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Upcoming Speaking Engagements:

Past Speaking Engagements

 2022 The One that Wears the Breeches": Women's Fashion, Dress Reform and Gender Expectations in  Nineteenth Century America 

 

2022 "Short Hair and Short Dresses: The Oneida Community and Reforming Women's Fashion" 

2021   Keynote Speaker, “Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire,” The Jewish Historical Society  of Fairfield County, CT Annual Meeting, March 14

2020  “The American Revolution’s Role in Shaping an American Identity,” Elizabeth and Irwin Warren Folk  Art Symposium, American Folk Art Museum, New York (cancelled due to Covid-19).

2020   “Martha Washington and Military Wives in Camp During the American Revolution,” George           Washington Teacher Institute, Mount Vernon, Virginia, June 11. 

2018  “Nineteenth-Century Dress Reform and the Suffrage Movement,” Queensborough Community     College, New York, March 6.

 

2017 “Health Reform, and Functional Fashion: The Women’s Dress Reform Movement, 1850-1876,”               Columbia University Women’s Seminar, New York, January 30.

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