{"id":25421,"date":"2018-02-05T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=25421"},"modified":"2018-02-05T02:09:23","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T08:09:23","slug":"austin-peay-state-university-history-honor-students-present-at-national-conference-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2018\/02\/05\/austin-peay-state-university-history-honor-students-present-at-national-conference-in-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University history honor students present at national conference in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-324279\" title=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Austin-Peay-State-University-APSU.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University - APSU\" width=\"250\" height=\"64\"\/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; Anyone passing through the Intercontinental Hotel in New Orleans last month might have paused at all the strange questions drifting out of the hotel\u2019s meeting rooms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre werewolves from Europe or Ancient Arabia?\u201d \u201cHow did American soldiers fare during World War I?\u201d \u201cWhy did Nashville legalize prostitution in the late 19<sup>th<\/sup> century?\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_411707\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APSU-history-honor-students-present-at-national-conference-in-New-Orleans.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-411707\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-411707\" title=\"Austin Peay State University students give presentations at Biennial Phi Alpha Theta National History Conference.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/APSU-history-honor-students-present-at-national-conference-in-New-Orleans-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University students give presentations at Biennial Phi Alpha Theta National History Conference.\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"\/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-411707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Austin Peay State University students give presentations at Biennial Phi Alpha Theta National History Conference.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A little investigating would have revealed that the hotel was hosting the Biennial Phi Alpha Theta National History Conference, and some of the more interesting presentations were being delivered by Austin Peay State University students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had five Phi Alpha That members present at this national conference, and they had a great time,\u201d Dr. Minoa Uffelman, APSU professor of history and PAT advisor, said. \u201cEach of them had a positive experience presenting their research, while also meeting students from all over the country and having professors give them feedback during their commentaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The students, and their presentations, were:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Jenny Brown, \u201cThe Legalization of Late 19th Century Prostitution in Nashville and Its Effect on African American Women;\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Beth Bisciglia, \u201cFaeries, Jinn, Werewolves and Witches: The Fantastical Underworld in Ancient Arabia and Europe;\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jennifer Holland, \u201cFrom Peter the Great to Nicholas II: Russian Military Grand Strategy;\u201d<\/li>\n<li>John L. Schuler III, \u201cAn Objective Evaluation of the American Doughboy in World War I;\u201d and<\/li>\n<li>Mary Vaughn, \u201cChristianity: The Greatest Chameleon in Anglo-Saxon England.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These five, high-achieving APSU students were able to spend several days mingling with renowned scholars and presenting their research, thanks to funding by the APSU Office of Student Research and Innovation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProviding this type of funding only reinforces our institutional commitment to the success of our students,\u201d Dr. Erin Lynch-Alexander, director of Student Research and Innovation, said. \u201cThis office understands this commitment and is dedicated to supporting the intellectual capacity of students because, ultimately, their scholarly contributions are the stitch-work to the academic tapestry of APSU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The five students are all members of APSU\u2019s Phi Alpha Theta (PAT) History Honor Society, which has won nine national \u201cChapter of the Year\u201d awards. PAT is a professional society with the goal of creating a network of scholars that encourages research.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNetworking with other historians and students is an important part of these conferences, and the professors who attended were willing to sit and talk with students about their research and about their career and academic paths in the future,\u201d Jenny Brown, APSU student and PAT president, said.<\/p>\n<p>For information on the convention or the local PAT chapter, contact Uffelman at <a href=\"mailto:uffelmanm@apsu.edu\">uffelmanm@apsu.edu<\/a> or 931.221.7704.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; Anyone passing through the Intercontinental Hotel in New Orleans last month might have paused at all the strange questions drifting out of the hotel\u2019s meeting rooms. \u201cAre werewolves from Europe or Ancient Arabia?\u201d \u201cHow did American soldiers fare during World War I?\u201d \u201cWhy did Nashville legalize prostitution in the late 19th century?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,31505,4469,7207,262,31501,825,26917,31502,30324,31503,31504,4472,7467],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6C1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25422,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25421\/revisions\/25422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}