WHA 2024 Potential Panel Spreadsheet

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1	Inspired by the Western Association of Women Historians' excellent conference spreadsheet, this spreadsheet is here to help connect potential panelists for submissions to the Western Historical Association's 2024 Conference in Kansas City (held concurrently with the Southern Historical Association Conference). Please add your own panel and presentation ideas below, and reach out to others whose topics might fit with yours. Please be careful not to delete other entries. Find the call for papers here: https://www.westernhistory.org/2024 Submission deadline is December 5, 2023.
2	Name	Paper Topic/Title	Time Period	Possible Panel Topics	Session Type (panel, roundtable, etc)	Institution (if relevant)	Author position/title	Email Address	Social media handle (if relevant)	Other Notes, Ideas, or Updates

3	Abigail Scott		18th-19th century	Fur Trade, Native Americans in Europe (France), Indigenous Sovereignty, Francophone history/culture in the trans-Mississippi West, empire, U.S. Diplomacy	Any	University of Kansas	Ph.D. Student	abi.scott@ku.edu	X: ags7364; Insta: gwess_who
4	Crystal Brandenburgh		1920-1950	Women's history, peace activism, suffrage, US foreign policy, post-WWI politics, world government, women's global citizenship	Panel	Carnegie Mellon University	Ph.D. Student	cbranden@andrew.cmu.edu
5	Dale Mize	“Colorful Colorado: ‘Out Front’ and Queering News about the AIDS Crisis”	1980s	Queer Press/newspapers, Local (Colorado) Queer History, HIV/AIDS	Panel	University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign	Ph.D. Student	dmize2@illinois.edu	X: @Mrdalemize
6	Shine Trabucco	topics 1) Preservation becoming dispossesion and creating rescilency 2) Activism in Texas/the west 3) Creating and developing space in Higher Ed or like Higher Ed as contested grounds	19th 20th & current	Digital History/Humanities, Placemaking/Belonging, Borderlands, Urban History, Envir. History, Built environment, Indigeneiety, Preservation, Texas History, Cemeteries, Urban Development, CRT and living in Texas, creating oppurtunties for students in higher ed	Panel, roundtable,	University of Houston	Ph.D. Student	sstrabuc@cougarnet.uh.edu	@hangryHistorian BlueSky/Instragram
7	Cassie Clark			Digital History; Public History; Exhibit(s); Teaching; Environmental History; Writing; Adjunct/Contingent Faculty; History of Mental Health; Built and Controlled Environments; Health, Insanity, and Space and the American West; Insanity; Website Design or Metadata; Podcasting; Documentary Writing/Production; Institutional HIstory; Colorado; Utah; Wyoming; Arizona; Graduate studnet experiences/pay/conferencing; eugenics	Panel, roundtable,	Utah Tech University	Assistant Professor	cassandra.clark@utahtech.edu
8	Haleigh Marcello		1970s-1990s	Queer history of Orange County, CA; queer history of Southern California; suburban queer history; metropolitan queer history; gay bars; gay pride celebrations; conservative mobilization against gay rights movements; antidiscrimination legislation; HIV/AIDS crisis; ACT UP; Traditional Values Coalition (TVC); digital humanities; public history; history nonprofit orgs	Panel or roundtable	University of California, Irvine	Ph.D. candidate	hmarcell@uci.edu
9	Katherine Massoth	No title yet - Homestead Act, Nuevomexicana women's land ownership and gendered ideas of land ownership	1840-1890s	Land Owning, Government Interventions in Land ownership, gendered wests, contesting government	Panel	University of New Mexico	Assistant Professor	kmassoth@unm.edu	@KMassothPhD	happy to chair and comment on panels as well
10	Brianna DeValk	Multiple Topic Options: Women's Citizenship; Digital History; or Grad Student Labor and/or Disability	20th century	Women's legal history, women's citizenship, immigration, naturalization, alien registration and WWI; ALSO Digital history; ALSO Grad Student labor and Disability	Panel or rountable	University of Nebraska - Lincoln	PhD Student	bdevalk2@huskers.unl.edu	@BriannaRDeValk
11	Leah Cargin		20th Century	Women, gender, birth control, abortion, sex, urban environments, urbanization, Mexico, public health, medicine	Panel	University of Oklahoma	PhD candidate	leah.cargin@ou.edu	@leeleecargs	Interested in organizing a meetup of scholars doing the histories of Mexico.
12	René A. Ballesteros	"On Public History on the Lower Rio Grande Valley" Latinx Heritage Toolkit. The Abuelas Project.	20th century and contemporary	Mexican American education. GIS public history. Historical Archaeology. Border studies. Oral history/directed interviews. Grant writing. CRM. Historical Commission work.	any	Latinos in Heritage Conservation. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.	Development Manager. MAIS Anthropology candidate.	rene@latinoheritage.us	@retonio	latinx happy hour
13	Meagan A. Evans		19-20th c.	Monuments and Memorials, Religion in the West, Mormon Studies, Utah/Arizona History, Material Culture Studies, Feminist Art History and the Western U.S. -- also interested in a roundtable related to disability/navigating disability and grad school if anyone is interested	panel, roundtable	University of Oklahoma	PhD Candidate	meagan@ou.edu	@meagcamille	navigating chronic illness and disability in graduate school roundtable
14	Zephaniah Fleetwood		1980s-1990s	Environmental Politics, Environmental Movement, Anti-environmentalism, Environmental Justice, Conflict between Indigenous Tribes and Environmentalists	Panel, roundtable	UC Davis	PhD Candidate	zcfleetwood@ucdavis.edu	@ZCFleetwood
15	Lindsey Wieck		20th c/21st c	Happy to chair/comment on a panel in public/digital history; pedagogy; urban, California, borderlands, art/activism, etc. etc.	any	St. Mary's Univ in SA	Associate Professor	lwieck@stmarytx.edu
16	Greg Payne	Paper on fur traders, the social world of the fur trade, and their role in American westward expansion	early 19th c	Fur trade, social worlds and relationships, placemaking, borderlands, Great Plains, gender, masculinity, U.S. Indian Policy, empire.	Panel, roundtable	University of Nebraska - Lincoln	PhD Student	gpayne2@huskers.unl.edu
17	Jessica Martinez		20th century	Women, gender, labor, Chicanas and Mexicanas, U..S.-Mexico Border, garment work, displacement, public history, oral history, Texas history	Panel, roundtable	University of Texas at El Paso	Ph.D. Candidate	jmartinez152@miners.utep.edu
18	Samuel Reitenour	if on a panel, looking to present on structural critiques of the tourist economy in northern New Mexico during Chicano movement in El Grito del Norte	20th century	Tourism, local politics, Chicano movement, New Mexico, economic diversification & employment structures	Panel, roundtable	University of Texas at El Paso	PhD Student	sereitenour@miners.utep.edu
19	Jack Carey	comparative paper on 20th-century memoirs reckoning with dominant regional mythology in the West and South	20th century	myth and regional identity; comparative regionalism	any	University of Alabama	Assistant Professor	tjcarey@ua.edu	@strollingwalker	also happy to comment on any papers comparing West & South (or any papers interested in regionalism as an analytical lens)
20	Brian Trump	Sodomy laws and policing queer men in post-WWII Nebraska	1940s-1970s	LGBTQ history; queering the West; crime and punishment; gender and sexuality	Panel	Kentucky Historical Society	Public Historian	bmtrump@gmail.com	@bmtrump
21	Amanda Katz		20th century	Disruptive infrastructure; built environment; rural economies; transportation, migration, mobility in U.S. West & South; infrastructure as a border or boundary	Panel or Roundatable	Utah State University	Assistant Professor	amanda.katz@usu.edu
22	Greg LeDonne	Rewilding/opposition to environmentalism in American West	20th century	rewilding; environmental opposition; environmental decisionmaking; environmental politics; environmental justice; ranching/grazing	any	University of Colorado Boulder	PhD candidate	gregory.ledonne@colorado.edu
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24	John R. Legg	Indigenous mobility in the Northern Great Plains and the US-Canadian Borderlands	nineteenth century	Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Dakota, Lakota history of mobility, US-Canadian Borderlands, refugeedom, space and place, Indigenous diplomacy	Roundtable	George Mason University	Ph.D. Candidate	jlegg5@gmu.edu	bluesky: @legg.bsky.social	Jameson R. Sweet has agreed to serve as chair. I imagine that this roundtable will be a conversation about Indigenous mobility on the US-Canadian borderlands in the Northern Great Plans. I imagine that each panelist will share one story of a person that crossed the border for strategic, diplomatic, or other reasons. Then, we all can enter into a broad conversation about this topic.
25	Laura Beard	John S. McClintock's Pioneer Days in the Black Hills--memoir of Deadwood South Dakota	1876-1942 and connections to tourism today	frontier nostalgia, Black Hills history, Deadwood, settler colonialism, tourism in South Dakota, literature and history,	panel or roundtable	University of Alberta	Professor	lbeard@ualberta.
26	Laura Hooton		20th century (primarily but can expand)	Can chair/comment - possible fields: African Americans/Black West, borderlands, immigration and migration, social movements and civil rights	any	Angelo State University	Assistant Professor	lhooton@angelo.edu		Added a strike through because I've been tapped for panel chairing, keeping the entry just in case. I'm also interested in comparative race and ethnicity, ethnic studies, Black/Africana studies, Chicana/o Studies, identity - a broad range - happy to help as chair or commenter in a pinch even if it's a little far afield.
27	Miguel Juarez	Teaching Disability, a Humanities Context	20th Century and current		panel or roundtable	University of Texas at El Paso	Adjunct	mjuarez6@utep.edu
28	Franklin Howard	HIV/AIDS in Las Vegas, Nevada	1980s-2000s	HIV/AIDS, public health policy, health activism, environmental health and medicine, queerness, discussions of place	panel or roundtable	University of Illinois, Chicago	Ph.D. Student	fhowar4@uic.edu
29	Piper Milton	Divine Weather: Climate and Evangelization in the Northwestern Borderlands of Colonial Mexico	17th-19th centuries (can expand)	Deserts/extreme environments and settler colonialism, missions in Arizona/California/New Mexico and Texas, Jesuits and Franciscans (or other religious groups), intersection of environment and religion during the colonial period in Mexico/US, borderlands, climate history	panel or rountable	University of California, Santa Cruz	PhD Candidate	pmilton@ucsc.edu
30	Hunter Price	Remembering Nature, Forgetting Slavery: Scientists John and Joseph LeConte from Georgia to California	19th and early 20th centuries	Southern migration west, slavery and memory, slavery and environmentalism, low country Georgia and northern California, Confederates in the West	panel or roundtable	Western Washington University	Associate Professor	hunter.price@wwu.edu		Also happy to chair/comment on panels related to American religious history, settler colonialism
31	Gianna May Sanchez	Midwives and medical professionalization in 20th century New Mexico / Sterilization and Social Justice, Eugenic States: A Digital Archive	20th century	history of medicine, midwifery, New Mexico history, women's health, reproductive health and pregnancy, folk healing, curanderismo, nurse midwives and public health / digital humanities, eugenics, patient privacy and medical research	panel or roundtable	University of Michigan	PhD Candidate	gianna@umich.edu	@GMSPhD (X) or @maysanchez (blue sky)
32	Lawrence Culver	Hope to assemble a session on climate history, broadly defined. Combining Western and Southern history as the WHA and SHA simultaneously meet seems an excellent opportunity to do so. I'm open to either a panel or roundtable, and the session format may just depend on the number of participants. (12.11.23: Session proposal organized and submitted.)	Open	Possible topics might include histories of weather or science; settler colonialism/westward expansion, ag history, histories of health and medicince, history of race, or topics in other areas, from cultural to urban history. A diversity of topics that have connections to climate history should hopefully make for a productive session and discussion.	Roundtable or Panel	Utah State University	Associate Professor	lawrence.culver@usu.edu	@LawrenceCPhD(X or Bluesky)	Can also comment or chair on environmerntal or urban history; LA and California history; tourism and recreation history.
33	Abigail Kahn	Paper is on the schools in the prison camps for those of Japanese ancestry during WWII, specifically the camp at Minidoka in Idaho. Looking to assemble or contribute to a panel regarding education and schooling in the West, Asian American history, or educaiton or histories of carceral settings	20th century / open	History of education, schools; Asian American history; histories of incarceration	Panel	Stanford university	PhD Candidate	abigail9@stanford.edu
34	Elwing Suong Gonzalez	paper on Vietnamese refugee resettlement and community development in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s in context of both the demographic changes and restructuring of the urban center and of other Cold War-era migrations - legal, undocumented and refugee - to the U.S. and specifically Los Angeles during the period	20th century	refugee and migrant studies, urban communities and development, Asian American studies, ethnic enclaves, California/Los Angeles history	panel, roundtable	Rio Hondo College	Assistant Professor	suga_suong@yahoo.com	@elwingbling (IG)
35	Audrey Foster	Paper on female agency and domesticity during Overland Travel, dispossesion of personal possesions and views of environment. Specifically looking at travel years from 1848-1860. Looking to assemble or contribute to a panel regarding 19th century gender roles, Overland travel, and gender in the environment.	19th century	gender and environment, migration, gender roles in the 19th century, environmental history, class, Oregon History, Westward Expansion	panel, roundtable	University of Oregon	MA Student	afos@uoregon.edu	@audbugg (IG)
36	Audrey Foster		19th Century / open	Indigenous communities in the Southwest, Westward Expansion, white supremacy, American Identity and culture in 19th Century, race, class, gender	panel, roundtable	University of Oregon	MA Student	afos@uoregon.edu	@audbugg (IG)
37	Jonathan Laska	Paper would focus on the agency of settlers to create their communities in Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico. Also focusing on the Colorado Iron and Fuel Company and Denver Rio Grande Railroad as economic creators.	19th century	Westward expansion, Settler Community Development, Borderlands, Colorado History	panel, roundtable	University of Nebraska	MA Student	jlaska2@huskers.unl.edu
38	Ana Guerrero Gallegos	Paper on anti-immigrant legislation during the 1970s and response from Chicana/o activists; interested in ideas of the family	20th century	history of the family, Chicana/o Movement, undocumented immigration	panel	Princeton University	PhD Candidate	ajgg@princeton.edu
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40	Rob Voss	Capitalism and Native America; Steam and Sovereignty: The Impact of 19th Century Railroads and Coal Mining on Western American Landscapes and Indigenous Communities;	19th century; Gilded Age	history of railroads, Oklahoma, Native America, labor, coal mining, disposession, environment, extraction,	panel, roundtable	Northwest Missouri State University	Associate Professor	robvoss@nwmissouri.edu	@rvoss (X)
41	Thayme Watson	I have pieces of a dissertation comparing lives/communities/movements in Dakota Territory (to ND and SD) and Indian & Oklahoma Territory (to OK) roughly 1880-1920. I have 2 parts that would be nearly ready for a panel on suffrage movements, women's history, citizenship, coalition building, and navigating suffrage along with race/nativism/state power. The other dealing with dispossession of Native land through statehood and allotment, creation of reservations and Native rights at the turn of the century.	19th/20th centuries; Gilded Age/Progressive Era	Statehood movements; sufffrage movements; settler colonialism; dispossession/allotment; settlerment (esp women and people of color); state power	panel, roundtable	Univeristy of Oklahoma	PhD Candidate	thayme.h.watson@ou.edu
42	Cole Manley	Paper on mobility and spatial history in the formation of Oakland and San Francisco from 1860s through 1930s. Panel on urban history of the American West with attention to race, class, and mobility on transit.	19th/20th centuries	Urban history; mobility; transit; race and class; Civil War and Reconstruction period through World War II	panel, roundtable	University of California, Davis	PhD Candidate	csmanley@ucdavis.edu
43	Matt Beil	Paper on Potawatomi/Jesuit relations at Sugar Creek Kansas post removal	19th Century	Indigenious history, native resistance and survival, sovereignty, Indigenious/missionary relations, removal,	Panel	University of Kansas	PhD Student	mbeil@ku.edu
44	Shannon Murray		19C / early 20C	Indigenous engagement; Gilded Age/Progressive Era social reform; rodeo / animal histories; boosterism; entertainment and shows in the West; career diversity and mentorship	panel, roundtable, workshop, best format for the group to engage	Calgary Stampede	Manager, Indigenous Engagement	smurray@calgarystampede.com
45	Kim Jackson		20th C	Food aid and farm policy in WWI and interwar years; food and the Civilian Conservation Corps	Panel	University of Colorado, Boulder	PhD Candidate	kimberly.jackson@colorado.edu
46	Maggie McNulty	History of environmental injustice surrounding the Suncor petroleum refinery in Denver, CO	1930-Present	Environmental justice; urban history; American West; petroleum industry; environmental activism; environmental policy	Panel	University of Colorado, Boulder	PhD student	mamc1265@colorado.edu
47	Michelle Morgan	Teachers in the urban American Pacific West; relationships between teachers and Asian American students in urban public schools	late 19th-mid 20th century	history of education; history of youth; teachers; public schools in settler spaces; negotiating Americanization	panel or roundtable	Missouri State University	Associate Professor	michellemorgan@missouristate.edu
48	Jonathan Fairchild		late 19th - early 20th	Transcontinental railroad; Homestead Act / Homesteading; settler colonialism and Native dispossesion;	Panel, Roundtable	National Park Service	Historian	Jonathan_Fairchild@nps.gov
49	Alejandra Herrera	Transnational West	late 19th - present	Transnational West; Space; Exploring ideas surrounding conceptions of the "West" through transnational lenses	Panel or roundtable	University of Oklahoma	PhD student	alejandra.m.herrera-1@ou.edu		I'm looking to find other scholars who are interested in exploring conceptions and interactions of the American West through transnational lenses. I aim to find other scholars who work and think about the West moving beyond settler colonial borders (for example: cowboys outside of the United States or subcultures started in the West that made their way outside of the United States).
50	Linda English	Paper on a female/family migrants to Texas before Texas Revolution. Experiences cover migration, diplomacy, war, Runaway Scrape, religion.	19th century	Migration, diplomacy, war, relgion, family, settler colonialism.	Panel or roundtable	University of Texas Rio Grande Valley	Associate Professor	linda.english@utrgv.edu
51	Siriana Lundgren	Paper on sex workers in Deadwood, South Dakota, particularly Julia Francis, and her claim to land and building rights in relation to settler colonialism/racial politics. Particularly explored via newspaper records and records of her noise ordinance violations.	late 19th century	sex work, gender studies, queer intimacies, vagrancy laws, South Dakota history, sound studies	panel	Harvard University	PhD Student	slundgren@g.harvard.edu		Happy to alter the topic to skew more one way or another to fit the panel-- this could be heavy on the sound studies or heavy on the gender studies as I'm pulling from a chapter that uses both heavily!
52	Russell Cobb	"The Notorious Sadie James": Recovering the Story of Tulsa's Most Infamous Madam and Bootegger	Late 19-early 20th	Black and Native American experiences in Oklahoma/ Indian Territory. Journalism and media histories of the the early 20th century. Resource colonialism	panel or roundtable	University of Alberta	Associate Professor	rcobb@ualberta.ca
53	Doug Sam	"Sovereignty Under Threat: Paiute Statesmanship and the Rejection of the Militant Takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon in 2016"	Late 19th-20th century, extends into 21st	Native Sovereignty, Public Lands and Native People, Conservatism and the Environment in the West	Panel	University of Oregon	PhD Student	dougs@uoregon.edu
54	Doug Sackman	Teaching Western History in Prison; or Around the World in 80 days (from Tacoma): George Francis Train as Globe Trotter, Charlatan, and 19th century Forrest Gump		Teaching Western History in Unexpected Places (mine would be on a BA program in prison); or, something on Gilded Age West, travel and transportation; Western performers and con men; or transnational embodiment	roundtable (for teaching western history in unexpected places); or panel (for the Train topic)	University of Puget Sound	Professor	dsackman@pugetsound.edu
55	Katherine Montana		Early to mid 20th century	History of funerals during the Great Depression and Second World War in the American West.	Panel	Montana State University	PhD Student	katie.montana@student.montana.edu
56	Priscilla Martinez	19th century land and water policies in northern Mexico; Indigeneity; Mestizaje; Race and Porfirian Land Reforms —OR— 20th century development of the Imperial Valley; Race and Citizenship during the construction of U.S.-Mexico international water treaties; the contested Indigenous and ethnic Mexican identities in the wake of state-initiated land seizure	early to mid 19th century or Early 20th century Mexican Pacific borderlands	Racialized Land Tenure Laws; Contesting Indigenous Water sovereignty in the Mexican Pacific; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; nationalism; settler colonialism; mestizaje; moments of plural sovereignty; borderlands as more than a specific locality but as a set of powered relationships; folding in/centering water (litoral and internal) into larger discussions of borderland power dynamics.	Panel	University of Texas at San Antonio	Postdoctoral Fellow	priscilla.martinez2@utsa.edu	@PrisMMartinez (Twitter)	I found a panel, but am happy to connect with folks looking at the Mexican Pacific or Indigenous water sovereignty in the U.S. Southwest / Mexican North.
57	Jacob T. Schmidt	Hydropower development and tribal sovereignty in the Termination Era --- Also have a project on recreation and sacred spaces that deals with sovereignty and ideas of wilderness/public land	20th Century	Tribal Soveriengty, Outdoor Recreation/Tourism, Water resource development	panel	University of Oregon	PhD Student	jtsch@uoregon.edu		found a panel, but will leave contact info here
58	Kerry Wynn	Military land grants and settler colonialism in Kansas	late 19th century	Land, colonialism, military, urban history, social welfare	panel	Washburn University	Professor	kerry.wynn@washburn.edu
59	Bernadette Pruitt	"The Houston Women: Bridge Builders in the Era of Respectability Politics," and part of session titled “Centuries of Voices: Examining the Convergence of Southern, Western and U.S. Borderlands Through the Lives of Black Texas Women.”	The Twentieth Century	Black Texas Women and Long Civil Rights	Roundtable	Sam Houston State	Associate Professor	his_bxp@shsu.edu		President, East Texas HIstorical Association
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64	Meya Hargett	The underground Railround: a Western Frontier Dismal Swamp Narrative. Fredrick Douglass Conductor of both the Louisiana and Viginia Carolina Dismal swamp underground railroads fights fiercely to keep the spread of slavery out of the west in Kansas, California and Nebraska while fearing arrest and returned to slavery to to his support of John brown, Harriet tubman and Mary Pleasent in California, while trying to secure the escape routes from Kansas to Canada, Samuel Mars his Station Master revealed, Two Native American, The Cherokee Nation,and Secret Mullato conduct in the Dismal Swamps reviewed, murders at leavenworth revealed by Douglass, and a secret train schedule in the Noth Star and Angelina Grimké roll in that route. This would be a discussion on the West Frontiers roll in the underground railroad that is rarely discussed, researched, or may be noted or realized by modern historians can become a round table.	1800s	Western Exspansion and Slavery, Bleeding Kansas and Fredrick Douglas Role in the Fight, Douglass vs. Douglas, South vs. West and the fight for exspansion. The Underground Railround, and the Abolishist role in Western Exspansion	Roundtable	Kern County Superintendent of Schools	Assoc. Prof. Meya E. Hargett, MA.	mhargett40@live.com		This research falls in the topic of Regionalism if this is anyones area of expertise especially fitting topic since the Southern historical Society will be joining us and research has defined a new very precise and definitive route of the underground from the West to East then North
65	Kenneth Smith	“The Tuskegee of the West”: The Influence of Tuskegee’s Model of Education in Kansas. This paper looks at the Kansas Technical Institute, which was founded by teachers from Mississippi, and how it modeled itself after Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Both schools were designed to help African Americans navigate the spaces of Jim Crow racism. Like Washington, Lizzie Riddick and Edward Stephens, the founders of the KTI, saw the immediate needs of economic security and education as the most pressing matters of the time.	Late 19th/Early 20th century	Education, African American, race, migration	Panel	Kansas State University	PhD Candidate	kensmith199@ksu.edu	Twitter/X: @kensmith199	I would also be happy to serve on a roundtable.
66	Tom Zoellner	Rim to River: Looking Into the Heart of Arizona is a 2023 book that explores various aspects of this history of the 48th state via the methodology of walking across it. The X at the end of the map was the site of a 1736 silver rush in present-day Sonora that likely gave the state its disputed name.	1736-present	What is the value of visiting the places where historic events took place, especially those that are hard to reach?	Roundtable or panel	Chapman University	Professor of English	zoellner@chapman.edu		I think there's a rich discussion to be had on whether physical visits to sites are necessary, and perhaps how to recreate spatial realities within historic narratives when travel is not possible. This touches on important questions of disability and economic wherewithall.
67	Saffron Sener and Abby Gibson	Hauntings, ghost stories, and settler colonialism in the North American West	18th–19th centuries	Panel title–Uncanny Empire: The Haunted Imagination of the Anglo-American Settler Enterprise in the 18th and 19th Century North American West	Panel	Harvard University and University of Southern California	PhD students	saffronsener@g.harvard.edu and gibsonam@usc.edu		We have organized a panel and secured a chair but we are in search of one more last minute panelist! Here is our panel abstract: The North American West has long been a haunted place. From sightings of ghost riders galloping in silence across the “Great American Desert” to reports of lakes of boiling brimstone infested with demons in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, there is no shortage of colorful stories of the supernatural emanating from western landscapes during Anglo-American expansion in the 18th and 19th centuries. But what do these hauntings mean in the history of the North American West as a colonized space? What specters are raised on western frontiers? For what purpose and for whom do they manifest? In posing these questions, this panel confronts the apparitions that loom behind the history of the 18th and 19th century North American West in order to frame their function within the Anglo-American settler enterprise as narrative mechanisms of dispossession. Over the last twenty years, the critical lens of “haunting” has proliferated among sociologists, literary scholars, and historians. In this panel, presenters will utilize this framework to consider how ideas about the West and its regional character embedded in tales of western uncanny upheld the colonization of this region within settler-colonial imaginations, as well as fed a nascent frontier nostalgia that emerged by the end of the 19th century. Papers will explore themes of fear, nostalgia, and storytelling related to the spectral landscapes of the North American West during U.S. westward expansion and beyond.
68	Jennifer Helton	Connections between age of consent / rape laws, sex trafficking, sex work, the western suffrage movements, and elected female officials in the American West	1865 - 1920	Age of consent, female elected officials, suffrage, race & gender, sex work	any	Ohlone College	Asst. Prof.	jhelton@ohlone.edu
69	Iván González-Soto	Graphic Novels and History: This panel is interested in communicating history through sequential art—mainly graphic novels and/or comics. It contributes to conversations which broaden definitions of historical scholarship.	Open	Comics and graphic novels; broaden definition of historical scholarship	Roundtable	University of California, Merced		isoto5@ucmerced.edu		I am a PhD Candidate and illustrator, and I am drawing an abridged version of my dissertation to communicate my work to my community along the US-Mexico border. I would love to connect with anyone else who is thinking about sequential art as a medium to communicate history.
70	Sarah Barton	Prison Reform and prisoner activism in Oklahoma	1970s	Citizenship; mass incarceration; colonization; gender; carceral policy; political culture; activism		University of Illinois at Chicago		sbarto5@uic.edu
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