2006 (Philadelphia)
Health Care: Theory and Practice
Moderator:  Len Zane, NCHC President (1996)

Adequate healthcare may be limited by a wide variety of barriers, including insufficient communication or cultural constraints.  Overcoming such obstacles to the delivery of proper healthcare provide the theme running through the distinctively different papers that make up this panel.

Darron Fry                             
“Historical and Social Implications of Asperger Syndrome in Education”

Heather J. Sobko
“Concept Analysis of Concordance:  Establishing a Working Definition for Heart Transplant Nurses and Patients”

Kristen Shirley
“Ethiopia: Hamlin Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital”

2007 (Denver)
Gender Roles, Feminism, and Romance in Popular Culture.
Moderator:  Bernice Braid, NCHC President (1979)

From comic books to romance novels to reality television, these papers investigate the  tensions that surface in popular representations of gender roles and explore how women might assert themselves when challenged by repressive hierarchies.

Tabitha Lucas
“Wonder Woman:  Feminists and Superhero Comics”

Andrea Drygas
“(Mis)Representation of Hierarchy and Binary Oppositions:  Equality and Feminism in the Modern Romance Novel”

Sonja Todorovich
“Happily Ever After in the Bachelor’s Romance Machine:  The Perpetuation of American Consumerism through Diorama Hyperrealism and Heteronormative Relations”

2008 (San Antonio)
Economies of Change: Race, European Union, and German Nationhood
Moderator: Norm Weiner, NCHC President (2004)

This panel investigates the dynamics of changing economies from use of credit scoring in contemporary America to the challenges of economic convergence in the increasingly powerful European Union to the economic circumstances of early twentieth century Germany.

Anthony Champi
“Credit Scores, Race, and Income”

Ellen Burton
“Economic Convergence and Noncompliance: An Examination of the European Union”

Ryan Caouette
“Going for Broke: Nazi Economic Policy and Defeat in World War Two”

2009 (Washington D.C.)
Reading Culture: Clowns, Wizards, & Truffula Trees
Moderator: Rosalie Otero, NCHC Past President (2002)

Alecia Eberhardt
“Dr. Seuss vs. Social Justice: The Political Side of His Children’s Book Classics”

Meghan Hekker
“Self-Made Sorcerer: The Modernization of Merlyn in Jack Whyte’s The Camulod Chronicles”

Benjamin Yarling
“Adventures in Clown Town: A Sociological Journey