Undergraduate History Conference


 History     May 17 2018 | 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM HG 1030

The Fourth Annual Undergraduate History Conference

Join us to hear a group of UCI undergraduate students share their historical research on everything from popular culture and identity to war and prejudice.

There will be three sessions from 10am-12pm, 12:30pm-2:30pm, and 3pm-5pm.
Visual Displays will be present all day. You are welcome to come in and out as you please.

Questions? Visit humanities.uci.edu/history or email englers@uci.edu.

Conference Schedule

Poster Displays
  • “Race, the Russo-Japanese War and the American Press” by Caleb Hawkins
  • “Lynching Postcards in America: Unveiling White Supremacy Through Photography” by Daisy Mendoza
10:00AM Session
  • “From Main Street USA to the SoCal Way: Disneyland & its Role in Shaping the So. California Fantasy “ by Chase Robinson
  • “Chieu Hoi as Counterinsurgency Before the Tet Offensive “ by Tin Trung Hong
  • “One Couple, One Child: Population Control Policy in China, 1973-1985 “ by Jake Li
  • “Decolonizing Conquest “ by Elijah Sanchez
  • “Alexander Kerensky’s Long March to War “ by Andrew Perkins
  • “Humanitarian Efforts Along the United States-Mexico Border “ by Monica Martinez
  • “Identity through Otherness: A Reperiodization of Nationalism to the 9th Century “ by Barry Croxen
12:30 pm Session
  • “Willful Ignorance? Segregated News in 1970s South Africa “ by Vanesse Hiten
  • “Rehearsing Revolution: Theater as Resistance “ by Shane Mason
  • “First-Generation White & Latinx College Student Perceptions of Inequality Across Racial & Gender Lines “ by Socorro Cambero
  • “A Mexican War Narrative: Revealing a Forgotten Guerrerense Ideology “ by Alejandro Guardado
  • “The European Recovery Program: Countering Soviet Influence and Fostering a United Europe “ by Ryan Owings
  • “All Israel Shall be Saved: Calvary Chapel, Chuck Smith, and Philosemitism “ by Sean Beall
3:00pm Session
  • “Women and Hysteria: Gendered Diagnoses of Mental Illness in the 19th and 20th Centuries “ by Michelle Meza
  • “Modern China-Vietnam Relations “ by Khang Do
  • “The Political, Economic & Ethno-Religious Reasons the Peshmerga Withdrew: Yezidis as a greater part of the Iraqi Nation-State “ by Darisse Smith
  • “America’s Greatest Show-Women: Feminine Bodies in Victorian Entertainment “ by Coryn Hardison
  • “Social Critique and Medieval Misogyny: The Pilgrimage of Human Life “ by Joseph Garcia
  • “Mililani Town: The Rhetoric and Reality of Constructing a Community in Hawaii “ by Caytlin Yoshioka