Student Achievements
In support of the university's mission, FGCU History faculty place great importance on mentoring our history majors in their research and scholarship. In recent years, we have helped our students prepare conference presentations and publish their work. FGCU History professors assist our students' research and scholarship in other ways, such as working with them one-on-one to prepare for graduate school. These are some of our students' recent accomplishments:
Undergraduate Students
Publications
Frank Picirillo, "Revolutionary Violence and the Anarcho-Bolshevik Split," in Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians, Vol. 18 (April 2011). Receipient of the "Thomas M. Campbell Award" for the best paper published in Vol. 18 of the Annual Proceedings.
Stefanie Babb, “'Bloody Sunday' and Its Effect on the Irish Republican Cause,” in Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians, Vol. 17 (February 2010), pp. 27-34.
Andrew Rice, "Mercenaries of the Angevin Empire: Reputations and Royal Power," in Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians, Vol. 17 (February 2010), pp. 69-81.
Angela Webb, "Jane Addams and the Legacy of Hull-House," in Proceedings of the Florida Conference of Historians, Vol. 17 (February 2010), pp. 89-95.
Recent Conference Presentations
2011 Florida Conference of Historians Annual Conference:
William Murphy, “Strange Bedfellows: The SPD, the Freikorps, and the Suppression of the Far Left in the German Revolution”
Frank Picirillo, “Genocide and Forced Collectivization in Stalinist Russia”
Michael Rodriguez, “Hitler versus Christ: Nazism’s Shifting Attitudes toward Christianity.”
Janet Schalk, “Manfred von Richthofen and the Making of a Greater Great War”
2010 conference of the Russian Historical Memory Foundation (Moscow, April 2010)
Chris Zakroff, "Babi Yar and the History of Ukrainian Antisemitism"
2010 Florida Conference of Historians Annual Conference:
Stefanie Babb, "Socrates versus Athenian Democracy: How One Man Created Civic Conflict"
Dawn Cappiello, “UnrealisticVisions: The Representation of Women and Civic Conflict in the Plays of Aristophanes"
Sara Gottwalles, "Operation T4: Secret Death"
Matt Kaye, "U.S. Journalism and Representations of Latin America, 1836-1898"
Billy Mattingly, "Can't We All Just Get Along: Why People in the Ancient World Raised Armies Against Native Cities"
William Murphy, “The Dada Movement: Its Origins, Impetus, and Influence”
Frank Piccirillo, “Revolutionary Violence and the Anarcho-Bolshevik Split”
Janet Schalk, "Plague and Moral Decline: Classical Athens and Medieval Europe"
Deniece Vella, “The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’s Influence on Jewish Resistance, 1943-1945”
Andrew von Ohlsen, "Athens versus Sparta: The Eternal Conflict"
Chris Zakroff, "Mikhail Gorbachev’s Policies during Perestroika: Reconciling Effective Economics with the Dissolution of the Soviet State."
2009 Florida Conference of Historians Annual Conference:
Stefanie Babb, “The Social Injustices of ‘Bloody Sunday’ and their Effect on the Irish Republican Cause”
Andrew Cain, “Revering the Emperor: Understanding Twentieth Century Japanese Nationalism”
Terri Crowley, “Why Rosewood?: Unprecedented Racial Violence in Peaceful Community”
Lewisa Dove, “The Consequences of Conviction: John Brown”
Heather Kiszkiel, “The Progression of Women and the First Ladies of the American Presidency"
William Mattingly, “How the Irish Mythological Cycle Derived From Greek Mythology”
Andrew Rice, “Mercenaries of the Angevin Empire: The False Portrayal and Their Effects on Royal Power”
Andrea Stevens, “The Red Scare of the 1950s”
Angela Webb, “Jane Addams and the Legacy of Hull-House”
2008 Florida Conference of Historians Annual Conference:
Rick Ramos, "The Slave Ships: Deadly to Slaves and Sailors Alike"
2007 Florida Conference of Historians Annual Conference:
Ingrid Fernandez, "The Upper Amazonian Rubber Boom and Indigenous Rights, 1900-1925"
Rick Ramos, "The Cigar Factory Lector: Educator, Reporter, Entertainer and Revolutionary"
