Friday Presentations

Colonized History, Colonized Identity

De-Colonizing History: Global Approaches & Interdisciplinary(ness)

Hussain Al-Ismail, University of Birmingham

The Banality of Genocide: A Textual Analysis of Settler Colonialism in Gold Rush California*

Caroline Stasulat, Stanford University
*presentation provided upon request, please contact stasulat@alumni.stanford.edu

Cannibal Identity: It depends on who is telling the story

Lynette Yetter, Reed College

Native and Indigenous Heritages and Histories

The American Conquest of Hawaiian Lands

Angela Turpin, Indiana University South Bend

Indigenous Hawaiians' Perspective on Collections, Collectors, and Collecting

Milannee E. Kamo'ilani St. Hill, North Carolina State University

Blood Quantum and Indigeneity in the U.S.: A Fraught and Complex Relationship

Ashley K. Riley, Dartmouth College

Histories and Identities in War

Unlikely Heroes: The Navajo Code Talkers of World War II

David Griffin Knight, University of Oklahoma

Her Brave Black Soldiers: Black Veterans, Patriotism, and the Soldier-Athlete Archetype

Bryon L. Garner, Union Institute and University

The Rhetoric of Tribal Spokesmanship in Chinua Achebe's There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra

Tobi Oloyede, East Tennessee State University

Local Histories and Heritages

Caring Enough to do the Transformative Work: An Appalachian Ethics of Care in Wilma Dykeman's Far Family

Jill Leroy-Frazier, East Tennessee State University

Scratched Records: Silences in the North Carolina State University Archives

Michele Lynn, North Carolina State University

History's Hidden Landscapes: Gilbert Town Historic District

Lori Townsend, North Carolina State University

History, Heritage, and Identity in Literature and Art

Reframing Institutional Identity: The Women of the Dallas Museum of Art

Jessica Brit Ingle, University of Texas at Dallas

Museums in Pakistan: Constructing a National Identity

Taqdees Mahmood Mela, Dartmouth College

Recasting British Imperial History: The First Anglo-Afghan War in Children's Literature

Supriya Goswami, Georgetown University

Racial and Religious Identities

Legacy of Freedom & Leadership: The Black Church & Malcolm X

David L. Brewer, Mount St. Mary's University

Fred Hampton in 2020: A theoretical examination of critical literacy and beloved community

J.T. Hill, University of Texas at Dallas

Pious Ambitions: A Vermont Woman's Mission South in a Time of Religious Expansion, Slavery, and Regional Divide

Mary C. Tribble, Wake Forest University

Heritage and Identity as Aesthetic Performance

Parading as A Means of Joyfully Choreographing a Future: Úumbal and Second-Lining

Susan Callahan, Reed College

A Meditation On Association Football as Global Aesthetic

Ivan Fernandez, San Diego State University

And Now I'm in this Dream Place: An Analysis of David Lynch's Mulholland Drive through the Lenses of Cultural and Fantasy Ideology

Katelyn May, San Diego State University

How Latinx theater can be a catalyst to update the U.S. culturally diverse narrative and create new models of engagement

Gina Weber, Southern Methodist University