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PUBLIC TALKS & RECOGNITIONS

Academic Presentations

I present regularly at state and national level conferences in the fields of public history, western history, and gender & sexuality studies. Frequent conferences include the:

  • National Council on Public History,

  • Western History Association,

  • Berkshire's Conference on Women,

  • Missouri Conference on History,

  • Missouri Association for Museums & Archives, and

  • Rural Women's Studies Association.

For more details on these presentations, see my curriculum vitae.

Invited Talks

As an engaging and organized speaker, I often give public talks across Missouri as part of the Missouri Speakers' Bureau. Available Missouri and Midwest-focused talks include:

  • Soothing the 'Savage Hearts of Man': Women's Suffrage and Rural Missouri

  • Rural Nuns and a 'Fine Herd of Cattle' at a Missouri Convent

  • 'For Women Only!': The Kansas City Call and A Radical Message for the Black Middle Class

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I also have worked with students and faculty at various institutions on public history education and building university-community partnerships that will create opportunities for both parties. In the spring of 2023, I presented on gay rodeo as part of the Webb Lecture Series on LGBTQ+ history in the West at the University of Texas-Arlington.

Recognitions, Awards & Grants

Fulbright Award

Babes-Bolyai University

Department of American Studies

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Hollybush Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Rowan University

Department of History

Glassboro, New Jersey

Grant Writing

I have received internal grants from Northwest Missouri State University (Northwest) four times between 2011 and 2022 to support research projects on women in rodeo, women and education in Cambodia, and gay rodeo. These grants totaled almost $10,000 and have led to book and article publication.

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In my role as a public historian and public history educator, I have demonstrated success as a grant writer. I have received grants from the Missouri Humanities Council for projects ranging from a living history program to the collection of Vietnam and Korean War veteran oral histories. I also successfully brought the Museums on Main Street travelling exhibit from the Smithsonian, Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America, to the Nodaway County Historical Society (NCHS) Museum in Missouri. These grants were used by students in my public history classes to develop programs and projects for the NCHS Museum. Other grants, such as Academic Initiative grants and Innovation in Teaching & Learning grants from Northwest, provided additional opportunities for students, as did a Touring Artist Grant from the Missouri Arts Council. Collectively, these grants totaled $14,315.

Image from Northwest Missouri State University

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Northwest Missouri State University

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