Presentations
Select Conference Presentations
“The Plantation at Empire’s End,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2021 (Remote due to COVID-19)
“The Plantation at Empire’s End,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 2020 (Accepted; Cancelled due to COVID-19)
“Blackness and Indigeneity in Firestone’s Liberia,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2020 (Accepted; Cancelled due to COVID-19)
“After the Last Plantation: Imperial Redress and Postwar U.S. Agricultural Development,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 2019
“Empire and Emergency in Slavery's Afterlife: Liberia, Firestone, and the 'Booker Washington Institute," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2018
“ ‘Cutting Off Their Braids’: Industrial and Agricultural Capitalism and the Politics of Termination and Relocation,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 2018
“Pedagogies of Containment: The Green Revolution and the Agrarian Life of Race,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2017
“The Green Revolution and the Agrarian Life of Race,” Agricultural Historical Society Graduate Workshop, Grand Rapids, MI, 2017
“The Green Revolution and the Agrarian Life of Race,” Agricultural Historical Society Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids, MI, 2017
“New Farmers of America: Empire, Anti-Blackness, and the Mid-Century Politics of Industrial Education,” University of California Consortium for Black Studies in California Symposium, San Diego, CA, 2017
“ ‘The Original Point 4 Program’: Analogy, the Future Farmers of America, and the Settler-Imperial Condition,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 2016
“Earth as Witness: Anti-Blackness, Settler Colonialism, and the Struggle for Recognition,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2015
“ ‘So God Made a Farmer’: Proximity, Settler Colonialism and the U.S. Agrarian Imaginary,” Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, University of California, Riverside, CA, 2015
“Earth as Witness: Anti-Blackness, Settler Colonialism, and Land” Critical Ethnic Studies Annual Conference, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2015
“ ‘Tell Me What You Eat and I Shall Tell You What You Are’: Race, Nostalgia, Pure Food in the Progressive Era,” American Society for Environmental History Conference, San Francisco, CA,
“Peaceful Armies and the Coloniality of Alternative Food,” Food Justice and Peace Conference, University of Michigan, Lansing, MI, 2013
Invited Campus Talks
“Racial Capitalism, the Climate Crisis, and the Case for Climate Reparations,” Summer Fellows Workshop, Othering & Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley, 2021
“Agrarianism, Race, and Settler Colonialism,” Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lectures, Environmental Studies Program, Tufts University, 2020
“Banking on Liberty: Debt and Diplomacy in Firestone’s Liberia,” Seminar Series, Center for the Humanities, Tufts University, 2019
“From the New Deal to Pigford v. Glickman: Structural Racism, Corporate Power, and U.S. Food and Agriculture Policy,” Berkeley Food Institute Seminar, Untangling the Farm Bill, University of California, Berkeley, 2018
“Roundtable on Race and Power in the Farm Bill,” Food and Agriculture Policy Group, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, 2016
“ ‘So God Made a Farmer’: Proximities of Settler Colonialism and the Agrarian,” Berkeley Food Institute Symposium, Production to Picture to Personhood: Food, Representation and Identity in Contemporary American Cultures, University of California, Berkeley, 2014
Media Appearances
“Climate Refugees: Climate-Fueled Drought, Sea Level Rise, Storms & Fires Displace Millions Worldwide,” TV and Radio Interview, Democracy Now! 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-v-XX7MM9k
“Racist U.S. Farm Bill?” Radio Interview, WORT 89.9 FM, Community Radio, Madison, WI, 2015 https://www.wortfm.org/racist-u-s-farm-bill/
“The Plantation at Empire’s End,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2021 (Remote due to COVID-19)
“The Plantation at Empire’s End,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 2020 (Accepted; Cancelled due to COVID-19)
“Blackness and Indigeneity in Firestone’s Liberia,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2020 (Accepted; Cancelled due to COVID-19)
“After the Last Plantation: Imperial Redress and Postwar U.S. Agricultural Development,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, 2019
“Empire and Emergency in Slavery's Afterlife: Liberia, Firestone, and the 'Booker Washington Institute," American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2018
“ ‘Cutting Off Their Braids’: Industrial and Agricultural Capitalism and the Politics of Termination and Relocation,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 2018
“Pedagogies of Containment: The Green Revolution and the Agrarian Life of Race,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2017
“The Green Revolution and the Agrarian Life of Race,” Agricultural Historical Society Graduate Workshop, Grand Rapids, MI, 2017
“The Green Revolution and the Agrarian Life of Race,” Agricultural Historical Society Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids, MI, 2017
“New Farmers of America: Empire, Anti-Blackness, and the Mid-Century Politics of Industrial Education,” University of California Consortium for Black Studies in California Symposium, San Diego, CA, 2017
“ ‘The Original Point 4 Program’: Analogy, the Future Farmers of America, and the Settler-Imperial Condition,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, 2016
“Earth as Witness: Anti-Blackness, Settler Colonialism, and the Struggle for Recognition,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2015
“ ‘So God Made a Farmer’: Proximity, Settler Colonialism and the U.S. Agrarian Imaginary,” Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, University of California, Riverside, CA, 2015
“Earth as Witness: Anti-Blackness, Settler Colonialism, and Land” Critical Ethnic Studies Annual Conference, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2015
“ ‘Tell Me What You Eat and I Shall Tell You What You Are’: Race, Nostalgia, Pure Food in the Progressive Era,” American Society for Environmental History Conference, San Francisco, CA,
“Peaceful Armies and the Coloniality of Alternative Food,” Food Justice and Peace Conference, University of Michigan, Lansing, MI, 2013
Invited Campus Talks
“Racial Capitalism, the Climate Crisis, and the Case for Climate Reparations,” Summer Fellows Workshop, Othering & Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley, 2021
“Agrarianism, Race, and Settler Colonialism,” Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lectures, Environmental Studies Program, Tufts University, 2020
“Banking on Liberty: Debt and Diplomacy in Firestone’s Liberia,” Seminar Series, Center for the Humanities, Tufts University, 2019
“From the New Deal to Pigford v. Glickman: Structural Racism, Corporate Power, and U.S. Food and Agriculture Policy,” Berkeley Food Institute Seminar, Untangling the Farm Bill, University of California, Berkeley, 2018
“Roundtable on Race and Power in the Farm Bill,” Food and Agriculture Policy Group, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, 2016
“ ‘So God Made a Farmer’: Proximities of Settler Colonialism and the Agrarian,” Berkeley Food Institute Symposium, Production to Picture to Personhood: Food, Representation and Identity in Contemporary American Cultures, University of California, Berkeley, 2014
Media Appearances
“Climate Refugees: Climate-Fueled Drought, Sea Level Rise, Storms & Fires Displace Millions Worldwide,” TV and Radio Interview, Democracy Now! 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-v-XX7MM9k
“Racist U.S. Farm Bill?” Radio Interview, WORT 89.9 FM, Community Radio, Madison, WI, 2015 https://www.wortfm.org/racist-u-s-farm-bill/