Presentations/Events at University of Kansas

Guest Speaker, KU Graduate Musicology Symposium, December 2, 2007

“Writing on a Crowded Dance Floor:  Re-Presenting the ‘Super-Democratic’ Hollywood Canteen, 2000-2006,”

Resident Fellows Seminar, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, September 11, 2006.

"Territory Bands, Then and Now: An Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Colloquium," March 3, 2006. Conference co-organizer (KU Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Group).

"Writing on a Crowded Dance Floor," Performance and Culture Seminar, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas. December 9, 2005. Presenter.

"And What about Those Fifteen Years that Aren't on Your CV?," Preparing Future Professions seminar series, Graduate School, October 6, 2005. Invited speaker.

"Queer Eye for the Straight World-Gay TV-is it Progress or a Stereotype?" Diversity Dialogue, Multicultural Resource Center, April 1, 2004. Co-presenter with Tami Albin.

"Our Stories of Struggle and Triumph: Brown v. Board Plaintiffs and the Kansas Defense," The Legacies and Unfinished Business of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, March 15, 2004. Panel moderator.

"Tell Me Your Life Story and Sign this Form: Methods and Ethics of Oral History Collection," for Hall Center for the Humanities Oral History Conference, March 12, 2004. Workshop co-facilitator, with Ailecia Ruscin.

"Jazz Changes: An Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Colloquium," March 4-5, 2004. Conference co-organizer (with KU Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Group).

"Dance Floor Democracy: the Social Geography of Memory at the Hollywood Canteen," Psychology Proseminar, September 2003. Guest speaker.

"An Evening of Jazz Studies," featuring guest lecturer Robert O'Meally, Director, Center for Jazz Studies, Columbia University, September, 2003. Event co-organizer (with the KU Interdisciplinary Jazz Studies Group)

"Working the Swing Shift: Effects of World War II on 'All-Girl' Bands," Kansas History Teachers Association, University of Kansas, Lawrence, April 5, 2003. Keynote speaker.

"Conference Panel Workshop," American Studies Graduate Student Association, March 30, 2003.

Workshop facilitator. "How to Organize a Conference Panel," American Studies Graduate Student Association, December 18, 2002. Workshop facilitator.

"Gender: A Useful Category for Jazz Studies," Gender Seminar, Hall Center for the Humanities, December 2, 2003. Presenter.

"Gender and Sexuality in American Studies, Ann Schofield's AMS 801, Introduction to American Studies seminar. November 2002. Guest speaker.

"Women in the Directors' Chair International Film and Video Festival," University of Kansas, April 18, 2002. Panelist.

"Teaching AMS 100/101," American Studies Workshop for Graduate Teaching Assistants, August 21, 2002. Panelist.

"Theorizing America," Graduate Student Orientation, American Studies Graduate Student Association, August 18, 2002. Panelist.

"Planning a Research Project," Cheryl Lester's AMS 804 seminar. March 13, 2002. Guest speaker.

Faculty mentor for University Scholar, 2001-2002. Conference panel informational meeting, American Studies Graduate Student Association, December 5, 2001. Guest speaker.

Graduate Student Orientation, American Studies Graduate Student Association, August 19, 2001. Panelist.