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North American Conference on British Studies
November 13-15
The Doubletree By Hilton
Little Rock, Arkansas
About NACBS
The North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) is a scholarly
society founded in 1950 and dedicated to all aspects of British Studies.
The NACBS sponsors publications and an annual conference, as well as
several academic prizes and graduate fellowships. Its regional affiliates
include the Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies (MACBS), the
Midwest Conference on British Studies (MWCBS), the Northeast
Conference on British Studies (NECBS), the Pacific Coast Conference on
British Studies (PCCBS), the Southern Conference on British Studies
(SCBS), and the Western Conference on British Studies (WCBS).
For more information about the NACBS and its affiliates consult
www.nacbs.org.
The 2016 conference, held in conjunction with the Mid-Atlantic
Conference on British Studies, will convene November 11-13 in
Washington, DC. For directions on submitting papers and panels for the
2016 conference, consult the NACBS website.
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Acknowledgements
The NACBS and SCBS thank the following organizations and institutions
for their very generous sponsorship of this conference:
Adam Matthew Group
British Council
Cambridge University Press
Huntington Library
Institute for Historical Research
Oxford University Press
American Friends of Attingham
History Department, University of Arkansas
Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas
History Department, Texas Tech University
History Department, Tulane University
Program in British Studies, University of Texas at Austin
History Department, Mississippi State University
History Department, Louisiana State University
History Department, Vanderbilt University
History Department, Southern Methodist University
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, The Citadel
History Department, University of Arkansas Little Rock
We are grateful for the abiding support of the British Council. Here is a
message from Mr. Paul Smith, Director, British Council USA:
The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for
cultural relations and educational opportunities. We create
international opportunities for the people of the UK and other
countries and build trust between them worldwide.
We work in more than 100 countries and our 8,000 staff –
including 2,000 teachers – work with thousands of professionals
and policy makers and millions of young people every year by
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teaching English, sharing the arts and delivering education and
society programmes.
We are a UK charity governed by Royal Charter. A core publiclyfunded grant provides 20 per cent of our turnover which last
year was £864 million. The rest of our revenues are earned from
services which customers around the world pay for, such as
language consultancy, education and development contracts
and from partnerships with public and private organisations. All
our work is in pursuit of our charitable purpose and supports
prosperity and security for the UK and globally.
For more information, please visit: www.britishcouncil.org. You
can also keep in touch with the British Council through
http://twitter.com/britishcouncil and http://blog.britishcouncil.
org/.
We are very grateful to Jason Kelly for his generous assistance with the
website and registration; to Keith Wrightson and Susan Pennybacker for
their support of the Program Committee and its work; and to Daniel
Pearce of Cambridge University Press, who helped with both proposal
submission and registration.
We are very grateful to Katherine Grenier, Rebecca Hayes, Lisa Diller
and Robert Ingram for their assistance with arrangements for the
meeting. Special thanks go out to John Inscoe, Stephen Berry and John
Kirk of the Southern Historical Association for help with local
arrangements, and to Joelle Neulander for program design. We would
also like to recognize Velva French and India Davenport of the
Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Little Rock for their invaluable
contributions to the success of the conference.
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NACBS Executive Committee
President
Keith Wrightson, Yale University
Vice President
Susan Pennybacker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Immediate Past President
Dane Kennedy, The George Washington University
Executive Secretary
Paul R. Deslandes, University of Vermont
Associate Executive Secretary
Elizabeth Prevost, Grinnell College
Treasurer
Travis Glasson, Temple University
Elected Members of the NACBS Council
Elizabeth Ewan, University of Guelph
Paul Halliday, University of Virginia
Andrew Muldoon, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Susan Pedersen, Columbia University
Rachel Weil, Cornell University
NACBS/SCBS Program Committee
Program Chair
Phil Harling, University of Kentucky
Program Committee
Alastair Bellany, Rutgers University
Deborah Cohen, Northwestern University
Elizabeth Elbourne, McGill University
Karl Gunther, University of Miami
Krista Kesselring, Dalhousie University
Kate Staples, West Virginia University
Susie Steinbach, Hamline University
Robert Travers, Cornell University
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SCBS Officers
President
Katherine Grenier, The Citadel
Vice-President
Karl Gunther, University of Miami
Secretary/Treasurer
Eric Reisenauer, University of South Carolina at Sumter
Immediate Past President
William Anthony Hay, Mississippi State University
Chancellor for SCBS Affairs
John Hutcheson, Dalton State College
SCBS Local Arrangements
Katherine Grenier, The Citadel
Exhibitors
The NACBS and the SCBS wish to recognize our exhibitors:
Adam Matthew Group
Boydell and Brewer
Cambridge University Press
Oxford University Press
Scholars’ Choice
We are grateful for their generous and continuing support. Please visit
our exhibitors in the Salon B Room. Book Exhibit Hours: Friday 8:30-5,
Saturday 8:30-5, Sunday 8:30-noon
Registration (2nd Floor Lobby): Thursday 4-7, Friday 8-5, Saturday 8-1
Free Continental Breakfast, Salon D: Friday 7:45-9, Saturday 7:45-9,
Sunday 7:45-8:45
Graduate Student Reception: Palisades Room: Thursday 8-9:30.
Graduate students attending the conference are invited to a welcome
reception, hosted by the NACBS Executive Council.
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Doubletree by Hilton, Little Rock
Floor plans
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Friday, November 13
Friday
7:45-9:00
Continental Breakfast
SALON D
SESSION ONE:
Friday
8:45-10:30
1. The House of Lords and British Society: Personal
Politics in a Public Arena, 1660-1714
EDGEHILL
Chair and Comment: Paul Seaward, History of
Parliament Trust
Aristocracy and Avarice: The story of the Albemarle
inheritance
Ruth Paley, History of Parliament Trust
“Open House at Hell”? Honour and corruption within
the House of Lords, c. 1688-1700
Robin Eagles, History of Parliament Trust
Irish Appellate Cases at the Dublin and Westminster
Parliaments
Coleman Dennehy, University College, London
2. Architecture and the Sciences in Victorian Britain
RIVERSIDE EAST
Chair and Comment: Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola
Marymount University
Photography and the Scientification of Architecture in
the Late Victorian Era
David Frazer Lewis, Yale Center for British Art
Geological Ethics: John Ruskin’s “Truth of Essences”
Marrikka Trotter, Harvard University
Building Parliament and Knowledge: The Science of
the Palace of Westminster
Edward John Gillin, Oxford University
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Friday, November 13
SESSION ONE
(cont’d):
Friday
8:45-10:30
3. Ireland within British Imperial Culture
RIVERSIDE WEST
Chair: Michael de Nie, University of West Georgia
Ireland, the Imperial Turn and Four-Nations History:
How the Empire Makes the United Kingdom Make
Sense
Stephanie Barczewski, Clemson University
Irish Wives for German Soldiers: State-Sponsored
Migration to the Cape Colony during the 1850s
Jill Bender, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
“Coloured and white policemen drilling side by side”:
Imperial Encounters in Late Victorian and Edwardian
Dublin
Michael Silvestri, Clemson University
Comment: Paul Townend, University of North
Carolina-Wilmington
4. Emotional Currencies of Empire
SALON A
Chair and Comment: Dane Kennedy, The George
Washington University
“Going Native”: Colonial Informants and Contentious
Intimacies
Kim Wagner, Queen Mary University of London
(Marie Curie Fellow, George Washington University,
2015-17)
The “Terrorist” and his Jailor: Prison Intimacies in the
Colonial Prison
Durba Ghosh, Cornell University
“The Colour Bar is all Bunk”: South African Hospitality
during the Second World War
Jean Smith, University of Leeds
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Friday, November 13
SESSION ONE
(cont’d):
Friday
8:45-10:30
5. Political Economy and Imperial Competition in
the Long Eighteenth Century
SALON C
Chair: Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College
Guarda Costas in the Early English Empire, 1670-1700
Leslie Theibert, University of Oxford
The War of Jenkins’ Ear and the Political Economy of
Empire
Steven Pincus, Yale University
“Bad Money”: The Royal Mint at the Crossroads of
Empire, 1782-1837
Heather Welland, SUNY Binghamton
Comment: Sarah Kinkel, Ohio University
6. Masculinity on the Backfoot
PALISADES
Chair: Isaac Land, Indiana State University
Where Are Your Wives?: Laughing at African
Explorers
Angela Thompsell, The College at Brockport, SUNY
Liberalizing Paternalism? Men and the 1893 Slander
of Women Act
Caroline Shaw, Bates College
(Un)Lawful Confinement and Victorian Masculinity
Amy Milne-Smith, Wilfrid Laurier University
Comment: Allison Abra, University of Southern
Mississippi
Friday
10:30-10:45
Coffee Break
FOYER
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Friday, November 13
SESSION TWO:
Friday
10:45-12:30
7. (Re)Evaluating the Social Space of Early Modern
Households
EDGEHILL
Chair: Elizabeth Ewan, University of Guelph
“Believing na evill nor Injury”: Urban Households and
Petty Crimes in Early Modern Scotland
Rob Falconer, Grant MacEwan University
“A Good Servant is a Precious Jewell”: Mistresses and
Servants in the Early Modern English Elite Household
Courtney Thomas, Independent Scholar
Helping to Slipe their Calfes: Man-Midwifery at the
Court of Charles II
Sarah Kelly, Independent Scholar
Comment: Richard Connors, University of Ottawa
8. Fighting for Britain? Negotiating Identities in
Britain during the Second World War
RIVERSIDE EAST
Chair: Juliette Pattinson, University of Kent
Recovering English-Welsh Hybridity in the Second
World War
Wendy Ugolini, University of Edinburgh
Britain, the Countryside and “Englishness” in the
Second World War
Lucy Noakes, University of Brighton
“Some Idea of our Country”: Scotland, Wales and
Northern Ireland in Early Wartime Documentary Film
Stuart Allan, National Museums Scotland
Comment: Susan R. Grayzel, University of Mississippi
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Friday, November 13
SESSION TWO
(cont’d):
Friday
10:45-12:30
9. Rethinking the Role of Religion in SeventeenthCentury English Politics
RIVERSIDE WEST
Chair: Catherine Chou, Stanford University
Contemptuous Words Spoken in the Fleet: Religion
and Sedition in the Early Modern Prison
Richard Thomas Bell, Stanford University
Subversive Orthodoxy: Dying for the Lord’s Deposed
Anointed in Protectorate England
Mark T. Duggan, Rutgers University
The Devil is in the Details: Metaphysical
Epistemologies in Anti-Popish Critiques of Charles I
Christopher P. Gillett, Brown University
Comment: Brad S. Gregory, University of Notre Dame
10. Reimagining the “Primitive”: History,
Anthropology, and the Past in the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Centuries
SALON A
Chair: Andrew Muldoon, Metropolitan State
University of Denver
Modernity and the Moon Goddess: Feminism,
Psychology, and the “Primitive” in the Early Twentieth
Century
Joy Dixon, University of British Columbia
Doomed to Die: Anthropology and the Future of
Endangered Races in Modern Settler Colonies
Sadiah Qureshi, University of Birmingham
“Primitive” Art, “Primitivism,” and the Modern
Savage: Approaches to the History and Science of
Culture
Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola Marymount
University
Comment: Chris Manias, University of Manchester
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Friday, November 13
SESSION TWO
(cont’d):
11. Reactions to the Imperial Civil War
SALON C
Friday
10:45-12:30
Chair and Comment: Hannah Weiss Muller, Brandeis
University
“The Race of the Insipids”?: Neutrals and Neutrality in
the American Revolution
Travis Glasson, Temple University
Striking the King: Legal Rituals of Royalism and
Rebellion during the American Revolution
Brendan Gillis, Indiana University
Labor and Property in the American Revolution
John Collins, Eastern Washington University
12. Redeeming Tommy Atkins: Poetry, Patriotism,
and Performance at the Fin-de-Siècle
PALISADES
Chair and Comment: Douglas Peers, University of
Waterloo
Kipling and the Poetics of the Anglo-Afghan Wars
Zarena Aslami, Michigan State University
Kipling's Bully Pulpit: Music Hall Patriotism Revisited
Peter Bailey, University of Manitoba and Indiana
University
Living Links to History, or, Victorian Veterans in the
Twentieth-Century World
Lara Kriegel, Indiana University
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Friday, November 13
LUNCH AND
PLENARY ADDRESS
12:45-2:30
SALON D
Chair: Keith Wrightson (Yale University), President,
NACBS
Plucked Hens and Principals: Tackling Dutch Politics in
Seventeenth-Century England
Jason Peacey, University College London
The NACBS thanks the British Council and Paul Smith, Director of the British
Council USA, for co-sponsoring Professor Peacey’s appearance.
SESSION THREE:
Friday
2:45-4:30
13. Modern History Workshop: The Individual and
Society
EDGEHILL
(Session will run to 5:15)
Note: Pre-circulated papers for this workshop are
available from Deborah Cohen (Deborah-Cohen
@northwestern.edu). A portion of this session will
be reserved for questions from the floor; advance
reading of the papers by audience members is not
expected or required.
Chairs: Deborah Cohen, Northwestern University
Matt Houlbrook, University of Birmingham
“The impressionistic brush of a Turner, not the
microscopic detail of a Canaletto”: Reflections on the
Use of Qualitative Evidence in Reconstructing Social
History
Alan Allport, Syracuse University
Celebrity and Empire: The Performance of Ruling in
British India, 1760-1925
Christina Casey, Cornell University
Enterprise on the Margins: New Protagonists in
British Business History
Jessica P. Clark, Brock University
"In Me Two Worlds”: Dona Torr and the Construction
of the Marxist Individual, 1900-1956
Cath Feely, University of Derby
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Friday, November 13
SESSION THREE
(cont’d):
Friday
2:45-4:30
The Tailor and Thomas Carlyle: Exceptionality and the
Hidden Injuries of the Representative in Modern
Britain
Christopher Ferguson, Auburn University
Sharing With Strangers: Alcoholics Anonymous UK in
the Late Twentieth Century
Katie Harper, University of California, Berkeley
Individual Investors and Financialization in Post-War
Britain
Kieran Heinemann, University of Cambridge
Exemplars of Political and Ideological Change in
Northampton, 1867-1918
Matthew Kidd, University of Nottingham
On the Biographies of Nobodies: Telling the History of
Marginalized Individuals
Julia Laite, Birkbeck, University of London
Sidgwick's Greek Prose Composition: Gender, Affect,
and Sociability in the Late-Victorian University
Emily Rutherford, Columbia University
“Sympathetic Ink”: Individual Identity in the 1820s
Effort to Reform the British Sodomy Laws
Charles Upchurch, Florida State University
14. Early-Modern History Workshop: Political
History
RIVERSIDE EAST
(Session will run to 5:15)
Note: Papers will be made available in cases where
author consent has been given. Please contact
Brendan
Kane
for
details
(brendan.kane
@uconn.edu). A portion of this session will be
reserved for questions from the floor; advance
reading of the papers by audience members is not
expected or required.
Chairs: Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut
William Bulman, Lehigh University
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Friday, November 13
SESSION THREE
(cont’d):
Friday
2:45-4:30
Ritual, Order and Disorder during the Interregnum:
The Evidence from the Prayer Book(s)
Hilary Bogert-Winkler, University of Connecticut
The Rise of the Majority
William Bulman, Lehigh University
Parliament in the Elizabethan Political Imagination:
New Perspectives and Paradigms
Catherine Chou, Stanford University
The Printing Press and the Pulpit: Imperial
Propaganda for England's National Project, 16071623
Kelsey Flynn, The George Washington University
“Credibly Informed”: Information Management and
the Protestant Construction of Jesuit Influence in the
Constitutional Crisis of 1647
Christopher Gillett, Brown University
Politics and Popular Appeals – Law, Legal Pamphlets
and Mobilisation in the first English Civil War
Alex Hitchman, University of Sheffield
Beyond the Spenser-Davies Group: Reading for
Legitimacy in English Treatises on Governing Ireland
Brendan Kane, University of Connecticut
The Down Survey: Science and Political History in
Stuart Ireland
Ted McCormick, Concordia University
The Loyalty of Traitors: Mary Fenwick and Jacobite
Ideology in Late Stuart England
Kaitlin Pontzer, Cornell University
The World in the Archive: The Production of Political
Knowledge in Early Modern Britain
Nicholas Popper, College of William & Mary
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Friday, November 13
SESSION THREE
(cont’d):
Friday
2:45-4:30
15. Roundtable: The English Reformation: Past,
Present, and Future
RIVERSIDE WEST
Chair and Comment: Robert Ingram, Ohio University
Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University
Eric Josef Carlson, Gustavus Adolphus College
Karl Gunther, University of Miami
Joel Dodson, Southern Connecticut State University
16. Sustenance and Starvation: Food and the
Cultural Politics of Welfare in Twentieth-Century
Britain
SALON A
Chair: Paul Deslandes, University of Vermont
Strikes, “Starvation,” and Welfare Politics in 1926
Marjorie Levine-Clark, University of Colorado,
Denver
“Hot Drinks Mean Much in Jungle”: Tea in the Service
of War
Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Nations Out of Nurseries, Empires Into Bottles: The
Global Politics of Welfare Orange Juice
Nadja Durbach, University of Utah
Comment: Deborah Valenze, Barnard College
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Friday, November 13
SESSION THREE
(cont’d):
Friday
2:45-4:30
17. New Histories of the Welfare State
SALON C
Chair: Guy Ortolano, New York University
“Necessary” Medicine in the Early NHS
Amy Whipple, Xavier University
“I’ve gone down, slipped; I’m from that Strata who
lives off the State”: Women’s Selfhood and the
Welfare State since 1945
Eve Worth, Queen’s College, University of Oxford
Bad Neighbors, Bad Bosses, Bad Feelings: The Making
of the Race Relations Conciliation Officer, 1958-1976
Camilla Schofield, University of East Anglia
Comment: Selina Todd, St. Hilda’s College, University
of Oxford
18. Women and Power Relationships: Cultural
Assumptions, Negotiations and Resistance
PALISADES
Chair and Comment: Jessica Sheetz-Nguyen,
University of Central Oklahoma
Female Factory Inspectors, Gertrude Tuckwell, the
Women’s Trade Union League and the Struggle
against Workplace Fines and Deductions, 1893-1913
Christopher Frank, University of Manitoba
Dealing with the Army: Regimental Life of the Wives
of Enlisted Men and NCOs in the Nineteenth Century
Lynn MacKay, Brandon University
“We found as free ingress into their cells as if we had
been a regiment of confessors”: Wellington’s Officers
and the Seduction of Portuguese Nuns
Jennine Hurl-Eamon, Trent University
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Friday, November 13
Friday, November
13
4:30-4:45
Coffee Break
FOYER
4:30-6:00
Board Meeting: American Friends of the Institute for
Historical Research
SALON A
Board Meeting: Canadian Friends of the Institute
for Historical Research
SALON C
4:45-5:15
Business meeting: Southern Conference on British
Studies
RIVERSIDE WEST
5:15-5:45
Business meeting: North American Conference on
British Studies
RIVERSIDE WEST
Friday, November
13
6:00-7:30
Reception and NACBS Awards Presentation.
SALON D
The awards presentation will begin at 6:30.
Conference attendees are asked to remain quiet
during this interval, so that all who are present can
hear the presentations and duly acknowledge their
peers. If you must talk during this portion of the
reception, please retreat to the hallway outside Salon
D.
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Saturday, November 14
Saturday,
November 14
7:45-9:00
Continental Breakfast
SALON D
SESSION FOUR:
Saturday,
November 14
8:45-10:30
19. Naval Healthcare at Home and at the Edge of
Empire, 1570-1825
EDGEHILL
Chair: Greg Smith, University of Manitoba
“In Misery and Distress”: Healthcare in the Early
English East India Company, 1601-1611
Cheryl Fury, University of New Brunswick, St. John
“The Most Affectionate and Unremitted Care and
Attention”: Black Nurses, Racial Immunity, and British
West Indian Naval Hospitals, 1790-1825
Erin Spinney, University of Saskatchewan
London’s Hospitals and the Fiscal-Naval State, 16501715
Matthew Neufeld, University of Saskatchewan
Comment: Krista Kesselring, Dalhousie University
20. Ceremony and Authority in Modern Britain and
the British Empire
RIVERSIDE EAST
Chair and Comment: Timothy Alborn, Lehman
College, City University of New York
Royal Ritual and Performance in Colonial Africa
Charles Reed, Elizabeth City State University
The Call of the Medieval: Inventing Rituals for
Honours in the Twentieth Century
Tobias Harper, Providence College
Ritual Murder: Popular Reactions to Anglican
Liturgical Reform, 1965-1980
Daniel Loss, Harvard University
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Saturday, November 14
SESSION FOUR
(cont’d):
Saturday,
November 14
8:45-10:30
21. Gender and the Professionalization of “Culture,”
c. 1880 to c. 1969
RIVERSIDE WEST
Chair: Peter Mandler, Gonville and Caius College,
University of Cambridge
The Women’s Guild of Arts: Women Artists and
Tactics of Professionalization in the Arts and Crafts
Movement, c. 1880-1930
Zoe Thomas, Royal Holloway, University of London
“The Amateur Trader”: Women in the Market for
Antiques, c. 1880-1940
Heidi Egginton, Newnham College, University of
Cambridge
Untangling Thirsk’s Law: Women and History in MidTwentieth-Century Britain
Laura Carter, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
Comment: Leslie Howsam, University of Windsor
22. Environments of Rebellion: Climate, Resources,
and Politics in Early Modern Britain and the Atlantic
SALON A
Chair: J. Sears McGee, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Mapping Rebellion: Evaluating Plantation Land in
Late Tudor Ireland, 1584-1603
Keith Pluymers, Caltech
Winter and Discontent in Early Modern England
William Cavert, St. Thomas University
First Fruits of Cynicism: Creating Environmental Law
for Economic Reward in the Early Modern British
World
Jennifer Wells, Brown University
Comment: Derek Hirst, Washington University in St.
Louis
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Saturday, November 14
SESSION FOUR:
Saturday,
November 14
8:45-10:30
23. Roundtable: Queer in the Classroom
SALON C
Moderator: Paul Deslandes, University of Vermont
Chris Waters, Williams College
Katie Hindmarch-Watson, Colorado State University
Matt Houlbrook, University of Birmingham
Charles Upchurch, Florida State University
24. Roundtable: The Early Modern Legacy of
Religious Liberty
PALISADES
Moderator: Robert Ingram, Ohio University
The Other Religious Liberty
Brent Sirota, North Carolina State University
Arguments for Religious Liberty as Tactics of
Oppression
William Bulman, Lehigh University
Gender, Family, and Religious Liberty in Early Modern
England
Susan D. Amussen, University of California, Merced
Tolerating Whom for What Purpose?
Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University
Comment: Brad S. Gregory, University of Notre
Dame
Saturday,
November 14
10:30-10:45
Coffee Break
FOYER
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Saturday, November 14
SESSION FIVE:
Saturday,
November 14
10:45-12:30
25. Jews, Jewishness, and the Formation of
National Identity in the British Empire
RIVERSIDE EAST
Chair: Dane Kennedy, The George Washington
University
Political Lives between Nation and Empire: Jewish
Elites in Mandatory Palestine and the “British
Question”
Elizabeth Imber, The Johns Hopkins University
Agitate, Friend Moses: Jews in the Irish Nationalist
Imagination
Aidan Beatty, University of Chicago
Tales of Love and Darkness: Zionism, the British
Empire and Colonial Nostalgia in the Work of Amos
Oz
Eitan Bar-Yosef, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Comment: David Feldman, Birkbeck, University of
London
26. Chartist Leaders and Ideas
RIVERSIDE WEST
Chair: James J. Sack, University of Illinois at Chicago
“The Most Consistent of Them All”: William Sharman
Crawford as a Chartist
Anthony Daly, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Anti-Semitism in the Chartist Movement: The
Localities
Denis Paz, University of North Texas
Bronterre O’Brien, Chartism, and Money
Michael J. Turner, Appalachian State University
Comment: James A. Epstein, Vanderbilt University
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Saturday, November 14
SESSION FIVE
(cont’d):
Saturday,
November 14
10:45-12:30
27. Urban Racial Politics in Post-War Britain
SALON A
Chair and Comment: Susan Pennybacker, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Egba Mi: Spaces and Sounds of African London
Marc Matera, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Anti-Discrimination Paradox: Race Relations
Policy, Policing and the Politics of Black British
Citizenship
Kennetta Hammond Perry, East Carolina University
Rastafari at the Odeon, Birmingham. 22 June 1976
Bill Schwarz, Queen Mary University of London
28. Political Communities and New Forms of
Solidarity in Seventeenth-Century England
SALON C
Chair and Comment: Rachel Weil, Cornell University
John Lilburne’s Allies: English Political Culture and its
Transformations in the Revolutionary Decades (16401660)
Michael Braddick, University of Sheffield
Dissident Networks and Anglo-Dutch Print Culture in
the Seventeenth Century
Jason Peacey, University College London
“Spoken by ye one and confirmed by ye other”:
Memory, Sedition, and Solidarity in PostRevolutionary England, 1660-1685”
Edward Legon, King’s College London
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Saturday, November 14
SESSION FIVE
(cont’d):
Saturday,
November 14
10:45-12:30
29. Leonore Davidoff: Pioneer Historian of Class and
Gender
PALISADES
Chair and Comment: Ellen Ross, Ramapo College of
New Jersey
The New Perspectives on Siblings and Sibling Death in
Davidoff’s Thicker Than Water (2012)
Lydia Murdoch, Vassar College
Evangelical Christianity, Class, and Gender: Family
Fortunes’ Invaluable Contribution to the Study of
Religion in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Pamela Walker, Carleton University
Leonore Davidoff as a Mentor in Social History and
Gender History
Anna Clark, University of Minnesota
Saturday,
November 14
12:45-2:30
Lunch and Luncheon Plenary
SALON D
Chair: Katherine Grenier (The Citadel), President,
Southern Conference on British Studies
Framework Trouble: Britain, the League of Nations,
and the Italo-Ethiopian War
Susan Pedersen, Columbia University
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Saturday, November 14
SESSION SIX:
Saturday,
November 14
2:45-4:30
30. The Evolution of Imperial Defense in the British
World, 1850-1974
EDGEHILL
Chair: John C. Mitcham, Duquesne University
The Professionalization of British Naval
Administration and the Evolution of Imperial Defense
Strategy, 1850-1875: A Case Study
John F. Beeler, University of Alabama
Forging a “Britannic Alliance”: The Dominions and
Imperial Security, 1907-1918
John C. Mitcham, Duquesne University
“Off the Diplomatic Net”: Imperial Ends and American
Means in the Indian Ocean, 1973-1974
Peter John Brobst, Ohio University
Comment: The Audience
31. Gender, Co-Operation, Resilience and Defence:
The British Home Front in the Second World War
RIVERSIDE EAST
Chair and Comment: Alan Allport, Syracuse
University
“The Royal Mail will always get through”:
Maintaining Communications on the Home and
Military Front during the Second World War
Mark Crowley, Wuhan University
Motherhood under Fire: Midwifery in Wartime
Britain, 1939-45
Sandra Dawson, Northern Illinois University
Calculated Risks: Armaments Production and Public
Safety in Wartime Britain
Peter Thorsheim, University of North Carolina at
Charlotte
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Saturday, November 14
SESSION SIX
(cont’d):
Saturday,
November 14
2:45-4:30
32. Print, Polemic and Publicity in Early Modern
England
RIVERSIDE WEST
Chair: Amy Harris, Brigham Young University
“Beyond Luther” and “Against Rome”: Richard
Bernard, Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Calvinism
Amy Tan, Vanderbilt University
Zachary Crofton’s Presbyterian Lash: Confessional
Conflict in a London Parish
Isaac Stephens, Saginaw Valley State University
“At the Office to Noon, and then to the Change”:
Publics, Publicity and Public Men in Early Restoration
London
David Magliocco, Vanderbilt University
Comment: Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University
33. Knowledge, Empire, and the East India
Company
SALON A
Chair: Holger Hoock, University of Pittsburgh
From the Winds of the Bay of Bengal: Science,
Empire, and Self
Sujit Sivasundaram, University of Cambridge
The East India Company, the Company’s Museum,
and the Political Economy of Natural History in the
Early Nineteenth Century
Jessica Ratcliff, Yale- NUS College
Mobilizing Paperwork in an Age of Imperial War: John
Bruce, the East India Company, and the Imperial
Archive in the Era of the French Wars
Asheesh Kapur Siddique, Columbia University
Comment: Durba Ghosh, Cornell University
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Saturday, November 14
SESSION SIX
(cont’d):
Saturday,
November 14
2:45-4:30
34. Pathways to Development: Private Actors and
th
Development in the 20 Century British Empire
SALON C
Chair and Comment: Erik Gilbert, Arkansas State
University
Doing the Work of Empire: Oil Companies as Agents
of Development
Karl Ittmann, University of Houston
Of Little Immediate Benefit: Colonial Development
Planning and Impoverishment in Central Tanzania
Gregory Maddox, Texas Southern University
“Notice Tenders for Contract”: Colonial Development
in the Imperial Periphery
Katie Valliere Streit, University of Houston
35. Roundtable: Women’s History in the Academy
PALISADES
Chair and Comment: Selina Todd, St. Hilda’s College,
University of Oxford
Susan Grayzel, University of Mississippi
Philippa Levine, University of Texas at Austin
Alexandra Shepard, University of Glasgow
Sarah Knott, Indiana University
Saturday,
November 14
4:30-4:45
Coffee Break
FOYER
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Saturday, November 14
Saturday,
November 14
5:00-6:00
Salon D
Presidential Address
SALON D
Chair: Susan Pennybacker, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Presidential Address: Keith Wrightson, Yale
University
Popular Senses of Time: “Dating Statements” and the
Rise of “Almanac Time” in England, c. 1560-c. 1720
Saturday,
November 14
6:15-7:45:
Reception
BUTLER CENTER FOR ARKANSAS STUDIES
(409 President Clinton Avenue, 501-320-5700)
Walk: 0.4 mile, 9 minutes. Head east on West
Markham Street (which shortly thereafter becomes
Clinton Avenue) for ~6 blocks. The Butler Center is
located in the Arkansas Studies Institute building (on
your right if you’re coming from the Doubletree), on
the southeast corner of Rock Street and Clinton
Avenue. The entrance is the fourth door on the
building, coming from the corner of Rock Street and
Clinton Avenue.
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Sunday, November 15
Sunday, November
15
7:45-8:45
Continental Breakfast
SALON D
SESSION SEVEN:
Sunday, November
15
8:30-10:15
36. Rumour, Politics, and Public Opinion in England,
c. 1381-1945
EDGEHILL
Chair and Comment: Andy Wood, Durham University
Rumour Right or Wrong: The Dangerous Power of
Common Talk in Late Medieval England
Christopher Fletcher, CNRS – University of Paris I
“Common Fame”: Rumour and the Vox Populi during
the Impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham, 1626
David Coast, Bath Spa University
Lions on the Loose and Sharks in the Channel: Rumour
and War in Britain, 1939-1945
Jo Fox, Durham University
37. Imperial Environments during the Late
Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
RIVERSIDE EAST
Chair and Comment: Mark Hampton, Lingnan
University
Daniells’ Calcutta: Visions of Life, Death, and
Nabobery in Late-Eighteenth-Century British India
Patrick Rasico, Vanderbilt University
The Texture of Empire: Botanic Gardens and
“Improvement” in India in the Nineteenth Century
J’Nese Williams, Vanderbilt University
Social Antidotes to China's Opium Plague: India and
the Culture of Imperial Reformism in Victorian Britain
Simon Case, Lingnan University
29
Sunday, November 15
SESSION SEVEN
(cont’d):
Sunday, November
15
8:30-10:15
38. Guilt and the Problem of Evil in the British
World
RIVERSIDE WEST
Chair and Comment: Martin J. Wiener, Rice
University
“The Worst sort of Christians make the Devil their
Play-Fellow”: Making Merry in Seventeenth-Century
New England
Charlotte Carrington-Farmer, Roger Williams
University
Sin, Satan, and Guilt in Eighteenth-Century Scottish
Crime Literature
Michelle Brock, Washington and Lee University
Evil and Evolution in Victorian Criminal Jurisprudence:
The Case of Frederick Bailey Deeming
Catherine Evans, Center for History and Economics,
Harvard University
39. Historical Pageants in Twentieth-Century Britain
and Ireland
SALON A
Chair and Comment: Paul Andrew Readman, King’s
College London
When Ireland was British: Hegemonic and CounterHegemonic Historical Pageants, 1907-1914
Joan Fitzpatrick Dean, University of Missouri-Kansas
City
“A Nation of Town Criers”: Civic Publicity and
Historical Pageants in 1930s Britain
Tom Hulme, King’s College London
“The Scots Pageant!”: The Arbroath Abbey Pageant
and the State of Unionism in Postwar Scotland
Linda Fleming, University of Glasgow
30
Sunday, November 15
SESSION SEVEN
(cont’d):
Sunday, November
15
8:30-10:15
40. Gender, Class, and Citizenship in Nineteenthand Twentieth-Century Britain
SALON C
Chair and Comment: Jacqueline deVries, Augsburg
College
“Disenfranchised for doing his Duty toward his Family
and his Neighbors”: Medicine, Pauperism, and the
Workingman’s Vote, 1867-1885
Matthew Newsom Kerr, Santa Clara University
Votes for Women or Votes for “Hodge”? Gender,
Class, and the Vote in the Reform Debates of the
1860s, 70s, and 80s
Jill Abney, University of Kentucky
Family Matters: Women, Domesticity, and the AntiImmigrationist Movement, 1955-1981
Nicole Longpré, Columbia University
41. The Meanings and Consequences of Violence in
the Nineteenth Century: Ireland, Britain, and the
Empire
PALISADES
Chair and Comment: Richard Price, University of
Maryland, College Park
“Brandishing Ireland as a Weapon of Warfare”: The
Problem of Irish “Outrage” and its Many Political
Uses, 1837-1839
Jay R. Roszman, Carnegie Mellon University
Belfast’s Polemical Parson: The Reverend Thomas
Drew and the Politics of Religious Violence in MidVictorian Belfast
Sean Farrell, Northern Illinois University
The Invention of Terrorism in Victorian Britain
William Meier, Texas Christian University
The Webb Case and the Regulation of Sexual Violence
in Colonial India, c. 1883
Ashley Wright, Washington State University
31
Sunday, November 15
Sunday, November
15
10:15-10:30
Coffee Break
FOYER
SESSION EIGHT:
Sunday, November
15
10:30-12:15
42. Tory Feminism? Women, Leadership and Sexual
Politics in the Conservative Party
EDGEHILL
Chair and Comment: Nicoletta Gullace, University of
New Hampshire
“Formulating a Policy of Special Interest to Women”
(M. Maxse): The British Conservative Party and the
Mobilization of Women, 1918-1945
Clarisse Berthezene, Paris Diderot University
“The Statutory Woman whose main task was to
explore what Women were likely to think”: Margaret
Thatcher and Women’s Politics in the 1950s
Krista Cowman, University of Lincoln
Tory Feminists in the Aftermath of Suffrage
Julie Gottlieb, University of Sheffield
From Crucial Female Auxiliaries to Superfluous
Women?: The Primrose League and its Struggle for
Survival, 1914-1932
Matthew Hendley, SUNY Oneonta
32
Sunday, November 15
SESSION EIGHT
(cont’d):
Sunday, November
15
10:30-12:15
43. “Pressing” the Empire into Service: The Colonial
Press Comes to London
RIVERSIDE EAST
Chair and Comment: Kim Wagner, Queen Mary
University of London (Marie Curie Fellow, George
Washington University, 2015-17)
Exporting Fleet Street: Editorship, Journalistic
Practice, and the Attempt to Make Good Journalists
in the Fold of Britain’s Empire
Leslie James, University of Birmingham
Nnamdi Azikiwe’s Debut and his British Stage: The
West African Press Delegation, 1943
Mark Reeves, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
Civil Rights in the Colonial Empire: The National
Council for Civil Liberties and the Translation of
Empire
Christopher Moores, University of Birmingham
44. Minding the Margins: Politics and the
Construction of Religious Identity in Early Stuart
England
RIVERSIDE WEST
Chair: Paul Lim, Vanderbilt University
Catholics and the Cromwellian Church: The Politics of
de jure versus de facto Toleration
Katherine G. Lazo, Vanderbilt University
Plundering the Presbyterians: The Covenant with
Moses and Godly Government in Interregnum
Theology and Political Thought
Andrew J. Martin, Vanderbilt University
Ecclesiastical Licensing, Religious Censorship, and the
Regulation of Consensus in Early Stuart England
Greg Salazar, University of Cambridge
Comment: Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate
University
33
Sunday, November 15
SESSION EIGHT
(cont’d):
Sunday, November
15
10:30-12:15
45. Managing Health and Avoiding Death in the
Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century British
Atlantic World
SALON A
Chair and Comment: Amanda Herbert, Christopher
Newport University
When Skulls Were Drugs: Cranium Humanum and
Exotic Medicines in the Early Modern World
Benjamin Breen, Columbia University
“To be well done must be well paid”: Transatlantic
Health Infrastructure in a Time of Sugar, Slaves, and
Scarcity
Zachary Dorner, Brown University
“A Difference of housing, clothing and turning out”:
The Evolution of Body Management Strategies in
British Plantation America, 1750-1807
Claire Gherini, The Johns Hopkins University
46. Education and Social Engineering in the British
Empire, 1830-1930
SALON C
Chair and Comment: David Mitch, University of
Maryland, Baltimore County
A Well-Ordered Home: Imperial Domestic Education
in British Malaya and British India, 1920-1930
Matthew Schauer, Oklahoma State University
Educating Free Jamaicans: Religion, Elementary
Education, and Childhood in Jamaica, 1838-1870
Christopher Bischof, University of Richmond
To Educate or Civilize? That is the Question: British
Women and Educational Rhetoric in Colonial Africa,
1900-1930
Elizabeth Schmidt, Texas A&M
“The Bulk of Our Problem”: Indian Law Students at
the Inns of Court, c. 1880-1930
Ren Pepitone, The Johns Hopkins University
34
Sunday, November 15
SESSION EIGHT
(cont’d):
Sunday, November
15
10:30-12:15
47. Britishness Beyond Britain
PALISADES
Chair and Comment: Patricia van der Spuy, Castleton
College
“We are a Great Class of British Subjects”: British
Cultural Identity amongst South African Indians,
1890-1914
Irina Spector-Marks, University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign
Between “Purity” and “Degeneration” in a Pacific
Utopia: Locating Britishness among the Pitcairn
Islanders
Adrian Young, Princeton University
From Colonized to Colonizer: Irish Immigrants,
Violence, and Public Identities in Upper Canada and
New South Wales, 1845-1868
Matthew Schownir, Purdue University
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36
37
38
39
40
41
Index
A
Abney, Jill
Abra, Allison
Alborn, Timothy
Allan, Stuart
Allport, Alan
Amussen, Susan D.
Aslami, Zarena
Panel 40
Panel 6
Panel 20
Panel 8
Panel 13, Panel 31
Panel 24
Panel 12
B
Bailey, Peter
Bar-Yosef, Eitan
Barczewski, Stephanie
Beatty, Aidan
Beeler, John F.
Bell, Richard Thomas
Bender, Jill
Berthezene, Clarisse
Bischof, Christopher
Bogert-Winkler, Hilary
Braddick, Michael
Breen, Benjamin
Brobst, Peter John
Brock, Michelle
Bulman, William
Panel 12
Panel 25
Panel 3
Panel 25
Panel 30
Panel 9
Panel 3
Panel 42
Panel 46
Panel 14
Panel 28
Panel 45
Panel 30
Panel 38
Panel 14, Panel 24
C
Carlson, Eric Josef
Carrington-Farmer, Charlotte
Carter, Laura
Case, Simon
Casey, Christina
Cavert, William
Chou, Catherine
Clark, Anna
Clark, Jessica P.
Coast, David
Cohen, Deborah
Collins, John
Connors, Richard
Cowman, Krista
Crowley, Mark
42
Panel 15
Panel 38
Panel 21
Panel 37
Panel 13
Panel 22
Panel 9, Panel 14
Panel 29
Panel 13
Panel 36
Panel 13
Panel 11
Panel 7
Panel 42
Panel 31
Index
D
Daly, Anthony
Dawson, Sandra
de Nie, Michael
Dean, Joan Fitzpatrick
Dennehy, Coleman
Deslandes, Paul
deVries, Jacqueline
Dixon, Joy
Dodson, Joel
Dorner, Zachary
Duggan, Mark T.
Durbach, Nadja
E
Eagles, Robin
Egginton, Heidi
Epstein, James
Evans, Catherine
Panel 1
Panel 21
Panel 26
Panel 38
F
Falconer, Rob
Farrell, Sean
Feely, Cath
Feldman, David
Ferguson, Christopher
Ferrell, Lori Anne
Fleming, Linda
Fletcher, Christopher
Flynn, Kelsey
Fox, Jo
Frank, Christopher
Fury, Cheryl
Panel 7
Panel 41
Panel 13
Panel 25
Panel 13
Panel 44
Panel 39
Panel 36
Panel 14
Panel 36
Panel 18
Panel 19
G
Gherini, Claire
Ghosh, Durba
Gilbert, Erik
Gillett, Christopher P.
Gillin, Edward John
Gillis, Brendan
Glasson, Travis
Gottlieb, Julie
Grayzel, Susan R.
Gregory, Brad S.
Panel 45
Panel 4, Panel 33
Panel 34
Panel 9, Panel 14
Panel 2
Panel 11
Panel 11
Panel 42
Panel 8, Panel 35
Panel 9, Panel 24
43
Panel 26
Panel 31
Panel 3
Panel 39
Panel 1
Panel 16, Panel 23
Panel 40
Panel 10
Panel 15
Panel 45
Panel 9
Panel 16
Index
Gullace, Nicoletta
Gunther, Karl
Panel 42
Panel 15
H
Hampton, Mark
Harper, Katie
Harper, Tobias
Harris, Amy
Heinemann, Kieran
Hendley, Matthew
Herbert, Amanda
Hirst, Derek
Hindmarch-Watson, Katie
Hitchman, Alex
Hoock, Holger
Houlbrook, Matt
Howsam, Leslie
Hulme, Tom
Hurl-Eamon, Jennine
Panel 37
Panel 13
Panel 20
Panel 32
Panel 13
Panel 42
Panel 45
Panel 22
Panel 23
Panel 14
Panel 33
Panel 13, Panel 23
Panel 21
Panel 39
Panel 18
I
Imber, Elizabeth
Ingram, Robert
Ittmann, Karl
Panel 25
Panel 15, Panel 24
Panel 34
J
James, Leslie
K
Kane, Brendan
Kelly, Sarah
Kennedy, Dane
Kerr, Matthew Newsom
Kesselring, Krista
Kidd, Matthew
Kinkel, Sarah
Knott, Sarah
Kriegel, Lara
L
Laite, Julia
Lake, Peter
Land, Isaac
Lazo, Katherine G.
Legon, Edward
Panel 43
44
Panel 14
Panel 7
Panel 4, Panel 25
Panel 40
Panel 19
Panel 13
Panel 5
Panel 35
Panel 12
Panel 13
Panel 15, Panel 24, Panel 32
Panel 6
Panel 44
Panel 28
Index
Levine-Clark, Marjorie
Levine, Philippa
Lewis, David Frazer
Lim, Paul
Longpré, Nicole
Loss, Daniel
Panel 16
Panel 35
Panel 2
Panel 44
Panel 40
Panel 20
M
MacKay, Lynn
Maddox, Gregory
Magliocco, David
Mandler, Peter
Manias, Chris
Martin, Andrew J.
Matera, Marc
McCormick, Ted
McGee, J. Sears
Meier, William
Milne-Smith, Amy
Mitch, David
Mitcham, John C.
Moores, Christopher
Muldoon, Andrew
Muller, Hannah Weiss
Murdoch, Lydia
Panel 18
Panel 34
Panel 32
Panel 21
Panel 10
Panel 44
Panel 27
Panel 14
Panel 22
Panel 41
Panel 6
Panel 46
Panel 30
Panel 43
Panel 10
Panel 11
Panel 29
N
Neufeld, Matthew
Noakes, Lucy
Panel 19
Panel 8
O
Ortolano, Guy
Panel 17
P
Paley, Ruth
Pattinson, Juliette
Paz, Denis
Peacey, Jason
Pedersen, Susan
Peers, Douglas
Pennybacker, Susan
Pepitone, Ren
Perry, Kennetta Hammond
Pincus, Steven
45
Panel 1
Panel 8
Panel 26
Friday Lunch, Panel 28
Saturday Lunch
Panel 12
Panel 27
Panel 46
Panel 27
Panel 5
Index
Pluymers, Keith
Pontzer, Kaitlin
Popper, Nicholas
Price, Richard
Panel 22
Panel 14
Panel 14
Panel 41
Q
Qureshi, Sadiah
Panel 10
R
Rappaport, Erika
Rasico, Patrick
Ratcliff, Jessica
Readman, Paul Andrew
Reed, Charles
Reeves, Mark
Ross, Ellen
Roszman, Jay R.
Rutherford, Emily
Panel 16
Panel 37
Panel 33
Panel 39
Panel 20
Panel 43
Panel 29
Panel 41
Panel 13
S
Sack, James J.
Salazar, Greg
Schauer, Matthew
Schmidt, Elizabeth
Schofield, Camilla
Schownir, Matthew
Schwarz, Bill
Seaward, Paul
Shaw, Caroline
Sheetz-Nguyen, Jessica
Shepard, Alexandra
Siddique, Asheesh Kapur
Silvestri, Michael
Sirota, Brent
Sivasundaram, Sujit
Smith, Greg
Smith, Jean
Spector-Marks, Irina
Spinney, Erin
Stephens, Isaac
Streit, Katie Valliere
Panel 26
Panel 44
Panel 46
Panel 46
Panel 17
Panel 47
Panel 27
Panel 1
Panel 6
Panel 18
Panel 35
Panel 33
Panel 3
Panel 24
Panel 33
Panel 19
Panel 4
Panel 47
Panel 19
Panel 32
Panel 34
T
Tan, Amy
Theibert, Leslie
Panel 32
Panel 5
46
Index
Thomas, Courtney
Thomas, Zoe
Thompsell, Angela
Thorsheim, Peter
Todd, Selina
Townend, Paul
Trotter, Marrikka
Turner, Michael J.
Panel 7
Panel 21
Panel 6
Panel 31
Panel 17, Panel 35
Panel 3
Panel 2
Panel 26
U
Ugolini, Wendy
Upchurch, Charles
Panel 8
Panel 13, Panel 23
V
Valenze, Deborah
van der Spuy, Patricia
W
Wagner, Kim
Panel 4, Panel 43
Walker, Pamela
Panel 29
Waters, Chris
Panel 23
Weil, Rachel
Panel 28
Welland, Heather
Panel 5
Wells, Jennifer
Panel 22
Wennerlind, Carl
Panel 5
Whipple, Amy
Panel 17
Wiener, Martin J.
Panel 38
Williams, J’Nese
Panel 37
Wood, Andy
Panel 36
Woodson-Boulton, Amy
Panel 2, Panel 10
Worth, Eve
Panel 17
Wright, Ashley
Panel 41
Wrightson, Keith
Saturday Presidential Address
Y
Young, Adrian
47
Panel 16
Panel 47
Panel 47