2017 Alaska Phi Alpha Theta history research conference
by Michelle Saport |
The UAA Department of History and UAA chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, with the sponsorship of the UAA Honors College, Cook Inlet Historical Society and UAA Campus Bookstore, are proud to present the 2017 Alaska Phi Alpha Theta history research conference
March 23 and 24. The conference provides an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate
students in history to present original historical research. More than 20 students
from across the state will present in thematic panels on Friday, March 24, in the
Administrative/Humanities Building. The student sessions are open to the public. (Head
to the UAA master calendar to view a detailed conference schedule for Thursday, March 23 and Friday, March 24.)
This year, the conference is pleased to host Jessica Pliley, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Texas State University, as the keynote speaker. She is the author of Policing Sexuality: The Mann Act and the Making of the FBI (Harvard, 2014) and Global Anti-Vice Activism (Cambridge, 2016). She is the co-director of Yale University's Working Group on Modern-Day Slavery and Trafficking at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. She also is the book review editor for the Journal of Women's History. Pliley is a Fulbright specialist and serves on the advisory board of the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project, "Trafficking, Smuggling and Illicit Migration in Gendered and Historical Perspective, c. 1870-2000." Her work has appeared in the Journal of Women's History, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and Journal of the History of Sexuality. Her current research explores the long history of the anti-trafficking movement from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century.
Due to space and food limitations, only a limited number of registered conference attendees may also come to the keynote luncheon. In addition to the keynote address, Pliley will deliver a free, public lecture at the UAA Campus Bookstore. Everyone is invited to attend the talk, titled "Sexual Surveillance: Sex Trafficking and the Growth of the FBI, 1910-1941," at the UAA Campus Bookstore on Thursday, March 23, 5-7 p.m.
Read about the research presented at the 2016 conference: "A look back at UAA's spring history conference and undergraduate scholarship."
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