Conference Presentations
“Performing Peace: Women and the International Disarmament Conference, 1931-1937” Sin Fronteras: Women’s Histories, Global Conversations, Thirteenth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Claremont, California, 2005.
Keynote Address: “Peace Needs Women and Women Need Justice: On the Critical Need for Women in Peacebuilding and Postwar Reconstruction Initiatives,” Redefining Power: From Conflict to Harmony, Gainesville Commission on Status of Women 24th Annual Conference of the Sexual Battery Committee, Gainesville, Florida, 2005.
“Gendered Patriotism: Mobilizing Men and Women for War,” Weapons of Mass Dissemination: The Propaganda of War, Wolfsonian Museum, Florida International University, Miami Beach, Florida, 2004.
“Global Feminism and Post World War II Reconstruction: The World YWCA ‘Visitation’ to U.S.-Occupied Japan, 1947,” American Historical Association, Chicago, 2003.
Chair for “Women in the 19th Century,” Visible Women and Southern History Conference, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1999.
“The YWCA and US Missionary Women’s Roles in Opposing ‘Unequal’ Treaties with China, 1925-1930,” American Historical Association, Washington D.C., 1999.
Invited Participant, Panel Discussion, “Gender Programs in Higher Education,” Michigan Women’s Studies Association, Saginaw, Michigan, 1998.
Chair and Commentator, “Matrimony, Motherhood, and Work: Identity and Gender,” Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1997.
“Constructing a Public History Display: Lessons from the Alma College Women’s History Project,” Women of the Midwest: History and Sources, Madison, Wisconsin, 1997.
“Maud Muriel Russell: A Radical Woman’s Contribution to American Foreign Policymaking,” Western Association of Women Historians, Asilomar, California, 1996.
“Chair and Commentator, “Labor and Gender in Post-1870 America,” Great Lakes History Conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1996.
“Maud Russell: A Socialist-Feminist Critique of U.S. China Policy, 1945-1960,” American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, 1995.