Speaking

Public talks & appearances

Discussant, Season 3, Episode 2: Healthcare, The Past, the Promise, the Presidency podcast, March 2022, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University

Organizer & moderator, “Discussing Race, Settler Colonialism, and Healthcare in the Age of Covid-19,” February 2021, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX          

Presenter, “The Fight for Access: Health Care Struggles in Historical Perspective,” April 2019, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY

Invited talks

“The Public Hospital in the Late Twentieth Century,” David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium, May 2019, Weill Cornell Medicine

“Poor Health: Retrenchment and Resistance in Chicago’s Public Hospital,” Walter P. Reuther Library, April 2017, Detroit, Michigan

Conference panels organized

Chicago Health Care and Activism, Past and Present Labor & Working Class History Association Conference, May 2021

Approaching the Public Sector, Labor and Working Class History Association Conference, May 2019, Durham, NC

Race and Retrenchment from Above and Below, Urban History Association Conference, October 2018, Columbia, SC

Urban Struggles to Reconceptualize Work, Health, Education & Environment, Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, & Sexualities, May 2017, Hempstead, New York

Conference, workshop, & roundtable presentations

“‘It is bad medicine; it is also bad government:’ The Feminist Struggle for Public Sector Reproductive Rights in Late Twentieth-Century Chicago,” Urban Histories and the People’s Health Workshop, The Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, April 2023

Chicago Politics, Promise and Perils: The Legacies of Social Movements and Grassroots Activism, Organization of American Historians, Los Angeles, CA, March 2023

What Can the History of Hospitals Tell Us about Race and the City?,” Urban History Month Roundtable, October 2021 

“The Public Hospital and Chicago’s History of Health Care Activism,” Labor & Working Class History Association Conference, May 2021

“Sick Ins, Heal Ins, Feed Ins, and Wildcat Strikes: Labor Organizing at Chicago’s Public Hospital in the 1960s and Its Legacy for the 1970s,” Labor & Working Class History Association Conference, May 2021

“‘Mend My Body?’: Defending the Public Health Care Institution,” Dallas Area Society of Historians, January 2021, Dallas, TX

“The Public Hospital and the Safety-Net Welfare State,” Labor & Working Class History Association, May 2019, Duke University, Durham, NC

“Cleaning Up County: Competing Efforts to Improve Cook County Hospital, 1960-1975,” Cold War Seminar, April 2019, Tamiment Library, New York, NY       

“‘Mend My Body?’: Decentralization and the Public Health Care Institution, 1976-1980,” Early Career Workshop, March 2019, New-York Historical Society, New York, NY

“‘Farming Out’ Care: Resisting Privatization, 1980-1994,” Neoliberalism Past and Present Working Group, December 2018, Rutgers University

“‘May we […] have an efficiency that does not violate our humanity:’ Defending the Public Hospital in Late Twentieth-Century Chicago,” Urban History Association Conference, October 2018, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

“‘We are the hands that draw the blood:’ Privatization, Cuts, & Public Hospital Employees in Late Twentieth-Century Chicago,” Sigerist Circle Scholarly Session, American Association of the History of Medicine, May 2018, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

“‘Hard Times at the Cooker’: Retrenchment Comes to County, 1976-1981,” Center for Cultural Analysis Seminar on the Medical Humanities, November 2017, Rutgers University

“‘Hard Times at the Cooker:’ The Struggle to Save Chicago’s Public Hospital,” Labor and&Working Class History Association Conference, June 2017, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

“Caring for Cook County Hospital, 1978-1981,” NordWel Summer School, State, Society & Citizen, Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Welfare State Development, June 2017, Rome, Italy

“The Struggle to Save a Public Health Care Institution,” Berkshire Conference on History of Women, Genders, & Sexualities, May 2017, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY

“The Welfare State in the Shadow of Itself: Writing Liberalism in a Neoliberal Era,” Institute for Research on Women Seminar on Poverty, May 2016, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

“‘A mutual fight for the poor’?: The Long & Wide War on Poverty in Butte, Montana,” Susman Graduate Conference, April 2015, Rutgers University

“A Place-Based Movement: Finding Feminism’s Complexities in My Backyard,” Dresher Center for the Humanities, April 2013, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD

“Second-Wave Feminism in Baltimore,” Graduate Student Seminar, Department of History, April 2013, UMBC

“‘Working on Many Levels:’ The History of Baltimore Women’s Liberation in the Postwar Era,” Graduate Research Conference, February 2013, UMBC