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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