Modern U.S. History Workshops

  • Fall 2023 Workshop
    Death as a Coworker
    • Presenters: Professor Julia Haager, Assistant Professor of History, Western Carolina University; Professor Sean Massey, Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Professor Jennifer Brier, Director and Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago
    Sowing the Wind: The Road to Revolution in Washington County, Texas, 1840s-1865[1]
    • Presenter: Professor Donald G. Nieman, Professor of History, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Professor Gregg Cantrell, Professor of History and the Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair in Texas History at Texas Christian University

    [1] Hosea 8:7 "For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."

    Chicago and Its Suburbs Belong to Us’: United Power’s Strategy
    • Presenter: Professor Dennis Deslippe, Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Department Chair of American Studies, Franklin & Marshall College
    • Commentator: Professor Benjamin Looker, Associate Professor of American Studies, St. Louis University
    Return of the Artisans in the Modern Cities: Masculinized Urban Reforms of Robert A. Woods
    • Presenter: Yong Hyeon Kim, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Professor Kathryn Kish Sklar, Professor Emerita of History, Binghamton University
  • Spring 2023 Workshop
    Degrees of Marginalization: LDS Missionaries and Mormon-Armenians in the Late Ottoman and post-Ottoman Middle East (1890-1928)
    • Presenter: Kent Schull, Associate Professor of History, Binghamton University
    •  Commentator: David Gutman, Associate Prof. of History, Manhattanville College
  • Fall 2022 Workshop
    A New Right Emerges, 1969-1980
    • Presenter: Don Nieman, Professor of History, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Alison Kibler, Professor of History, American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Franklin & Marshall College
    They're Coming to Build What Reagan Destroys: The Urban Footprint of Activist Brigades to Nicaragua and the Divergent Growth of Local-level Foreign Policy
    'He’s Irish and So Am I, Let Us Get To It': The Influence of Irish-American Masculinity on Violent Working-Class Subcultures in Chicago, 1890-1928
    • Presenter: Colin Kohlhaas, Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: James R. Barrett, Professor Emeritus of History and African American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Spring 2022 Workshop
    1964
    • Presenter: Donald Nieman,  Binghamton University Provost and Professor of History.
    • Commentator: Kevin  Boyle,  William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern 
      University.
    The Zoonotic Nature  of Tuberculosis
    • Presenter: Daniel Vandersommers, Asst. Prof. of History, University of Dayton.
    • Commentator: Fa-ti Fan, Professor of History, Binghamton University.
    “Sorry, Waldman, We  Just Couldn’t  Help It": Socialist State Legislators  in New York, 1912-1922
    • Presenter: Joshua  Kluever,  Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University.
    • Commentator: Robert Chiles, Co-editor of New York History, and Senior  Lecturer, University of 
      Maryland.
    "Disabled,  Yet on Active  Duty": The Union Army’s Veteran Reserves Corps and Soldiers’ Views of 
    Disability during the Civil War
    • Presenter: Erika Grimminger, Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University.
    • Commentator: David  Gerber,  Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Buffalo.
  • Fall 2021 Workshop
    Family Relations and Sex Education in San Francisco, 1930-1945
    • Presenter: Julia B. Haager, Ph.D. candidate, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Sharon Ullman, Professor of History, Bryn Mawr College
    “They Have Had Several Dates Since the Dance”: Sex, Dating, and the Black Family in Postwar Washington
    • Presenter: Miya Carey, Assistant Professor of History, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Stephen Vider, Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Public History Initiative, Cornell University
    Developing Transnational Feminism Duringthe UN Decade for Women
    • Presenter: Jessie Frazier, Associate Professor of History, University of Rhode Island
    • Commentator: Jocelyn Olcott, Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies; Professor of History & International Comparative Studies, Duke University
    Boys Will Be New Boys: Masculinity in the Boys’ Club Activities of the Eastern Urban Settlement House, 1900-1930
    • Presenter: Yong Hyeon Kim, Ph.D. candidate, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Kevin Murphy, Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota
  • Spring 2021 Workshop
    Regulation, Restriction and Demand: French Vice in the United States and Cuba
    • Presenter: Elisa Camiscioli, Associate Professor of History, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Katie Hemphill, Associate Professor of History, University of Arizona
    Black Feminists on Television in the 1970s
    • Presenter:  Alison Kibler, Professor of American Studies and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Franklin and Marshall College
    • Commentator: Aniko Bodroghkozy, Professor of Media Studies, University of Virginia
    A Noxious Example of Corruption": Irish Labor Sluggers in the Chicago Building Trades, 1896-1925
    • Presenter:  Colin Kohlhaas, Ph.D. candidate in History at Binghamton University
    • Commentator:  David Bates, Assistant Professor of History, Concordia University Chicago.

    An Absolute Whiteness: Jack the Clipper as Radical Racist Counter-Fiction in Late-      Nineteenth-Century America

    • Presenter:  Sean Cosgrove, Ph.D. candidate in History at Cornell University
    • Commentator:  Diane Sommerville, Professor of History, Binghamton University
  • Fall 2019 Workshop
    ‘Dancing on the Glass Ceiling’: A History of the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration
    • Presenter: Kwelina Thompson, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University
    • Commentator: Leigh Ann Wheeler, Professor of History, Binghamton University
     “‘Just the Kind a Man the Uncle Wanted’: Native American Soldiers in the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars” 
    • Presenter: Kerry Roe, Ph.D. candidate, Binghamton University 
    • Commentator: Ryan Hall, Assistant Professor of History and Native American Studies, Colgate University 
    “‘Wise Spending is My Hobby’: The General Federation of Women’s Clubs during World War II”
    • Presenter: Katie Stankiewicz, Ph.D. candidate, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Alison Kibler, Professor of American Studies and Chair ofthe Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Franklin & Marshall College 
  • Spring 2019 Workshop
     “‘The future of the race depends upon the children’: Disability, Reproduction, and Sex Education in Chicago Public Schools”
    • Presenter: Julia Brooke Haager-Devin, Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Professor Mallory Szymanski, Assistant Professor of History, Alfred University
    “Anne Moody: Leaving Mississippi and Writing Coming of Age, 1964-1968”
    • Presenter: Leigh Ann Wheeler, Professor of History, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Deborah Gray White, Board of Governors Professor of History and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University
    “‘We Shall Not Be Moved’: SNCC Veterans Shaping the History They Made”
    • Presenter: Emilye Crosby, Professor of History, SUNY-Geneseo
    • Commentator: Robyn C. Spencer ’90, Associate Professor of History, Lehman College
  • Fall 2018 Workshop
     “‘Like Throwing Away Your Umbrella in a Rainstorm’: The Color-Blind Challenge to Civil Rights, 1989-Present”
    • Presenter: Donald Nieman, Binghamton University Provost and author of Promises to Keep African Americans and the Constitutional Order, 1776 to the Present
    • Commentator: Evan Faulkenbury, Assistant Professor of History, SUNY-Cortland
    “‘The Worst Divorce Case that Ever Happened’: The New York Times Women’s Caucus’ Fight Against Sex Discrimination, 1972-1978”
    • Presenter: Marama Whyte, Visiting Scholar at New York University and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sydney.
    • Commentator: Leigh Ann Wheeler, Professor of History at Binghamton University
    “When Indians Were White, then Not: Denaturalization and the Precarity of Racial Citizenship in Early 20th-Century America”
    • Presenter: John Cheng, Associate Professor of Asian and Asian-American Studies, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Derek Chang, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University 
  • Spring 2018 Workshop
    “Dr. Spock and Donna Reed: Celebrity Recruitment and Respectable Protest in theEarly Anti-Vietnam War Movement.”
    • Presenter: Sarah King, Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Jessie Frazier, Assistant Professor, Marine Affairs, History, and Genderand Women’s Studies, University of Rhode Island
    “‘We believe there is need of caution’: Prescribing Opiates in the Civil War Era”
    • Presenter: Jonathan Jones, Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Gwen Kay, Professor of History, SUNY-Oswego
    ‘Being Well Born’: How Social Hygiene and Sex Education Moved into New York City’s Public Schools, 1900-1920”
    • Presenter: Julia Devin, Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Mario Rios Perez, Assistant Professor in the History of Education,Syracuse University
  • Fall 2017 Workshop
    “The Church Amendment Reconsidered: Lost Ethical Assumptions of the First Federal Health Care Conscience Clause”
    • Presenter: Ronit Stahl, Fellow, Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
    • Commentator: Leigh Ann Wheeler, Professor of History at Binghamton University
    “‘We Didn’t Know We Were Making History’: The UAW Women’s Auxiliaries and the Flint General Motors Sit-Down Strike, 1936 - 1937”
    • Presenter: Tiffany Baugh-Helton
    • Commentator: Randi Storch, Professor and History Department Chair, SUNY Cortland
  • Spring 2017 Workshop
    “’The Flames which they Seek to Extinguish’: Catholics, Human Rights, and U.S. -Guatemalan Relations, 1976-1980”
    • Presenter: Michael Cangemi, Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Timothy A. Byrnes, Charles A. Dana Professor and Chair of Political Science, Colgate University
    “’The Fiercest Energy of the Movement’: Americans’ Gendered Understanding of Nihilism”
    • Presenter: Chelsea Gibson, Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Claudia Verhoeven, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University
    “Countering the ‘Campaign of Slander’: How Suffragists Mobilized Sexual Morality”
    • Presenter: Jessica Derleth, Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Faye Dudden, Charles A. Dana Professor of History Emerita, Colgate University
    “The General Federation of Women’s Clubs Crusade for Morality in the Mass Media during the 1950s and 1960s”
    • Presenter: Katie Stankiewicz, Ph.D. Candidate, Binghamton University
    • Commentator: Whitney Strub, Associate Professor and Director of Women’s andGender Studies, Rutgers University, Newark