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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