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Conference Schedule

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Keynote Lecture
7-8 p.m.
Wortmann Ballroom, Colket Center, Roanoke College

"What happens between the independent and dependent variables?:
Student activism and institutional change"

Friday, March 31, 2023

Student Conference 
9:40 a.m. - 4 p.m.
1st and 2nd Floor Colket Center, Roanoke College

9:40 - 10:40 a.m.

1A – Reclaiming History
Wortmann Ballroom

  • "Emancipation's Borderland: Anti-Black Legislation and Racial Violence in Southeast Ohio, 1861-1865” Miranda Christy, Virginia Tech
  • "Revealing Resistance: Ralph Perry” Craig Caudill, University of Richmond
  • "Resistance and Endurance in the Face of Adversity" Yamir Chapman, University of Richmond
  • "Staring Back: The Portraits of Roanoke County Courthouse Archive Roxanne Cornellier, Concordia University

1B - Disrupting Whiteness

Pickle Lounge

  • "Racial Grammar and Counter-Storytelling Within True Crime Podcasts" Macey Porter, James Madison University
  • "The Gentrification of Black Hair Care & Culture" Esther Darko, Roanoke College
  • "Beyond Culinary Man: Archipelagic Resistance to Hegemony" Jordan Fallon, Virginia Tech
  • Is the U.S. Policing an Extension of Colonialism? An Examination of Deadly Force Cases Through a 'Fanonian- Affective' Lens, Alexandra Briggs, Virginia Tech University

10:50-11:50 a.m.

2A – Critical Environmental Studies
Wortmann Ballroom

  • "The Social and Environmental Impacts of American Suburbia" Tori Duncan, Roanoke College
  • "Load Shedding in South Africa: How Solar Panel Deployment Can Alleviate Race-Based Inequalities" Shane Lee, Virginia Tech
  • "New Age Colonialism: How Shell has Perpetuated Environmental and Racial Injustice in Nigeria" Mikaela Gantz, Roanoke College
  • "Illegal Dumping in Sacred Waters" Samantha Andrews, Roanoke College
  • "The Atlantic Coast Pipeline: Racism in the Development of Modern Infrastructure" Jim Nichols, Roanoke College

2B – Critical (Public) Health Studies
Pickle Lounge

  • "The Legacy of Georgianna Saunders: Race, Gender, and Black Midwifery in Southwest Virginia 1914-1940" Ivey Kline, Roanoke College
  • "'Like Nazi Butchers’: Discourses on Black Genocide and the Limits of Civil Rights in 20th Century America" Janis Parker, University of Richmond
  • "The Associations between State-Level Policies and Health Differences by Race, Ethnicity, and Sexual Identity" Hunter Bohon & Dr. Kristen Rapp, Roanoke College
  • "Molecularizing the Tropics" Oge Ogbogu, Harvard University

LUNCH BREAK 12-1 p.m.

1:10 - 2:10 p.m.

3A – Equity in Higher Education
Wortmann Ballroom

  • "Cartographies of (im)mobility: An Archival Inquiry of Women's Inclusion at Virginia Tech" Leah Ramnath, Virginia Tech
  • "The Growing Number of Race in Higher Education" Maydali Rosado-Ocotoxtle, Washington and Lee University
  • "'Is A Heathen Worth Educating?': Korean Student’s Perspective on Racism in Jim Crow America" Madison Smith, Roanoke College
  • "'My Name is Rong Tong, Not Judy': A Discussion on How Names Carry Cultures, Histories, and Identities" Makenna Prillaman, Roanoke College
  • "Race and Racism Oral History Project" Razan Khalil, University of Richmond

3B – Creative Works, Art & Art History
Pickle Lounge

  • "Emerging Art Histories of Racial Justice: An Intersectional Feminist Oral History Project" Melinda Pierre-Paul Cardinal, Concordia University
  • "What Are You More Of?" Stability X, Randolph College
  • "Kafkan Nightmare" Aline de Souza, Virginia Tech
  • "Systemic” Pulari Gilbert, Hollins University

2:20 - 3:20 p.m.

4A – Race in/and Communities
Wortmann Ballroom

  • "A Look at the Virginia Synod of the ELCA: One of the Whitest Christian Denominations in the United States" Lillian Pingel, Roanoke College
  • "The Role of Women in Religion in the Early to Middle Ages" Ajaya Green, Hollins University
  • "Uprooted: How Urban Renewal Destroys Black Communities" Nora Terrill, Roanoke College
  • "Ladies of Distinction: Examining Twentieth-Century African American Socialites and Civil Rights" Mackenzie Mason, James Madison University
  • "Appalachian Atlantis: On Fonta Flora, NC, and the Mass Displacement of Historically Black Communities in Rural Appalachia" Ari Macquarie, Roanoke College

4B – CSSR Student Research Documentary Viewing and Q&A
Pickle Lounge

  • Michael Eaves, Ivey Kline, Casey McGirt, Reese Owen, Sydney Pennix, & Ashtyn Porter

Followed by a "Histories of Enslavement at Roanoke College" Walking Tour
3:20 – 4 p.m.