PROGRAM FOR THE 2024 NEW YORK HISTORY CONFERENCE
All times and locations are subject to change
New York State Cultural Education Center, Albany, N.Y.
June 20-21, 2024
NY History Lighting Round – Thursday, June 20, 2024, 5-6pm, Huxley Theater
-Robin Campbell & Richard Hamm, University at Albany, “The Scoundrel and the Prostitute”
-Brad Edmondson, Independent Historian, “Conflict in the Adirondacks, 1973-1993”
-Rachel Greenfield, Independent Historian, “The Father/Son trademark case of 1900”
-Edythe Ann Quinn, Hartwick College, “Never to Fail in Anything He Undertakes’: Abolitionist, Rev. Levin Tilmon, African American Minister and Entrepreneur”
-Lauren Kozakiewicz, University at Albany, Communities in Conflict: Abortion Reform in New York
-Antoinette Sutto, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Library and Archives, "From the Hybrid Corn Revolution to the Atomic Age: Farmers and Scientists on Long Island in the Twentieth Century”
-Wunetu Tarrant, Guild Hall, “Ayím Kutoowonk Shinnecock Language Initiative”
-Youwei Xing, Clemson University, “The Erie Canal and the Economic Transformation of Nineteenth-Century New York State”
Conference Sessions – Friday June 21, 2024, 9:00am – 5:00pm, Cultural Education Center
Session 1—9:00am-10:15am
Huxley Theater—Maintaining Haudenosaunee Futurity: Conflict over Land and Language
-Moderator: Michael Oberg, Professor, SUNY Geneseo
-Montgomery Hill, Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo: “A History of Documentation”
-Kelly Hopkins, Assistant Professor, University of Houston: “We Have a Power to go Where We Please:’ Haudenosaunee Communities Confront Imperial Expansion”
-Elana Krischer, Visiting Assistant Professor, Marist College: “Un/settling the Empire State: The Holland Land Company and the Limits of Western Expansion in Nineteenth-Century New York”
Meeting Room A/B—Archeology and the Physical Evidence of Military Activity in New York
-Moderator: Michael Lucas, Curator of Historical Archeology, New York State Museum
-Matthew Kirk, Principal Investigator of Hartgen Archeological Associates: “Recent Archeology of the Early Military Academy at West Point”
-Charles Vandrei, Archeologist and Historic Preservation Officer, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation: “Archaeology at Lake George Battlefield Park”
Librarian’s Room—The Public and Its Health
-Moderator: TBD
-Eric Cimino, Department of History, Molloy College: “The Nurses Emergency Council, Settlement Houses, and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New York City”
-Micah Blaichman, Ph.D. student, New York University: "Sanitary Government: AICP, Public Baths, and the Battle to Clean New York City"
-Semaj Campbell-Blakes, Ph.D. Candidate in History, Syracuse University: “Young Mothers and The Creation of a Reproductive Health Crises in the Urban North 1955 - 2005”
Members Lounge—Freedom Seekers, Free Blacks, and the Struggle for Abolition and Emancipation in New York State
-Moderator: Josh Poole, Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center
-Peter Bunten, Executive Director, Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project and Vice President, Underground Railroad Consortium of New York State: “Interface between local freedom seekers, enslaved people, free Blacks and their collective impact in the abolition movement”
-Paul Stewart, Co-founder, Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region: “Role of free Black activists who reorganized schools, churches, newspapers, self-help societies and businesses strengthening local Black communities”
-James Ponzo, Professor, University at Buffalo: “Role of New York’s Northern Tier in the Development of Black Organizations”
Library Classroom—Educator Workshop: New/Twentieth Century Media
-Rich Pyszczek, Buffalo Public Schools/NYPHT & NFCSS: “Rich Newberg Reports: Buffalo Black History Showcase”
-Matthew Hendley and Ed Beck, State University of New York at Oneonta: “Chronicling a Crisis: SUNY Oneonta's Pandemic Diaries Project” Matthew Hendley, Professor of History, State University of New York at Oneonta Ed Beck, Open & Online Learning Specialist, Faculty Center for Teaching, Learning & Scholarship, State University of New York at Oneonta
Session 2—10:35am-11:50am
Huxley Theater—Black Communities in New York State
-Moderator: Cordell Reaves, Coordinator, Community Affairs, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
-Michael B. Boston, Department of African and African American Studies, SUNY Brockport: “Booker T. Washington and the National Negro Business League in New York State”
-Amy Godine, Independent scholar, and writer: “Erasure and Recovery: The Story of the Black Woods”
-Bryan S. Thompson, Municipal Historian, Town of De Kalb: “The Lost Black Community of Massena, New York”
Meeting Room A/B—The SEEK Program in the City University of New York (CUNY): Conflict, Confrontation, and Change
-Moderator: Carol Giardina, History Department, Queens College
-Annie Tummino, Head of Special Collections and Archives, Queens College Library
-Obden Mondésir, Oral Historian, and Archivist, Haitian Studies Institute at Brooklyn College
-Conor ‘Coco’ Tomás Reed, Program Director of the Shape of Cities to Come Institute
Librarian’s Room—The Importance of Clothing to the Presentation of the Historical Narrative
-Moderator: Connie Frisbee Houde, Curator Clothing and Textiles at the New York State Museum
-Maeve Kane, Associate Professor Department of History SUNY Albany
-Deborah Emmons-Andarawis, Executive Director and Curator of Historic Cherry Hill
Members Lounge—Ethnic Identity and Religious Community in New York State
-Moderator: Elizabeth Stack, Executive Director, American Irish Historical Society
-Mark Richard, SUNY Plattsburgh, “Creating a Catholic Community in the Québec-New York
-Brad Kolodny, Jewish Historical Society of Long Island, “The Jews of Long Island, 1705-1918.”
-Patrick Grigsby, Texas A & M University, “A Dangerous Pantomime: Machine Politicians and Irish Nationalism in New York City, 1845-1872”
-Terry Golway, College of State Island, “Confirm or Deny: The Problem of Identity for Irish Revolutionaries in America”
Library Classroom—Educator Workshop: Agency in Teaching Marginalized Histories
-Allyson Schettino, New-York Historical Society Museum & Library, “Teaching Indigenous Responses to the Crisis of Colonization”
-Mary Liz and Paul Stewart, Underground Railroad Education Center, “The UGRR: a New Interpretation of an Old Story”
Session 3—2:15pm-3:30pm
Huxley Theater—Telling Untold Stories
-Moderator: Christine Ridarsky, Rochester City Historian
-Becky Chapin, Geneva History Museum, “Beyond the Hudson: Exploring Slavery in the Finger Lakes”
-Beau Lancaster, Historian and Professor, City University of New York: “Public knowledge and acknowledgment of historic African-American LGBTQ+ sites”
-L.C. Santangelo, Lecturer, Princeton University: “He Was a Lady: Transing New York at Century’s Turn”
Meeting Room A/B—The COVID-19 Pandemic in New York State: Documenting the Ordeal and Interpreting Its History
-Moderator: Robert W. Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian, Rutgers University Department of History Emeritus
-Anna Maria Kowalchuk, Executive Director, Livingston County Historical Society and Museum: “Curator of ‘1918 Influenza Pandemic and COVID-19: Deadly Viruses a century apart’”
-Jennifer Lemak, Chief Curator, New York State Museum: “New Yorker’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic”
-Meral Agish, Interim Director, Queens Memory Project at Queens Public Library
-Carlos S Rico, Fordham University: “Co-founder of Bronx Covid-19 Oral History Project”
Librarian’s Room—The National Votes for Women Trail
-Moderator: Judith Wellman, Professor Emerita, SUNY Oswego
-Nancy Brown, Founder, The Elizabeth Cady Staton Hometown Association: “What can historic sites tell us about the movement for women’s suffrage in New York State”
-Lilian Williams, Associate Professor, Director of Community Engagements, University of Buffalo: “Identifying and marking sites for Charlotte Dett and Mary Talbert”
-Karen Pastorello, Tompkins Cortland Community College: “Researching and nominating Elixa Wright Osborne and the Auburn Branch of the Educational and Industrial Union”
Members Lounge—New York in the Revolution
-Moderator: Zachary Diebel, PhD Candidate, Binghamton University
-Daniel Hulsebosch, N.Y.U. School of Law: "Confiscation in the American Revolution: Taking Property, Making the State"
-Vic DiSanto, Museum Associate, Iroquois Museum: “Andre's Captors Revisited: Setting the Record Straight”
TBD
Library Classroom—Educator Workshop: Methods and Student Research
-Gretchen Sorin, William Walker and Kathryn Boardman, Cooperstown Graduate Program/SUNY Oneonta: “Connecting Historians, Educators, and Students through National History Day”
-James Jenkins, Jordan Jace, Vicki Weiss, NYSED Office of Cultural Education, “Connecting Your Collections to the K-12 Curriculum”
Session 4—3:45pm-5:00pm
Huxley Theater—Fighting for LGBTQIA+ Lives: From Rights and Legislation to Preservation and Remembrance
-Moderator: Ren Lee, Agora Project Fellow, Museum Association of New York
-Ashley Hopkins-Benton, Senior Historian/Curator, New York State Museum: “New York State Museum, Human Rights Ordinance, Albany NY”
-Jeff Iovannone, Preservation planner, Landmark Society of Western New York: “Firebrand Books, Ithaca NY”
-Hugh Ryan, Writer, and Curator: “The Women’s House of Detention. Manhattan NY”
Meeting Room A/B—Digital Public History: Making History Accessible to a Wide Audience
-Moderator: Don Wildman, television history adventurer
-Lauren Roberts, Historian, Saratoga County: “A New York Minute in History” podcast and producer of “Harnessing Nature: Building the Great Sacandaga Lake”
-Peter-Christian Aigner, Director, Gotham Center for New York City History: “Gothams Center's New York Revolutionary Trail” interactive website and app
-Paul A. Miller, Independent writer, photographer, and filmmaker: “Searching for Timbuctoo”
-Devin Lander, New York State Historian: “A New York Minute in History” podcast and the collaboration between the William G. Pomeroy Foundation, the New York State Museum, and WAMC-Northeast Public Radio
Librarian’s Room—Our Whole History: Putting People in Place for Richer Historic Narratives
-Moderator: Kjirsten Gustavson, Coordinator of the Interpretation Unit for NYS
-Kim Hill, Interpreter of Native American History for NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation-Bureau of Historic Sites
-Lavada Nahon, Interpreter of African American History for NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation-Bureau of Historic Sites
-Zachery Veith, Historic Site Assistant, Staatsburgh State Historic Site
Members Lounge—And Equity for All: Building Diverse and Inclusive Archives
-Moderator: Bob Clark, Director of Archives, Rockefeller Archive Center
-Jasmine Bumpers, Archivist, Access Services Unit of the New York State Archives
-Jennifer Burns, Lecturer, Department of Africana Studies at the University at Albany
-John Diefenderfer, Archivist, Archival Advisory Services Unit of the New York State Archives
-Jessica Murray, Project Consultant, NYC Disability Rights Archive, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Library Classroom—Educator Workshop: Migration and Movement
-Jessica Terry-Elliott, Syracuse University, “Black Parade: To, From, and To Central New York”
-Liz Burns Taormina, Institute for Curriculum Services: “Coming to America: The Jewish Immigration Experience, 1880 – 1924”
