UALR will be reprecented by six budding historians this week at the annual Regional Conference of Phi Alpha Theta, the honorary society for history, held at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.

Students representing UALR and their research areas are:

• Shenandoah Strojek, “The Katyn Massacre.”
• Theresa Howlett, “The Impact of State Reforms on the Status of Women in Turkey.”
• Robert Nunn, “The Other Exodus: Jewish Migration from Arab Countries after 1948.”
• Nancy Lynn Holman, “Leprosy: The Survival of Misconception in Modern Society.”
• Samantha Staggs, “Virtue, Vice, and the Obscene: The French Women Who Wrote Erotica From the Old Regime to the Modern Period.”
• Ivy Renfro, “Distorted Windows to the Past: Anne Frank, Film, and American History.”

For more information about the society, contact Dr. Vincent A. Vinikas, professor of history, at 501.569.8153.