Contact for Speaking Engagements
Upcoming Events
University of Richmond, “‘The Feminine Charms of the Woman Militant’: Stitching Women’s Suffrage,” November 2026
International Organization of Lace, “Lace, Race, and the Vote: Black Women’s Stitched Activism and an Opera Coat at the 1909 World’s Fair,” November 2026
American Folk Art Museum, “Locating Girlhood” Symposium, February 2027
Library Company of Philadelphia, March 2027
Boston University, “Home/Work: Constructing Domesticities,” April 2027
Selected Past Events
“The World of Textiles in the 1800s,” Local History Guild, New Bedford Whaling Museum, Fall 2026
“The Wash-Rag and the Sofa: Needlework, Public Womanhood, and Taking Textiles Seriously,” Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane, Fall 2026
“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