I love to share my research and do so regularly in invited talks and conference presentations. Some recent and upcoming presentations include:
Conferences
“Hymn Singing and the Territorializing Role of Music,” at the biennial Society for Early Americanists conference, online, March 4-7, 2021
“Objects of Exchange and Native American Hymnody in Early America,” at the annual Society for Ethnomusicology conference, Bloomington, IN, November 7-10, 2019
“Music and Revolution,” roundtable at the annual American Musicological Society conference, Boston, MA, October 31-November 3, 2019
“Joseph Johnson’s Gamuts: Objects of Exchange and Native Hymnody in Early America,” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Amherst, MA, July 15-19, 2019
“Intimate Encounters: Intercultural Domestic Music-Making in Eighteenth-Century Farmington,” Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture annual conference, Pittsburgh, PA, June 13-16, 2019
“Being Original: Music in The Massachusetts Magazine, 1788-1792,” Organization of American Historians Conference, New Orleans, April 6-9, 2017
Recent and upcoming invited talks
Title TBD, Cornell University Music Colloquium Series, March 3, 2022
“Materiality, Labor, and the Intimacies of Early American Music Books,” Case Western Reserve University Music Department, April 16, 2021
Presentation about my book at Northwestern University’s Beinen School of Music, 4pm November 21, 2019
“Cultivated by Hand: Manuscript Books, Amateur Musicians, and the Performance of Taste,” Rare Book School Summer Lecture, University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center, June 4, 2019
“Copying Taste: Civility and Gender in Early American Music Books,” talk given at the Music Department, New York University, Oct. 26; and at the Music Department, Princeton University, Nov. 12, 2018
“Promiscuous Protest Songs: Radicalism and Repression in the Revolutionary Age,” School of Music, University of Maryland, Sept. 14, 2018