Conferences | Podcasts

Podcasts

The Most Forgotten War,” Hail Tales: Stories form Washington Football History (season 3, episode1), July 6, 2026.

Women Who Watched the Skies with Anne Dobberteen,” PreserveCast, May 11, 2026.

Episode 5: Oral History,” Public History in a Virtual Age, Institute of Thomas Paine Studies. December 2020.

Conferences & Talks

DC History Conference. “The National Model Aircraft Project and School Segregation During World War II.” Panelist, in-person.

Organization of American Historians Conference. “Eyes Aloft: Motivating WWII Plane Spotters through Radio.” Panelist and co-organizer of “Homefront Frequencies: Radio Messaging and Community During WWII” panel. April 17, 2026.

Radford University. History 160: History & Board Games, Dr. Tony Guidone’s class. “Spot-A-Plane Game: Women, Airplane Recognition and Spotting as Civic Duty in WWII.” Invited guest lecturer, virtual. April 14, 2025.

Radford University Center for Archives and Digital History Speaker Series. “The Eyes and Ears of the Air Forces: Using Text Analysis to Understand WWII Home Front Radio Propaganda on the East Coast.” Invited speaker, virtual. April 14, 2025.

DC History Conference. “A City Takes Cover: DC’s WWII Air Raid Drills.” Panelist in “Images of the City” panel, in person. April 4, 2025.

Smithsonian National Museum of American History Colloquium. “Gamifying the Visual Culture of Plane Spotting on the US WWII Home Front.” Invited Speaker. September 10, 2024.

Popular Culture Association National Conference. “The Gamification of WWII Plane Spotting on the US Home Front.” Panelist. March 30, 2024.

Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Seminar on Contemporary Science, Technology, and Culture. “Army Flash! WWII Women Plane Plotters & Aerial Visual Culture.” Invited speaker. March 21, 2024.

American Historical Association Annual Meeting, “Army Flash!: WWII Female Civil Defense Workers in the Aircraft Warning Service.” Poster session. January 6, 2024.

DC Mondays at the Museum, George Washington University Museum | The Textile Museum. “Women Plane Plotters During WWII.” Invited speaker. October 9, 2023.

University of Delaware History Workshop. “Visual Culture and WWII Women Plane Plotters.” Invited speaker. October 17, 2023.

DC History Conference, “’Army Flash’: Female Civil Defense Workers at the Antiaircraft Artillery Command Center.” Panelist in  “Evoking Memory” panel. March 2023.

Conference on Community Writing, “Mason Family Manuscript Account Book: A Digital Documentary Editing Project.” Virtual panel. October 2021.

Oral History Coffee Chat: Heurich House Museum – Home/Brewed Oral History Project. October 18, 2021.

Chesapeake Digital Humanities Conference, “Challenges and Ethical Concerns of Contemporary Collecting for a Digital Public Archive.” Virtual panel. February 2021.

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