Students and faculty present in Washington D.C.

Big congratulations to UWSP students from History 217, Michael Bixby, Julienna Hagan and John Lenz, who presented their research at the Council on Undergraduate Research's Posters on the Hill event in Washington D.C. on 24 April 2012, and to their faculty advisors History Professor Valerie Barske and University Archivist Ruth Wachter-Nelson.  Out of 850 applications, the Council accepted 74 posters to be presented, and only 12 were from the humanities, which included Bixby, Hagan and Lenz.

(L to R: Ruth Wachter-Nelson, Julienna Hagan, Michael Bixby, Valerie Barske, John Lenz)

The students’ research project represented the first study analyzing primary source materials on East Asia from the Malcolm L. Rosholt Archival Collection held in the UWSP Archives. Rosholt covered the Japanese invasions of China as a journalist, publisher, and editor of an English-language newspaper in Shanghai, from 1932-1937. While in China, Rosholt focused on achieving a complex understanding of the Chinese language, and cultural history. During World War II, the Army Air Corps commissioned Rosholt to employ his linguistic and cultural training as a liaison officer for the elite “Flying Tigers,” 1943 - 1945. Later, he became known for his works on local histories on Wisconsin, including Portage County.