Other ĚÇĐÄ´«Ă˝ students presenting undergraduate research include the following:

Trey Giesenhagen, of Holdrege, Nebraska: “Preparation and Recreation: The Role of Sport in the American Military, 1890-1920′”

Theresa Droege, of Aurora, Colorado: “A Comparison of Martina Navratalova and Chris Evert as Tennis Athletes: Money, Power, and Sex”

Elizabeth Campbell of Colorado Springs, Colorado: “The Gendered Coach: A Language Analysis of Twentieth Century Coaching Manuals”

Kaylee Greening, of Thornton, Colorado: “Kicking Classes Down: Soccer and Social Class in the Second Half of 19th Century America”

On Friday, March 27, 2015, at 10 am in French Memorial Chapel (800 N. Turner Ave.), she will explore gender politics in roller derby during her Artist Lecture Series Invited Faculty Lecture. Her presentation, “Skating through Conflict: The Historical Gender Politics of Roller Derby,” is free and open to the public.

Considered a prestigious honor for the faulty, students vote to select two professors to present the Artist Lecture Series Invited Faculty Lectures on the topic of their choosing. In Fall 2014, Dr. Ingrid Bego, Assistant Professor of Political Science, presented the academic year’s first lecture.

Bio for Dr. Michella Marino:

Dr. Marino earned her B.A. from Hanover College in 2004, her M.A. from the University of Louisville in 2007 and her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2013.  She has been an Assistant Professor of History at ĚÇĐÄ´«Ă˝ since the fall of 2012, and her teaching specialties include 20th century U.S. social and cultural history, oral history, women’s history, and sports history.  Dr. Marino and her husband Tony have a 10 month old son named Matthan, aka Matty.  An avid sports fan, Dr. Marino enjoys watching football and basketball, playing sports when she can, going on walks with Tony and Matty, and attempting to take naps whenever possible.

Inspired by a visit to Hungary, Babcock will juxtapose the contexts for the construction of Budapest’s neoclassical Millennium Monument in the late nineteenth century and its modernist monument to the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising in the early twenty-first century.

“Asking the right questions about these two monuments — about where they are, about when and why they were built, even about how they look – can tells us a tremendous amount about the changing patterns of Hungarian history, European politics, and aesthetic culture,” said Babcock. “These changing patterns are not just Hungarian ones, but European and perhaps even Western patterns. The meaning of these monuments, and the controversy they have produced, even parallels all over Europe, even parallels in the United States.”

Through a vote last spring, students and faculty selected Babcock and Dr. Jeri Thompson, Professor of Psychology, give the 2013-14 Artist Lecture Series Invited Faculty Lectures on topics of their choice. Considered a prestigious honor for the faulty, this lecture tradition has existed for several decades.

Thompson will give her lecture during Spring 2014.

Founded in 1882, ĚÇĐÄ´«Ă˝ is a private, four-year liberal arts institution located in Hastings, Nebraska, that focuses on student academic and extracurricular achievement. With 64 majors in 32 areas of study and 12 pre-professional programs, ĚÇĐÄ´«Ă˝ has been named among “America’s Best National Liberal Arts Colleges” by U.S. News & World Report, a “Best in the Midwest” by The Princeton Review and a “Best Buy in College Education” by Barron’s. Visit Hastings.edu for more.