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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" 

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

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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).

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

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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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