person)
 
Finding the Fallen: Archaeology and Memory at the Olustee Battlefield
Jacob H. Finegan, University of Central Florida (In Person)
 
A Digital Memorial: Olustee and the Fallen as a Story Map
Diana Dizon, University of Central Florida (In Person)
 
Chair and Discussant: Craig Buettinger, Jacksonville University (In Person)
 
 
4F: Modern Power Dynamics in the Global South
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/93469324652
Sugar: A Pathway to Power in Cuba
Hunter Makin, Flagler College (In Person)
 
The Cold War Influences on Nyerere's Villagization Scheme in 1960s Tanzania
Adrienne Hill, New College of Florida (In Person)
 
Chair and Discussant: Marco Rimanelli, Saint Leo University (In Person)

 
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2022
6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Location: Banquet Room of the
Hilton Garden Inn-Tampa/Wesley Chapel
Attendees and Guests must wear their conference badges
 
Welcome Remarks
Dr. Daniel DuBois, Saint Leo University, FCH President, 2022-2023
 
FCH Awards Presentation
Douglas Astolfi Award for Best Poster
Presented by Drew Astolfi
 
J. Calvitt Clarke III Award for Best Undergraduate Student Paper
Presented by Dr. Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University
 
Blaine T. Browne Award for Best Graduate Student Paper
Presented by Dr. Richards Plavnieks, Florida Southern College
 
Thomas M. Campbell Award for Best Professional Paper
Presented by Dr. Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College
 
Remarks on the FCH Annals
Dr. Michael S. Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University, Senior Editor, FCH Annals
 
Remarks on the 2023 FCH Annual Meeting
Dr. Beau Driver, Indian River State College
 
Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Dr. Daniel DuBois, Saint Leo University
 
Keynote Address
Dr. Michael Butler, Flagler College
“Memory, Myth, Identity, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Confederate Contextualization”


SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2022

SESSION FIVE: 9:00 am-10:15 am
5A: Florida’s Environment
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/93405592566
Mining Modernity on Florida's Pre-Pleistocene Coast, 1820s-1970s
Doug Ponticos, University of South Florida (In Person)
 
Remembering (and Forgetting) Chipco
Karen Hannel, Saint Leo University and Eric Hannel, Saint Leo University (In Person)
 
Greening the Academy:
From Activism to Institutionalization at the University of North Florida, 1970 to 2000s
Charles Closmann, University of North Florida (In Person)             
 
Chair and Discussant: Heather Parker, Saint Leo University (In Person)
 
5B: Crisis and Urban Change in the Modern South
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/94351304306
Spanish Flu in Tampa: Discrimination and Cooperation
Madeline Kingry, Florida College (In Person)
 
The Construction of Public Space in Melbourne, Florida
Conner McGowan, University of Central Florida (Virtual)
 
"So Rude and So Crude": Charlotte's History with Urban Renewal and the Annihilation of the African American Community and Culture of Brooklyn: 1960-1970
Maverick Huneycutt, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (In Person)
 
Chair and Discussant: Mike Denham, Florida Southern College (In Person)
 
5C: The Modern World Since the Tumultuous 1970s
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/91698314094
From Activism to Empowerment:
How US Athletes Changed the World of Sport in the 1970s and 80s
Dan DuBois, Saint Leo University (In Person)
 
To Be or Not to Be:
Iranian Student Protest and Identity During the US Hostage Crisis
Anna Caney, Florida Southern College (In Person)
 
Chair and Discussant: Robert King, Saint Leo University (In Person)

 
5D: Revisiting Icons in United States History
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/98252188769
The Fall and Rise of Jefferson Davis: His Memory as a Scapegoat to Lost Cause Icon
Aaron Lewis, University of South Florida (In Person)        
 
The ‘Loyal Friendship’: Theodore Roosevelt, John A. McIlhenny, and Progressive Conservatism
Ashley Steenson, The University of Alabama (Virtual)
 
Chair and Discussant: Jennifer Zoebelein, Charlotte County BCC Historian (In Person) 
 
 
5E: Topics in Florida Education
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/91807571348
Taking Back the Night on the Streets and in College Dorms:
Debates in 1970s Florida Over Rape and Dorm Visitations
David Nelson, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College-Bainbridge (In Person)
 
A "Fundamental Value"?
How Florida's Constitution Has, or Has Not, Protected Public Schools since 1968
Mary Adkins, University of Florida Levin College of Law (In Person)
 
Chair and Discussant: Frank Orlando, Saint Leo University (In Person)
 
 
SESSION SIX: 10:30 am-11:45 am
6A: Economic Development in Florida
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/91732517163
Where Cotton Wasn’t King: Postbellum Florida and Planter Persistence in Leon County, 1850-1870
Alexander J. Bowen, Clemson University (In Person)        
 
Labor and the Environment in Florida Turpentine Camps, 1880-1940
Allison Mason, University of North Florida (In Person)
 
The Florida East Coast Railway: For 125 Years America's Speedway to Sunshine
Seth Bramson, Barry University (In Person)
 
Chair and Discussant: Daniel DuBois, Saint Leo University (In Person)
 

 
6B: Exclusion and Landscape in the Southern United States
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/96959113351
Slaying of the Serpentes: Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes and Rattlesnake Roundups
Bryan Curran, University of North Florida (In Person)
 
The Production of Segregated Spaces in Sewanee, Tennessee
Brucie Porter, Auburn University (Virtual)
 
Chair and Discussant: Brandon Jett, Florida SouthWestern State College (In Person)
 
 
6C: Constructing Race in Modern American History
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/98720687939
God's Favorites: Racial Conflict in the Mormon Church
Saneena Anzalone, Florida Southern College (In Person)
 
Native American Boarding Schools: The Costs of Assimilation
Aaliyah Steward, Florida Southern College (In Person)
 
The African-American Bandstand:
The Business of Black Power within Don Cornelius’ Soul Train, 1970-1979
Casey Niebuhr, Flagler College (In Person)
 
Chair and Discussant: Anna Caney, Florida Southern College (In Person)
 
 
6D: Reconstructing the Past through Sources and Landscapes
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/96938124601
River of Blood: How the Rivers and Waterways of North America Decided History
Michael Coffman, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (In Person)
 
Indigenizing the North American Academy:
Resistance & Rethinking Colonial Practices in Academia through Indigenous Storytelling & Allyship
Emma Posca, York University (Virtual)
 
Rehabilitating Traditional Sources on the Conquest of Mexico
Michael Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University (In Person)
 
Chair and Discussant: Eric Hannel, Saint Leo University (In Person)
 

 
6E: A New Vision of Florida
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/95836240398
"Just as nature planned it": Analyzing the Role of the Natural Environment in the Florida Sanitarium and Hospital in Orlando, Florida
Marisa Pechillo, University of North Florida (In Person)  
 
Wenceslao Galvez: Tampa Through the Eyes of a Cuban Refugee, 1896
Andrew Huse, University of South Florida Libraries (In Person)
 
Nisei Replacement Training at Camp Blanding
George Cressman, Camp Blanding Museum (In Person)
 
Chair and Discussant: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College (In Person)
 
6F: Urban and Suburban Development in Florida
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Zoom Link: https://saintleo.zoom.us/j/93515599717
Ghostly Rhetorics and Melodramatics:
Florida Attempts to Build a 'Second Los Angeles', 1922-1934
David Morton, University of Central Florida (In Person)
 
Chicken Wars:
A Love-Hate Relationship Between Urban Floridians and Feathered Bipeds
Zachary Weston, University of North Florida (In Person)
 
Can Sports Save A City? The 1989 Miami Riots
Seth Weitz, Dalton State College (In Person)
 
Chair and Discussant: Audrey Koke, Saint Leo University (In Person)

 
Our Special Thanks To:
Megan Orendorf Case, M.A., M.B.A.
Administrator of Events and Special Programs, College of Arts and Sciences and Adjunct Professor of Humanities at Saint Leo University
 
Mrs. Betsy Astolfi and the Astolfi Family
 
Dr. Michelle Carrigan
Indian River State College
 
Frances Dingwall and Lisa Moore
Hilton Garden Inn Tampa-Wesley Chapel
Hampton Inn & Suites Tampa-Wesley Chapel
 
 
 
We hope to see you again for the 2023 Annual Meeting hosted by Indian River State College!
 
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