History Majors News
Evan Sparling, '08, was recently awarded a Research Fulbright to Tajikistan. Congratulations, Evan!
Several history majors presented research at the Departmental Common Hour on May 1:
Zachary Adams
His research, "Immigration and the State: Argentine and American Immigration Policies from 1853 to 1924, "
is a comparative study of the roles played by the state in the process of immigration. Zachary discuss both the role of the state in promoting immigration overseas as well as in determining the characteristics of the immigrant experience after arrival in the country of destination. He also explained the role of economic interests in supporting immigration policies that allowed them to profit from immigration, through immigrant industrial and agricultural labor.
Kendall Hoxsey
The topic of her research is Mná na hÉireann: Women of Ireland. This research looked into the Irishwomen nationalists' contributions to Ireland's national struggle against Great Britain from 1900-1916. It focused on two women's nationalist organizations, Inghinidhe na hÉireann and Cumann na mBan and their efforts in the cultural revival of Gaelic and Irish culture and later in their contributions to the 1916 Easter Uprising.
Corey Korinda
At the end of the nineteenth century New Orleans and São Paulo, Brazil were relatively transnational cities that became national through a discourse of racial identity. Ultimately, immigration and abolition drove both cities into national racial politics, yet the two metropolises undertook appreciably different directions under the campaigns. New Orleans was pulled into larger racial affairs as the white Creole population increasingly sought to “Americanize” after the Civil War by adapting the racial binary structure that existed throughout the country. In comparison, São Paul became the focal point of the Brazilian scheme to “whiten” the nation by attracting new white European immigrants to relocate and repopulate the nation; the Brazilian elites considered miscegenation to be a means to advance their developing country. The extent to which these national campaigns actually transformed the New Orleans and São Paulo is secondary in importance to the fact that the two cities adopted a position on race in accordance with their respective national movements.
Evan Sparling ('08) has just won the Southern Conference on Slavic Studies Undergraduate Paper Prize for his paper "Postwar Visions of Subcarpathian Rus':
National Identity and Religious Conflict among Ruthenian Immigrants in
America" that he wrote last semester in Prof. Qualls' Modern Eastern Europe course. Evan will be presenting a shorter version of the paper at an undergraduate research conference at the University of Pittsburg in early April.