The 33rd annual Young Historians Conference will be held at Portland State University on April 26th, 2023. The conference brings together PSU’s history department and area high schools that participate in college level history classes, such as the PSU Challenge Program, other dual credit programs, or AP history. Courses include, but are not limited to, American History, Western Civilization, and World History. Courses must include a major assignment that is a history research paper. History instructors select the best of these for the student authors to submit for consideration. A history department lead faculty member works with a jury of history graduate students to assess the submissions and choose up to 30 papers for the presentation.

The conference is organized into concurrent sessions by themes determined by the Jury and lead faculty member. Each session has at least three presenters who have approximately 10 minutes to present their paper. The audience is made up of their classmates and a faculty moderator from the history department. At the end of the presentations, the faculty moderator leads a discussion.

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Schedule
2023
Wednesday, April 26th
8:00 AM

33rd Annual Young Historians Conference Program

Portland State University History Department
Portland State University Challenge Program

8:00 AM

9:00 AM

A Double Edged Blade: Contrasting Theories of Dissection within 16th Century Italy

Sarah Zdebski, St Mary's Academy

9:00 AM

9:00 AM

Institutionalizing Femininity: A History of Medical Malpractice and Oppression of Women Through 19th century American Mental Asylums

Ciara E. Pruett, St. Mary's Academy

9:00 AM

9:00 AM

Law and Cultural Attitudes Towards Abortion: Ancient Civilizations to Present

Scarlett O. Anderson, Grant High School

9:00 AM

9:00 AM

Menstruation Products and Perceptions: Breaking Through the Crimson Ceiling

Ava Colleran

9:00 AM

9:00 AM

Rite to Death, Left to Life: Death Ritual as a Cross-Cultural Unit of Analysis

Ro M. Runkel

9:00 AM

9:00 AM

The History Of Vampire Folklore: Fear and Introspection 2000 BCE.-2000 CE.

Poppy N. Baxter Game

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Odysseus of the Arctic: The Epic of John Franklin and the Search for his Lost Expedition

Andy Manne, St. Mary's Academy

10:30 AM

10:30 AM

The Contribution of Domestic and International Conflict In Renaissance Italy to the Sport of Fencing

Amelia E. Nason, St. Mary's Academy

10:30 AM

12:30 PM

“An Impediment to Those Who Would Walk the Difficult Way”: How St. Francis of Assisi’s Revolution in Catholic Thought Was Built on the Perceived Inferiority of Femininity

Julian F. Balsley, Grant High School

12:30 PM

12:30 PM

Death and Vengeance Behind Every Corner: The Great Purge and the Psychology of Joseph Stalin

Isabella Gurin, St. Mary's Academy

12:30 PM

12:30 PM

Machiavelli's The Prince: Utopia and Dystopia

Lea Yonago, Portland State University

12:30 PM

12:30 PM

Most Vulgar and Barbarous: A History of Tattoo Stigma

Sophie Luzier, Grant High School

12:30 PM

12:30 PM

The Court of Versailles Under Lou’s XIV: Home to the Desperate, the Destitute, and the Debauched

Evelyn L. Cooper, St. Mary’s Academy

12:30 PM