APSU well represented at Ohio Valley History Conference
10/13/2009Several Austin Peay State University professors and students traveled to Eastern Kentucky University the weekend of Oct. 3 to participate in the Ohio Valley History Conference.
The faculty who presented, and their paper topics, include the following:
• George Pesely, professor of history, “Mithridates against Rome: Causes and Pretexts.”
• Kevin P. Tanner, professor of history, “Precedence and the Fifteenth Amendment: Gerrit Smith and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Dispute Over Race and Gender.”
• Richard Gildrie, history professor emeritus, “Liberty, Plunder and Trade: The Golden Age of Piracy as a ‘Borderland Phenomenon.’”
• Minoa Uffelman, associate professor of history, “Dorothy Dix: Shaped By and Shaper of Society.”
• Ellen Kanervo, communication professor emeritus, “All her life she quoted the wisdom of the colored people: African American Influence on Dorothy Dix.”
• Linda Barnes, languages and literature professor, “Dorothy Dix Talks: What it Means to Be a Woman.”
Dewey Browder, chair of the APSU Department of History, commented on a “Society for Military History Panel,” and three Phi Alpha Theta students presented papers. Those students include the following:
• Landon Mason, graduate student, “Athens of the South: The Fall of Nashville.”
• Michael Ramsey, undergraduate, “Highlander Fashion in Late 17th and Early 18th Century: The Physical Manifestation of Cultural Ideals.”
• Julia Dittrich, undergraduate, “Cardinal Richelieu and Louis: An Unconventional Pairing.”
For more information, contact Uffelman at 221-7704 or uffelmanm@apsu.edu. -- Charles Booth
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