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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.

• "Never Safe in the Family Way: Challenging the Dominant Paradigm in U.S. Slavery Studies." Keynote Address for Women's History Month, Radford University (February 29, 2008).

• "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.