Episode 34: History Research Projects/Posters at the 2023 UCF Student Scholar Symposium Event

The Department of History’s Sebastian Garcia attended the 2023 UCF Student Scholar Symposium Event, UCF’s most prominent showcase event of the year, where students from all disciplines can present their research. Sebastian talked with all the students of this year’s program who did historical research, regardless of the student’s major/discipline. Sebastian recorded these interviews LIVE at the event, hence the ambiance in the background of all the conversations. Below are the names of the students who talked with Sebastian, the title of their research project, and the timestamps in which the conversation takes place during the episode.

• Marena Montes-Colon, Las Floriquenas: Puertoriquenas’ Experiences in Central Florida Presented Through a Historical Framework (00:02:21-00:13:31)
• Julia Condes, Juan De Pareja: The Portrait That Preceded Freedom (00:13:37-00:22:50)
• Glenn Ritchey III, Ancient Defenders in the Modern Body Politic: The Ulster Cycle’s Boy and Man Heroes (00:22:56-00:40:45)
• Cameron Garrow, Protection or Control? The History and Impact of the Major Crimes Act on Native Americans (00:40:50-00:51:42)
• Jacqueline Houser, Relocate the Original Bumper Missile Blockhouse (00:51:47-01:01:21)
• Jochen Riehm, The Dreyfus-Affair in the Alsatian Press: Politics, Society, and Religion in a German Borderland Region, 1906-1914 (01:01:26-01:10:03)
• Sarah Boye, Southern Justice and the Cultural Legacy of the Civil War in Orlando (01:10:08-01:18:39)

Here is a link to this year’s virtual program, where you can find and see the posters that these students presented during the event: https://virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/#/event/3315/program