“The Art of the Age of Discovery –
The Art of the 16th & 17th Centuries as a Backdrop of Jamestown”
 - David F. Alexick, Christopher
Newport University, Department of Fine Arts & Art History

“If Only Columbus Had Been An Artist:
A Poetic-Philosophical Reflection”
- Kim Kipling, Radford University, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies

“Pocahontas, John Smith and Terrance Malick’s The New World: A Synthetic Illusion”
- Jay Hansford C. Vest, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Department of American Indian Studies

“Corporate Engagement: A Service Learning Proposal They Can’t Refuse”
- Mary Best, Christopher Newport University, Department of Communication Studies

“Games and Contests as Mirrors of American Character: The Case of the Scots-Irish”
- Gilmer Blackburn, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, Academic Affairs

“America and Global Technology”
- George Teschner, Christopher Newport University, Department of Philosophy

“1708 to 1978: American Horizons in Philip Levine’s ‘You Can Have It’”: A Literary Analysis of a Poem Situated in 300 Years of American Horizons”
-Lee Campbell, Valdosta State University, English Department

“A Passage from the Journal of Esther Edwards: The Invention of Colonial America in Modern Public School Textbooks”
- Randolph Covington, Bridgewater College,
English Department

“The U.S. Immigrant Experience for Women”
- Constance Smith, University of Mary Washington, English Department

“Smith’s Narrative on the Discovery of Virginia: a Justification Analysis”
- Jeffrey Carr, Christopher Newport University, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies

“Myth and Reality in America ‘Sacred’ Landscapes, Related to the Founding of Yellowstone National Park”
- Kip Redick, Christopher Newport University, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies

“Witchery in the New World: Religious Ideologies and their Legal and Social Heritage
- Lori Underwood & Dawn Hutchinson,
Christopher Newport University, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies

“Pocahontas in the American Imagination”
- Rosemary Guruswamy, Radford University, English Department

“Guns, Race, Meat, and Manifest Destiny: Inventing America in Ozeki’s My Year of Meats”
- Mara Scanlon, University of Mary Washington, English Department

  “The Paper of Narrative: Female Authority and the Role of Gendered Bodies in Catharine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie”
-Jennifer Smith, Virginia Commonwealth University, English Department

“Has Buddhism Changed America?”
- Marwood Larson-Harris, Roanoke College, Department of Religion

“Has Buddhism Changed American Literature: Dharma Bums and the Literature Counter-Culture”
-Nickolas Montgomery, Roanoke College, Department of Religion and Philosophy

“The Martial Arts and American Culture”
- Colin Mullins, Roanoke College, Department of Philosophy and Religion

“Imagined Commonwealth: Virginia, the Citizen Soldier, and the Yorktown Commemoration”
- Sarah Goldberger, University of Illinois-Chicago, History Department

“If Pocahontas Had Lived – Just Imagine: Possible Pasts (Toward Altered Futures?) For Jamestown”
-Marion Nelson, Virginia Commonwealth University, History Department

“Virginia: The Altered State of Realities”
- Eve Davis, Hampton University
- Deborah Goodwyn, Virginia State University

“Conversion versus Syncretism and the Possibility of Globalizing Democracy”
- Krysta Johnson, Christopher Newport University, 2006

“The Apocalypse in American Visual Art”
- Michelle Aellen, Christopher Newport University, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Student

“American Popular Music, Death Metal, and the Apocalypse”
- Frederick Blackburn, Christopher Newport University, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Student

“Existential Apocalyptic Visions”
- Jacob Porter, Christopher Newport University, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Student

“Apocalyptic Cinema: Action Adventure as Apocalypse”
- Justin Pritchett, Christopher Newport University, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Student

“A Final Stand: The Apocalypse According to Stephen King”
- Jennifer Vencill, Christopher Newport University, Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, Student