History at BGSU

The Undergraduate Research Symposium was held as part of the “Celebration of Excellence in History Scholarship” on Monday, March 26th in Prout Chapel and Williams Hall. The Undergraduate Research Symposium was held in two parts, with the first session comprised of four students presenting original research papers in Prout Chapel, while the second session consisted of Poster Presentations at Williams Hall.

The four students presenting original research papers and their research topics were: Emily Teater, whose paper was titled “Volksgemeinschaft: The Rise of Nazi Ideology”; Nicholas Blaine, whose paper was titled “Cross Border Warriors: Canadian Involvement in the US Civil War”; Derek Reiman, whose paper was titled “Organized Crime in the Soviet Union”; and Rachel Pawlowicz, whose paper was titled “Teaching Atrocity: Discussing Unit 731 in Ohio’s K-12 Schools.”

The four students presenting original posters were: Mark J. Krause, whose poster was titled “A Moderate Communist Revolution”; Robert Fitzgerald, whose poster was titled “Settler Situation and the Struggle for Independence in Kenya and the Gold Coast”; Kallie Durkit, whose poster was titled “First People, Last Citizens: An Analysis of the Path to Native American Citizenship, 1865-1965, and Why It Was Denied for So Long”; and Ariel Jones, whose poster was titled “Pointing Fingers.”

A short question-and-answer session was facilitated by Felix Muniz, a Master’s student in the Graduate Program in Policy History at Bowling Green State University.