Speaking
My versatile speaking portfolio spans a variety of academic and public settings and includes invited lectures about my research and curatorial work, conference presentations, and participatory workshops in museum education.
Past Talks and Workshops
Above the Oxbow: Engaging the Past at the Mount Holyoke Summit House
What Makes a Historical Object “Real”?
Big Collections, Small Staff
Confronting a Legacy Collection in a Student-Curated Exhibit
Curating “De la Tierra”
Teaching with Collections: The Power of Object-Based Pedagogies
Above the Oxbow: Place Attachment on Mount Holyoke
Above the Oxbow: Sense of History at the Mount Holyoke Summit House
Effective Strategies for Jumpstarting Close Looking
Place-Making on Mountaintops and Orogenic Ethnography on Mount Holyoke
Cultivating STEM Skill Sets with Art and Artifacts
Systematic Thinking E-Conversation
Materiality and Memory: Chemical and Social Bonds
Audrey Flack’s “Time to Save”
The View from Mount Holyoke: A Persistent Vision of an Arcadian Landscape
Plaster Casts: Artistic and Cultural Pedagogy
Animals and Art
WWII in Western Massachusetts: Contemporary Archaeology of a Plane Crash
The Power of Collective Vision: Landscape, Visual Media, and the Production of American Mountains
Veganism as Engaged Anthropological Theory
Speaking Engagements
I am available to deliver lectures, book talks and readings, and workshops, including presentations on my research and interactive sessions in object-based learning and museum education. Please reach out to discuss possible speaking engagements.