2014
Florida
Conference of Historians
54th
Annual Meeting
January
31-February 1, 2014
Renaissance
Resort and Convention Center
St
Augustine, Florida
Hosted
by Jacksonville University
Local
Arrangements Chair
Jesse Hingson
Jacksonville University
Officers
of the
Florida
Conference of Historians
President David Allen Harvey
New
College of Florida
President-Elect Steven MacIsaac
Jacksonville
University
Treasurer Jesse Hingson
Jacksonville
University
Secretary David Proctor
Tallahassee
Community College
FCH
Annals:
The
Journal of the Florida Conference of Historians
Editor--Michael S. Cole, Florida Gulf
Coast University
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Early On Site Registration: 6:00-9:00 PM
Renaissance Hotel
The Bar at Villagio: Lounge Area (next to hotel lobby)
Friday, January 31, 2014
8:00 AM-5:00 PM: Registration
Location: Pre-Convene Area of Convention Center
Session One: Friday, 8:30
AM-10:00 AM
Session 1A: "Florida Reinvented: Shaping and Selling the Image of the Sunshine State"
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Wentworth
Navigating New Worlds: Selling the Shape of Florida
Tiffany Baker, Director, Florida Legislative Research Center,
Florida Historic Capitol Museum
Building Florida's Gateway to the Americas:
Miami's Pan American Business Strategy in the 1930s
Josh Goodman, Tulane University
Modern Traditional: The Invention and Diffusion of Alligator Wrestling in Florida Seminole and Miccosukee Culture
Jonathan Grandage, Archives Historian, State Archives of Florida
Chair/Discussant: Tamara Spike, University of North Georgia
Session 1B: "Intellectual Life and Society in Early Modern Europe"
Meeting Room: Troon
Creating a Holy Community:
The Genevan Consistory and Matrimonial Law, 1546-1557
Jenny Smith, Valdosta State University
The Transformative Process of Research in the Intellectual Work of the Early Modern English Polymath Samuel Hartlib: Sharing of Information across Cultural and Geographical Boundaries, 1630-1660
Timothy E. Miller, Georgia State University
The Renaissance Man:
Humanist Ideas in 14th and 15th Century Educational Treaties
Chase Kelly, Valdosta State University
Chair/Discussant: Blaine T. Browne, Broward College
Session 1C: "The Florida Museums Podcast"
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Legends 1
Chip Ford
Ella Gibson
Katie Kelley
Daniel Velásquez
Chair: Sean McMahon, Florida Gateway College
Discussant: Tracy J. Revels, Wofford College
Session 1D: "Order and Conflict in the Anglo-Atlantic World during the Age of Revolutions"
Meeting Room: "La Privata" (located in the Villagio Italian Grille)
Black and White and Red All Over:
Newspaper Coverage of Violence in Boston and Charleston, 1785-1790
Shannon F. Campbell, University of North Florida
Refugees in the Revolutionary Mediterranean
Joshua Meeks, Florida State University
The Battle of Havana, 1762: Context, Chronicle, and Consequences
Shawn O'Keefe, Florida Southern College
Chair: David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida
Session 1E: "History and Pedagogy, I: Best Practices in
Teaching the Past"
Meeting Room: Masters Boardroom (first floor of Renaissance Hotel)
Can an Intensive Course in the History of the Cold War Significantly Improve Critical Thinking among Undergraduates?
Alex G. Cummins, Flagler College
Best Practices for Incorporating a Panel Discussion in the Classroom
Michael Rogers, State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota
Chair: Douglas Astolfi, Saint Leo University
Discussant: Michael Rogers, State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota
Session Two: Friday, 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Session 2A: "New Approaches to Modern Combat and Soldiering"
Meeting Room: Troon
Civil War Nostalgia
R. Gregory Lande, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
In Harm's Way:
War Reporters and the Combat Experience in the Iraq War
Andrew McLaughlin, University of Waterloo (Canada)
Muslims in the Red Army: Perceptions of the Soviet State
Daniel Bradfield, University of Central Florida
Chair/Discussant: Rowland Brucken, Norwich University
Session 2B: "Revolution and Social Conflict in Modern Latin America"
Meeting Room: Legends 1
Natural Resource Exploitation in the Pilcomayo River Basin:
Impacts on the Formation of Bolivian National Identity
Brent Spencer, Florida Gulf Coast University
Al Paredón: Justice and Armed Struggle in the Cuban Revolution
Anthony Rossodivito, University of North Florida
Perón and the Guerillas:
The ERP's Efforts to Unmask the Fascist Dictator
Steven Scheuler, Valdosta State University
From Indigenous Resistance to Regional Autonomy: Sandinista/Costeño Relations in Revolutionary Nicaragua
John-Paul Wilson, Virginia Union University
Chair/Discussant: Quinn Dauer, Indiana University-Southeast
Session 2C: "Connecting Movements, I: African Links in Twentieth-Century World History"
Meeting Room: Masters Boardroom (first floor of Renaissance Hotel)
Imperializing South Asian Struggles in South Africa and Canada before the First World War
Ian C. Fletcher, Georgia State University
Francophone Africans and the African American Freedom Movement, 1955-1965
Allyson Tadjer, Georgia State University
"Apartheid Goes Better With Coke": The Coke Boycott of the 1980s
Lauren Moran, Georgia State University
Chair: Edmund Abaka, University of Miami
Discussant: Barbara Moss, Georgia Highlands College
Session 2D: "Indigenous Peoples, Imperial Politics, and War in Florida"
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Wentworth
Reconstituting Power in an American Borderland:
Political Change in Colonial East Florida
Nancy O. Gallman, University of California, Davis
Under the King's Protection: A Comparative Analysis of British and Spanish Sovereignty of Amelia Island, East Florida
Diane M. Boucher, Clark University
Kinfolks Diplomacy: General Jesup’s Creek Emissaries in the Second Seminole War
John T. Ellisor, Columbus State University
How the Third Seminole War in Florida (1855-1858) Was Impacted By the Relationship Between the Creeks and Seminoles in Indian Territory
John D. Settle, University of Central Florida
Chair: Michael S. Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
Discussant: Deborah L. Bauer, University of South Florida
Session 2E: "Storytellers and Their Tales:
The Lives of American Novelists in the Early Twentieth Century"
Special Interest Section: Media, Arts, and Culture
Meeting Room: "La Privata" (located in the Villagio Italian Grille)
The Second Life of the Reverend J. Calvitt Clarke: Popular Novelist
J. Calvitt Clarke III, Jacksonville University, emeritus
Ernest Hemingway and His Life in Key West
Anders Greenspan, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Zora Neale Hurston: Studies in Voodoo
Hope L. Black, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg
Chair/Discussant: J. Calvitt Clarke III, Jacksonville University, emeritus
12:00 PM-12:50 PM: Lunch (on your own)
Options Close to the Meeting
Site:
--Italian food buffet available to FCH participants (located within the Villagio Italian Grille Restaurant, $13.00 per person)
--Caddy Shack Restaurant (next door to the Renaissance Hotel)
12:00 PM-12:50 PM: FCH Executive Council Business Meeting
Meeting Room: "La Cortina" (located within the Villagio Italian Grille Restaurant)
Session Three: Friday, 1:00
PM-2:30 PM
Session 3A: "Religious Movements and Material Culture"
Meeting Room: Masters Boardroom (first floor of Renaissance Hotel)
The Thirsty Monk and the Medieval Art of Monastic Beer Brewing
Joshua Mayes, Brevard College
Buddhist Viharas and Monastic Art, with Reference to Buddhism in Sikkim
Sonamla Ethenpa, Sikkim Government College, Burtuk (Sikkim, India)
"David with his Sling and I with my Bow": Michelangelo's David and the Struggle between Hebraism and Hellenism in Renaissance Florence
Katelynn Riesenberg, University of West Florida
Chair: Anna Smith, Jacksonville University
Discussant: Rowena Hernández-Múzquiz, Broward College
Session 3B: "Social Darwinism, Eugenics, and Genocide in the Modern World"
Meeting Room: Troon
The Ley de Residencia: Miguel Cané and the Influence of Scientific Discourse on Argentine Immigration Policy, 1852-1902
Stephen Naylor, University of South Florida
Herbert Spencer and American Eugenics:
Claiming Superiority in the Postbellum Era, 1882-1907
Christopher Harrison, Florida Gulf Coast University
Only the Dead Could Smile:
Stalin's Gulag and Its Evolution as a Tool of State and Genocide
Christopher Fair, University of North Florida
Chair/Discussant: Heather Parker, Saint Leo University
Session 3C: "Transitions in Political Economy since World War II"
Meeting Room: "La Privata" (located in the Villagio Italian Grille)
From the Japanese Occupation to the Communist Liberation:
The Transformation of a Chinese Textile Manufacturer in the 1940s and 1950s
Juanjuan Peng, Georgia Southern University
Public Dams, Private Power:
Nature, Energy, and the Post-World War II US South
Casey P. Cater, Georgia State University
Chair/Discussant: Steven MacIsaac, Jacksonville University
Session 3D: "Preserving and Exploring the Southern Past in Undergraduate History Programs"
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Legends 1
The Romance has been Knocked out of the Prisoner of War Business:
A Short Documentary on Andersonville Prison, 1864-1865
Jennifer L. Eadie, Wesleyan College
"We are in a life and death struggle to survive":
The Methodist Church and the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1961
Dylan Parvin, Florida Southern College
Moving House: The Porterfield Preservation Project at Wesleyan College
Cara Gainey, Wesleyan College
The Lives of America's Greatest Resource:
Student Life at Florida Southern College during World War II
Kenneth Hafner, Florida Southern College
Chair/Discussant: Karen Huber, Wesleyan College
Session 3E: "The Ties That Bind: Women in United States History"
Meeting Room: Wentworth
Spirited Victorian Performances: Emma Hardinge Britten's use of Seances and Trance Lectures in Promulgating Modern Spiritualism
Lisa Ann Howe, Florida International University
Playing With Matches: Nineteenth-Century Mock Weddings
Sarah Jünke, University of South Florida
Florida Women: Forestry and Fire
Leslie Poole, Rollins College
Chair/Discussant: Patricia L. Farless, University of Central Florida
Session Four: Friday, 2:45 PM-4:15 PM
Session 4A: "Florida Dream, Florida Reality:
Themes in Sunshine State Tourism"
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Troon
Cypress Gardens: Promoting Racial Hierarchy in Paradise
Katie Kelley, University of Central Florida
A Castle in the Sky: Perspectives on Florida's Citrus Tower
Chip Ford, University of Central Florida
A Different Dream, A Different Identity: The Florida Dream After Disney
Daniel Velásquez, University of Central Florida
Chair/Discussant: Tracy J. Revels, Wofford College
Session 4B: "History and Pedagogy, II: How Technology, Common Core, and Information Literacy are Changing the History Classroom"
Meeting Room: Legends 1
The Research Paper is Dead: New Strategies to Engage and Teach Undergraduate Students How to Conduct Research
Andrea Vicente, Hillsborough Community College
Common Ground on Common Core: How University Faculty and Undergraduate Students Can Benefit from Online Resources Aligned with the Common Core Standards
Jonathan Grandage, Archives Historian, State Archives of Florida
Comparability: How Traditional History Survey Courses are Improved with Online Components
Monica Hardin, Liberty University
Chair/Discussant: Sarah Franklin, University of North Alabama
Session 4C: "The Long Journey, I: The Civil Rights Movement in Local and National Perspective"
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Wentworth
Jacksonville's Greatest Generation: The Contribution of African American Veterans to the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1960
Bryan Higham, University of North Florida
The Development of the Local Civil rights Movement in
St. Augustine, Florida, 1900-1960
Jay Smith, University of North Florida
Congressman James A. Haley and the American Civil Rights Movement
Jeffrey Zines, Florida Southern College
Harry S. Truman and His Motivations for Civil Rights Reform
Christopher Meinert, Florida Gulf Coast University
Chair: Craig Buettinger, Jacksonville University
Session 4D: "Germany in the American Mind"
Meeting Room: Masters Boardroom (first floor of Renaissance Hotel)
A Review of the History of German Language in Florida
Ghazal Soleimanzadeh, University of Florida
Operation "Perez": The German Attempt to Own American Newspapers in World War I
Heribert von Feilitzsch, Independent Scholar
Chair/Discussant: Nicholas Steneck, Florida Southern College
Session Five: Friday, 4:30
PM-6:00 PM
Session 5A: "Connecting Movements, II: African Links in Twentieth-Century World History"
Meeting Room: Troon
Africa in Cuba/Cuba in Africa: A Trans-Atlantic Relationship in the Crucible of Slavery, Revolution and Decolonization
Edmund Abaka, University of Miami
Developments in Post-Independence United Nations Trust Territories: A Re-appraisal of the Africa Experience
Talla Ngarka Sunday, Taraba State University (Jalingo, Nigeria)
Post-Independence Development of National Cuisines:
A Comparative Study of Belize and Ghana
Brandi Simpson Miller, Georgia State University
Chair/Discussant: Ian C. Fletcher, Georgia State University
Session 5B: "Remembering Florida's Civil War at the Sesquicentennial"
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Masters Boardroom (first floor of Renaissance Hotel)
The Forgotten Minority: Pro-Unionism in Florida's Secession Crisis
Tyler Campbell, University of Central Florida
May the Living Profit: Commemorating the Battle of Olustee
Lindsay Keller, University of Central Florida
A Young Mother's War: Octavia Bryant-Stephens, Family Life, and Death in Northern Florida during the Civil War
James Thomas, Jacksonville University
Chair/Discussant: Daniel Murphree, University of Central Florida
Session 5C: "Challenges of International Dialogue and Cooperation since World War II"
Meeting Room: "La Privata" (located in the Villagio Italian Grille)
Prelude to the Peace Corps:
International Voluntary Service in the 1950s
E. Timothy Smith, Barry University
"Factual Certainty is Desired but Should Not be a Fetish":
The Eisenhower Administration's Aborted 1953 Human Right Offensive at the United Nations
Rowland Brucken, Norwich University
Khrushchev's Thaw: Art, Critical Discourse, and Wilhelm Matevosyan in Soviet-Armenian Art Context
Gohar Vardanyan, Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts (Armenia)/
Fellow at Tufts University
Back to the Future:
The Incomplete Transitions to Democracy in Spain and Portugal
Alicia Mercado Harvey, New College of Florida
Chair: Jessica Howell, Flagler College
Discussant: J. Calvitt Clarke III, Jacksonville University, emeritus
Session 5D: "Art, Literature, and Representations of Empire"
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Legends 1
The Manifest Destiny of Violence:
Knowledge and Power in Moby Dick and Blood Meridian
Thayer Warne, New College of Florida
Frederic Remington: "Our Lovely Man From the North Country"
Deborah Shaw, Flagler University
Artistic Representations of the War on Terror
David Canfield, New College of Florida
Chair/Discussant: Anders Greenspan, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Session 5E: "Florida and the New South:
Culture and Politics since the Nineteenth Century"
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Wentworth
George Franklin Drew: Florida's Yankee Redemption Governor
Seth A. Weitz, Dalton State College
Historic Preservation and New Deal Key West
Matthew G. Hyland, Duquesne University
José Martí Meets Jim Crow: Cubans in the Deep South: Tampa, Florida
Maura Barrios, University of South Florida
Chair/Discussant: Leslee F. Keys, Flagler College
6:30 PM-9:00 PM: Keynote Address and Banquet
Participants and Guests must wear meeting their conference badges to attend the Keynote Address and Banquet
6:30 PM-7:30 PM: Keynote Address
Meeting Room: Legends 1
Introduction of Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University
Dr. Sherry Johnson, Florida International University
"When Good Climates Go Bad:
Climate Change and Opportunities for Florida History"
7:30 PM-9:00 PM: Banquet
Meeting Room: Legends 2 and 3
Welcoming Remarks: Dr. Jesse Hingson, Jacksonville University
Campbell and Clarke Awards Presentation: Dr. David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida, FCH President
Remarks on the FCH Annals: Dr. Michael S. Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University, Editor
Remarks on the 2015 FCH Annual Meeting in Lakeland: Dr. Nicholas Steneck, Florida Southern College
Saturday, February 1, 2014
8:00 AM-5:00 PM: Registration
Location: Pre-Convene Area of Convention Center
8:00 AM-8:30 AM: Media, Arts, and Culture, Plenary Screening
Documentary: "A Civil Rights Roundtable"
Julian Chambliss, Rollins College
Meeting Room: Legends 1
Session Six: Saturday, 8:30
AM-10:00 AM
Session 6A: "Intellectual and Social Movements in the Atlantic World at the Turn of the 20th Century"
Meeting Room: Troon
Sunny or Hurricane Days: A Progressive Era Autopsy
Thomas J. McInerney, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Transatlantic Suffragism: British Perceptions of the American Suffrage Movement Prior to World War I
Kristina Graves, Georgia State University
Reconciling the Individual and the Collective:
Emile Durkheim, Secular Morality, Anthropology, and the Creation of Republican Positivism, 1893-1911
Khali Navarro, University of Central Florida
Filling the Well of Gender Consciousness
Patricia L. Farless, University of Central Florida
Chair/Discussant: Lela Kerley, University of North Florida
Session 6B: "Shipwrecked in the Atlantic World:
Native Americans, Enslaved Africans, and Jonathan Dickinson"
Meeting Room: Legends 2
Indigenous Wrecking in the Late Seventeenth Century:
The Ais' Maritime Adaptation and Jonathan Dickinson
Peter Ferdinando, Florida International University
Jonathan Dickinson's Itinerary from Jobe to Ais
Alan Brech, Independent Scholar
Before God's Protecting Providence:
Rethinking Jonathan Dickinson's Journal through Manuscript
Jason Daniels, Indian River State College
Chair: Daniel Murphree, University of Central Florida
Discussant: Denise Bossy, University of North Florida
Session 6C: "Crucibles of War and US Power since 1898"
Meeting Room: Legends 3
"Jingo" Ministers and Armed Intervention:
Late-Nineteenth Century Political Debates in the Pulpit
Tiffany West, Florida International University
Anti-American Sentiment and the Portuguese Opposition during the Vietnam War
Dario Macieira Mitchell, New College of Florida
The Empire Next Door: US-UK Relations in the US Invasion of Grenada
Christian Lazenby, University of North Florida
Resistance to the Government in Afghanistan's Modern History:
A Case Study
Mohammad Attarabkenar, University of Ferrara (Italy)
Chair/Discussant: Jack McTague, Saint Leo University
Session 6D: "World War I and Its Aftermath"
Meeting Room: Wentworth
Impressions of Care: The Alice-Schwestern, World War I, and
Images of the Red Cross
Kara Smith, Middle Georgia State College
"Native" Status: One Impact of the League of Nations' Mandate System on East Africans
Charlotte Miller, Middle Georgia State College
Spy Games: German Sabotage and Espionage in the United States, 1914-1916
Tracie Provost, Middle Georgia State College
Austrian Choices, 1918-1919: Independence or Anschluss?
Kevin Mason, South Georgia State College
Chair/Discussant: Tracie Provost, Middle Georgia State College
Session 6E: "Based on a True Story: Identities in the Media"
Special Interest Section: Undergraduate Research
Meeting Room: Legends 1
Rocky, Bullwinkle and Soviet Propaganda as
Manifestations of the Cold War
Nicole Sirotaplotnikov, Saint Leo University
Finding Balance: Jidai-geki (period films) and their Influence on Postwar Japanese Identity in the Historical Context of Japan's Long Struggle for Ethnic Definition
Andrew Kustodowicz, Flagler College
Comedy Films as Commentary on American Society
Jacqueline McKeon, Saint Leo University
Expanding Identity: How Two Decades Contributed to Florida's Modern Tourism Industry
Amber DV Atteberry, Flagler College
Chair/Discussant: Brendan Goff, New College of Florida
Session Seven: Saturday, 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Session 7A: "Debates on Labor Systems in the Atlantic World"
Meeting Room: Legends 2
A Capitalist Solution to Slavery? Daniel Lescallier and Colonial Reform in the Last Years of the French Old Regime
David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida
Indentured Servants as "White Slaves": Metaphor or Reality?
Matthew Pursell, University of West Florida
Weapons of Persuasion: Saint-Domingue and Imperial in British Abolitionist Discourse
Antony W. Keane-Dawes, University of South Carolina
Chair: Will Guzmán, Florida A&M University
Discussant: David Allen Harvey, New College of Florida
Session 7B: "Thicker Than the Water Between Us: US-Cuban-Puerto Rican Networks since the Nineteenth Century"
Meeting Room: Legends 3
Annexation, Autonomy, or Independence? The Politics of Cuban Identity in the Émigré Communities of New York and Florida, 1840s-1890s
Evan Matthew Daniel, Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY)
Cigar-Makers and the Business of Empire: Cross-Border Business and Social Networks of Tampa and Havana, 1898-1919
Brendan Goff, New College of Florida
A Panamerican Paradise? Cuban and Puerto Rican Migrants, Musicians, and Ethnic Social Clubs in the Making of Latino/a Miami, 1940-1960
Christina D. Abreu, Georgia Southern University
The Boricua Triangle: Tampa, Miami and Orlando-A Historical Overview of the Development of a Transnational Puerto Rican Diaspora in Florida
Victor Vázquez-Hernández, Miami Dade College
Chair/Discussant: Stephanie Hinnerhitz, Valdosta State University
Session 7C: “Buried, Sunk, and Forgotten: The Saga of East Florida's Loyalists”
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Legends 1
An Archaeological Perspective on East Florida's Loyalist Influx:
The Excavation of a Loyalist Refugee Vessel Lost at St. Augustine on 31 December 1782
Chuck Meide, Lighthouse Archaeological Maritime Program (LAMP)
"Are They to Die in the Wilderness?" The Price of British Liberty in East Florida
Roger Clark Smith, St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum
Leaving the Ancient City: The Loyalist Slave Diaspora from St. Augustine
Jennifer K. Snyder, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg/Florida Humanities Council
Chair/Discussant: James G. Cusick, Curator of the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History at the University of Florida Library
Session 7D: "Gender and Social Change in the United States during the Civil Rights Era"
Meeting Room: Troon
The Men Behind the Golden Era of the Florida Women's Pages:
Jim Bellows, Lee Hills, and Al Neuharth
Kimberly Voss, University of Central Florida
Seeing "The basic similarities which define people as people":
The Desegregation of Agnes Scott College
Charles H. "Trey" Wilson III, University of North Georgia
Re-educating the Movement: Race, Gender, and the Battle for Public Sector Unionism during the 1968 Florida Teacher Strike
Jody Noll, Auburn University
Competing Voices: Political Contests over the EEOC's Sexual Harassment Policy, 1980-81
Sheila Jones, Broward College
Chair/Discussant: Sheila Jones, Broward College
Session 7E: "Florida's Recent Past and Present"
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Wentworth
"A Step to Protect the Public": Violent Crime and Drug Prevalence in Jacksonville, Florida, 1971-2012
Kyle Bridge, University of North Florida
The Slow Road to Abolition: A History of Capital Punishment in Florida, 1972-2010
Travis Bates, University of North Florida
GlobalJax: A Non-Profit Organization, 1990-2013
Altaye A. Alambo, Independent Scholar
Chair: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
Discussant: Seth A. Weitz, Dalton State College
12:00 PM-12:50 PM: Lunch (on your own)
Options Close to the Meeting
Site:
--Mexican food buffet available to FCH participants (located within the Villagio Italian Grille Restaurant, $13.00 per person)
--Caddy Shack Restaurant (next door to the Renaissance Hotel)
12:00 PM-12:50 PM: Media, Arts, and Culture Special Event,
Book Signing
Location: Pre-Convene Area outside of Troon and Wentworth
Coffee and Dessert Available
Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men: Superheroes and the American Experience, Julian Chambliss (Rollins College), William L. Svitavsky (Rollins College), and Thomas C. Donaldson (Edison State College)
Hotel Ponce de Leon: The Architecture and Decoration, Thomas Graham (Flagler College, emeritus) and Leslee F. Keys (Flagler College)
Session Eight: Saturday, 1:00 PM-2:00 PM
Session 8A: "Twentieth-Century American Crime and Punishment"
Meeting Room: Wentworth
"Not a Matter of Racial Conflict":
Homicide in Jim Crow Memphis, 1917-1926
Brandon T. Jett, University of Florida
Soccer Moms, Superpredators, and Symbolic Crusades:
Historical Perspectives on a Modern Moral Panic
Alexander Tepperman, University of Florida
Chair/Discussant: David T. Courtwright, University of North Florida
Session 8B: "Negotiating European Colonialism in the Americas"
Meeting Room: Legends 2
The Mesón of Xalapa: Native Defense of Community Interests in Colonial Mexico
Michael S. Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
European Disease, Timucuan Healing:
Contesting Colonialism through Shamanic Medicine
Tamara Spike, University of North Georgia
Chair: Michael S. Cole, Florida Gulf Coast University
Discussant: Margarita Vargas-Betancourt, University of Florida
Session 8C: "The Long Journey, II: The Civil Rights Movement in Florida"
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Legends 1
"Stay True to Nonviolence":
The Tallahassee Inter-Civic Council's Fight Against Segregation
Darius J. Young, Florida A&M University
The Battle for Justice:
Judge Bryan Simpson and the St. Augustine Uprising, 1963-1964
James M. Denham, Florida Southern College
Chair: John Paul Hill, Warner University
Discussant: Richard Buckelew, Bethune-Cookman University
Session 8D: "Tourism and Imagery in Florida"
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Troon
I Remember: Tourism, Photography, and Iconography in Florida
Liz Murphy Thomas, Florida State College at Jacksonville
Bunny Yeager Exposed: 'The World's Prettiest Photographer' as a Florida Cultural Icon
Cheyenne Oliver, Florida Atlantic University
Chair/Discussant: Kelly Enright, Flagler College
Session Nine: Saturday, 2:15 PM-3:45 PM
Session 9A: "The Transformation of Modern Great Britain"
Meeting Room: Wentworth
The Development of Radical Environmentalism in Great Britain,
1960-2013
Ariel Szaks, University of North Florida
Shifting Identities: The Change in English National Identity in Modern British History
Michael Makosiej, Florida Atlantic University
Chair/Discussant: Blaine T. Browne, Broward College
Session 9B: "Rediscovering the Distant Past through Material Culture and Printed Sources"
Meeting Room: Legends 3
Jarawas of Andaman Islands
A. Meera, Government Arts College, Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu, India)
Role of Iron Technology in Urbanization in India and Nigeria:
A Comparative Analysis
Anshul Bajpai, Yobe State University (Damaturu, Nigeria)
Reception of the Delian League by 5th Century Greek Allies
Andrea Schwab, Florida Atlantic University
Mada'in Saleh: A Model of Pre-Islamic Arab Civilization
Hessa Al-Hathal, Princess Mora Bint Abdul Rahman University
(Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Chair: David Proctor, Tallahassee Community College
Session 9C: "One Hundred Years of Health Care:
From Europe to America"
Meeting Room: Troon
Stuttering Treatments in Europe: A Case Study of Henry Freund, Co-Founder of the Stuttering Foundation of America
Sharon M. DiFino, Jacksonville University
One Hundred Years of Dentistry: How Women Redefined Dentistry: From Therapeutic to Preventive Oral Health
Lanette Merkt, Jacksonville University
An Overview of Hearing Devices and Technology
over the Last 100 Years
Caitlin O’Neill, Jacksonville University
The Lung Block: Epicenter of Crisis in Progressive-Era New York City
Adrienne D. deNoyelles, University of Florida
Chair/Discussant: Sharon M. DiFino, Jacksonville University
Session 9D: "Leading the Sunshine State: Florida Governors during the Early Cold War Years"
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Legends 1
Revisiting the Legacy of Governor LeRoy Collins
Carol S. Weissert, Florida State University
LeRoy Collins and Brown
Michael J. Goodwin, Florida Atlantic University
Cold War Concerns at the 1963 National Governor's Conference in Miami
Michael Epple, Florida Gulf Coast University
His Name Was Dan McCarty
Robert Buccellato, Independent Scholar
Chair/Discussant: Michael Epple, Florida Gulf Coast University
Session 9E: "Religion, Power, and Conflict in the Medieval World"
Meeting Room: Legends 2
Jihad Propaganda during the Career of Imad al-Din Zengi
Nicholas Belotto, Florida Atlantic University
The Cathar Heresy of Languedoc: Lay Spirituality and the Catholic Church of Southern France
Bryan E. Peterson, Flagler College
The Cross, Crescent, and Star:
Triangular Persistence into the 13th and 14th Centuries
Derrick Routier, University of North Florida
Chair/Discussant: Rowena Hernández-Múzquiz, Broward College
Session Ten: Saturday, 4:00
PM-5:30 PM
Session 10A: "Cultures and Communities in the Modern Media Age"
Special Interest Section: Media, Arts, and Culture
Meeting Room: Legends 1
The Role of Broadcast Media in Mobilizing Youth for Political Participation: Historical Underpinnings
Halidu Yahaya, Dokuz Eylul University (Turkey)
"What Can You Expect from a Guy in Charge of Joysticks?"
The Masculine Realm and Video Games in the United States
Anne Ladyem McDivitt, George Mason University
Fairy Tales: A Decline in Violence or a Shift in Presentation?
Rebekkah Link, University of North Florida
Stark Contrasts: Reinventing Iron Man for 21st Century Cinema
Sarah Zaidan, Northeastern University
Chair/Discussant: Julian Chambliss, Rollins College
Session 10B: "The Cross as Rod and Scepter: The Church as Antagonist and Redeemer in Transnational Perspective"
Meeting Room: Legends 2
The Cross and the Sword:
The Catholic Church and the Armed Left in Pinochet’s Chile
Alison J. Bruey, University of North Florida
Crying out in His Name: Redemptive Justice in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Chau Kelly, University of North Florida
Slavery as a Survival Mechanism: The Catholic Church in the Old South
Justin Stuart, University of North Florida
“Deliver Us From Evil”: Religious Responses to Earthquakes in Argentina and Chile during the Long Nineteenth-Century
Quinn Dauer, Indiana University-Southeast
Chair/Discussant: Brandi Denison, University of North Florida
Session 10C: "Race, Gender, and Social Control in the United States South during the Nineteenth Century"
Meeting Room: Troon
An Intersectional Perspective on Rape Trials in Antebellum Florida
Erin Tobin, The Ohio State University
Rudimentary Eugenics in Slavery: Slave Breeding and Medical Experimentation on Black Women
Jessica Bromfield, Florida Atlantic University
"Animal-like and Depraved": Racist Stereotypes, Commercial Sex, and Black Women's Identity in New Orleans, 1825-1917
Porsha Dossie, University of Central Florida
The Enslaved and a Jury Trial in Florida
Chris Day, Florida State University
Chair/Discussant: Heather Parker, Saint Leo University
Session 10D: "An Interactive Exhibit on a Forgotten Community: West Tampa"
Special Interest Section: Florida History
Meeting Room: Legends 3
Melissa Badcock, University of South Florida
Chelsea Watts, University of South Florida
Angela Ruth, University of South Florida
Paul Dunder, University of South Florida
Chair/Discussant: Brendan Goff, New College of Florida
Session 10E: “The Wars Within: War, Politics, and Society during the 1930s and 1940s”
Meeting Room: Wentworth
Kooe Fumimaro and Chiang Kai-shek: Political Duel over Japan's Quest: A New Order in the Far East for An Establishment of Asia for Asia
Kazuo Yagami, Savannah State University
Nazi Persecution of Male Homosexuals in Adolf Hitler's Germany: Section 175
Brian Allan Little, University of North Florida
The Nazi State and Jewish Resistance
Rhonda Cifone, Florida Atlantic University
"No Work, No Eat": The Influence of Race on Prisoner of War Labor within the United States during World War II
Adam S. Rock, University of Central Florida
Chair/Discussant: Nicholas Steneck, Florida Southern College
Special
Thanks To:
Sherri
Jackson, Chair, Division of Social Sciences, Jacksonville University
Jenna
Vallimont and the Staff at the
Renaissance
WGV Resort
Thank
you for coming to the 2014 Florida Conference of Historians!
We
hope to see you again in Lakeland for the 55th annual meeting hosted by Florida
Southern College!
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