Invited Presentations

“Mother, Milk and Money,” Washington, D.C. Labor and Working-Class History Seminar, September 2011

“’The Daily Labor of Our Own Hands’: Jennie Collins and Working Women’s Fight for Gender Equality,” American Social History Project, City University of New York, April 2011

“Breadwinners: Working Women in the Gilded Age,” Distinguished Lecture for Organization of American Historians, Lake County Schools, Eustis, Florida, March 2011

“Radicalism and Reform: Perspectives on Jews and Liberal Politics from Women’s Labor History,” Scholars’ Working Group on Jews and New York City, Center for Jewish History, February 2011

“Mother’s Love and Mother’s Care: Wet-Nurses and their Infants,” St. John’s University Faculty Symposium on Love, February 2011

“Gender in the Workplace,” The Virginia Frese Palmer Conference, Queens College, March 2010

“Leonora O’Reilly and the Battle for Suffrage and Labor Rights,” Lower East Side Tenement Museum, March 2010

“Mary Putnam Jacobi and Meanings of Independence,” with comments from Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University Seminar on Women and Society, November 2004

Presentations at Conferences

“The 1919 International Congress of Working Women and the Contested Category of the ‘Woman Worker,’” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 2011

“Building Alliances between Workers and Consumers: Lessons from the Gilded Age Labor Movement,” Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference on Contemporary Activism and the Labor Movement, March 2011

“Domestic Work and the Labor Question in the Gilded Age United States,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 2009

“Solving the Servant Problem: the Boston Domestic Reform League, 1897-1910,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, June 2008

“Desires for Distance: White Working-Class Women's Rejection of the Domestic Service in the Nineteenth Century U.S.,” Intimate Labors Conference, University of California, Santa Barbara, October 2007

“Guarding the Girl in the Shop: Gender, Class and Protection in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era,” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, April 2006

“A Separate Peace: Women's Internationalism between World War One and World War Two,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, January 2004

“Mixing Work with Pleasure: Gender and the Nature of Retail Space in Gilded Age New York,” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, March 2000

“City Slave Girls: The Troubled Boundary between Child and Adult Labor in Gilded Age Chicago,” Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, April 1998