Fall 2025

• Spoke on panel, “The Forgotten Photographs of Reconstruction,” Library Company of Philadelphia (Oct)

Spring 2025

• Invited participant at “Iconoclasm Across the Americas” workshop at University of Delaware (April)

• Chair and co-organizer of OAH panel in Chicago, “Reconsidering Civil Rights Photography” (April)

• Organized zoom workshop for authors of special issue of Civil War History on the photographic history of Reconstruction (March)

Fall 2024

• Editing a special issue of Civil War History on the photographic history of Reconstruction

• Giving zoom talk at Hamilton College, “Lyndon B. Johnson, Yoichi Okamoto, and the Making of the Celebrity Presidency” (October)

Spring 2024

• Published review of Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Random House, 2021) on H-Material Culture, H-Net Reviews (May) 

• Commentator for OAH panel, “What is the Photographic History of Reconstruction?” in New Orleans (April)

• Invited guest at the National Gallery of Art’s study day regarding the Ross Kelbaugh collection of African-American photography (March)

Fall 2023

• Published “‘Portraits Torn to Shreds’: Iconoclasm and the Destruction of Confederate Memory” with Civil War History (December 2023)