Jenevieve Jaax, left, Sonya Smetana, Andrea Langhoff, Jennifer Sonterre and Professor Robert Galler at an undergraduate session on “Rethinking the Gilded Age and Progress Era in U.S. History”.
Seven St. Cloud State University history students presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference at Brandon University in Manitoba Sept. 25-28.
The Northern Great Plains History Conference is a professional gathering of scholars, historians, history students and other practitioners of history, who live work and study in the Northern Great Plains of the United States and on the Canadian prairies. Participants present papers and roundtables on historical subjects from around the globe and throughout time. This year’s conference was held at Brandon University in Manitoba.
Kyle Imdieke earned the William E. Lass Award for his paper presentation “‘Born of Hunger’: The Growth of Diversity at an Upper Midwest University, 1908-2018”.
Kyle Imdieke won the William E. Lass Award for his paper “‘Born of Hunger’ The Growth of Diversity at an Upper Midwest University, 1908-2018′”. Imdieke wrote the paper while serving as the university’s sesquicentennial intern.
The William E. Lass Award is awarded for the best student paper on any topic in the geographic areas where Lass carried out his research, a region which includes Minnesota and seven other U.S. states and three Canadian provinces.
Also presenting from St. Cloud State were:
- Kayla Steilow presenting: “Agency and Engagement: Japanese Americans in Central Minnesota during World War II”
- Mohamed Mohamud presenting: “The Various Experiences and Challenges of Somali Immigrants in Central Minnesota”
- Sonya Smetana presenting: “Oppression and Resistance: Chinese Immigrants in the Late 19th Century”
- Jennifer Sonterre presenting: “The Impact of the Gilded Age’s Forgotten Presidents and their Policies”
- Jenevieve Jaax presenting: “Native American experiences in the ‘Progressive Era'”
- Andrea Langhoff presenting “Beyond Suffrage; Women of the Progressive Era”
The students come from the public history master’s program, and undergraduate programs in history and social studies education.
Kyle Imdieke, left, Professor Emerita Betsy Glade, Mohamed Mohamud and Kayla Stielow participated in a session on “Complicating the Midwest: Diverse Twentieth Century Experiences in Central Minnesota”, which focused on papers pertaining to St. Cloud State history.
