Recent Conference Presentations

American Historical Association, January 2026                

Roundtable: “Indigenous Chicago: Community-Engaged Curriculum Development as Public History” with Rose Miron and Aaron Golding

Organization of American Historians, April 2025                

Paper: “Curricular Change through Community-Engaged Resource Development”

Panel: Using Indigenous History to Challenge American Memories

Other panelists: Jennifer Guiliano and Elizabeth Rule | Chaired by Jennifer Guiliano

Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative Urban Native Education Conference, March 2025  

Session: “Indigenous Chicago: Next Steps in Making the Invisible Visible in K-12 Social Studies,” co-presented with Haku Blaisdell

National Council for the Social Studies – College and University Faculty Assembly, November 2024                

Paper: “Realizing Rematriation for Social Studies Education,” as part of the Turtle Island Social Studies Collective

Panel: Got motivation / I done found me a new foundation: New Approaches to History and Historiography

Other panelists: Joanna Batt and Michael Joseph, Sandra Schmidt, Greg Simmons | Chaired by Alexandra Thrall with commentary from Ginney Norton

American Studies Association, November 2024                

Paper: “Indigenous Chicago: A Community-Engaged Collaboration toward Curricular Change”

Panel: Grounding the Unsettling of Political Spaces

Other panelists: Sydney Beckmann, Jason Scott Cooke, Andrew Friedman | Chaired by Leah Kuragano

Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, June 2024                

Roundtable: Indigenous Chicago: A Community-Engaged Approach to Narrative Change

Other panelists: Rose Miron, Raphael Wahwassuck, Teagan Dreyer

American Educational Research Association, April 2024                

Div K Invited Vice Presidential Session: The Indigenous Chicago Project: Community-Engaged Curriculum Development

Other panelists: Megan Bang, Mary Eileen Skerrett, Anna Lees, Eve Tuck, Jennifer Brant

Organization of American Historians, April 2024

Roundtable: Building Public History Projects that Serve Native Communities: The Indigenous Chicago Project

Other panelists: Rose Miron, Josee Starr, Eric Hemenway

Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, May 2023

Roundtable: Identifying the Utility of ‘Survivance’ within Studies of Indigenous Health

Other panelists: Jill Doerfler, Danielle Gartner, Rachel Wilbur, and Joe Gone

Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative Urban Native Education Conference, April 2023

Presentation with Jennifer Michals and Rose Miron: “Indigenous Chicago: Making the Invisible Visible in K-12 Illinois Social Studies”

American Educational Research Association, April 2023

Paper: “Teaching Desires-Based Histories in the College Classroom”

Panel: Centering Students’ Racialized Experiences: Shifting Paradigms in History Education

Other panelists: Sohyun An, Eliana Castro, Krista Cortes, Muna Saleh, Yianella Blanco | Chaired by Maribel Santiago | Tadashi Dozono, Discussant

National Council for the Social Studies, November 2022

Paper with Leilani Sabzalian: “This Bridge Called My Back: Engaging Feminisms of Color in Social Studies Education”

Other panelists: Kristen Duncan, Van Anh Tran, Hanadi Shatara, Amanda Vickery, Damaris Dunn, Tianna Dowie-Chin, Melissa Williams, Shakealia Finley, Muna Saleh, Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, Crystal Simmons, Natasha Murray-Everett, Eliana Castro, Cinthia Salinas, Delandrea Hall, Brittany Jones, Denisha Jones, Rebecca Geller, ArCasia James-Gallaway

Organization of American Historians, March 2022

Paper: “Reconceiving Schooling: Centering Indigenous Experimentation in Indian Education History”

Panel: Teaching Ingenuity: Indigenous Repurposing of Concepts in American Education

Other panelists: Matthew Villeneuve, Sarah Sadlier | Chaired by Bethany Hughes with commentary from Kevin Whalen

Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, August 2021

Paper: “Lessons from Indigenous Educators’ Interventions in Schooling”

Panel: (Re)Centering Pedagogies and Perspectives in Teaching History with Indigenous and Diverse Community Voices

Other panelists: Farina King, Ernestine Berry, Summer Cherland, Mary Klann, Rebecca Wellington

American Society for Environmental History, April 2021

Roundtable: Indigenous Systems of Relationality Across Environmental History and Indigenous Futures

Other panelists: Michael Dockry, Meixi, Lyana Patrick, Brett Ramey, Leilani Sabzalian

Organization of American Historians, April 2021

Roundtable: Beyond the Treaty of 1821: Enduring Midwestern Indigenous Histories and Presence

Other panelists: Kasey Keeler, Doug Kiel, Jacob Lee, and Jameson Sweet | Chaired by Michael J. Witgen

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