SOUTHERN HISTORY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY

2017 CONFERENCE

MARCH 10-11, 2017UGA HOTEL AND CONFERENCE CENTER, ATHENS GA

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7:30 - 8 a.m. Registration and Coffee Kellogg Concourse

8 - 8:15 a.m. Welcome remarks and orientation comments Brian Dotts, Room DSHOES 2017 chair (Department of Educational Theory and Practice, University of Georgia)

8:15 - 9:15 a.m. Views from Georgia: The Empire State of the South Room LLauren Yarnell Bradshaw (University of North Georgia), “Bayonets and Bravado: Connecting the Blue Ridge Rifles Civil War Past with the University of North Georgia’s Precision Drill Team”

Rhonda Kemp Webb (Lassiter High School), “Subversive Activity in the University System of Georgia: Governor Talmadge’s Hunt for Reds through a Racial Lens”

Sundiata Omowale (Georgia State University), “The Ebb and Flow: African Americans during the Great Migration of Georgia, 1930-1970”

Jamie Atkinson (University of Georgia), “Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and Industrial Accommodation”

9:15 - 9:45 a.m. Refreshment Break Kellogg Concourse

Conference Agenda

Friday, March 10

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9:50 - 10:50 a.m. Progressivism in the South: Navigating Difficult Changes Room LCraig Kridel (University of South Carolina), “Know the 4th Question, and Know the 2nd Verse: Researching Black Progressive High Schools from the 1940s”

Joseph L. Odenwald (Louisiana State University) and Xiaonan Song (Louisiana State University), “G. Earl Guinn: The Reluctant Progressive President of Louisiana College,1951-1975”

Katherine Perrotta (Kennesaw State University) and Chara Bohan (Georgia State University), “More than a Feeling: Tracing the Progressive Era Origins of Historical Empathy in the Social Studies Curriculum, 1890-1940s”

William G. Wraga (University of Georgia), “Clinical Technique, Tacit Resistance: Progressive Education Experimentation in the Jim Crow South”

10:55 - 11:55 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

Panel: College Life in the Civil War South: Diverse Experiences from Room L Institutions that Remained Open During the Fight

Holly Foster (University of Southern Mississippi), “College Life at the University of Virginia during the Civil War: More than a Myth”

David Taylor (University of Southern Mississippi), “The Death of Student Life: A Cross-section of Campus Life at Mississippi College During the Civil War”

R. Eric Platt (University of Southern Mississippi) and Donavan Johnson (University of Southern Mississippi), “Catholics and Confederates: Spring Hill College during the American Civil War”

Zachary A. Turner (University of Southern Mississippi) and Courtney Robinson (University of Southern Mississippi), “Huntingdon College and the Civil War: ‘Yankees! Yankees! Yankees! Everywhere you turn’”

Panel: Black and White: Adding to the 1960s Literature Room Y/ZPhilo Hutcheson, chair (University of Alabama)

Sharon Height (University of Alabama), “Bennett College for Women: Faith, Race, Gender and Protest from 1960-2000”

Douglass Craddock (University of Alabama), “War, Higher Education, and Civil Rights: African American Vietnam Veterans, the G.I. Bill, and the Civil Rights Era”

April W. Welch (University of Alabama), “Integration at Berry College: Morals and Money”

11:55 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own (see list of recommendations in conference folder)

1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Panel: An Intellectual Review of “From a Gadfly to a Hornet: Academic Room L Freedom, Humane Education, and the Intellectual Life of Joseph Kinmont Hart” by Deron Boyles and Kenneth J. Potts Jon N. Hale (College of Charleston)

Chara Bohan (Georgia State University)

Karen Graves (Denison University)

Deron Boyles (Georgia State University)

Conference Agenda

Friday, March 10

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2:35 - 3:35 p.m. Voices from the Past: Capturing Stories and Oral Histories Room LMatthew Griffis (University of Southern Mississippi), “Capturing Their Stories: Collecting Oral Histories from Users of Segregated Libraries in the South”

Andrea L‘Hommedieu (University of South Carolina) and Christian K. Anderson (University of South Carolina), “Voices from the Past: University High School Alumni and the Use of Oral History”

Kelly Limes-Taylor Henderson (University of North Georgia), “The Story of One Hundred and Sixteenth”

Michelle M. Wooten (University of Alabama), “Weaving Histor(ies) of Meritocracy, Science, and Education and Considering their Productive Impacts Among Academics of Science Teaching and Learning”

3:40 - 4:40 p.m. Panel: Wayne’s World: A Tribute to Wayne Urban, founder of SHOES Room LCraig Kridel, chair (University of South Carolina)

Deanna Michael (University of South Florida), “Wayne as a Dissertation Chair and Mentor”

Linda Eisenmann (Wheaton College), “Wayne’s Scholarship in Higher Education”

Kate Rousmaniere (Miami University), “Wayne’s Scholarship in International History of Education”

Philo Hutcheson (University of Alabama), “Roasting Wayne”

4:45 - 5:45 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

Policy Issues Room LSevan G. Terzian (University of Florida), “G.I Education and American Schools during and after World War Two”

Aubrey Brammar Southall (Aurora University), “The Language Policy Roller Coaster”

Coddy L. Carter (University of Alabama), “The ‘Twin’ Schools: From Equalization Schools to Desegregation”

Focusing on the Classroom Experience and Leadership Room Y/ZFranco R. Timbol (Georgia State University), “Flipping a History Classroom to Enact Critical Pedagogy”

Jo Yarketta Hawkins-Jones (University of Southern Mississippi), “Educational Crisis: The Reality Behind Black Males’ Lack of Educational Attainment”

Kaitlyn Hall (University of Southern Mississippi), “Celebrating the Past: A Timeline of Student Affairs Leadership at a Mississippi University”

Sally Watkins (Florida State University), “Becoming Leadership Educators: The Role of Student Affairs Professional Organizations from 1975 to 2000

5:45 - 7 p.m. Cash Bar Kellogg Concourse

7 p.m. Dinner on your own (see list of recommendations in your Kellogg Concourse conference folder)

Conference Agenda

Friday, March 10

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Conference Agenda

Saturday, March 117:30 - 8 a.m. Coffee Kellogg Concourse

8 - 8:15 a.m. Welcome remarks and orientation comments Room LBrian Dotts, SHOES 2017 chair (Department of Educational Theory and Practice, University of Georgia)

8:15 - 9:15 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

Critiques and Reflections of the Past through Various Media Room LElizabeth Cobbins (University of Southern Mississippi), “A Critique of the Present: Reviewing Jonathan Zimmerman’s ‘Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know’”

Andrew Grunzke (Mercer University), “Sweeping the Clouds Away: Jim Henson’s Urban Aesthetic and the Re-Envisioning of Public Television”

Jason Lee Guthrie (University of Georgia), “Looking Forward by Looking Back: Reflections of Digital Curation”

A. Scott Henderson (Furman University), “When Computers were Women: A Regional Comparison”

Panel: Revisiting the Significance of HBCUs and HSIs to Southern Room Y/Z Education

LaFarin Meriwether (Florida State University)

Melvin Middleton, Jr. (Florida State University)

Kelvin E. Rutledge (Florida State University)

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9:15 - 9:45 a.m. Refreshment Break Kellogg Concourse

9:50 - 10:50 a.m. Protests, Activists, and Civil Rights Room LMary Hollowell (Clayton State University), “Revisiting the Legacy of Kinzua Dam Protests: Advice for Activists”

Jon Hale (College of Charleston), “The Future Foot Soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement: The NAACP Youth Councils and the National Negro Youth Congress, 1935-1955”

Louise Boyle Swiniarski (Salem State University) “Charlotte L. Forten, Her Early Years in Salem as an Educator and Civil Rights Advocate: Part One”

Mary-Lou Breitborde (Salem State University) “Charlotte Forten in the South: Negotiating Identity, Community, and History”

10:55 - 11:55 a.m. Negotiating Educational Ideals within Educational Institutions Room FStephen Tomlinson (University of Alabama), “Race, Science, and the Freedmen’s Bureau”

Cindy A. Jones (University of Alabama), “The Brown Decision: When Ideals Meet Institutional Practice”

Charles L. Hight (Georgia State University), “Intercultural Education, Teacher Training and Curriculum”

Jayne R. Beilke (Ball State University), “Exploring the Development of Indiana’s Complicated History of School Segregation”

12 - 1 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

Panel: Tracing Remnants of Transgenerational Trauma Among Room L Oglethorpe County Huguenots

W. Todd Stephenson (University of Georgia)

Meltem Oztan-Meli (University of Central Florida)

Rev. Cynthia L. Boatwright (Fountain Life Ministries)

Panel: Revisiting the Significance of HBCUs and HSIs to Southern Room Y/Z Education

LaFarin Meriwether (Florida State University)

Melvin Middleton, Jr. (Florida State University)

Kelvin E. Rutledge (Florida State University)

1 - 1:15 p.m. SHOES Business Meeting and Closing Conference Remarks Room LBrian Dotts, SHOES chair (University of Georgia)

Conference Agenda

Saturday, March 11

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Brian Dotts, chairDepartment of Educational Theory and Practice, University of Georgia

Program committee members:Timothy R. Cain, associate professor of higher education, University of GeorgiaWilliam G. Wraga, professor, College of Education, University of GeorgiaJamie Atkinson, PhD candidate, Department of Educational Theory and Practice, University of Georgia

Special thanks to the staff members in the College of Education’s Office of Outreach and Engagement, in particular Melanie Baer and Beth Massey, for their herculean efforts in organizing the conference venue.

Special thanks to The Graduate School, University of Georgia for their funding of the conference.

Special thanks to Carl Glickman, professor emeritus, and the Carl Glickman Faculty Fellow Award for funding the conference.

Special thanks to professor Timothy R. Cain and the Institute of Higher Education, University of Georgia for providing tote bags and supplies.

Special thanks to the Office of Student Services, the College of Education, and the University of Georgia for providing tote bags and supplies.

SHOES 2017 Program Committee