The program for the 2025 Rawley Conference is in the process of releasing new information. Please note that it is still subject to changes. Check back frequently for updates. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Rawley Conference Committee at rawleyunl@gmail.com.
Thursday, November 6, 2025
All panels for this day will be held on the second floor of the Nebraska City Campus Union at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. All panel times are listed in CST.
Check-In (Opens 8:30am, Closes 7:00pm)
Morning Refreshments sponsored by the History Graduate Students Association will be available in the Heritage Room until 10:30am. Free for all conference attendees.
Session One (9:00am-10:20am)
Panel A: Digital Archives and Museums - Regency Suite A
Chair: Dr. Patrick D. Jones, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Akua Agyeiwaa Denkyi-Manieson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Marita Goes Digital"
Thea Lahey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Artifacts for Play and Purpose: The Digitization of the Eloise Kruger Gallery of Miniatures"
Anna Lucken, Western Illinois University, "Labor, Women, and the Battle of Gettysburg: The Lives and Contributions of Elizabeth Throne and Virginia Wade"
Comment: Audience
Panel B: Digital Mapping and Geography - Regency Suite B
Chair: Dr. Sean Trundle, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Md Robiul Alam Roni, University of Nebraska-Omaha, "Mapping Trauma: A Digital Humanities Approach to Documenting Violence and Atrocities against Rohingya Women in Myanmar"
Nicholas Sifford, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Mapping the Colored Past: Free People of Color Families in Early Virginia"
Paul R. Spyhalski, Independent Scholar, "Mapping a World Tour"
Comment: Audience
Session Two (10:30am-11:50am)
Panel A: Ask Us Anything! University Press Publishing - Regency Suite A
Chair: Bridget Barry, University of Nebraska Press
Bridget Barry, University of Nebraska Press
Emily Casillas, University of Nebraska Press
Matthew F. Bokovoy, University of Nebraska Press
Comment: Audience
Panel B: Zotero - Regency Suite B
Workshop sponsored by University of Nebraska-Libraries, hosted by Dr. Erica DeFrain.
Lunch (12:00pm-1:00pm)
Lunch sponsored by the History Graduate Students Association will be available in the Heritage Room. Free for all registered attendees. Please note the Student Lightning Round will be a concurrent event in this room.
Student Lightning Round #1 (12:30pm-1:45pm)
This event is sponsored by Dr. Abe Gibson's HIST 250 Class and will be located in the Heritage Room during lunch.
Chair: Dr. Abe Gibson, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Kailyn Barron
Jack Bonham
Angela Chacon
Nicholas d'Ablaing
Ivy Enquist
Nic Goettemoeller
Anna Maiefski
Dorothea Mason
Jadon Parker
Paisley Steiner
Comment:
Dr. Donna D. Anderson, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Dr. Abe Gibson, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Joshua Bivins, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Session Three (1:00pm-2:20pm)
Panel A: Topic Modeling & Network Visualization - Regency Suite A
Workshop sponsored by University of Nebraska-Libraries, hosted by Dr. Pei-Ying Chen.
Session Four (2:30pm-3:50pm)
Panel A: Student Lightning Round #2 - Regency Suite A
Chair: Andrew Varsanyi, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
James Schmitt, Minnesota State University at Mankato, "Missions on Fire: La Florida, the Indian Slave Trade, and Queen Anne's War"
Joshua Bivins, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Transnational Genocide Memorialization: California, Connecticut and Berlin"
Emily Binder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Becoming White: Lebanese Migrants in Kearney and their Journey to Whiteness"
Kelley B. Clausing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Defending Freedom and Defining Citizenship in the American Confluence"
Brianna Rose DeValk, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Senora Wilkinson: Race, Marriage, and the Politics of Respectability in 20th Century Omaha"
Comment:
Dr. Angel M. Hinzo, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Dr. Jeannette Eileen Jones, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Julian Gillilan, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Panel B: Memory - Regency Suite B
Chair: Dr. Gerald J. Steinacher, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ivan Perez Guerra, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Memory and the Algorithm: Reimagining the Spanish Civil War and Francoism Online"
Olivia Guyodo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Digital Resistance: NGO Efforts to Protect Armenian Cultural Memory in Turkey and Artsakh"
Comment: Audience
Panel C: Data Management for Digital Humanities - Regency Suite C
Workshop sponsored by University of Nebraska-Libraries, hosted by Dr. Scout Calvert.
Please note this workshop will begin at 3:00pm.
Student Reception (4:00pm-5:00pm)
Appetizers sponsored by the History Graduate Students Association will be available in the Heritage Room. Free for all attendees; faculty and staff welcome to join!
Keynote (5:30pm-6:30pm)
This year our Keynote Lecture will be given by Dr. Kalani Craig (University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign), on the topic "Designing for the Future, Informing the Past: digital-methods tool design and pedagogy as history research."
The Keynote Lecture will be held in the Swanson Auditorium. Doors will open at 5:00pm. Lecture begins at 5:30pm.
Dinner (6:30pm-7:30pm)
Dinner sponsored by the History Graduate Students Association will be available in the Heritage Room. Free for all registered attendees.
Friday, November 7, 2025
All panels for this day will be held in the Nebraska City Campus Union at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in downtown Lincoln. All panel times are listed in CST.
Check-In (Opens 8:30am, Closes 7:00pm)
Morning Refreshments sponsored by the History Graduate Students Association will be available in the Heritage Room until 10:30am. Free for all registered attendees.
Session Five (9:00am-10:20am)
Panel A: 19th Century Community and Memory - Regency Suite A
Chair: Dr. Dawne Y. Curry, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Jonathan Laska, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "At the Crossroads of Southern Colorado: Mapping Early Colorado Communities"
Gregory Payne, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Navigating Networks: American Expansion and Policy, 1800-1850"
Will Helmer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Mapping the Birth of a Nation in Nebraska, 1915-1918"
Comment: Audience
Panel B: Politics and Economics - Regency Suite B
Chair: Dr. Alexander Vazansky, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Andrew Varsanyi, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Mobilizing the Middle Border: Alonzo Wardall, Populist Politics, and the Entrepreneurism of Reform"
Colten Skinner, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Selling Community: Advertising Councils and Selling Neoliberalism in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s"
Comment: Audience
Session Six (10:30am-11:50am)
Panel A: Immigration in Nebraska - Regency Suite A
Chair: Dr. Donna D. Anderson, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Emily Binder, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "A Comparative History of Irish and Czech Settlement in Nebraska"
Abbey Dittmer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Mexican Migrant Access to the Works Progress Administration (WPA)"
Brianna Rose DeValk, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Introducing Citizenship Taken: A Digital Reckoning with Archival Silence"
Comment: Audience
Panel B: Digital Project Sustainability and Accessibility: Lessons from the CDRH and the University Libraries - Regency Suite B
Chair: Dr. Andy Jewell, Co-Director, CDRH and Chair of Digital Strategies, UNL Libraries
Dr. Andy Jewell, Co-Director, CDRH and Chair of Digital Strategies, UNL Libraries
Karin Dalziel, Assistant Director of Digital Strategies and CDRH Development Team Leader, UNL Libraries
Erin Kay Chambers, Front End Developer, CRDH/UNL Libraries
Nicole Gray, Programmer, CDRH/UNL Libraries
Comment: Audience
Panel C: Edit the Record: Wikipedia as Digital History and Public Scholarship - Regency Suite C
Workshop sponsored by University of Nebraska-Libraries; hosted by Melissa Gomis.
Lunch (12:00pm-1:00pm)
Lunch sponsored by the History Graduate Students Association will be available in the Heritage Room. Free for all registered attendees.
Session Seven (1:00pm-2:20pm)
Panel A: Technology: From Industry to Classroom and Beyond - Regency Suite A
Chair: Dr. Abe Gibson, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Reese Whitely, University of Florida, "Incorporating AI into Humanities Education: Image Generation and its Uses in the Classroom"
Andrew Varsanyi, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Democratizing Course Reading with the Principles of the Old Internet"
Kassandra Makenthun, Farmer, "Agriculture Meets AI: Conversations about the Impacts of Artificial Intelligence on Farmers in Rural Minnesota"
Comment: Audience
Panel B: DH Grant Writing (Roundtable) - Regency Suite B
Chair: Colten Skinner, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Dr. Carrie Heitman, Global Integrative Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Dr. Katrina Jagodinsky, History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Comment: Audience