Selected Scholarly Contributions
Be Washington, Exhibit at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, opening 2026
Lead Scholar, Slavery in George Washington’s World, Mount Vernon Teacher Education Program since 2017. https://www.mountvernon.org/education/for-teachers/teaching-institutes-professional-development/summer-residential-programs/program-descriptions/lives-bound-together-enslavement-in-george-washington-s-world/
Media:
SCETV Specials: SC Suffragists: The Grimke Sisters Thru the Civil War
“Civil Rights And The Great War” - Dr. Kathryn Silva - Episode 23 - Symposium at Lander University, South Carolina, Know it All TV.
Utica Abolitionist History Day Interview with NPR - NY - WAMC: https://www.wamc.org/central-new-york-news/2015-10-30/utica-commemorates-abolition-history-day
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & CHAIRED PANELS
2024 Chair, “Capitalist Opportunities,” Nineteenth Century Studies Association Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, March 2024 (forthcoming)
2024 Chair, Music and Its Publics, Nineteenth Century Studies Association Annual Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, March 2024 (forthcoming)
2023 Chair, “Biography and the Remaking of Legacies I,” Nineteenth Century Studies Association Annual Conference, Sacramento, California, March 29, 2023
2022 Chair, “The Business of Slavery,” Business History Conference, (Virtual), Mexico City, Mexico, April 7, 2022.
2021 Panelist, “Museums and Capitalism,” Doing History, Doing Justice, American Association for State and Local History 2021 Online Conference, October 15, 2021.
CAMPUS/DEPARTMENTAL TALKS
2024 “Skilled Labor, Skilled Knowledge Black Women and the Creation of Textiles in Colonial and Antebellum America,” Research, Scholarship, and Creative Expression Day, Claflin University, February 24, 2024
2024 Threads of Resilience: Enslaved Women, Textile Labor, and the Pursuit of Freedom, The Claflin Literary Arts & Film Society, (CLAFS) Hybrid Lecture Series 2023 – 2024, January 20, 2024
2018 Presenter, “‘They were doing good work:’ African American Women, Textile Work, and Charleston’s Jim Crow Industrial Complex.” Faculty Research Symposium, Claflin University, November 10, 2018