The Music of Miracle City: Vanport, Oregon and the Sonic Imaginaries of Multiracial Democracy Dissertation submitted for dual PhD in ethnomusicology and history (2024, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN)

“By That Wild Columbia River”: Woody Guthrie and the 1948 Flood of Vanport, Oregon Invited talk, School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University (2023, Corvallis, OR)

A City of Strangers: Harmony and Dissonance in Vanport, Oregon
Society for Ethnomusicology Northwest Chapter Annual Meeting (2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada)

What is the Sound of Silence?: A Sonic Analysis of the Metaphor of Archival Silences
Paul G. Lucas History Graduate Student Association (2022, Bloomington, IN)

Vanport, Oregon and the Politics of River Management
Conference on Communications and the Environment (2019, Vancouver, BC, Canada)

Making American Music: Reflections on a Pilot Program at the National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History Colloquia Series (2018)

“By That Wild Columbia River”: Music, Race, and Disaster in a WWII Shipyard Town
American Folklore Society Annual Meeting (2018, Buffalo, NY)

“Let the Songs I Sing, Speak For Me”: Musical Worlds of Maxville Northwest Anthropological Conference (2024, Portland, OR)

Ecological Imaginaries Panel discussion, Diverse Environmentalisms Research Team w/ Jeff Todd Titon, Mary Hufford, John McDowell, Sue Tuohy, Rebecca Dirkson, Rory Turner American Folklore Society Annual Meeting (2024, Portland, OR)

The Music of Miracle City Vanport Mosaic Festival (2023, Portland, OR)

A Labor of Love: Descendants Reclaim Historic Black Logging Town Site as Educational Site
LABORonline, Labor and Working-Class History Association, LAWCHA (2022)

What Do Woody Guthrie, Salmon, Toilet Paper, and Digital Humanities Have In Common?: A Music Historian’s View of the Columbia River
Institute for Digital Humanities (2020)

“Migracious” Music: Mobilities Paradigms in the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940 to 1941
Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting (2019, Bloomington, IN)

Listening to the hopeful sounds of victory
O Say Can You See (2018, Smithsonian blog)

An anti-slavery anthem reimagined for today
O Say Can You See (2018, Smithsonian blog)