Conference Presentations

Invited Talks

“‘Fighting for Union Power, Soul Power’: Jack O’Dell’s ‘Special Variety of Colonialism’ and the 1969 Hospital Workers’ Rebellion Against Empire,” Appreciating Jack O’Dell: A Conference on the Black Radical Tradition, Seattle, January 2024

“Slavery in the Suburbs: New Deal Insurance, Suburban Labor Markets, and Baltimore’s Domestic Workers Union, 1930s-1950s,” Urban History Association Conference, Pittsburgh, October 2023

“Closing Panel: Overlooked History in Sacred Spaces,” RACE Conference: Reparative Arts in Community Engagement, Baltimore, October 2023

“New Narratives of Southwest Baltimore: Oral History as Community Building,” Oral History Association, Baltimore, October 2023

“Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship: Dissertation and Works-In-Progress Symposium,” Johns Hopkins University, May 2023

“When a Drug Lord is Your Landlord: Redeveloping Baltimore’s Middle East into Johns Hopkins’s Biotech Park, 1994-2011,” Society for American City and Regional Planning History Conference, New York City, October 2022

“‘All That’s Solid Melts into Air’: Burning Trash, ‘INCITE’-ing Black Power, and Embedding Risk in South Baltimore, 1961-1985,” The Discard Studies Conference, New York City, September 2022

“Healthy Renewal? Baltimore’s Broadway Redevelopment Project and the Environmental Racism Underwriting Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1950-1961,” Urban History Association Conference, Detroit, October 2021 (canceled, COVID-19)

“A ‘Model Negro Village’: Burning Trash and Building Suburbs in Toxic Postwar Baltimore,” Society for American City and Regional Planning History Conference, Arlington, VA, October 2019

“Greening the Rust: Western Coal Frontiers and the Remaking of Baltimore’s Post-Industrial Hinterlands,” Western History Association Conference, Las Vegas, NV, October 2019

“Rethinking the Periphery: Coal in Modern American History,” Remaking American Political History, West Lafayette, IN, June 2019

“‘Germs Recognize No Color Line,’ But Capital Binds: Bad Debt Infrastructure at Baltimore’s Provident Hospital, 1920-1971,” Urban History Association Conference, Columbia, SC, Oct. 2018

“Hobohemia: Hobo Community, Urban Reform, and the Commodification of Hobo Space in Progressive Era Chicago, 1890-1930,” Urban History Association Conference, Chicago, Oct. 2016

University

“Why College? The Past and Future of Liberal Arts,” Swarthmore College, Andy Hines, undergraduate course, Spring 2024

“Racism and Repair at and beyond Johns Hopkins: Symposium on New Research into the History of JHU,” Panel moderator, the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Repair, Fall 2023

“Baltimore and the Political Economy of Healthcare,” Johns Hopkins University, Alicia Puglionesi, undergraduate course, Fall 2023

“Who Is the Straw Man? Race, Space, Place: Reconciliations, Reparations, and Co-Conspirators,” Johns Hopkins University, Shawntay Stocks, Inheritance Baltimore Orientation, Fall 2023

“Housing Inequality and the Right to the City,” Johns Hopkins University, Nathan Connolly, graduate seminar, Spring 2023

“Health and the City,” Johns Hopkins University, History of Medicine, invitation-only workshop for works-in-progress, Spring 2023

“Home, Health, Labor, and Land: Medical Institutions in the City,” Johns Hopkins University, Alicia Puglionesi, undergraduate course, Fall 2022

“Race and Environment,” New York University, Robyn d’Avignon, graduate seminar, Spring 2022

“Anti-Racism 101,” Johns Hopkins University, Stuart Schrader, undergraduate course, Fall 2021

“Graduate Studies,” graduate student panelist, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences partnership with HBCU Honors Program, Morgan State University, Fall 2019

Public

“A History of Citizenship,” Equity Coordinators Program, Baltimore City Office of Equity and Civil Rights, Summer 2023

“Housing: A Case Study,” Moderated by Matt Thompson, New York Times, “Uncovering Inequality Conference,” Columbia Journalism School, Spring 2023

“Community Conversation: Redlining, Reparations, and Racial Equity in Baltimore,” Baltimore City Office of Equity and Civil Rights, Fall 2022

“Learning from Our Past: A Historical Journey through Baltimore’s Advancement of Black Health Equity,” Baltimore City Office of Equity and Civil Rights, Winter 2022

“Baltimore’s Provident Hospital, 1920-1971,” Maryland Center for History and Culture, Fall 2018