Providence

FRIDAY SESSIONS
Friday, April 8
1:50 pm – 3:20 pm
Gender, Consumerism, and the Early South
Solicited and endorsed by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women
in the Historical Profession
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Chair and Commentator: Daniel Usner, Vanderbilt University
The Geographies of Taste within Women’s Textile Networks in New
Orleans, 1795–1825
Jessica Blake, University of California, Davis
Their Chief Occupation Is the Manufacture of Pottery: Catawba Indian
Women, Pottery, and the Persistence of Catawba Identity
Brooke Bauer, University of North Carolina
Mobile Fashions: Masculinity and Irish Merchants’ Dress in Early
New Orleans
Kristin Condotta Lee, Tulane University
Cultivating the Leadership of Black Girls,
1890s–Present
Solicited by Endorsed by the OAH Committee on the Status of Women
in the Historical Profession and the OAH Committee on the Status of
African American, Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American
(ALANA) Historians and ALANA Histories
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Chair: Anna Mae Duane, University of Connecticut
Commentator: Marcia Chatelain, Georgetown University
Intergenerational Leadership in the National Association of Colored
Women’s Clubs, 1896 –1920
Corinne Field, University of Virginia
Building “Virile” Youth Politics: Young Black Women and the Tensions of
NAACP Youth Activism in the Early 20th Century
Susan Bragg, Georgia Southwestern State University
“What Girls Want and What the Community Needs”: Leadership
Development in African American Girls’ Organizations in Washington,
D.C., 1930–1965
Miya Carey, Rutgers University
A Rite of Passage: Black Girls, Quilting, and the Art of Making Things
Lauren Cross, Texas Woman’s University
LEGEND
Public History
Teaching
Community College
Professional Development
State of the Field on Interactions between
Labor and Environmental History
Solicited by the Labor and Working-Class History Association
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Chair and Commentator: Erik Loomis, University of Rhode Island
Panelists:
• Lisa Fine, Michigan State University
• Lawrence M. Lipin, Pacific University
• Thomas Andrews, University of Colorado
• Chad Montrie, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Round Table: New Directions in Black Women’s
Intellectual History
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Chairs: Martha Jones, University of Michigan; Mia Bay, Rutgers
University
Panelists:
• Brittney Cooper, Rutgers University
• Jasmine Cobb, Duke University
• Brandi Brimmer, Morgan State University
• Brandi Hughes, University of Michigan
Round Table: U.S. History as Studied Overseas
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Chair: Shane White, University of Sydney
Panelists:
• Mario Del Pero, Science Po, Paris
• Erika Pani, El Colegio de México
• Andrew Preston, Cambridge University
• Jay Sexton, University of Oxford
Place, Race, and Public Policy: The Racialization of
Cityscapes from Reconstruction to Civil Rights
Endorsed by the OAH Committee on the Status of African American,
Latino/a, Asian American, and Native American (ALANA) Historians and
ALANA Histories and the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and
Progressive Era
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Chair: Yohuru Williams, Fairfield University
Commentator: Elaine Frantz Parsons, Duquesne University
“To Feel the Slavery of their Freedom”: Military Leadership and the
Limits of Revolution in Reconstruction Richmond
Ryan Poe, Duke University
“White Women Forced to Live in Negro Dives”: Black Men and “White
Slavery” in New York City’s Interracial Sex Trade
Douglas Flowe, Washington University in Saint Louis
“Dopeville, USA”: Political Corruption, Public Policy, and Black Drug
Enclaves in the 1940s and 1950s
Simon Balto, Ball State University
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