UWL Student History Student Symposium

Thursday, 4 December 2008 432 CWH

3:00 p.m. Helen Watts “Anglo-American Responses to Chinese

Burial Bride Practices”

3:20 p.m. Josh Guidote “U.S. Ethnic Minority Student Enrollment

Trends and Social Activities at Wisconsin

State University, La Crosse, 1965-1975”

3:40 p.m. Melissa Welter “Narratives of Crime Against the Amish of

Western Wisconsin”

4:00 p.m. Travis Cyphers “Beyond the Mountain: A Contextual

Reflection on the Military History of the

32nd Infantry Division at Buna”

4:20 p.m. Alexander Vian “Morgan to Roberts: The Golden Age of

Piracy”

4:40 p.m. Robert Michel “Open Space, Preservation and Memory at

Grandad Bluff”

5:00 p.m. Drew Baillargeon “Wisconsin’s First Nuclear Reactor Sits in

Our Backyard: A History of the La Crosse

Boiling Water Reactor, its Workers, and

the Community”

5:20 p.m. Sarah Hatcher “The Marielitos in Fort Mc Coy, Wisconsin”

5:40 p.m. Elizabeth Dickinsen “Gender, Class, and Consumption