Selected Past Events

“Making Virtual Space: VR Museums, 3D Scanning, and the Humanities Classroom,” Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium, Spring 2026

“‘He Says of Good Cotton’: Textiles, Whiteness, Labor, and the Anti-Slavery Movement,” American Quilt Study Group Winter Virtual Seminar Series, Spring 2026

“‘A handsome sofa of the most fashionable design’: Stitching the Haitian Revolution in Silk at the Cotton Centennial of 1884” "Looking Back to the Future: Realizing the “Afric-American Picture Gallery,” Symposium at Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library, Fall 2025.

“‘So intimately are we connected’: Antislavery Textiles and the Weight of Cotton,” Penn Dry Goods Market Textile History Lecture Series at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center, Summer 2025

“Piecing the Past: Tactility, Fragmentation, and Remembrance of the Revolutionary Era,” Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, Summer 2025

“Dispersed Agency and Many Makers: Authorship, Materiality, and Children’s Needlework,” Juvenilia Studies Symposium at UNC Chapel Hill, Discovering, Working in, and Creating Collections, Summer 2025            

“Gathered Cloth and Paper Fragments: Scrapbooks, Disability, and the Piecework of Self-Making,” College Art Association Conference, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Panel, Spring 2025

“Landscape of Labor: Material Culture Methods for Reading Absence,” American Studies Association Conference, Material Culture Caucus Panel, Fall 2024 

Gest Fellowship Lecture, Haverford College & Quaker Special Collections, Fall 2024

“Race, World’s Fairs, and Textile Politics in Sarah Shimm’s Silk Sofa,” Meaning-Making-Memory: A Sewn in America Symposium, DAR, Fall 2024       

“Building Virtual Museums and Imagining Audiences in the Humanities Classroom,” Keystone DH Conference, Summer 2024

“Silent Companion: Searching for Phyllis and Finding Enslavement in the New England Domestic Interior,” Wellesley-Deerfield Symposium, Homemaking: Race, Place, and Ethnicity in the New England Household, Winter 2023

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Sewing & Learning Workshop, Winter 2023

Stitching a Legacy, guest-curated exhibition and keynote lecture, Morse Institute Library and Natick Historical Society, Summer 2023