Lectures + Keynotes

Leading individual and collective transformation for a more just world

I offer Keynotes, Guest Talks, and Lectures on a wide variety of topics, drawing on my personal experience, scholarly expertise, and professional background.

Areas of expertise.

Navigating Identity and Power.

  • Navigating identity-based conflict in education contexts

  • Creating inclusive classrooms through curricular diversity and inclusive pedagogy

  • Generating inclusive leadership curricula to help students and staff better serve their communities

Awakening the Potential in Your Community.

  • Women’s identity development, leadership training, and campus engagement

  • Navigating graduate school and post-PhD professional life

  • Cultivating practices of allyship and bystander intervention

 
 

Confronting Historical Structures.

  • Addressing structural racism and oppression in academic fields and disciplines as well as higher education institutions

  • Decoding the “hidden curriculum” in educational institutions

  • Discussing gender, class, race, colonial, and migration scholarship

 

Stimulating Institutional Change.

  • Creating an inclusive campus climate and authentic community

  • Designing and implementing DEI initiatives for students, staff, and faculty

  • Researching, identifying, and addressing inequitable policies and practices

Invite me to speak.

Highlight engagements.

“Silence, Obedience, and Finding Your Voice in Academia,” 25th Annual Bertoti Graduate Conference, Virginia Tech, 18 March 2022.

“Pushing the Boundaries in Gender and History,” Gender and History Annual Conference, 10 June 2021.

“Bias, Privilege, and Educational Freedom,” Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education, 27 October 2020.

“To Include Is To Excel” Teaching Summit Panel, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, 10 October 2019.

“The Niceties: In Conversation,” McCarter Theater, Princeton, NJ, 26 January 2019.

“Doing Diversity: Is it Ever Done?” for Engaging Learners in the 21st Century, Mercer County Community College, West Windsor, NJ, 22 August 2018.

“From Access to Success: How to Create a Four-Year Scholars Program on Your College Campus,” Stanford FLI Conference, Stanford, CA, 3 March 2018.

“Addressing Structural Racism in French History and French Historical Studies,” Conference Plenary Roundtable, Western Society of French History, Reno, NV, 4 November 2017. 

“Navigating Post-Ph.D. Professions,” The Graduate School and Career Services Center, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, November 2015.

“She has an extraordinary gift for inspiring both open, constructive discussion and personal introspection.

I was hugely impressed by her ability to tackle often fraught subjects in a way that put her audience at ease and conveyed practical, effective strategies for dealing with the most pressing challenges facing teachers today.”

— Dr. J.P. Daughton, Associate Professor of History and Co-Director of Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars Postdoctoral Program, Stanford University