Presentations

2025 Keynote presentation: "It’s a discipline problem: How eugenic ideology persists within social studies curricula." California Council for the Social Studies. San Francisco, CA. 

2022 Keynote presentation: “Centering the assets of marginalized students and communities through research.” Research Day, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Education, Berkeley, CA.

2015 Keynote presentation: “Dreams of Feminist Education.” The Feminist and Scholar XL conference, Barnard College, New York, NY.

2023 Seminar presentation: “When the Subaltern Cannot Speak: Teaching about and through Historical Silence.” The Role of Dialogue in History Education Seminar. Part of the Project makinghistories, coordinated by Dr. Mario Carretero, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Funded by the European Union. 

2023 Seminar presentation: "Confronting Racial Representations and Narratives in World History Curriculum." (Un)Covering the New York Social Studies Standards: Integrating the Middle East in Modern History Curriculum, Kevorkian Center 2023 K-12 Summer Institute, New York University. 

2024 Book talk: Discipline Problems: How Students of Color Trouble Whiteness in Schools. College of Education Studies Colloquium. Wesleyan University. 

2024. Presentation: “Marronage and Negation in the History Classroom.” Big City Social Studies Group. 

2023 Panel discussion: virtual panel on civic education, part of an internal Nerd Alert Friday discussion series. Obama Foundation. 

“Beyond negated identity:  Mediating the world history classroom through Adorno’s Negative Dialectics,” AERA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, 2023.

“Being in difference, together: Making the classroom an academic home through critical race theory,” AERA Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, 2022.

“Civic reasoning through paranoid and reparative reading: Addressing conspiracy theories within racialized and queer publics,” AERA Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, 2022.

“Queer Worlding as Historical Inquiry for Insurgent Freedom-Dreaming,” CUFA, National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference--Virtual, 2021.

“History Is Critical: Addressing the False Dichotomy Between Historical Inquiry and Criticality” co-presented with Maribel Santiago, CUFA, National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference--Virtual, 2021.

“Vestigial Eugenics in World History Curriculum: How Racial Science Structures Narratives of Development and Modernity,” AERA Annual Conference--Virtual, 2021.

“From el Campesino to Cooperation Jackson: Teaching Economics through Cooperatives in Marginalized Communities,” AERA, Annual Conference--Virtual, 2021.

“Unpacking Criticality: How Do You Show Up?” Panel Discussion, CUFA, National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference--Virtual, 2020.

“The Passive Investment in Whiteness: Tracing Epistemic and Discursive Violence in World History Curriculum,” CUFA, National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference, Austin, TX, 2019.

“Queer of Color Reading Practices: Critiques of Violence and Power,” American Educational Studies Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2019.

“The Evidence of Racialized Experience: racialized encounters with history in the classroom,” AERA Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2019.

“A Pedagogy of Prison Abolition: Constructing a Queer Trans People of Color Abolitionist Curriculum,” AERA Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2019.

“Power, Knowledge, and the Open Mind: A Critical Approach to Implementing a Pedagogy of Open-Mindedness” presented with Rebecca Taylor, Educational Theory Institute, Champaign, IL, 2018.

“It’s a Discipline Problem: A Pedagogy of Prison Abolition,” Critical Ethnic Studies Association conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, 2018.

“Queering world history education through indigenous and alternative gender systems,” CUFA, National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, 2017.

“Reading the World Otherwise: Paranoid Reading, Conspiracy Theory, and Critical Thinking,” AERA Annual Conference, San Antonio, TX, 2017.

“Were the Ancient Egyptians Black? Racial Identities and Historical Thinking,” AERA Annual Conference, Washington DC, 2016.

“Walter Benjamin’s Historical Materialism in the World History Classroom,” CUFA, National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA, 2014.

“Experiencing the Haitian Revolution in the World History Classroom,” National Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA, 2014.

“The Logics of Exclusion and Ontology in the World History Classroom,” American Educational Studies Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2014.

“Troublemakers and the logics of exclusion in the world history classroom,” Critical Race Studies in Education Association Annual Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2014.