Selected Presentations & Lectures since 2005

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2015. "My Journey: Appalachia, Civil Rights Activism and Revisionist Scholarship." Distinguished Alumna Award Lecture, University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology, 13 April 2015.

2014. “Sorting Social Darwinism from History: The Ethnic and Racial Origins of Southern Appalachians.” Paper presented at the Southern Sociological Society Meeting.

2013. "The Civil War and Emancipation through the Eyes of Appalachian Slaves." Lecture at Abraham Lincoln Library & Museum Harrogate, Tennessee (20 April 2013)

2013. "Sexism after Bifurcation? The Arrow of Women’s Time and Utopistics for a New World Order." Keynote Address for the 37th Annual Conference of the Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association. Riverside, CA: University of California at Riverside (12-14 Apri).

2010. "The Heroic Lives of 19th Century Appalachian Women." Lecture Presented to the Night for Notable Women, History Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, 3 June 2010

2009. "Challenging Historical and Contemporary Mythology about Appalachian Ethnic and Gender Diversity." Lecture presented at Union College (Barbourville, Kentucky), 26 October 2009

2009. "Romantic Idealism Dies Hard: Challenging Scholarly Mythology about Southern Appalachia." Lecture presented to Montgomery County School Teachers, 12 March.

2009. "Slavery and Black Appalachian Families" Lecture presented to the American Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, 10 March.

2008 "New Directions in the Feminization of Agriculture: Women and the Current Global Food Crisis." Lecture delivered to the OIRED Women in Development Colloquium, April 2008.“

2008. "Civil Rights Activism of Sociologists.” Paper presented at Annual Meeting of Southern Sociological Society (Atlanta, Georgia)

2008. "Never Safe in the Family Way: Challenging the Dominant Paradigm in U.S. Slavery Studies." Keynote Address for Women's History Month, Radford University (February 29, 2008).

2005. "Challenging the Dominant Paradigm: The World Market in Cotton, U.S. Slave Trading, and Destruction of African-American Families." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Meeting, August 2005.

2005. "A Cherokee Life History: From Biracial Family in the Segregated South to the Revision of Historical Conventional Wisdom." Delivered for the Joseph Campbell Lecture at Sarah Lawrence College, 29 April 2005.