SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
“Winning and Losing the Vote: the 15th Amendment in Reconstruction and Jim Crow,” invited lecture for SUU Black History Month, Cedar City, UT, February 2020.
“Mississippi River,” invited lecture for Dr. Laura Walker’s and Dr. Sam Well’s SUU 2250: Exploring Humanities through Nature class, SUU, Cedar City, UT, September 2019.
“The Other Civil Wars: Naval & Guerrilla Warfare,” invited lecture for Dr. Michelle Orihel’s Hist 1700 class, SUU, Cedar City, UT, March 2019.
"What Has Changed?: Empowerment Reflections on Women’s Rights," part of the SUU's Center for Diversity & Inclusion MLK Celebration, January 2019.
"Utah in the Civil War," a Cedar City Tea Ladies luncheon talk, September 2018.
"Corsairs, Commerce Raiders, and River Pirates: International Piracy in the 19th Century," a SUU International Week presentation, March 2018.
"Truths and Myths about African Americans in the Civil War," a SUU Black History Month presentation, February 2018.
"A House Divided: Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, and the Competing Visions of 19th Century America," a pre-show talk for the SUU Department of Theatre Arts & Dance performance of Assassins, November 2017.
"A New Style of Rebel Warfare: The Rise of Mississippi River Boat Burners," an invited guest talk for the Loudon County Civil War Roundtable, June 2017.
NEWSPAPER INTERVIEWS & QUOTES
Quoted in Reuben Wadsworth, "SUU History day; a faith-promoting founding and a symbol of community spirit," St. George News, August 25, 2019.
Quoted in Reuben Wadsworth, "Golden Spike day; the sesquicentennial of a transportation marvel that unified the nation," St. George News, May 5, 2019.
Quoted in Mikayla Shoop, "New Utah license plate to commemorate women’s suffrage, Utah women first to vote," St. George News, October 1, 2018.
PODCASTS
SUU CETL Podcast on Teaching and Learning (January 2018)
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
“Encouraging Impactful Teaching Through Curriculum Innovation Grants,” roundtable discussion at the SUU Festival of Excellence, Cedar City, UT, April 2019.
“Team Teaching in Integrated General Education Curriculum,” roundtable discussion at the 3rd Annual T4L Conference, Provo, UT, March 2019.
"Affairs of Honor Afloat: Dueling in the Civil War Era Navy," to be presented at the 2018 Society of Civil War Historians Conference, Pittsburgh, June 2018.
"Integrating OER into Gen Ed Classes: A Case Study from the Trenches," presented at the Utah:The State of OER conference, Salt Lake City, February 2018.
“Honor on the High Seas: Dueling in the Antebellum Navy," presented at the McMullen Naval History Symposium, Annapolis, September 2017.
" “To Aid and Save Our Country”: Confederate Boat Burners, Southern Identity, and the Legal Question of Loyalty," presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, New Orleans, April 2017.
“Conspiring with the Enemy: Civil War Boat Burners and Law of War,” presented at the McMullen Naval History Symposium, Annapolis, September 2015.
“Devils in Disguise: Masculinity and Irregular Naval Warfare along the Lower Mississippi,” presented at the The Sixth Academic Conference of The Filson Institute, “The Hard Hand of War: Irregulars and Civilians in the Civil War,” Louisville, October 2014.
“Devils in Disguise: Masculinity and Naval Guerrillas,” presented at the History and Gender Workshop, Athens, October 2014.
“Disloyal Men in Disguise: Naval Guerrillas Along the Mississippi River,” presented at the 2014 Society of Civil War Historians Conference, Baltimore, June 2014. ***Panel Organizer
“Gendered Identity in the Confederate Navy,” presented at the History and Gender Workshop, Athens, June 2014.
“Unquestionably there is an Organized Band of Incendiaries”: Confederate Boat Burners on the Mississippi River,” presented at the 2013 McMullen Naval History Symposium, Annapolis, September 2013. *** Panel Organizer
“Teaching With Twitter & Wordle: Integrating Web 2.0 In The Classroom,” presented at the 2013 University of Georgia Teaching & Learning Conference, Athens, April 2013.
“A Brotherhood Adrift: Confederate Sailors” presented at the 2012 Battle of Hampton Roads Weekend and Civil War Navy Conference, Newport News, March 2012.
“‘The Heritable Blood is Not Corrupted’: Civil War and Reconstruction Virginia via the Bigelow v. Forrest Case Study” presented at the 2011 Virginia Forum, “Different Virginias,” Lexington, March 2011.
“A Haven of Defense: The U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay during the Cuban Missile Crisis” presented at the History Graduate Student Association’s Student Speaker Series, Athens, October 2010.
“The Heritable Blood is Not Corrupted”: A Case Study in Confiscation, Treason, Inheritance, and Bigelow v. Forrest (1869) presented at the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center Graduate Conference “In Search of the State: The U.S. and its Citizens in the Long 19th Century,” University Park, February 2010.