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SELECTED PUBLIC LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, AND PRESENTATIONS

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2021       “Indigenous Survivance and Resistance” (Round Table Panelist), American Historical Association Annual Conference

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2020        “Urban Sustainability Symposium” (Round Table Panelist), California State University, Los Angeles

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2020        “Pollinator Pockets and Urban Biodiversity” (Panelist), Association of Professional Landscape Designers Biodiversity Conference

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2020         “Sustainability: More than an Ethos” (Panelist), Los Angeles Public Library

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2020        “Sustainable Curriculum: Interdisciplinarity in a Capstone Course” (Presenter), California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

 

2020        “California Indian Resistance to Colonialism” (Panel Moderator), Western History Association Annual Conference

 

2020         “Cinematic Settlers: Settler Colonial North American West in Film” (Round Table Panelist), Western History Association Annual Conference

 

2020       “ECCA and Digital History: Re-Imagining Space and Identity in California” (Presenter w/Steve Hackel), Omohundro Institute (OI) Annual

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2020        “Food Borderlands in the Age of British Imperialism” (Presenter) Pacific Coast Branch of British Studies Conference, UC Riverside

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2020        “Indigenous Borderlands of the Early Modern Indigenous World” (Invited Speaker) Shattuck Colonial History Symposium, CSU Sacramento

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2020        “Sustainability and the Future of Urban Development” (Invited Public Panelist) Conrad Hilton Foundation Symposium

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2020        “The Future of Sustainability in the San Fernando Valley" (moderator) CSUN College of Social and Behavioral Science Rountable

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2020        “Rez Metal” Book Talk (Invited Public Lecture) UCLA Department of History

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2020        “Open Gardens: Re-envisioning Gardens, Foodscapes, and History in LA”College of Health and Human Development, CSUN

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2019        “Indigenizing and Globalizing the American Revolution” (Invited Public Lecture) UCLA American History X Program

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2019        “Urban Oases: Rethinking Biodiversity On Our Campus and In Our City” (Invited Public Lecture) California State University, Northridge

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2019        “Open Gärden and Urban Farming in Los Angeles” (Invited Public Lecture) Los Angeles Food Policy Council

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2019        “Community-Driven Development in Tanzania Forum: Sustainable Development” (Forum Participant), Global Partners for Development, Tanzania

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2019        “Food, Travels, and Tastes in a Globalized Atlantic: A Roundtable” (Panel Presenter), Omohundro Institute (OI) Annual Conference

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2019        “Borderlands of History: Food Systems, Soundscapes, and Expanding the Archive” (Invited Public Lecture), UCSC

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2019        “Open Garden: Re-envisioning Gardens and History in Los Angeles” (Invited Public Lecture), City of Santa Monica

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2018        “Food Frontiers: Native Landscapes and Power in Early North America,” Whitsett Annual Lecture, CSUN         

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2018       “Indigenous Food Sovereignty,” UCLA, Department of World Arts and Culture

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2018       “Indigenous Archives of Early California,” Autry National Center, LAUSD Teaching History Workshop      

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2018       “Rez Metal: Indigenous Innovation and Tradition,” UCLA Department of History

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2018       “Applied History and the Digital Humanities” (Panel Moderator), Pacific Coast Branch- American Historical Association (PCB-AHA)

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2018       “The Rio Puerco Spill: Energy Development and Indian Country” (Panel Presenter), Western History Association (WHA)

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2018       “Indigenous Archives: Knowledge, Power, and Presence” (Panel Moderator), Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)

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2018       “Indigenous California History: State of the Field Roundtable” (Panel Presenter), Organization of American Historians (OAH)

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2018       “Indigenous Global Exchange during the Long Nineteenth Century” (Panel Presenter), Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction

 

2017       “Imagining the Futures of Climate Change,” Public Roundtable, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability, UCLA

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2017       “Indigenous Archives:Sources, Methods, and Theory” (co-convener), American Philosophical Society Colloquium

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2017       “The Great Plains: An Environmental History” (Presenter), University of Oklahoma National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop

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2017       “Trade, Violence, and Early America” (moderator), Autry National Center     

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2017       “Cultures of Energy” Symposium (Panel Presenter), Rice University, Center for Energy and Environmental Research in the Human Sciences

 

2017       “Networks” Speaker Series, Loyola Marymount University

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2017       “Indigenous Body: Food Sovereignty and Wellness” (Moderator), PCB-AHA

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2016       “Places and Materialities in the Age of Revolutions” (Panel Presenter), AHA

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2016       “Food Frontiers: Indigenous Borderlands and Continental Landscapes,” UCLA Institute of American Cultures Fall Forum

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2016       “Wheat Frontiers in the Early Republic,” Chatham University 

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2016       Traders and RaidersBook Talk, Huntington Library ICW Series

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2016       “Borderland Ecologies in Early America,” Claremont Graduate University Humanities Forum

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2016       “Land Use and the Environment” (discussant), CSUN Whitsett Symposium

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2016        Traders and Raiders Book Talk, UCLA American Indian Studies Department

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2015       “Indigenous Borderlands and the Development of Early California,” UCLA History-Geography Project

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2015       “Networks of Native Political Economy in North America” (Panel Presenter), World History Association

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2015       “Indigenous Revolutions” (Panel Presenter), AHA

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2014       “Pre-Contact Native California,” Autry National Center

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2014       “The Future of Indigenous Energy Development,” UCLA Honorarium Lecture 

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2014       “Revolutions in the Grass” (Panel Presenter), William and Mary Quarterly-Early Modern Studies Institute Workshop

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2014       “Change and Continuity: Intertribal Trade on Material Culture,” Autry National CenterFloral Journey Seminar

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2014       “Nineteenth Century Environment and Politics” (Commentator), CSUN Whitsett Annual Symposium

 

2014       “Intersecting Sustainable Urban Farming and Public History” (Panel Presenter), National Council on Public History (NCPH)

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2014       “Food Deserts in the San Gabriel Valley” (Panel Presenter), American Studies Association (ASA)

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2013       “Energy Development and Indian Country,” UCLA Honorarium Lecture 

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2013       “Trading on the Colorado-Gila River” (Panel Presenter), Mid-America Conference on History

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2013       “Reimagining South Los Angeles” (discussant), CSUN Whitsett Symposium

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2013       “Indigenous People and Los Angeles Agriculture” (commentator), CSUN Whitsett Symposium

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2013       “Indigenous Slave Networks in the Native Far West” (Panel Presenter),Southern Methodist University Annual Public Symposium

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2013.      “Empires through the Lens of Food” (Panel Presenter), AHA

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2012       “Native Plant Use and Food Systems in Pre-Contact Los Angeles,” UCLA National History Center Workshop

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2012       “Early Exploration in the American West,” NEH Teaching US History Workshop

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2012       “Foodways in Colonial California,” Autry Western History Workshop

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2012       “Uniting the Histories of Slavery” (Presenter), SAR Symposium

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2012       “Fighting for Identity in the Post-War U.S.” (Moderator/Commentator), Whittier Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts (URSCA)

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2012       “Teaching about Colonial Food Systems” (Panel Presenter), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)

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2012       “Indigenous Landscapes in the Far West Borderlands” (Panel Presenter), Western Historical Association (WHA)

 

2011        “Pacific Pathways:  Consumption and Land Use in Early California,” NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture 

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2011        “Food Frontiers: How Native Consumers Forged the Early Republic” (Panel Presenter), Society for Historians of the Early American Republic

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2011        “Native Histories and Interregional Identity in Early California” (Panel Presenter), PCB-AHA

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2010       “The Colonial and National Identities of the Constitution,” NEH Teaching American History Workshop

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2010       “Reevaluating the Missions” (commentator), Whitsett Annual Seminar 

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2010       “Chinese Porcelain, Mexican Identity, and the Early Modern World Economy”(Panel Presenter),World History Association 

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2010       “Grow, Prepare, and Share: English Language Acquisition through Food”(Panel Presenter),California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE)      

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2009       “Visualizing California: Case Studies Environmental Change, 1750 to 2000” (Panel Presenter), Social Science History Association (SSHA)

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2009       “Urban Inequality and Nutritional Access” (moderator), Center for Southern California Studies Annual Conference

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2009       “World History through Food: Globalized Food Narratives” (commentator), UC Davis/Robert Mondavi Institute, Tasting Histories Conference

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2008       “Native Californians and the Livestock Economy” (Panel Presenter), PCB-AHA

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2007       “Shell Beads: Currency and Culture in Native California” (Presenter), Northern California Bead Society

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2007       “Raiding the Rancho in Native California,” Bancroft Library, Round Table Series

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2006       “Shadow Catcher and Story Collector: Edward S. Curtis and Oral History,”Gilcrease Museum, Edward S. Curtis Exhibition Opening

 

2005       “The Dual Effect: Uranium, the Bomb, and the First Nuclear Boom” (Panel Presenter), University of California Multi-Campus Group Conference

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INTERVIEWS AND NEWS MEDIA

 

 

2018        Interview in KCET Tending Nature series, “Decolonizing Cuisine”

 

2017        Interview in “Eat Like an Early Californian at the Autry Museum’s Historic California Culinary Pop-Up,” LA Weekly

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2017       “Firearms, Trade, and Power in Native North America,” C-SPAN

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2016       “In Conversation with Natale Zappia,” Huntington Library

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2016        “A Conversation with Natale Zappia,” New Books in Latino Studies Podcast

 

2006        NPR Affiliate Interview on Edward S. Curtis, Gilcrease Museum