Frances G. Harper Student History Conference

At the end of each fall semester, the Department of History and the College of Liberal Arts host the Frances G. Harper Student History Conference – a venue for history majors to present their junior-senior seminar research projects. Two to three students from each of the four junior-senior seminars taught during the spring and fall semesters are selected by their professors to share their research findings in a formal conference setting.  Papers are selected based on topic, originality, argument, quality, and research. The best papers from the conference win cash awards and recognition. 

In December of 2022, the 17^th Annual Frances G. Harper Student History Conference was well attended and featured ten undergraduate history majors. Congratulations to all of those who presented.  Also, many thanks to Dr. Manuel Ramirez, TJ Setter, Diana Gonzalez, Dr. Susan Stanfield, Sam Reitenour, and Rebeca Rivas for helping put the conference together and for judging the competition.  

The winners from 2022 are listed below:

• 1^st Place:   Kyle Jaquez, “Lázaro Cárdenas: Mending Social and Labor Disputes with Nationalist Discourse”
• 2^nd Place:  Tatianna Sulak, “Media and War: The Zimmerman Telegram and US/Mexico Relations”
• 3^rd Place:  Mia Iliana Solis, “Jewish Civic Organization in El Paso and Its Role in Global Holocaust History”

For more information:

Dr. Brad Cartwright
Director
Center for History Teaching & Learning
LART 334
bjcartwright@utep.edu
747-5878