The sixth annual Celebration of Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (CERCA) took place in early May. The history department was represented with seven student projects presented. Listed below, are the titles of the project, faculty mentors, and students involved.
Sounds of Eau Claire - Eau Claire Public History Project: A Student-Community Collaboration to Preserve and Share Local Music History
Faculty Mentor: Dan Ott
Student Researchers: Brian Dombrowski, Nathan Getzin, Karyssa Gulish, Elizabeth Schmidt, Jonah Hedstrom, Hannah Lahti, Levi Normand, Max Veldran, Hayden Yokes, Ryan Cushman, Carissa Dowden, Kelci Greenwood, Dean Ihrke, Mackenzie Walters.
Historytelling: An Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities Project for the Elementary and Secondary Classroom
Faculty Mentor: Patricia Turner
Student Researchers: Megan Henning, Bryce Mohr
Setting a New Course in Native American Protest Movements: The Menominee Warrior Society’s Takeover of the Alexian Brothers Novitiate in 1975
Faculty Mentor: Patricia Turner
Student Researcher: Rachel Lavender
Making the Lucy Hastings Letters Digital-Crowd-Sourcing, Indexing Texts, and Timeline-Building
Faculty Mentors: Jim Oberly, Gregory Kocken, Robin Miller
Student Researchers: Cade Lambrecht, Elizabeth Peterson, Madeline Post, Michael Carini, Connor La Favor, Logan Seymour, Samuel Peterson
Public Expectation vs. Free Love: Frank Lloyd Wright and Mamah Borthwick’s Controversial Affair
Faculty Mentor: Patricia Turner
Student Researcher: Karyssa Gulish
The Kitchen Patriot: WWII Food Rationing and the American Woman
Faculty Mentor: Andrew Sturtevant
Student Researcher: Kendra Polzin
On Racial Frontiers: The Function of Race in America, 1800-1860
Faculty Mentors: Andrew Sturtevant, Wendy Geniusz
Student Researcher: Hayden Nelson
The history department is proud to showcase these student researchers and their scholarly accomplishments.
