Public Engagement

See the contact page to contact me about speaking engagements. I’m happy to speak on topics such as twentieth century US women’s history, women’s rights activism (both national and international), anti-Vietnam war protest, and women’s solidarity.

Some examples of my public engagement are listed below.

Recent Public Speaking Engagements:

Discussant of Pierre Asselin’s Vietnam’s American War: A New History, sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Center, December 9, 2024 <https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/vietnams-american-war-new-history>

“US Women’s Rights Activism, 1874-1924,” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Lecture for Secondary Education Teachers, Southbury, CT, February 16, 2024

“Building a Just World,” P.I.N.K.  Unsung Heroines Award Ceremony, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, April 22, 2022

“Margaret Randall, Transnational Solidarity, and the Center for Southwest Research,” Retrieving the Real History: Exploring the Margaret Randall Archives at UNM Symposium, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 28, 2020

“Contested Spaces in International Women’s Organizing,” URI Humanities Festival, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, April 4, 2019.

“Women and Peace Movements in the Twentieth Century,” Rhode Island College, North Providence, Rhode Island, March 28, 2019.

“Establishing Feminist Perspectives on the Vietnam War,” Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, March 7, 2019.

Teach-In Participant, “The Kavanaugh-Ford Hearings: The Politics of Gender, #MeToo, and Justice,”University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, October 3, 2018.

Moderator, “Intersectional Feminism,” Cocktails and Conversations, Women’s Fund of Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island, September 20, 2018.

News Commentaries and Interviews:

Kelsie Eckert and Brooke Sullivan, “Why were women drawn into the Anti-Vietnam Movement with Dr. Jessica Frazier,” Remedial Herstory: the other 50% of history class, (February 21, 2022) <https://anchor.fm/remedialherstory/episodes/S2E28-Why-were-women-drawn-into-the-Anti-Vietnam-Movement-with-Dr–Jessica-Frazier-e1e7i9q/a-a7cod03>.

James Springer, “Women in combat, from World War II anti-Nazi Greek resistance to Viet Cong to Syrian Kurdish militia,” South China Morning Post, (May 22, 2020) <https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/3085401/world-war-ii-anti-nazi-greek-resistance-viet-cong-syrian-kurdish-militia>.

With Sarah McConnell, Voices of Vietnam, Episode 3: Women of War, Part 6: War Wives & Resistance, With Good Reason (October 6, 2018)<www.withgoodreasonradio.org/vietnam/>.

“Perspective | Fights among Feminists Aren’t a Sign of the Movement’s Weakness. They’re a Sign of Its Strength.” Washington Post (January 15, 2018) sec. Made by History, <www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/01/15/fights-among-feminists-arent-a-sign-of-the-movements-weakness-theyre-a-sign-of-its-strength/>.