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"The Heroic Lives of 19th Century Appalachian Women." Lecture Presented to the Night for Notable Women, History Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, 3 June 2010
“The Great Labor Grab: Land Dispossession, Colonial Coercion and African Peasant Resistance, 1890-1930.” Plenary Address for the 34th Annual Conference of the Political Economy of the World-System Section of the American Sociological Association. Boca Raton: Florida Atlantic University (22-24 April 2010).
"Challenging Historical and Contemporary Mythology about Appalachian Ethnic and Gender Diversity." Lecture presented at Union College (Barbourville, Kentucky), 26 October 2009
"Romantic Idealism Dies Hard: Challenging Scholarly Mythology about Southern Appalachia." Lecture presented to Montgomery County School Teachers, 12 March 2009
"Slavery and Black Appalachian Families" Lecture presented to the American Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, 10 March 2009
"New Directions in the Feminization of Agriculture: Women and the Current Global Food Crisis." Lecture delivered to the OIRED Women in Development Colloquium, April 2008.
“Civil Rights Activism of Sociologists.” (2008). Paper presented at Annual Meeting of Southern Sociological Society.
"Challenging the Dominant Paradigm: The World Market in Cotton, U.S. Slave Trading, and Destruction of African-American Families." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association Meeting, August 2005.
"A Cherokee Life History: From Biracial Family in the Segregated South to the Revision of Historical Conventional Wisdom." Delivered for the Joseph Campbell Lecture at Sarah Lawrence College, 29 April 2005.