Special
Thanks
Lambda Pi, UTC’s chapter of Phi Alpha
Theta History Honor Society
12th Annual
Southeastern
Tennessee Regional
Student History
Conference
The advisors of the SETN Regional
Student History Conference:
Dr. Robert Barnett, Lee University
Dr. Lisa Clark Diller, Southern
Adventist University
Dr. Jay Green, Covenant College
Dr. Travis Ricketts, Bryan College
Dr. Kira Robison, UTC
Student presenters and faculty
members of UTC, Covenant College,
Lee University, Southern Adventist
University, and Bryan College
The History Department at UTC
Dr. John C. Swanson, UTC
Dr. Michelle White, UTC
Dr. Shannon Martin, Southern
Adventist University
Dr. William Kuby, UTC
April 14, 2016
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
Session 1
Panel 1
6 - 7:30 pm
Brock 401
CHAIR: Dr. Michael Thompson, UTC
Ember Lundy
UTC
“Women and the French Revolution: Political Agency in the Quest for
Citizenship and Rights”
Elliot Smith
Lee University
“Establishing an Empire: the Reign of Genghis Khan”
James Taylor
Covenant College
“The Hakka Encounter Christianity: Protestant Missions in LateQing China, 1842-1911”
Panel 3
Panel 5
Brock 205
CHAIR: Dr. Mark Peach, Southern Adventist
Megan Walter
Covenant College
“The Southern Lady Goes to College: Wesleyan Female College and
the Fight for Women’s Education in the Antebellum South”
Melissa Darroch
UTC
“Mystery Tabby: An Archaeological Investigation at Cannon’s Point,
GA”
Panel 6
Brock 401
CHAIR: Dr. William Kuby, UTC
Lily Wilder
UTC
“The Complexities of Medicine in the Antebellum South: the Fight for
Control of Black Bodies”
Morgan Crago
Covenant College
“The Growth of Pentacostalism in Guatemala, with Reference to the
Roman Catholic Church, 1940s-1980s”
Marci Corea
Southern Adventist
“What Makes Chocolate Dark? The Hidden World of Child Labor in
the Ivory Coast and Its Role in the Modern Chocolate Industry”
Brock 402
CHAIR: Dr. Jay Green, Covenant College
Jonathan Turner
Covenant College
“John Locke and the Natural Law Discourse”
Robert Austin Kippes
UTC
“Through the Lens of Post-Anarchism: Iran”
Ashley Scheiderer
Lee University
“Pandering Unpopular Foreign Policy: Nixon and the Cambodian
Incursion”
Panel 4
Session 2 8-9:30 pm
Brock 205
CHAIR: Dr. Robert Barnett, Lee University
Rosalba Valera
Southern Adventist
“How Well Did Bolivar Accomplish His Political Goals?”
Timothy James
Covenant College
“The Holston Expulsions: How a Southern Methodist Conference
Went Mad”
Erin Jones
Lee University
“The Real Heroes of the Revolutionary War: A Look at Women and
their Impact”
Panel 2
Reception Brock 301
7:30-8 pm
Panel 7
Brock 402
CHAIR: Dr. Sara Jorgensen, UTC
David Fagot
Covenant College
“Confederate Partisans in East Tennessee and North Georgia: With a
Special Emphasis on John Gatewood”
Rebekah Kelly Reed
UTC
“The Desegregation of Public Schools in Chattanooga, Tennessee”
Caleb McQuistan
Southern Adventist
“Mennonites: Conscientious Objection in the Confederacy”
Brock 403
CHAIR: Dr. Boris Gorshkov, UTC
Alyssa Penpek
UTC
“Sedulius' Paschale Opus”
Taylor Thornburg
Covenant College
“Michelangelo Merisi de Caravaggio: Transformer of the Religious
Image by Secularizing the Sacred in the Italian Counter-Reformation”
Rebecca Davis
Southern Adventist
“Quaker Persecution in the Seventeenth Century”
Panel 8
Brock 403
CHAIR: Dr. Michelle White, UTC
Catherine Agati
Lee University
“Three Kingdoms, Three Husbands and One Head: The Tragic Life of
Mary Queen of Scots”
Sarah Hunt
Southern Adventist
“Women of the Incan Empire: Before and After the Conquest of Peru”
Christina Warner
Covenant College
“The Cult of William Wallace and the Historical Novel: Social
Memory in Jane Porter’s The Scottish Chiefs”