Invited Talks and Outreach
2015-present
Out West in the Rockies, at the American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming Laramie
Advisory Board Member
2021-present
UI Black History Research Lab
Advisory Board Member; 2024- Co-Chair
May 2025-
Institute for Advancing American Values, Boise State University
America250 "Reading Idaho" Course Collaborator
March 2025-
Moscow, Idaho
America250 Commission, member
August 2024-
University of Idaho
America250 Committee, co-chair
November 2025
North Idaho Museum
“Balancing Act: Idaho’s Suffrage Fight”
October 2025
Women's Resource Group, METER Group, Inc.
“Cowboy Up: Gender and the Making of the American West,”
July 2025
Chief Joseph Trail Ride
"The Winged Appaloosa: Native People, Mythological Creatures, and Riding Astride in the Late 20th Century,”
April 2025
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Boise State University,
"The Uses and Abuses of History"
March 2024
Latah County Historical Society, Annual Meeting
“Firebreathers: Feminism and the History of Dragon Riding Fiction”
November 2023
Autry Museum of the American West
Panelist, "The Stories of Gay Rodeo"
June 2023
Latah County Historical Society
“The Kindergarten Lobby: How Women in Idaho Expanded Education in the 1970s”
November 2022
LGBTQ Special Interest Group, UK Oral History Society
"Oral History, Queer Cowfolx, and the Meaning of the Cowboy in Gay Rodeo"
September 2022
University of Idaho, hosted by the Borah Symposium and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Panelist, “Forced and Exploitative Labor in Nazi Europe and the Pacific Northwest,”
July 2022
Idaho Humanities Council's Summer Teacher Institute
Institute Scholar
January 2022
Moscow League of Women Voters
"CRT: What It Is and What It Isn't"
August 2020
Idaho Public Television, Screening and Discussion
“Ahead of Her Time: Woman Suffrage in Idaho”
June 2020
Autry Museum of the American West
“Outriders: Rodeo and Queer Country Performance”
January 2020
Idaho Black History Museum
Race and Rodeo
December 2019
Rediscovered Books
October 2019
Book People of Moscow
“Our Communities, Our Icons”
“Photography, Performance, Politics: Reimagining American History,” with Matthew Fox-Amato
April 2019
Latah County Historical Society
“History and Photography in the International Gay Rodeo Association”
October 2018-February 2019
Western History Association
2019 Program Committee
January 2019
PFLAG of the Paolouse
“Queer Culture and the Cowboy: Stories from the Gay Rodeo”
January 2019
Fettuccine Forum, Boise City Department of Arts and History
“Mom and Apple Pie: Women Activists in the Rise of the New Right”
November 2018
National Endowment for the Humanities
2019 Summer Stipend Peer Review Panelist
October 2018
University of Idaho - Organized invited lecture
“Out West,” by Gregory Hinton
August 2018
Ketchum Community Library
“Gay Rodeo and Masculinity in Reagan’s America”
March 2018
Moscow City Library
“Of Eagles and Horses: Women in the Rise of the New Right”
February 2017
GIRLS Academy, Kappa Kappa Gamma
Panelist, “Inspirational Women Speakers Panel”
July 2015
Hidden Histories Panelist, Fishtrap, Wallowa, Oregon
“The Hidden History of Gay Rodeo”
2015-2018
Idaho Coalition against Sexual and Domestic Violence
Academic Consultant