Session Chair: Laura Hicks, Collin College

• Paul Dean, Ohio Wesleyan University, “Lifting While We Rise: First- Gen Graduates Giving Back”
• Jillian Yarbrough, West Texas A&M University, “Exclusionary and Biased Interview Questions”
• Shannon Simmons, Texas Woman’s University, “Financial Identity Dissonance in Adoption”

Session Chair, Rachel Gunter, Collin College

• Katherine Walters, Texas State Historical Association, “Saving White Supremacy: Women Primary Suffrage in Texas”
• Michael Phillips, Collin College, “A Serviceable Villain: Eugenics and the Fear of the ‘Underman’ in Texas Thought and Culture”
• Keith Volanto, Collin College, “‘Up in Arms’: Local Protests vs. the Placement of Black CCC Camps in Texas” (presented by Kyle Wilkison, Collin College)

Session Chairs: Lari Ranta and Zack Shipley, Collin College

• Students from the Learning Community Course, “Hoping for Change,” Collin College

Session Chair: Lisa A. Kirby, Collin College

• Christiana Aberle, “A Privilege for Emily: The Role of Social Class in Faulkner’s Short Story”
• Amani Salama, “American Companies Should Not Move Jobs Overseas to Cut Costs”
• Naravadee McNeely, “Consequences for All: Big Fish Eats Small Fish”

Session Chair, Melody M. Miyamoto Walters

• Zachary Montz, Sam Houston State University, “What Killed the Tyler Tire Plant?: A Story of Labor, Economic Change, and State Hostility”
• Justin Jolly, Texas Christian University, “A Tale of Two Unions: The United Packinghouse Workers of America and the International Aeronautic Machinists in Fort Worth, 1936-1946”
• Michael Barera, University of Texas at Arlington, “Introduction to the Texas Labor Archives”

Session Chair: Marilyn D. Rhinehart, Johnson County Community College (Retired)

Roundtable: “The Work of Monica Perales and Zaragosa Vargas”

• George N. Green, University of Texas-Arlington (Retired)
• James C. Maroney, Lee College (Retired)
• Michael R. Botson, Houston Community College
• Kyle Wilkison, Collin College

Session Chair, Michael Schueth, Collin College

• Dulce de Castro, Collin College, “Harnessing the Cognitive and Pedagogical Benefits of Short Stories and Micro Fiction to Explore Working-Class Issues”
• Jules Sears, Collin College, “Class Difference in the College Classroom: Working-Class Memoirs about Higher Education”
• Lisa Reed, Texas A&M-Commerce, “Reading Classes: Finding Worker Roots in Penny Emigrant Propagandist Literature”

Session Chair, Shannon Carter, Texas A&M University-Commerce

• Ashanka Kumari, Texas A&M-Commerce, Respondent
• Jacobi Hunter, Texas A&M-Commerce, “#GradLivesMatter”
• Melisa Ward, Texas A&M-Commerce, "Ain't Nobody Got Cash for That"
• Alexander Bourque, Texas A&M-Commerce, "Enough is Not Enough"

Session Chair, J.D. Isip, Collin College

This workshop will consider journalist and novelist John Steinbeck’s theories of socialism and communism from the 1930s in the context of current interest in class stratification, power, labor movements, and socialist ideologies.