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History Undergraduate and Graduate Students Present Research, Win Awards

As part of Loyola's Weekend of Excellence, History undergraduate and graduate students presented their work at two symposiums on April 12, 2014.

History majors dotted the program for the 2014 Loyola Undergraduate Research and Engagement Symposium. Thirteen scholars shared their work. The program is available here.

• Liam Grogan, "The Chicago History Museum through Social Media." Poster Session I, 11:00-12:30
• Matthew Jenkins, "Lessons in Urban Politics: The Cataloging and Archiving of the Helen Shiller Papers." Poster Session I, 11:00-12:30
• Sebastian Villa, "Italian Eritrea, 1935-1941: The Intersection of Gender and Racial Hierarchies in Italian Racist Colonial Society." Poster Session I, 11:00-12:30
• Nicholas Jowar, "The Importance of Oral History and Its Preservation." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 403
• Miguel Lopez-Campos, "Voices in Solidarity with Central American Activism in the 1980s." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 403
• Megan Meagher, "Hadith and Its Making of the Prophet: Unraveling the Logic of Legitimacy through Hermeneutics." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 407
• Michael Polowski, "Mapping the Humanities: Intersection of History and Digital Media." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 403
• Pedro Regalado, "End of Days: The 'Puerto Rican Riots' of 1971." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 403
• Juan Basadre, "Cut Short the Night: Use Some of It for the Day's Business: An Examination of Cultural Processes on Sleep Patterns in Imperial Rome." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 404
• Sarah Muenzer, "The Currency Acts: An American Omission in the Age of Revolution." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 404
• Eda Obermans, "The Seventeenth Century Enigma of Captain Henry Morgan and the Atlantic World."  Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 404
• Dylan LeBlanc, "'To Account Our Selves Knitt Together': John Winthrop, Self-Fashioning, and the Media Ecology of the Massachusetts Bay Company, 1629-1630." Presentation Session, 12:50-2:00, Mundelein 404
• Andrew Prior, "Mental Trauma in Medical Discourse in the Post-World War I Era." Poster Session II, 2:00-3:30

An awards reception followed the symposium in the Sullivan Center Galivan Auditorium.

Five graduate students from the History department participated in the 7th Annual Graduate School Research Symposium.

• Josh Arens, "Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project." Archival and Historical Methods Session I, Life Sciences Building, 9:00-11:00.
• Nathan Jérémie-Brink, "Spreading the Word, Mapping a Movement: Early African American Antislavery Newspapers on Digital Maps." Archival and Historical Methods Session I, Life Sciences Building, 9:00-11:00.
• Devin Leigh, "Revenant of the Keys: Discover the Legends of Black Caesar." Archival and Historical Methods Session I, Life Sciences Building, 9:00-11:00.
• Jessica Hagen, "The Jesuit Libraries Project: Digitizing Loyola's First Library Catalogue Using MARC21 as Platform for Evaluating Data Analysis and Visualization." Qualitative Poster Session, Life Sciences Building, 11:00-12:00.
• Devin Hunter, "Albert Votaw: From Radical Leftist Intellectual to Liberal Urban Renewal Advocate." Content and Textual Analysis Session II, Life Sciences Building, 1:45-3:45.

An awards session followed the Graduate symposium in the Mundelein Palm Court. Nathan Jérémie-Brink received the award for best presentation in the Archival and Historical Methods session, and Jessica Hagen received the award for best poster presentation in the Qualitative Poster Session.