On Saturday, March 25, five history students and two faculty represented Texas Wesleyan at the 2023 North Central Texas Phi Alpha Theta Regional Meeting held at Tarleton State University in Fort Worth. The conference hosted undergraduate and graduate students, each presenting their research and responding to audience questions. The lunch keynote address, "Cigarettes, Chocolate, and Misappropriation: The GI as Supplier for the Black Market in Postwar Germany," was delivered by Dr. Micheal Fasulo, Federal Contract Historian, Pentagon. 

Students/Paper Titles

• Cesar Espino: "The Ramifications of Ignoring the Treaty of Guadalupe"
• Clara Friedlander, "Fanning the Flames: The Triangle Factory Fire in the Media"
• Selina Humphrey, "War Well the Wounds: The Divine Feminine in Medieval Art"
• Chloe Mefford, "The Half King and the War Over the Ohio Country"
• Alfonso Salais, "The Overturning of the 1875 Civil Rights Act"

Texas Wesleyan student Clara Friedlander was awarded one of the conference's three "best paper" awards in the undergraduate research paper category!

Dr. Brenda Matthews and Dr. Chris Ohan accompanied the students and chaired sessions at the conference. 

Funding for student conference participation was provided by the generosity of the Dr. Elizabeth Alexander History Scholar Fund.

About Phi Alpha Theta

Phi Alpha Theta (ΦΑΘ) is an American honor society for undergraduate and graduate students and professors of history. The society has more than 350,000 members, with about 9,500 new members joining each year through 860 local chapters. The Omega Zeta Chapter was chartered at Texas Wesleyan on April 23, 1979.

For more information about Phi Alpha Theta or the History program at Texas Wesleyan, visit www.txwes.edu/history.