WELCOME TO RESEARCH DAY, Salem State’s annual showcase and celebration of research, scholarship, and creative inquiry. Join us at any point in the day for engaging presentations, panel discussions, performances, and more.
The day begins with the Undergraduate Research Symposium from 9 am to 12 pm, followed by the BIAC Plenary at 12:15 pm, and the Faculty and Graduate Research Symposium from 1:30 to 6 pm, with many events taking place throughout the day.
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Voices of the Past: Current Topics in History 1:30 - 2:30 pm | faculty and graduate panel session I Bertolon Central Classroom Building room 114
Mary Larkin Faculty Advisor: Margo Shea A Prayer for the Dune
Research on the Cumann na mBan during the Irish Civil War has focused on "gender-appropriate" political activity that largely ignores women combatants. My grandmother, Margaret “Peg” Langan, never shared her experiences as a political activist. Firing weapons, dressing as a man, engaging in front line combat, and serving time in prison, she is a figure of history who silenced her own story or was silenced by those shaping the narratives of 1916-1923. This paper utilizes traces and artifacts to piece together Langan’s experience, leveraging it in order to examine the role of silence and voice in shaping Irish histories.
Matthew G. Swindell Faculty advisor: Donna Seger Street Railway Embrace and Resistance on the Massachusetts North Shore
This work presents a history of embrace and distaste for street railways on the Massachusetts North Shore during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In some communities, the streetcar was desired as an economic stimulant and a vital transport method. In others, it was repulsed for fear of bringing undesirable elements. The divergent development of the North Shore, as an inclusive industrial center and an exclusive summer resort, divided the region on street railway development.
