Scholarly Work/Consulting:
Lead Scholar, Slavery in George Washington’s World, Mount Vernon Teacher Education Program since 2016
https://www.mountvernon.org/education/for-teachers/teaching-institutes-professional-development/summer-residential-programs/program-descriptions/lives-bound-together-enslavement-in-george-washington-s-world/
Media:
SCETV Specials: SC Suffragists: The Grimke Sisters Thru the Civil War
“Civil Rights And The Great War” - Dr. Kathryn Silva - Episode 23 - Symposium at Lander University, South Carolina, Know it All TV.
Utica Abolitionist History Day Interview with NPR - NY - WAMC: https://www.wamc.org/central-new-york-news/2015-10-30/utica-commemorates-abolition-history-day
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & CHAIRED PANELS
2024 Chair, “Capitalist Opportunities,” Nineteenth Century Studies Association Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, March 2024 (forthcoming)
2024 Chair, Music and Its Publics, Nineteenth Century Studies Association Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, March 2024 (forthcoming)
2023 Chair, “Biography and the Remaking of Legacies I,” Nineteenth Century Studies Association Annual Conference, Sacramento, California, March 29, 2023
2022 Chair, “The Business of Slavery,” Business History Conference, (Virtual), Mexico City,
Mexico, April 7, 2022.
2021 Panelist, “Museums and Capitalism,” Doing History, Doing Justice, American Association for State and Local History 2021 Online Conference, October 15, 2021.
2021 Panelist, “Black Health Matters: Reckoning with Medical Racism and Surviving the Pandemic,” Benedict College Book Club Discussion of Harriet Washington’s, Medical Apartheid, April 22, 2021.
2021 Panelist, “Identity, Diversity and the Academy,” Nineteenth Century Studies Association Virtual Conference, March 11-13, 2021
2020 Panelist, “Moving from (Mis)Education to Mastery: Handling Classroom to Career, National Council for Black Studies, Atlanta, Georgia
2019 Invited Panelist, “Stories from Across the South: How WWI Affects Our Region,” “Time of Tradition & Transition: A Symposium on the South & World War,” Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina, March 15, 2019
2019 Invited Panelist, “Race Relations in the South and WWI,” “Time of Tradition & Transition: A Symposium on the South & World War,” Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina, March 14, 2019
2019 Invited Panelist, “Women Patriotism and WWI,” “Time of Tradition & Transition: A Symposium on the South & World War,” Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina, March 14, 2019
2018 Invited Panelist, Keynote Session, “Myth, Memory, and Monuments: Critical Historical
Inquiry and the Significant Past,” National Council for History Education Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 19, 2018
2016 “Adventists and Activism: A History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and Issues of Race,” First Annual Summit on Social Justice: Pushing Past the Pews, Adventists for Social Justice Conference, Washington, D.C., November 5, 2016
2016 “Race, Labor, Poverty,” Roundtable Chair & Organizer, Organization of American Historians Annual Conference, April 2016, Providence, Rhode Island, April 8, 2016.
2015 Session Co-Organizer, “Challenges of Indigenous Women's and Gender History,” Organization of American Historians, St. Louis, Missouri, April 2015.
2015 Session Chair and Commentator, “Timber, Textiles, and Fast Food: Connecting the Past, Present, and Future of Radical and Populist Labor Organizing in the South,” Southern Labor Studies Association Conference, March 6-8, 2015. Flight Cancelled, but remarks and comments read by panel.
2014 "Daughters and Sons of the Dust: Gendered History and the Cinematic Imaginary of Slavery
and Emancipation,” Society for Cinema & Media Studies Annual Meeting, Seattle, March 2014
2014 “Navigating Images of Labor: African American Textile Workers Confront Race, Class, and the Body,” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Toronto, May 2014
2014 Session Chair, “Expanding the Boundaries: Power and Voice in African American Women's and Gender History,” Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Atlanta, April 2014
2013 “African American Mill Workers and Industrial Democracy, 1918-1929,” Labor an Working-Class History Association Annual Meeting, New York City, panel organizer, May 2013
2013 “ʻTo Earn an Honest Living:’ Dressmakers and Textile Workers of the National Negro Business League, 1901-1920,” National Council for Black Studies Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2013
2013 “Silk and Schools: African American Mill Workers and Interracial Cooperation in Fayetteville, North Carolina, 1899-1914,” Southern Labor Studies Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, panel organizer, March 2014
2011 “Luta Belle Williams Ward: The African American Experience and the Commemoration of the Southern Textile Industry,” Southern Historical Association’s Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, October 2011
2007 “ʻFrom Whence Cometh My Help:’ Weaving African American Women into North and South Carolina’s Mill History,” New Perspectives of the Black South Symposium, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 2007
2007 “Making the Invisible Visible: Weaving African American Women into South Carolina’s Mill History,” Association for African American Historic Research and Preservation, Seattle, Washington, March 2007
CAMPUS/DEPARTMENTAL TALKS
2024 “Skilled Labor, Skilled Knowledge Black Women and the Creation of Textiles in Colonial and Antebellum America,” Research, Scholarship, and Creative Expression Day, Claflin University, February 24, 2024
2024 Threads of Resilience: Enslaved Women, Textile Labor, and the Pursuit of Freedom, The Claflin Literary Arts & Film Society, (CLAFS) Hybrid Lecture Series 2023 – 2024, January 20, 2024
2018 Presenter, “‘They were doing good work:’ African American Women, Textile Work, and Charleston’s Jim Crow Industrial Complex.” Faculty Research Symposium, Claflin University, November 10, 2018
2017 Panelist, “Black Panther Talk Back,” Claflin University, February 2017
2016 Panelist, “Black Student Activists and Social Change: From Black Power to Black Lives
Matter,” Dream Keepers Conference, Claflin University, 2016
2016 “The Oscar Controversy: The Challenges of Historical Accuracy and African American
Representation in Film,” Harold T. Clark, Jr. Distinguished Speakers Series, Utica
College, February 2016, Utica College
2016 Panelist, “MLK’s Beloved Community: How Does It Relate To Today’s World?” Utica College, January 2016
2015 Voting Rights Act’s Legacy, Panelist, Voting Rights Act @ 50 Symposium, Utica College, November 14, 2015
2015 “Interpreting the Long Civil Rights Movement in the Wake of Ferguson,” Utica College, Center for Historical Research, Campus Talk, February 18, 2015
2014 “Lynching in a Mill City: The Story of Walter Partridge,” Center for Historical Research, Brown Bag Talk, September 10, 2014.
2013 Discussant, “The Barber of Birmingham,” Documentary Film Screening for the 2013 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration, “Marching on…Together,” Andrews University
2013 “Historical Implications of Barack Obama’s Election,” University Talk, Black History Month Tuesday Choice Series, Andrews University
2013 “From Jim Crow Laws to the March on Washington,” University Talk, Black History Month Tuesday Choice Series, Andrews University
2013 “Implications and Impact of the Emancipation Proclamation: Who Actually Freed the Enslaved?,” University Talk, Black History Month Tuesday Choice Series, Andrews University
2012 Presenter, “The Black Woman Is…,” Black Arts Festival, Andrews University
2012 Guest Speaker, Honors Agape Feast, “Agape Love and the Civil Rights Movement,” J.N. Nevins Honors Program, Andrews University
2012 Faculty Institute Panelist, “Creating an Interactive Classroom,” Andrews University 2011
Poster Presentation: “In Industry to Stay: Recovering the History of Durham’s African
American Millworkers,”
2011 Celebration of Research, Andrews University
2011 Paper Presentation: “Luta Belle Williams Ward: The African American Experience in
Durham, North Carolina’s Textile Industry,” History and Political Science Colloquium, Andrews University
2011 Panelist, “Terror: Experiences, Perspectives, and Judgments,” History and Political Science Colloquium Special Discussion for “Andrews University Commemoration of 9-11”
2011 “African American Women and the Long Civil Rights Movement,” History and Political Science Colloquium