Graduate Student Conference Presentations

2009-2010 Conference Presentations

• Mimi Cowan, “John Finerty: An Irish-American in Mexico,” Society for Irish Latin American Studies Conference, Morelia, Mexico, July 2009.

• Mimi Cowan,  “Margaret Sullivan: Writer, Republican...and Radical?” Irish Women’s Conference, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, June 2009.  

• Mimi Cowan,  “The Construction and Destruction of a Radical Identity: Clan na Gael and Anarchism in 19th Century Chicago,” American Conference for Irish Studies, Galway, June 2009. 

• Hidetaka Hirota, “Across the Atlantic Once Again: Forced Migration of the Poor from the United States to Ireland and Britain,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Diego, California, January 10, 2010.

• Hidetaka Hirota, “Pauper Extradition and Slave Rendition: The Double Standard of Civil Liberties in Antebellum Massachusetts,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November 6, 2009.

• Hidetaka Hirota, “An Intersection of Irish and Chinese Immigrant Experiences: American Immigration Policy, 1848-1892,” Fourth World Congress of the International American Studies Association, Beijing, China, September 19, 2009. 

• Jeffrey Malanson, “‘Intervention for Non-Intervention’: Yucatan, Hungary, and American Principles, 1848-1852,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Springfield, Illinois, July 2009.

• Jeffrey Malanson, “‘Doctrines which may be unsound’: Intervention, Popular Enthusiasm, and Louis Kossuth’s Visit to the United States, 1851-2,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Falls Church, Virginia, June 2009.
  

2008-2009 Conference Presentations 

• Rachel Ball, “Bombay Divided: New Perspectives on Partition and Urban Change,” Texas Asia Conference, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, October 2008.

• Mimi Cowan, “ ‘A Fiery Cross Blazed Forth’: The K.K.K. in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1924,” The New England Historical Association, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, October 25, 2008.

• Ian Delahanty, “ ‘…So nearly white’: Stephen A. Swails and Black Officers in the 54th Massachusetts,” The New England Historical Association, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, October 25, 2008.

• Meaghan Dwyer, “Interethnic Connections: Abraham Shuman, John Boyle O’Reilly, and Boston’s Immigrant Elite,” “History Without Boundaries,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, March 2009. 

• Jeffery Dyer, "“Desert Saints or Lions Without Teeth?: British Portrayals of Bedouin Masculinity in the 19th Century Arabian Peninsula,” Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. November 24, 2008. 

• Regan Eby, “Personal Names and Identity in Eleventh-Century Brittany” at the 27th Annual conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., November 7-9, 2008. 

• Hidetaka Hirota, “Forced Labor and Irish Involuntary Migration in the Shadow of American Slave Emancipation,” International Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, Centre for Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, June 2009.

• Hidetaka Hirota, “Resisting Cosmopolitanism: Another Look at Nineteenth-Century Boston as a Port City,” Nordic Association for American Studies, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2009.

• Hidetaka Hirota, “Aliens, Deportation, and Citizenship before the Age of Federal Immigration Restriction,” Harvard Migration and Immigration Incorporation Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 7, 2009.

• Hidetaka Hirota, “Countering Nativism: Irish Immigrants’ Fight with the Threat of Deportation in Massachusetts, 1840-1860,” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Seattle, Washington, March, 2009.

• Hidetaka Hirota, "Send Them Back to Liverpool: The Irish ‘Round-Trip’ Migration in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World,” The Northeast Conference on British Studies, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, November 15, 2008.

• Hidetaka Hirota, “‘Middling’ People: The Social Profile of the Boston Irish and the Meaning of College Education in the Early Twentieth Century,” The New England Historical Association, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, October 25, 2008.

• Hidetaka Hirota, "Nativism, Citizenship, and the Deportation of Paupers in Massachusetts, 1848-1877," Brown Bag Lunch Presentation, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, October 15, 2008.

• Hidetaka Hirota, “‘Purge the State’: Poverty, Citizenship, and the Deportation of Irish Americans in Antebellum Massachusetts,” Graduate Students in American Studies Programs, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, July 19, 2008.

• Bethany Jay, “Creating a More Inclusive History: The National Park Service, The National Trust for Historic Preservation, and American Slavery,” The New England Historical Association, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, October 25, 2008. 

• Jeffrey Malanson, “‘Washington or Kossuth?’: Washington’s Farewell Address and American Principles of Foreign Policy in the Popular Mind, 1851-2,” Conference of the New England Historical Association, Portland, Maine, April 2009.

• Jeffrey Malanson, “John Quincy Adams, the Principles of American Foreign Policy, and the Mexican-American War,” Conference of the New England Historical Association, Beverly, Massachusetts, October 2008.

• Jeffrey Malanson, “John Quincy Adams and the Unrealized Turning Point in the Principles of American Foreign Policy,” Mid-America Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri, September 2008.

• Jeffrey Malanson, “Addressing America: Washington’s Farewell and the Making of National Culture, Politics, and Diplomacy, 1796-1850,” Brown Bag Lunch Presentation, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, September 2008. 

• Darren McDonald, “ ‘The Manifest Purpose of Providence’: George Bancroft, Religion, and the Mexican-American War,” The New England Historical Association, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, October 25, 2008.  

• Gráinne McEvoy, "‘Britain’s Last Colony’: Postcolonial Rhetoric and the Irish-American Movement for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland, 1967-1972," The Northeast Conference on British Studies, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, November 15, 2008.

• Gráinne McEvoy, “John Mitchel and The Citizen: Mid-Nineteenth Century Irish Immigration and American Citizenship,” The New England Historical Association, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, October 25, 2008.   

• Seth Meehan, Boston College, “From Patriotism to Pluralism: How Catholics Initiated the Repeal of Birth Control Restrictions in Massachusetts,” The New England Historical Association, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, October 25, 2008.   

• Megan Myers, "The World is Watching: The Media as the Connection between the Local and the International in the Northern Ireland Conflicts, 1969-1998;" The Northeast Conference on British Studies, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, November 15, 2008.  

• John Spiers, “Ameliorating ‘An Accidental Circumstance’: Public Poor Relief in Boston, 1865-1880,” Fourth Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association, University of Houston, November 5-8, 2008.

• Bethany Tanis, "Protestant Paranoia and Catholic Conspiracy: Protestant Perspectives on the Second Anglo-Boer War," The Northeast Conference on British Studies, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, November 15, 2008. 

• Clayton Trutor, “‘Man Efficiency’: The YMCA and Muscular Christianity in Rural New England, 1880-1920,” The New England Historical Association, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, October 25, 2008.  

• Greg Walsh, “‘We Want Men, Not Money’: Military Service in Revolutionary Essex County, New Jersey,” The New England Historical Association, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, October 25, 2008. 
  

2007-2008 Conference Presentations

• Laura Baines, "Under the Eyes of God: Religion, Southerners and the Civil War," Engendering War, Peace and Justice Conference, Georgian Court University in Lakewood, NJ, October 2007.

• Laura Baines, “Drinking, Dancing, and Dueling: Confessional Lutherans in the Evangelical American South,” Biennial Boston College Conference on the History of Religion (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, March 14-15, 2008).

• Llana Barber, “White Flight or White Fight?: Resistance to Latino Migration in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1950-2000” presented at Marquette University’s Who Claims the City?: Thinking Race, Class, and Urban Space conference (May, 2008).

• Llana Barber, “New England Barrio: The Transition to a Latino Majority in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1950-2000” presented at Stonehill College’s State of New England: People, Politics, and Policies conference (March, 2008).

• Llana Barber, “Immigration and Twentieth-Century U.S. Cities” circulated and discussed at Harvard University’s Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop (October, 2007).

• Casey Beaumier, "To Rescue and Restore: Abandonment, Murder, and the Lay Leadership that Saved the Shrine of Saint Joseph," Annual meeing of the American Catholic Historical Association in Washington, D.C., January 2008.

• Jill Bender, “Sir George Grey and the 1857 Indian Rebellion: the unmaking and making of an imperial career.” Presented at Mutiny at the Margins: new perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2007.

• Kathryn Black, "Art Bowed to Patriotism: The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Nationalistic Elite," Social Science History Association's annual conference in Chicago on November 16, 2007.

• Aniruddha Bose, "Two Mutinies: Discipline in the English East India Company Army," Fifth Annual South Asia Graduate Student Conference "New Perspectives in South Asian Research," The University of Chicago, April 11-12, 2008.

• David D. Crane, “Trading Spaces: The Translation of Saints and the Acquisition of Power in the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman Town,” International Medieval Congress 2007, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, July 2007.

• Meaghan Dwyer, “A City Evolving: The Impact of the Irish and Jews in Boston,” panel discussion at Bloomsday Boston, first annual festival sponsored by the New Center for Arts and Culture, held at Boston College, June 2007.

• Meaghan Dwyer, “Julia Harrington Duff and Ethnic Power Struggles for Control of Boston’s Schools,” American Conference for Irish Studies Annual General Meeting, City University of New York, April 2007.

• Hidetaka Hirota, “Anti-Foreign Pauperism and Irish ‘Exclusion’ in Massachusetts in the Age of the Civil War,” Annual Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa, April 17, 2008.

• Hidetaka Hirota, “‘The echoes of Faneuil Hall were silent’: Boundaries of Irish Paupers’ Civil Liberty in Know-Nothing Boston,” Graduate Student Conference “Liberty and Freedom during the Civil War Era,” The George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, February 9, 2008.

• Austin Mason, "Buried Buckets: Ritual Behavior Before England's Conversion," Annual meeting of the Charles Homer Haskins Society, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., November 2–4, 2007.

• Darren McDonald, "Providence and Ambition: James Polk, the Second Great Awakening, and the Mexican-American War" at the Fourth Annual Loyola University Chicago History Graduate Student Conference, April 2008.

• Megan Myers, “An Old Conflict in a New Europe: European Language and Laws in the Conflict in Northern Ireland, 1973-1998,” paper presented at The Parish and the Universe NEACIS Meeting 2007, University of Massachusetts Boston, November 10, 2007.

• Robert Niebuhr, "A Struggle for the Hearts and Minds: Ideology and Yugoslavia’s
  Third Way to Paradise," Rocky Mountain European Scholars Consortium
  Fourth Annual Conference (Tempe, Arizona, Arizona State University, 19-20 October
  2007).

• Robert Niebuhr, “Nonalignment as Yugoslavia’s Answer to Bloc Politics,” New England Historical Association’s Spring Conference (Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 26 April, 2008).

• Robert Niebuhr, "Research Methods from an American Perspective," Universidad Catolica Boliviana (Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 4 June 2008).

• Sarah Nytroe, “Consuming the Past: Souvenirs of Mormon and Lutheran Historical Commemorations,” Annual Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Association, Philadelphia, PA: November 2007.

• Carrie Schultz, “'Born of Water and the Spirit’”: American Catholics and Infant Baptism, 1920-1960,” Biennial Boston College Conference on the History of Religion (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, March 14-15, 2008).

• Clayton Trutor, "Pitching From the Shoulders Up: Spitball Pitching in the Negro Leagues," Society of American Baseball Researchers-Boston Opening Day Meeting on March 26, 2008.

• Greg Walsh, "Gender and Justice:  Women and Crimes Against Revolutionary Allegiance in Essex County, New Jersey," Engendering War, Peace, and Justice Conference at Georgian Court University in Lakewood NJ, fall 2007.  

2006-2007 Conference Presentations

• Rachel Ball, "Ladies in Red: Women, Communism, and Labor Unions in Early Twentieth Century Bombay," Eighth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History Conference, March 2007. 

• Rachel Ball, “Ladies in Red: Women, Communism and Labor Unions in Early Twentieth Century Bombay,” Eighth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, March 2007.

• Rachel Ball, “Cyclical Memory: The Shaping of Memory and Identity through the ‘Saffronization’ of Textbooks in India,” Transgressing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Dialogues, 19th Annual Stony Brook University Graduate English Conference, New York City, New York, February 2007. 

• Brooke Barbier, “We Meet for the Improvement of the Mind and Not for Amusement’: The Boston Gleaning Circle and the Gendering of the Early Nineteenth Century Public Sphere," New England Historical Association (NEHA) conference, October 2006.

• Casey Beaumier, S.J., "Changing Visions: Campion Jesuit High School, 1965-1975," American Catholic Historical Association Meeting in Milwaukee, WI, March 2007.

• Amanda Bidnall, “West Indian Cultural Politics and the BBC, 1945-65: The Case of Edric O’Connor,” Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference, September 2006.

• Kathryn Black, "Art Bowed to Patriotism: The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Nationalistic Elite," The Warren I. Susman Graduate Conference at Rutgers University on March 31, 2007.

• Aniruddha Bose, "Spice Girls: Cooking in Antebellum Boston," Eighth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History Conference, March 2007.

• Mimi Cowan, “Erin go Kill: The Nativist Response to The Murder of Dr. Cronin,” American Conference for Irish Studies (New England Region), October 2006.

• Mimi Cowan, "John Finerty: 'Representative Irishman, True American, Consistent Patriot,'" American Conference for Irish Studies, New York, April 2007.

• David D. Crane, "London Calling - Foreign Residents and Foreign Influence in Late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman London," The 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 4-7, 2006.

• Hidetaka Hirota, “The Search for ‘White’ Order: Irish Workers’ Assertion of Whiteness in Mid-19th Century New York City,” American Conference for Irish Studies (New England Region), October 2006.

• Hidetaka Hirota, “‘An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure’: The Removal of Foreign Paupers and anti-Irish Nativism in Massachusetts, 1848-1863,” The New England Historical Association, Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester, New Hampshire, May 5, 2007. 

• Ely Janis, "The Irish Ladies Land League in the United States: Gender, Class, and Ethnic Nationalism in the Gilded Age," Eighth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History Conference, March 2007.

• Ely Janis, "'I Asks Ye Fur a Tator, and Ye Gives Me an Agitator:' Charles Stewart Parnell's 1880 Mission to America." The Irish in the Atlantic World Seminar, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, February 2007.

• Eric LaForest, "Karl Kraus and the Veil of the Satirist: Catholic Modernism in Fin-de-siècle Vienna," American Catholic Historical Association Meeting in Milwaukee, WI, March 2007.

•  Eric LaForest, "Memory of Memory: Amos Oz and 1948," 6th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Religious Studies at Florida State University, March 23-25, 2007.

• Bethany Jay, "The Interpretation of History at Three Historic House Museums," Tennessee Conference of Historians, September 2006.

• Robert Niebuhr, “Yugoslavia: The Final Showdown,” 31st Annual Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 2006.

• Sarah Nytroe, “Pentecost at Azusa Street, 1906-1908: Re-Constructing Religious Memory,” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, October 2006.

• Bethany Tanis, "An Old Religion for a New Britain: Catholicism and Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle Britain," American Catholic Historical Association Meeting in Milwaukee, WI, March 2007.

2005-2006 Conference Presentations

• Llana Barber, "Black Feminist Praxis in the Age of Black Power: The Ella Ellison Support Committee, Boston 1974-1978" (April 1, 2006) at "Race, Roots, and
  Resistance: Revisiting the Legacies of Black Power," hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

• David D. Crane, "Confiscation and Competition - the struggle to control urban markets in post-conquest England," The 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 5-8, 2005.

• Meaghan Dwyer, “Ethnic Patriotism: Strategies of Identity Formation in Boston's Irish and Jewish Communities, 1898-1929,” lecture sponsored by the City University of New York Institute of Irish American Studies, November 2005.

• Ely Janis, “‘A New Revolution Which Cannot Be Confined Between the Coasts of Ireland:’ The Irish-American Working-Class, Transatlantic Reform, and the Irish National Land League in the United States." The Construction of Irish-American, Identity, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, June 2006.

• Ely Janis, “Ellen Ford: Portrait of an Irish-American Radical.” Annual General Conference of the American Conference of Irish Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, April 2006.

• Ely Janis, “A League of their Own: Irish-American Women, Nationalism, and the Ladies’ Land League.” Presented in the panel “The Other Irish Politics: Irish-American Women and American Reform Movements, 1880-1920,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, January 2006. 

• Ely Janis, “‘Petticoat Revolutionaries:’ Gender, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Irish Ladies’ Land League in the United States.” Western Regional Conference of the American Conference for Irish Studies, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, October 15, 2005.

• Megan Myers, "Irish Nationalism on Tour: The Rise and Fall of Women Speaking for the Republic," at the ACIS-West Conference, Fall 2005.

•  Sarah Nytroe, “Pentecost at Azusa Street, 1906-1908: Re-Constructing Religious Memory,” New England Historical Association, Spring Meeting. Bridgewater, MA: April 2006.

• Carrie Schultz, “Let the Little Children Come to Me: American Catholic Children’s Religious Education, 1920-1965,” American Catholic Historical Association, College of the Holy Cross, April 2006.

• Carrie Schultz, “'Forming the Soul of the Child Unto God': The Role of the Family and the Church in American Catholic Children's Moral Development, 1920-1965,” History of Religion Conference, Boston College, March 2006.

• Bethany Tanis, “Never Trust a Clergyman in Black: The Long Life of British Anti-Catholicism,” Boston College Conference on the History of Religion, March 2006.

• Bethany Tanis, “The Persistence of British Religion: Fin-de-Siècle Anti-Catholicism,” New England Historical Association (NEHA) Conference,April 2006.