Conference Presentations
- “Building the Backlash: Space, Race, and Memory in Charlottesville from Emancipation to Disfranchisement,” Virginia Forum, (Winchester, Virginia), 2026
- “When is it enough? Equity and Exhaustion in Charlottesville,” The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual International Conference (St. Louis, Missouri), 2026
- “The Deracialization of Charlottesville: Tokenism and the Built Environment after Jim Crow,” 91st Annual Meeting of the Southern Historical Association (St. Pete Beach, Florida), 2025
- “Values Shift and Virtue Signals: The Ethics of Memorialization in Charlottesville,” Memorialization: Theory, Methods, Goals, and Ethics (Conference), University of Mississippi (Oxford, Mississippi), 2025
- “Charlottesville’s Ethical Dissonance: White Supremacy, Virtue Signaling, and the Built Environment” (Poster), The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual International Conference (Norfolk, Virginia), 2025
- “Memory, White Supremacy, and the Built Environment in Charlottesville, Virginia,” SouthxWest Exchanges (Southern Historical Association Graduate Council/ Western Historical Association Graduate Caucus), Virtual, 2024
- “‘An Appeal in Behalf of their Race’: African American Disfranchisement in Charlottesville, Virginia,” Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Graduate Conference, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia), 2023
- “Brave Men and Noble Women: Confederate Monuments as Role Models, 1914-1919,” Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Graduate Conference, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia), 2015
Invited Talks
- “The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory,” invited talk at Valparaiso University (Valparaiso, Indiana), Virtual, 9 April 2026
- “Charlottesville after Jim Crow: Tokenism and the Built Environment,” Center for Mason Legacies, George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia), Virtual, 23 January 2026
- “Underpinning the Community: African American History Revealed in the Mason Family Manuscript Account Book,” Black Lives Next Door 2025 Symposium, George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia), 28 February 2025
- “How to Learn About Your Ancestor’s World,” with Dr. George Oberle, Mount Vernon Genealogical Society Annual Training Conference (Alexandria, Virginia), 7 September 2024
- “What’s in a Name? The Mason Family Manuscript Account Book as Data Set,” Digital Scholarship Working Group, George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia), Virtual, 28 March 2024
- “Making Memory Eternal: Remembering the Confederacy,” invited talk at San Diego State University (San Diego, California), Virtual, 5 September 2023
- “Remembering the Civil War,” invited talk at the University of Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), 17 November 2022
- Public History Panel, Brian Bertoti Innovative Perspectives in History Graduate Conference, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia), 2017
- College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Graduate Student Panel, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, Virginia), 2014
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