Virtual Conference - March 5-7, 2021

Pi Alpha Chapter Executive Board & Faculty Advisors

Sadie Ingram

President

Sadie Ingram is a History major and Anthropology minor at Georgia Southern University. Sadie is a part of the Honors College and the 2020-2021 President of the Pi Alpha chapter of Phi Alpha Theta. Her area of study in history is oppressed peoples in the United States, with a specific focus on Native Americans and African Americans. She is planning on starting her Master of Arts in History in Fall 2021 at Georgia Southern University, with the hopes of pursuing a career with the National Park Service after college.

Michael N. Sullivan

Vice-President

Michael Sullivan is a senior studying history and philosophy. His primary academic interest is the relationship between humans and technology over the course of history. Michael also finds metaphysics, imperialism, and pre-Reformation history to be compelling topics of study.

Rachel Oliver

Secretary

Rachel Oliver is a senior history major with a minor in art history. Her primary interests include humanism in the Italian Renaissance and the French Revolution. She is also the secretary for the Pi Alpha chapter of Phi Alpha Theta for 2020-2021. After graduation in May she plans to move to South Korea to teach English, and is hoping to be hired on full time at an English-speaking academy while there.

Jessica Benitez

Social Media Coordinator

Jessica Benitez is a third-year History major at Georgia Southern University, leaning towards a minor in the Digital Humanities. I haven’t declared a minor yet, but I’m leaning towards Digital Humanities. After graduation, Jessica wants to go into teaching..

Julie de Chantal

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Julie de Chantal is an Assistant Professor of History at Georgia Southern University where she teaches courses on African American History. She is currently working on a book manuscript, entitled Just Ordinary Mothers: Black Women’s Grassroots Organizing in Boston, from the Vote to the Busing Crisis. She is the author of “Before Boston’s Busing Crisis: Operation Exodus, Grassroots Organizing, and Motherhood, 1965-1967,” “‘Extra! Extra!’: Boston Regulates Child Labor in the Streets, 1880-1895,” and “Beyond Combahee: Barbara Smith and Black Feminism.”

Corinna Zeltsman

Faculty Advisor

Dr. Corinna Zeltsman is an assistant professor at Georgia Southern University, where she teaches courses on Latin American and World History and serves as a co-advisor of the Pi Alpha chapter of Phi Alpha Theta. She is the author of the forthcoming book, Ink under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico.