Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium
The inaugural Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium (UHRS), sponsored by the Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, provides an opportunity for humanities students to share their research. In 2025, the symposium will feature the 2024–25 cohorts of Undergraduate Glasscock Scholars (UGS) and Undergraduate Researchers in the Humanities (URTH), as well as students from Dr. Sarah McNamara’s Fall 2024 HIST 481 writing seminar. Topics include culture during the US Civil War, environmental humanities, civil rights and social justice in the age of George Floyd, the relationship between land-grant universities and indigenous peoples, labor in late-stage capitalism, and meanings of feminism in the 20th century US. Join us to learn about these students’ research.
Schedule
8:30 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM
Welcome
9:10 AM
Cultures of the US Civil War
Faculty Director: Ira Dworkin
"Legal Culture of the Civil War: Framing of the First Section of the Fourteenth Amendment"
Sungeun (Stella) Chung
"The Impact of Catholic Chaplains on Soldiers in the Civil War"
Mario Martinez
"Photography, Abolition, and the Civil War"
Tatum Sommer
10:10 AM
URTH Salad: Presentations from Across Time & Around the Globe
Faculty Director: Jessica Erin Ray [Herzogenrath]
"Diligis Me?: Deification as Caritas in Greek, Latin, and Syriac Fathers"
Evangelos Chrisanthus
"La La Land!: The Rebirth of Los Angeles from Silent to Sound"
Joshua Gonzalez
"Perceptions of the Freak and Abnormality in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
Autumn Simundson
"Ghosts of Gods: Religious Revision in Scandinavia and Desert Arabia"
Jared Reynolds
11:10 AM
Exploring Environmental Humanities in the Age of Mass Extinction: History, Literature, Arts and Sciences of Climate Change
Faculty Director: Side Emre
"The US Geopolitical Strategy As A Result of a Resource War"
Joseph Dib
11:30 AM
Lunch
12:15 PM
Unintended Pregnancy: Living Narratives from Texas
Faculty Mentor: Marian Eide
12:45 PM
Feminism(s)
Faculty Mentor: Sarah McNamara
Chair: Lillian Goodbread
Commentator: Jack Mull
"Crowns, Controversy, and Change: The Miss America Pageant and the Feminist Rebellion"
Rylan Whitcomb
"Witches and W.I.T.C.H: Trapped in the Puritan Courtrooms"
Sarah Bahnsen
"Mile High Glass Ceiling: Stewardess Activism in the 1960s and 1970"
Ryan Furlow
1:45 PM
AppWorlds: New Human Labor in the Late Capitalism
Faculty Director: Sergio Lemus
"The Changing Landscapes of Labor: Social Media"
MyKaela Johnston
"Platforms, Consent, and Authority: Dating App Culture in University Spaces"
Sidney Uy Tesy
2:30 PM
Civil Rights and Racial Justice in the Age of George Floyd
Faculty Director: Albert Broussard
"Historical Analysis Exploring the Role of African American Female Astronauts in the American Space Industry"
Alexis R. Brasher
2:50 PM
Closing Remarks