Past Conferences

The Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference would like to congratulate the best papers of 2008.

Best Paper, Overall: Gerrit Dirkmaat, “'Prevent Them from Taking Part Against Us': James K. Polk, the Fear of Foreign Intervention in the Mexican War, and the Raising of the Mormon Battalion."

Best Paper, American History: Tim Schorzman, "Caught in a Rundown: Baseball and the Japanese American Struggle for Acceptance."

Best Paper, European History: Deborah Bauer, "The Scope of Intelligence: Assessing the Uses and Prospects of Espionage in Third Republic France, 1870-1918."

Best Paper, Interdisciplinary History: George Philip LeBourdais, "Void/Silhouette, Or How Photography Remade the Mountainous Sublime."