2017: Humanities in Action Panel, Initiative on Campus Dialogues at the Humanities Institute, UConn Coordinator and facilitator for a panel of scholars who have brought their humanities knowledge and perspective to community activities. The goal of the panel is to raise awareness of the many ways humanities…
2016: Oral History Practices & Possibilities – History Department, UConn Coordinator and facilitator for a panel to present techniques and concerns for gathering oral history interviews for different purposes, such as large archives and grassroots collecting. Professors Bruce Stave, Fiona Vernal, and Eduardo Canedo…
“The Norma Rae Phenomenon: Crystal Lee Sutton Becomes a Pop Icon” New England Historical Association Conference, Springfield College, Springfield, MA, April 2014
I presented my paper, “The Norma Rae Phenomenon: Southern Textile Workers as Raw Material for a Pop Culture Icon,” on November 23 in Madison, Wisconsin. It traces the extraction of the simplified Norma Rae icon from the substantive network of collective resistance to the exploitation in…
“Worker or Woman: American Women and New Deal Labor Policy” Paper presented at the annual Women’s Studies Conference Lehman College CUNY, March 2001