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: History and Memory on Mount Holyoke
Above the Oxbow: Sense of History at the Mount Holyoke Summit House
Animals and Art
Arlington High School as Archaeological Dig: Using Local, Community Resources to Explore Scientific Methodologies and Principles
Big Collections, Small Staff
A session at the 2025 AAMG Conference.
Commemoration and Memorialization
Confronting a Legacy Collection in a Student-Curated Exhibit
Cultivating STEM Skillsets with Art and Artifacts
Curating “De la Tierra”
Curating “De la Tierra”
Effective Strategies for Jumpstarting Close Looking
Materiality and Memory: Chemical and Social Bonds
Place Attachment on Mount Holyoke
Place-Making on Mountaintops and Orogenic Ethnography on Mount Holyoke
Plaster Casts: Artistic and Cultural Pedagogy
Systematic Thinking E-Conversation
Teaching with Collections: The Power of Object-Based Pedagogies
The Power of Collective Vision
The View from Mount Holyoke: A Persistent Vision of an Arcadian Landscape
Veganism as Engaged Anthropological Theory
What Makes a Historical Object “Real”?
World War II in Western Massachusetts: Contemporary Archaeology of a Plane Crash
Speaking Engagements
I am available to deliver lectures and workshops, including talks about my research and interactive sessions in object-based learning and museum education. Please reach out to discuss possible speaking engagements.