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Bradie Manion, University of Maine Orono *
Chris Mares, University of Maine Orono
Kerry West, University of Maine Orono *
The Honors Civilization sequence promotes critical thinkers and writers. How this goal is
accomplished in the classroom is left to individual faculty. Here three will discuss how they
strategically use and respond to various writing assignments to realize these objectives. Student
input on the effectiveness of the strategies will be included.
Student Interdisciplinary Research Panel
Sponsored by Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas + Company
Saturday, October 23
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
Marriott Tower 2nd Floor, Truman A
First, Gen
Nineteenth-Century American History and Culture: Industrialization, Barbed Wire, and
the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Moderator: Ira Cohen, NCHC past president (1991)
Borders with Thorns: Barbed Wire, Property Law, and Native American Identity in Leslie
Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
Natasha S. Godwin, University of West Georgia *
This paper utilizes historical and cartographic theories to examine the political and psychological
consequences of white territorial control on Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony.
Massacre at Mountain Meadows: A New Historicist Examination
Kyle P. Jennings, Viterbo University *
This study looks at one event, two texts, and over 150 years of information regarding one of the
most concealed events in the history of the Mormon Church. Using a New Historicist lens, I
examine the historical context of the publication of both Juanita Brooks’ 1950 text as well as the
more recent treatment by Richard Turley, Ronald Walker, and Glen Leonard, published in 2009.
What We Must Do To Be Saved: Navigating the Dynamics of the Self, Nature, and New
Industrialization in Mid-19th Century American Literature
Amelia A. Williamson, University of Tulsa *
I will explore and interpret the tensions and harmonies—the rhythms and currents—in the works
of nineteenth-century American writers for their continuities and disruptions that
industrialization brings to nature, and ultimately, the self.
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