Recent Engagements
2024 Brafferton Indian School Alumni: Diplomats, Warriors, and Translators at the Edge of Empires, participant, in “Missionization and Assimilation in the 18th and 19th Centuries,” American Society of Ethnohistory Annual Conference, Fargo, ND
2023 Becoming Nottoway, Meherrin, and Tuscarora: An Analysis of Iroquoian Peoplehood in the 17th and 18th Centuries. In “Communities, Coalescence, and the Chesapeake: Reimagining a Region as a Cultural Boundaryland,” invited participant, organized by John Henshaw and Rebecca Webster, discussant Robbie Ethridge. 79th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Chattanooga, TN
2023 Native Textiles of the Chesapeake (w/ Elizabeth Bollwerk and Adriana Greci Green). In “Objects, Pathways, and Afterlives: Tracing Material Cultures in Early America,” Juried participant, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Morino, CA
2023 Brafferton Indian School Alumni: Diplomats, Warriors, and Translators at the Edge of Empires. In “Settler Schools, Indigenous Stories: Histories & Legacies of Native American Education Symposium,” invited participant, Department of History, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2023 The Anomalous Tuscarora: Matrilineality, the Uhwačí·reh, and the Raising of a Longhouse. Invited presentation, Department of Anthropology, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2023 Indigenous Textiles at James Fort (w/ Elizabeth Bollwerk). In “Opening the Vault: What Collections Can Say About Jamestown’s Global Trade Network,” invited participants, Society for Historical Archaeology, Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology, Lisbon, Portugal, EU
2022 Representing Historical Culture on the Big and Small Screen: Successes and Challenges from the Indigenous Chesapeake. Invited keynote address, Middle Atlantic Archeological Conference, Ocean City, MD
2022 The Warraskoyack: Their Cosmologies, Life Cycles & Ceremonies. Invited Lecture, St Luke’s Historic Church and Museum, Smithfield, VA
2022 Research, Revise, Reinterpret: Legacies of the History of Indigenous People. Invited Panelist, Revolutionary Legacies Conference, Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA
2022 The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal NHP Tribal Affiliation Study (w/ Martin D. Gallivan and Danielle Moretti-Langholtz). Transfer of Knowledge Special Session, National Capital Area and North Atlantic-Appalachian Region (Region 1), National Park Service, Washington, D.C.
2022 Cosmological Considerations of the Massive 1622 Indigenous Attack in Tidewater, Virginia (w/ Danielle Moretti-Langholtz). Invited participants, In “Recent Work and New Directions in Chesapeake Archaeology,” Middle Atlantic Archeological Conference, Ocean City, MD
2021 Provenance and Power: Decolonizing Powhatan’s Mantle (w/ Danielle Moretti-Langholtz). Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX
2021 Building the Brafferton: The Founding Funding and Legacy of America’s Indian School. Department Roundtable, “Scholarship to Change the World: New Books in Public Anthropology,” Department of Anthropology, American University, Washington, D.C.
2021 Native Representation in Film & Television, Invited Guest Instructor, Seminar on North American History and Culture, Lucie Kyrova, Department of History, Charles University, Prague, CZ
2020 Making Museums Essential. Invited Participant, Curatorial Panel, Virginia Association of Museums Annual Conference, Fairfax, VA
2020 Virginia Indian Material Culture in Europe: The Ashmolean Museum’s Tradescant Collection, Invited Talk, Virginia Association of Museums Annual Conference, Fairfax, VA
2020 Virginia Indians National Register Project. Invited Talk, Department of Anthropology Brown Bag, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
2019 Virginia Algonquian on the Small Screen: Native Language in the Jamestown Series (w/ Craig Kopris and Jesse Bowman Bruchac). Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages, New York, NY
2019 Building the Brafferton: Its Founding, Funding and Legacy. Invited Discussion, William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg, VA
2019 Authenticity & Representation of Native American Museum Theatre (w/ Larry Pourier). Invited Keynote Speakers, International Museum Theatre Alliance Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN
2018 An Evidence-based Reinterpretation of the Brafferton Indian School (w/ Danielle Moretti-Langholtz). Invited Participants, Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.
2018 Native American Research in North Carolina, Invited Presentation, Lumbee Genealogy Symposium, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
2018 Diplomacy in the Algonquian Chesapeake, Invited Lecture, ‘A Diplomatic America’ Lecture Series, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Williamsburg, VA
2018 Mapping Colonialism: British Cartography of Indigenous Lands, 17th-Century Virginia in Maps. Invited Lecture, Annual Alan M. & Nathalie P. Voorhees Lecture on the History of Cartography, Library of Virginia, Richmond, VA
2017 Pocahontas and the Pamunkey: Reflections on Public History, Film, and the Mythic Past. Pocahontas 400 Conference, University of London and the British Library, London, UK
2017 Successes and Challenges of Portraying Jamestown: Native Americans and the English Colonists in Film. Invited Guest Lecturer, Kevin Miller, Department of English and American Language and Literature, Tsurumi University, Yokohoma, Japan
2017 Public History: Community Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country. Invited Guest Lecturer, American Studies 216, Sandra Garner, American Studies Department, Miami University, Oxford, OH
2017 The Return of Indian Nations to the Colonial Capital: Heritage Relationships, Indigenous Pilgrimage, and the Production of Native Public History. Community-Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country Conference, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK
Students in the Department of English and American Language and Literature, Tsurumi University, Yokohoma, Japan
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