Previous Academic Lectures and Presentations

Invited Academic Talks and Interviews (selected)

Panelist: Symposium in Honor of Belle da Costa Greene

Pierpont Morgan Library and Museums, NY

October 2024

Featured Speaker: The Biography of Belle da Costa Greene

Sarasota County Library, FL

March 2023

Panelist: “The Reinvented Life of Belle da Costa Greene”

Vanderbilt University, TN

February 2022

Panelist: “Private Lives of Public Women”

The Preservation Society of Newport County, RI (Zoom)

April 2022

Plenary Speaker: “Belle Greene and the (In)Stability of Blackness,” Medieval Studies Conference in Celebration of Belle da Costa Greene

SLU

November 2018

Lecturer: “Belle Greene in New York and the Art World: Racial Identity in the Progressive Era”

Sogang University, Seoul SK

May 2018

Lecturer: “Belle Greene and Dorothy Miner: Women’s Networks in Early Art Libraries,”

Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

November 2014

Lecturer: "The Color of Blood: Ancestry and Identity in Early African American Protest," History Department Talk Series

Washington University, St. Louis

March, 2014

Lecturer: “Communicating Race: Passing and the Performance of Race”

Concordia University, Illinois 

March 2011

Lecturer: “‘Just Because I Am a Librarian, That Doesn’t Mean I Have to Dress Like One’:  Race and Identity in Belle da Costa Greene’s Career”

Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

November, 2008

Lecturer: “The Woman Behind the Curtain: Belle da Costa Greene”

The Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh

November, 2007

Lecturer: “Hiding in the Light: Tracing the Journey of Belle da Costa Greene”

The Pierpont Morgan Library and Museum, New York

June 2007

Lecture: “Bridging Modernity:  the Rhinelander Case and Gender in Early Twentieth-Century American Culture” 

Women’s History Month, St. Mary’s College, Indiana

March 2007

Book Talk: “Love on Trial:  The Rhinelander Case,” with Earl Lewis Midwest Consortium for Black Studies, Annual Meeting

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

April 2002

Book Talk: “Love on Trial: The Rhinelander Case,” with Earl Lewis

The Newberry Library, Chicago

February 2002

Interview: (Love on Trial), with Earl Lewis,

“Talk of the Nation,” National Public Radio

May 2001