Special Thanks to:

Florida State University Congress of Graduate

Students

Florida State University History Department

The FSU History Graduate Student Association Presents

Identity, Patriotism, and the Nation-State

6th Annual Southeast Regional Graduate Conference

March 29, 2014

The Center for Global Engagement Florida State University

6th Annual Southeast Regional Graduate Conference

March 29, 2014

9:00 – 9:30 Registration and Coffee

9:30 – 10:30

Session 1A: “Acceptable” Identities Commentator: Dr. Robinson Herrera • “Hussitism and Czech National Identity: Baronial Support of

Hussites in 15th Century Bohemia” Jenny Smith, MA History, Valdosta State University

• “Straining the Melting Pot: Middle East Immigrants, the Progressives, and the Whiteness Prerequisite for Citizenship”

Richard Soash, PhD History, Florida State University • “ ‘I have nothing but my needle to depend on’: Military

Families and the Crimean War, 1850-1860” Jonathan Shipe, PhD History, Florida State University

Session 1B: Understanding Nationalism Commentator: Dr. Jonathan Grant • “War and Rivalry: Political Shock and Bargaining”

Hackyoung Bae, PhD Political Science, Florida State University

• “State, Nation-state, and Patriotism in Islamic Thought” Nicholas Paul Roberts, MA History, Georgetown University

• “The Bear and the Lion: A Clash of Russian and British Diplomacy in Persia”

Christopher Hansford, MA History, Florida State University

10:40 – 11:40

Session 2A: Race and Civic Identity Commentator: • “The State of Illinois: The Politics of Slavery from Statehood

to Constitutional Convention” William Clift, MA History, Florida State University

• “ ‘Us Is Going To Be Free’: How Violence Defined Gender in Southwest Georgia”

Joshua Butler, PhD History, Florida State University • “ ‘Oscar De Priest, Commoner’: The Great Migration and the

Paralytic Origins of the Civil Rights Movement” Michael Brandon, PhD History, University of Florida

Session 2B: Popular Culture for National Causes Commentator: Dr. Pamela Robbins • “Defying Gravity with The Great Dictator: Charlie Chaplin

and American Humor in a World Turned Upside Down” Logan Edwards, PhD History, Florida State University

• “Advancing American Art: Cultural Diplomacy Recalled” Amy Drewel, PhD History, Florida State University

• “Rodney Dangerfield, Ronald Reagan, and the Myth of Revolutionary Capitalism”

John Taylor, PhD English, University of Pittsburgh

11:40 – 12:15 Lunch

Please join us downstairs for sandwiches provided free for participants

Key Note Address: 12:15, Auditorium

“The Slaves’ Gamble for Freedom: Choosing Sides in the War of 1812”

Dr. Gene Alan Smith

1:30 – 2:30

Session 3A: American Religious Identity Commentator: • “Forging and Funding Identity: Indian Missions Supported by

the United States Government in the Early Republic.” Dan Roeber, PhD Religious History, Florida State University

• “ ‘It is Not Wisdom for Us to Go Against the Laws of the Nation’: Mormon Identity, Plural Marriage, and the United States Government”

Joseph Stuart, MA Religious Studies, University of Virginia • “Here in Birmingham: Evangelical Christianity and the

Protecting and Reformulating of Notions of Self and Nation in the Context of the Civil Rights Movement”

Taylor Cade West, PhD History, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Visiting Appointment University of Texas at Austin

Session 3B: Reconstructing National Identities Commentator: • “The Reshaping of Turkish Identity in 20th-Century Anatolia:

Yusuf Akçura's Influence on Turkish Nationalsim” Hakan Gungor, PhD History, Florida State University

• “The Threat of the New England Non-Resistance Society: Women, Pacifism, and a Universal Reformation”

Rebecca Shriver, PhD History, Florida State University • “The Female Citizen: An Oxymoron? Analyzing Women’s

Identities in Newly Democratizing States through the Reproductive Rights Discourse in 1990s Poland”

Anna Ziolkowska Weissman, PhD Political Science, University of Florida

2:40 – 3:40

Session 4A: Promoting National Images Commentator: Dr. Ronald Doel • “Fernando VII and the Bonapartes: A Study in Images”

Ashley Ellington, MA History, Georgia Southern University • “Mary in Mexico: the Making of a National Icon”

Sherri Reinhardt, PhD History, Florida State University • “The Humboldt Forum: Germany’s Most Important Cultural

Project of the 21st Century?” Johanna Wild, PhD Art and Art History, University of New Mexico

Session 4B: Creating the American Identity Commentator: • “ ‘Men dressed in a soldierlike manner’: Continental Army

Uniforms, American Identity, and Manliness during the American Revolution”

Kent Peacock, PhD History, Florida State University • “Conflicted Identities: Patriotism and Merchants during the

War for Independence” Tim Hemmis, PhD History, University of Southern Mississippi

3:50 – 4:50

Session 5A: Domestic Identity in Literature Commentator: • “Immanence and Inauthenticity: The Poetics of Lorde and de

Beauvoir” Briona James, MA English , Georgia Southern University

• “ ‘Little Boxes Made of Ticky-Tacky’: Suburban Formation and Identity in ‘The Swimmer’ and Appointment in Samera

Matthew C. Wells, PhD English, University of Alabama • “Redefining Domesticity: Betty MacDonald’s One Woman

Revolution” Samantha Hoekstra, PhD History, Florida State University

Session 5B: The Language of Nationalism Commentator: • “What the Schools Should Teach:’ Citizenship and the

Curriculum during Wartime in the United States During the Twentieth Century.”

Kellie Gerbers, PhD Education Leadership and Policy Studies, Florida State University

• “Media and Language Activism in a Transatlantic Counterpublic’: The Case of Pulaar Language Activism”

John Hames, PhD Anthropology, University of Florida • “ ‘Then Came the Witch Hunt’: Media Discourse and the

Alterity of Domestic Terrorism Lindsay Oden, MA History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Notes