Conferences and Presentations
Paper Presentation, “Disabled Children, Gender, and the State: The U.S. Children’s Bureau, Social Security, and the ‘Crippled’ Child,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, June 2017.
Roundtable Participant, “Disability History in the Mainstream: Incorporating a New Category of Analysis,” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 2017.
Research Workshop, “‘Save Yourself a Bunch of Heartaches’: Disability, Marriage, and Gender in the United States, 1940-1960,” Faculty Brown Bag, Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, April 2015.
Comments, “Book Talk, A Disability History of the United States,” North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, October 2014.
Paper Presentation, “A Family Problem: Gender, Disability, and Families in the United States in the 1950s,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Toronto, Canada, May 2014.
Paper Presentation, “Refusing the Torch: Pushing the Boundaries of the U.S. Disability Rights Movement, 1940-1980,” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2014.
Invited Talk, “Out of the Horrors of War: The Politics of (Dis)Ability in the Postwar United States,” Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, November 2013.
Invited Talk, “‘Justice, Equal Rights, and Opportunity’: U.S. Disability Activism, 1940-1960,” Department of History Research Forum, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky, October 2012.
Paper Presentation, “Picnics, Parties, and Rights: U.S. Disability Activism, 1940-1960,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, January 2012.
Paper Presentation, “When the Personal Became Public: Disability Activism and the Second World War,” The Question of Rights in U.S. Society, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, September 2010.
Invited Talk, “Beyond the Sons of Mars and Vulcan: Gender, Disability Activism, and the Second World War,” Genderations Luncheon, Gender and Women’s Studies, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, Kentucky, March 2010.
Paper Presentation, “‘We must not forget the sons of Vulcan’: Disability Activism, ‘War Service,’ and the Quest to Define Entitlement in the Postwar United States,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York City, New York, January 2009.
Paper Presentation, “Finding Disability in a Sea of Government Documents,” Disability History: Theory and Practice, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, July- August 2008.
Paper Presentation, “The Forceful Urge for Independence: Women Activists and the American Federation of the Physically Handicapped, 1942-1960,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, June 2008.
Paper Presentation, “From Derelict to Productive Citizen: People with Disabilities in War and Work, 1940-1945,” Policy History Conference, Institute for Political History, St. Louis, Missouri, May-June 2008.
Research Workshop “‘The Lush War Years Are Gone’: The Birth of the American Federation of the Physically Handicapped, 1942-1952,” Modern United States History Seminar, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, April 2007.
Paper Presentation, “‘But it's still so much harder for a woman’: Women with Disabilities and Work, 1945-1960,” Labouring Feminism and Feminist Working Class History in North America and Beyond, University of Toronto, Canada, September-October 2005.
Comments, “Disability History: Moments in the Movement,” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, San Jose, California, March-April 2005.
Paper Presentation, “‘The Greatest Numbers . . . Will Be Wage Earners’: Labor, Liberalism, and Disability Activism, 1942-1954,” North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, October 2004.