2025 History Honors Forum set for April 22

The Purdue Department of History Honors Forum is scheduled for Tuesday, April 22 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in Lawson Computer Science Building room 1142. The annual forum is held every April and represents the culminating event in the undergraduate History Honors Program. This year, 10 undergraduate students will be presenting their original research. The event is free and open to the public.

You can download the event flyer at this link. 

The following students will be giving presentations:

Elijah Ahrens
“Buccaneers and Slavery: Port Royal and Piracy Acting as a Space of Freedom”

Becka Bash
“The Church Committee: How the CIA responded to Congressional Investigation in the Post-Watergate Era”

Jael Brown
“Global Perception and Interpretation of the 1876-1878 Bulgarian Independence Movement”

Jiahui Chen
“Interpreting Hitler: Nazism Perceived by British Union of Fascists, 1932-1939”

Allyson Dinwiddie
“The Role of 12th Century Greek Voices in Legitimizing Norman Sicilian Kingship”

Grace Evanoski
“Natural Life vs. Legal Life: An Examination of Abortion & Perceptions of Life in the Womb in the Nineteenth Century”

Elizabeth Lazar
“Dancing Towards Demise: Working-Class Leisure and Middle-Class Reform in Early 20th Century American Dance Halls”

Michael Strunk
“Cum Terraemotus Essent: Holy Men and the Development of Imperial Earthquake Response”

Johari Tello
“Resistance and Influence: Black Eugenics and Public Health Education in the Early to Mid-20th”

Nah'Shon Williams
“Echoes of Resilience: The Evolution of Soul and R&B as Social Consciousness during the Civil Rights and Black Power Eras”