RSS 1.0Master's Level Graduate Research Conference
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Challenging the Cognitive and Physical Reserve of Aging Adults Through the Development of a Central New York Aging Readiness Plan
(2013-04-20)This presentation investigates the unprecedented number of older adults, namely the Baby Boomer generation, who are entering retirement. The need for aging ready communities is omnipresent. Seniors' desire to age in place ... -
Relationship Between Self-determination Factors and Korean International Students' Lives and Mental Health
(2013-04-20)This study aims to understand the intersection of the Korean culture and the life of Korean international students in the United States. International students are generally considered voluntary immigrants who chose to ... -
Acculturative Stress, Perceived Social Support and Depression Among Chinese International Students
(2013-04-20)The experience of coming to the United States to pursue academic degree can be exciting for international students, who are often striving to fulfill personal, familial, and career goals. However, it is also challenging, ... -
The Zambian Classroom Culture: the Effects of a Lack of Resources
(2013-04-20)This presentation addresses the results of an experience at a Professional Development School in Lusaka, Zambia, Africa. This experience offers an opportunity to recognize the importance of reflecting on classroom cultures ... -
Real First World Problems: How Less from Rwanda Can Improve 'First World' America
(2013-04-20)There is a legacy of cultural dominance between the developed world and the developing world. For generations, the west has been looked to as the pinnacle of progress in technology, health, and justice. To this day, many ... -
A Value-Added Analysis of the 1863 New York City Draft Riots Using Neil Smeler's Model of Collective Behavior
(2013-04-20)This paper examines the New York City Draft Riots of 1863 using Neil Smelser's Model of Collective Behavior. Neil J. Smelser’s (1962) model of collective behavior is a general theory of emerging social behavior that has ... -
Constructs of Masculinity in Late-Nineteenth- and Late-Twentieth Century America
(2013-04-20)This presentation will examine how muscular Christianity served as a catalyst in forging new constructs of masculinity, following a perceived crisis in late-nineteenth- and late-twentieth-century America. During these ... -
19th Century Mormon American Identity
(2013-04-20)This presentation examines the ways in which the genesis and spread of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints during the nineteenth century both resonated and grated against an emerging American national identity. ... -
Romanticism and Ruralism: Changing 19th-Century American Perceptions of the Natural World
(2013-04-20)This is a digital public history research initiative that examines the correlation between European Romantic art and literature and 19th century American culture, particularly in regards to perspectives the natural world, ... -
A Closer Look at the Relationship Between Deep Learning and Overall School Satisfaction
(2013-04-20)This poster explores the relationship between deep learning and overall school satisfaction at a mid-sized, public, four-year college. The results of The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) are analyzed specific ... -
Captain America Comics as Historically Grounded Cultural Criticism
(2013-04-20)After Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created him in 1941, Captain America served the writers and editors of Timely, then Atlas, and finally Marvel comics as a means to comment upon and critique American culture. In the 1950s, ... -
Harbouring Harlots: The Role of the Magdalen and Misericordia Hospitals in Preserving Britain’s Empire
(2013-04-20)This presentation examines how elites viewed prostitutes in eighteenth-century London. Much of the existing scholarship pertains particularly to the policing of London’s sex trade industry or lack thereof. However, there ... -
"Some Unnatural Monster?": The Crime of Infanticide in Antebellum New York City, a Case Study
(2013-04-20)“‘Some Unnatural Monster?’: The Crime of Infanticide in Antebellum New York City, a Case Study,” is a micro-history of the case of Barbara Weidemeyer, a widowed mother indicted and prosecuted for the crime of infanticide ... -
Captain Joseph Deverell and the 108th NYV Infantry
(2013-04-20)This presentation examines the unpublished documents of Captain Joseph Deverell, 108th New York Volunteer Infantry, as a case study of the Northern experience during the Civil War. Specifically, Captain Deverell’s records ... -
A Woman's Place is in Her Union: Gender, Race, and the Creation of the UAW's Women's Bureau
(2013-04-20)This paper investigates the intersection of race and gender among labor union leadership near the end of World War II. Other historians have thoroughly demonstrated that most unions were concerned exclusively with the ... -
Intercolonial Migration: The Coming of the Revolution in New Hampshire and Massachusetts
(2013-04-20)This presentation explores the origins of the American Revolution in New Hampshire. Specifically, it seeks to explain how a colony that had calmly weathered the 1760s, when the first rounds of British taxation had inflamed ... -
"For Liberty and Constitution": William Smith of New York's Alternative to the American Revolution
(2013-04-20)My current research interests include the intellectual and political history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, focusing primarily on issues of loyalism during the era of the American Revolution. With a considerable ... -
Faith, Not Color
(2013-04-20)“Faith, Not Color,” explores the published historical literature surrounding African Americans and Christianity between 1900 and 1921. This paper examines articles from three different types of journals: those with a ... -
Water as Death and Life: Traces of the Atlantic Slave Trade in Funerary and Baptismal Rites
(2013-04-20)The cultural practices of birth and death are part of the basic fabric of a society. There is no discussion of death and the afterlife without a complementary discussion of life and birth, both physical and spiritual. These ... -
“Motherland of Marxism is Germany; Motherland of Leninism is Russia; Motherland of Marxism-Leninism in Our Era is Korea”: The Black Panther Party’s Fascination with North Korea
(2013-04-20)The Black Panther Party (BPP) while focused on the domestic problems in the United States also sought relationships with other “nations” oppressed by American Imperialism. Thus, the BPP established relationships with the ...
