Modern U.S. History Workshops

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

• Presenter: Keith Riley, Adjunct Professor of History, Rutgers-Camden
• Commentator: Emily Hobson, Chair, Department of Gender, Race, and Identity (GRI) and Associate Professor of GRI and History, University of Nevada, Reno

'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

1964

• Presenter: Donald Nieman,  Binghamton University Provost and Professor of History.
• Commentator: Kevin  Boyle,  William Smith Mason Professor of American History, Northwestern 
  University.

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The Zoonotic Nature  of Tuberculosis

• Presenter: Daniel Vandersommers, Asst. Prof. of History, University of Dayton.
• Commentator: Fa-ti Fan, Professor of History, Binghamton University.

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“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.

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"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.

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

“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

“‘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 

 “‘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

 “‘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 

“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

“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

“’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