3 YSU history graduate students to attend conference in Hawaii

The students will present research at an international conference.

YOUNGSTOWN — Three Youngstown State University graduate students will be taking off for sunny Hawaii later this week, but they aren’t going for the sun and surf.

Josh Foster of Campbell, Tanya Frampton of Leetonia and Jennifer Hanuschek of Youngstown, graduate students in YSU’s history department, will present scholarly papers at the sixth annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities.

“This is an excellent venue for students to not only get experience presenting papers at a conference but also to get published — what for many must seem a dream come true,” said Fred Viehe, YSU associate professor of history.

The conference runs Friday through Monday in Honolulu. Last year, more than 1,100 academicians and students from more than 40 countries attended.

This is the fourth year that Viehe has taken YSU graduate students to the conference. In the first three years, all four of the students had their papers selected for publication in the conference proceedings.

“This speaks volumes concerning the quality of our graduate students as well as to the quality of the history graduate program at YSU,” Viehe said.

Foster will present two papers: “Kings of the Jungle: The Influence of the Jungle Inn on Organized Crime and Gambling in Northeast Ohio, 1936-1950,” and “The History and Holocaust of the Romaniote Jews of Ioannina, Greece.”

Hanuschek’s paper is titled “The Iconography of Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s USSR,” and Frampton’s paper is titled “Women of Iran.” 

Viehe also will present a paper at the conference titled “Neighborhood Invasion as a Pattern of Ethnocultural Violence in Jacksonian America.”

The trip is partially funded by the School of Graduate Studies, the Office of the Provost and the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.