SELECTED PUBLIC LECTURES, WORKSHOPS, AND PRESENTATIONS
2021 “Indigenous Survivance and Resistance” (Round Table Panelist), American Historical Association Annual Conference
2020 “Urban Sustainability Symposium” (Round Table Panelist), California State University, Los Angeles
2020 “Pollinator Pockets and Urban Biodiversity” (Panelist), Association of Professional Landscape Designers Biodiversity Conference
2020 “Sustainability: More than an Ethos” (Panelist), Los Angeles Public Library
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
Conference
2020 “Food Borderlands in the Age of British Imperialism” (Presenter) Pacific Coast Branch of British Studies Conference, UC Riverside
2020 “Indigenous Borderlands of the Early Modern Indigenous World” (Invited Speaker) Shattuck Colonial History Symposium, CSU Sacramento
2020 “Sustainability and the Future of Urban Development” (Invited Public Panelist) Conrad Hilton Foundation Symposium
2020 “The Future of Sustainability in the San Fernando Valley" (moderator) CSUN College of Social and Behavioral Science Rountable
2020 “Rez Metal” Book Talk (Invited Public Lecture) UCLA Department of History
2020 “Open Gardens: Re-envisioning Gardens, Foodscapes, and History in LA”College of Health and Human Development, CSUN
2019 “Indigenizing and Globalizing the American Revolution” (Invited Public Lecture) UCLA American History X Program
2019 “Urban Oases: Rethinking Biodiversity On Our Campus and In Our City” (Invited Public Lecture) California State University, Northridge
2019 “Open Gärden and Urban Farming in Los Angeles” (Invited Public Lecture) Los Angeles Food Policy Council
2019 “Community-Driven Development in Tanzania Forum: Sustainable Development” (Forum Participant), Global Partners for Development, Tanzania
2019 “Food, Travels, and Tastes in a Globalized Atlantic: A Roundtable” (Panel Presenter), Omohundro Institute (OI) Annual Conference
2019 “Borderlands of History: Food Systems, Soundscapes, and Expanding the Archive” (Invited Public Lecture), UCSC
2019 “Open Garden: Re-envisioning Gardens and History in Los Angeles” (Invited Public Lecture), City of Santa Monica
2018 “Food Frontiers: Native Landscapes and Power in Early North America,” Whitsett Annual Lecture, CSUN
2018 “Indigenous Food Sovereignty,” UCLA, Department of World Arts and Culture
2018 “Indigenous Archives of Early California,” Autry National Center, LAUSD Teaching History Workshop
2018 “Rez Metal: Indigenous Innovation and Tradition,” UCLA Department of History
2018 “Applied History and the Digital Humanities” (Panel Moderator), Pacific Coast Branch- American Historical Association (PCB-AHA)
2018 “The Rio Puerco Spill: Energy Development and Indian Country” (Panel Presenter), Western History Association (WHA)
2018 “Indigenous Archives: Knowledge, Power, and Presence” (Panel Moderator), Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)
2018 “Indigenous California History: State of the Field Roundtable” (Panel Presenter), Organization of American Historians (OAH)
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
2017 “Indigenous Archives:Sources, Methods, and Theory” (co-convener), American Philosophical Society Colloquium
2017 “The Great Plains: An Environmental History” (Presenter), University of Oklahoma National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop
2017 “Trade, Violence, and Early America” (moderator), Autry National Center
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
2017 “Indigenous Body: Food Sovereignty and Wellness” (Moderator), PCB-AHA
2016 “Places and Materialities in the Age of Revolutions” (Panel Presenter), AHA
2016 “Food Frontiers: Indigenous Borderlands and Continental Landscapes,” UCLA Institute of American Cultures Fall Forum
2016 “Wheat Frontiers in the Early Republic,” Chatham University
2016 Traders and RaidersBook Talk, Huntington Library ICW Series
2016 “Borderland Ecologies in Early America,” Claremont Graduate University Humanities Forum
2016 “Land Use and the Environment” (discussant), CSUN Whitsett Symposium
2016 Traders and Raiders Book Talk, UCLA American Indian Studies Department
2015 “Indigenous Borderlands and the Development of Early California,” UCLA History-Geography Project
2015 “Networks of Native Political Economy in North America” (Panel Presenter), World History Association
2015 “Indigenous Revolutions” (Panel Presenter), AHA
2014 “Pre-Contact Native California,” Autry National Center
2014 “The Future of Indigenous Energy Development,” UCLA Honorarium Lecture
2014 “Revolutions in the Grass” (Panel Presenter), William and Mary Quarterly-Early Modern Studies Institute Workshop
2014 “Change and Continuity: Intertribal Trade on Material Culture,” Autry National CenterFloral Journey Seminar
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)
2014 “Food Deserts in the San Gabriel Valley” (Panel Presenter), American Studies Association (ASA)
2013 “Energy Development and Indian Country,” UCLA Honorarium Lecture
2013 “Trading on the Colorado-Gila River” (Panel Presenter), Mid-America Conference on History
2013 “Reimagining South Los Angeles” (discussant), CSUN Whitsett Symposium
2013 “Indigenous People and Los Angeles Agriculture” (commentator), CSUN Whitsett Symposium
2013 “Indigenous Slave Networks in the Native Far West” (Panel Presenter),Southern Methodist University Annual Public Symposium
2013. “Empires through the Lens of Food” (Panel Presenter), AHA
2012 “Native Plant Use and Food Systems in Pre-Contact Los Angeles,” UCLA National History Center Workshop
2012 “Early Exploration in the American West,” NEH Teaching US History Workshop
2012 “Foodways in Colonial California,” Autry Western History Workshop
2012 “Uniting the Histories of Slavery” (Presenter), SAR Symposium
2012 “Fighting for Identity in the Post-War U.S.” (Moderator/Commentator), Whittier Undergraduate Research and Creative Arts (URSCA)
2012 “Teaching about Colonial Food Systems” (Panel Presenter), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)
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
2011 “Food Frontiers: How Native Consumers Forged the Early Republic” (Panel Presenter), Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
2011 “Native Histories and Interregional Identity in Early California” (Panel Presenter), PCB-AHA
2010 “The Colonial and National Identities of the Constitution,” NEH Teaching American History Workshop
2010 “Reevaluating the Missions” (commentator), Whitsett Annual Seminar
2010 “Chinese Porcelain, Mexican Identity, and the Early Modern World Economy”(Panel Presenter),World History Association
2010 “Grow, Prepare, and Share: English Language Acquisition through Food”(Panel Presenter),California Association for Bilingual Education (CABE)
2009 “Visualizing California: Case Studies Environmental Change, 1750 to 2000” (Panel Presenter), Social Science History Association (SSHA)
2009 “Urban Inequality and Nutritional Access” (moderator), Center for Southern California Studies Annual Conference
2009 “World History through Food: Globalized Food Narratives” (commentator), UC Davis/Robert Mondavi Institute, Tasting Histories Conference
2008 “Native Californians and the Livestock Economy” (Panel Presenter), PCB-AHA
2007 “Shell Beads: Currency and Culture in Native California” (Presenter), Northern California Bead Society
2007 “Raiding the Rancho in Native California,” Bancroft Library, Round Table Series
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
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
2017 “Firearms, Trade, and Power in Native North America,” C-SPAN
2016 “In Conversation with Natale Zappia,” Huntington Library
2016 “A Conversation with Natale Zappia,” New Books in Latino Studies Podcast
2006 NPR Affiliate Interview on Edward S. Curtis, Gilcrease Museum

Zappia conferring doctorate of humane letters (L.H.D.)
to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, 2015.