Six Students to Present Research at Phi Alpha Theta Conference

Six St. Mary's College of Maryland students were selected to present their research at the 2023 Phi Alpha Theta (National History Honors Society) Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference on March 25 at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. The students and their research topics are as follows: Sophie Hannah '23 (The Changing American Definition of Femininity and Women’s Gender Expectations from 1925 to 1935); Ben Johnson '25 (Differentiating the “Führer” from the “True” Hitler); Eleanor Pratt '23 (A Reforming Spirit: Gender Anxieties and Spiritualism in the Progressive Era); Chrissy Ringel '24 (A Historiography of the American Postal Service); Mortimer Shiflett '27 (The Importance of the Soviet Air Force During World War II); and Jordan Williams '23 (Helen Keller’s Radical Progressive Activism).