First Annual Undergraduate Conference

Five students presented papers at the first annual Undergraduate conference. The authors and their papers:

• Lisa Carter, Demonized and Demoralized: The Loyalists of the American Revolution.
• Gary Cirelli, Grozny: Ivan IV and Novgorod.
• Sheena Conklin, Injustice during World War II.
• Marci Dixon, John Kennedy and Civil Rights: Does He Deserve the Credit and Is He the Only President who Deserves the Credit?
• Devin Nuhfer, Virginia’s Shadow: Mosby’s Confederacy and the Effects of Partisan Warfare.

Two graduate students in the Master of Arts–Social Sciences program served as commentators: Michael Frawley and Tanya Teglo. Presiding at the session was Dr. Ihor Bemko, Associate Professor, History.

After the presentations, faculty members, Drs. Jerra Jenrette, Xin Chen, Martha Donkor, and Bemko caucused with the commentators to evaluate the presentations. Gary Cirelli's Grozny: Ivan IV and Novgorod. was the consensus choice.

Please see a collection of pictures:

• The presenters in action as well as members of the audience in Wiley Hall.
• Presenters happy to have completed their task.
• Gary Cirelli.

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