The showcase event is an annual celebration of undergraduate research and achievements. History majors are invited to display their work in a poster exhibit at the end of the academic year. The showcase is also an opportunity to acknowledge those students that have earned special departmental awards and honors.

2024 Showcase

This year, the department is happy to announce our Showcase celebration on:

Tuesday, June 6

3:30 - 5:00 pm

Crater Lake Rooms (EMU 145-146)

Learn about and discuss history major research with accomplished undergraduate students. Celebrate those receiving special recognition. Friends and family invited, all are welcome to attend!

Past Events

Honorees for 2023

Honorees for 2022

Honorees for 2021

Poster Projects

Starla Chambrose—A History of Muscular Dystrophy: The Biosocial Nature of Disease

Tracing the history of muscular dystrophy to draw conclusions about how and what kinds of knowledge about MD are produced as biological fact.

Sydney Duncan—Chicano Art and Representations of the Female Identity

Female artists within the Chicano Movement used the medium of paint to reclaim Chicano Movement iconography and push back against the single-faceted representations of female sexuality in the works of male Chicano Movement artists.

Charlie Early—Women, Labor, and Masculinity in WPA Art, 1935–1943

In what ways was men’s working class labor idealized and iconized in the Works Progress Administration’s art, and why did women workers exist so far outside its margins?

Kilian Jones—The Rushed Creation of the US Counterinsurgency Doctrine in Afghanistan from 2003 to 2005

On the U.S. military’s shift from counterterrorism to counterinsurgency, and the rushed creation of the “Five Pillars” strategy.

Ryan Nguyen—“‘You Mustn’t Consider the Economic Side’”: The American Newspaper Guild and Labor Solidarity

The battling ideologies of journalistic individuality versus traditional labor solidarity in the 1930s.

Olivia Wilkinson—How Drugs Influenced the Musical Landscape of the Early 1960s to the Early 1970s

Changes in popular music reflected the changing perceptions of drug use in America.

Honorees for 2020

Poster Projects

Jason Ashcraft—Criminal Activity and Crime & Punishment in Revolutionary Russia

Research poster exploring the roles that criminal activity and crime and punishments systems played in revolutionary Russia.

Kyley Canion Brewer—Timber & Termination: The Economic Context of Bill 587—Klamath Termination

Presentation on the economic motivations, specifically the pursuit of valuable timberlands, behind the termination of the Klamath Tribe

Hunter Coy—Salmon and the State: A History of Treaty Fishing, Its Complications, and Possible Solutions

Presentation on the history of Native American fishing rights and the conflicts of salmon allocation.

Samuel TenBrook—Salmon, Anglers, and Conservationists: Decreasing Salmon Runs and Their Historical Context

Research poster addressing the current issues and debates surrounding the maintenance of salmon populations while also placing the debate in its proper historical setting.

Alyssa Zemp—Women’s Sports in the 1960s and 1970s: “The Good, the Forgotten, and the Advertised” for Second Wave Feminism Through the Women Sports Magazine

Research poster discussing how the magazine, Women Sports, viewed and envisioned women’s roles in various sporting arenas, as they approached these topics often with the idealized vision of the second-wave feminist movement.