2019 History Summer Scholars

Please join us on Thursday, August 15, 2019 at the University of Delaware’s tenth Annual Undergraduate Research and Service Scholar Celebratory Symposium, which caps off and celebrates this year’s Summer Scholars and Summer Fellows programs. This event marks the culmination of 10 weeks of full-time research by more than 500 student researchers who have worked with faculty mentors and community partners. During the program, these students have been engaged in projects representing disciplines across the University, discovering the challenges and excitement of creating new knowledge and applying that knowledge out in the world.

This summer several History students worked with their History faculty advisors on research projects spanning from History concepts in 7th Century Middle East to sexuality in the twenty-first century. The poster and oral sessions run all day, so please consult the Summer Scholar Symposium program to find the times and location for each student. Congratulations to all our History Summer Scholars and their advisors!

POSTER SESSION III: 12:00 - 1:30PM

History

• Troiana Hicks, English (Unidel) (DSU) - History Woman of the Hour: Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the Black Suffrage Movement. Dr. Rebecca Davis (advisor)
• Dalia Handelman, Health Behavior Science (PAC Scholar) - Oral History Collaboration with the Jewish Historical Society of Delaware. Dr. Roger Horowitz, History/Jewish Studies (advisor)

Oral Session Two:10:00 –11:15 AM

Gender (Room 417)

• Ellie Fleming, Latin American & Iberian Studies (Pattison) - Gender Policy in Argentina. Eve Buckley, Latin American Studies (advisor)
• Julian Harbaugh, Political Science (AHSS) - History Seeing Sex: Negotiating Disability and Sexuality in Sex Education. Dr. Rebecca Davis (advisor)

Oral Session Five: 3:30–4:45 PM

History (Room 222) Moderator: Jennifer Van Horn, History

• Daniel Zang, History (AHSS) - History Concepts of Tribes, States, and Islam in the 7th Century Middle East. Dr. Michael Frassetto (advisor)
• Jack Ausmus, History (AHSS) - History Impacts of the Institution of Slavery on the University of Delaware. Dr. Jennifer Van Horn (advisor)
• Dahlia LaBan, History Education (AHSS) - History Written by the Victors: An Examination of Textbooks and the Struggle for the Public Memory of Reconstruction. Dr. Bruce Bendler (advisor)
• Patrick Graves, History (Pattison) - SS-Totenkopfverbände: Morality in the Midst of Genocide. Dr. Polly Zavadivker, History (advisor)
• Brianna Martinez, International Relations (McNair) - Reflections on Genocide Prevention. Dr. Polly Zavadivker, History/Jewish Studies & Dr. William Meyer, Political Science & International Relations (advisors)

Cultivating Democracy (Room 322)

• Jordan Spencer, History Education (McNair) - Political Involvement in Black Communities. Dr. Kassra Oskooii, Political Science & International Relations (advisor)
• Caleb Owens, Philosophy (AHSS) - E Democracy. Dr. Richard Hanley, Philosophy (advisor)