• “We Are Very Anxious To Have An Intelligent [Woman] Worker’s Point Of View”: Gender and the Practices of Workplace Surveillance in Interwar Cotton Mills,
  to be presented at the Organization of American Historians Conference, Washington, DC, April 2010
  

"Mapping Everyday Life: Digital Harlem, 1915-1930,"
presented at the Social Science History Association Conference, Long Beach, CA, November 13, 2009

"Digital History and Digital Harlem,"
presented at "Writing American History," University of Melbourne, June 5, 2009

“Disorderly Houses? Sexuality in the Apartments of 1920s Harlem,”
presented at ‘Let’s Talk About Sex: Histories of Sexuality in Australia and New Zealand,' Macquarie University, 2 October, 2008

"Black Metropolis: Mapping Harlem, 1920-1930,"
presented at the US Studies Centre Research Seminar Series, May 13, 2008

“Mapping Harlem: Everyday Life in a Digital Neighborhood,”
presented at the Organization of American Historians Conference, New York City, March 28, 2008

“Digital Harlem: Mapping Everyday Life in the 1920s ,”
presented at the Department of History, University of Sydney, October 22, 2007

“Shifting the Scene of the Crime: Sodomy and the History of Sexual Violence,”
presented at the Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexuality, Yale University, September 24, 2007

“Watching Harlem,"
presented at the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Conference, Launceston, July 12, 2006

"Shifting the Scene of the Crime: Sodomy and the History of Rape,"
presented at the Organization of American Historians Conference, Washington, D.C., March 21, 2006

"Harlem Undercover: Surveillance, Race and Nightlife in the 1920s,"
presented at the Department of History, University of Sydney, May 31, 2005

"Seduction, Sexual Violence, and Marriage in New York City, 1886-1955,”
invited presentation at the Social Science Research Council’s Sexual Worlds, Political Cultures Conference, Washington, D. C., October 2-4, 2003

“The History of Sexuality and the Category of Age,”
presented at the Roundtable on Sexuality: Its Histories and Futures, University of Sydney, August 1, 2003

“”Boys, of course, cannot be raped:” Age, Gender, and the Modern Redefinition of Sexual Violence in New York City, 1880-1960,”
presented at the Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, November 4, 2002

"Seduction and Sexual Violence Against Adult Women in New York City, 1886-1955,
presented at the Australia and New Zealand Law and History Society Conference, Katoomba, July 12, 2002

"Seduction and Sexual Violence Against Adult Women in New York City, 1886-1955,"
presented at the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association Conference, Geelong, July 7, 2002

"'Jurors Are Anxious To Dispose Of The Case For Themselves:' Law, Culture And The Treatment Of Women Who Charged Rape In New York City Courts, 1880-1960,
presented at the Department of History, Macquarie University, June 12, 2002

""Boys, of course, cannot be raped:" Age, Gender, and the Modern Redefinition of Sexual Violence in New York City, 1880-1960,"
presented at the Department of History, University of New South Wales, August 29, 2001

“”Boys, of course, cannot be raped:” Age, Gender, and the Modern Redefinition of Sexual Violence in New York City, 1880-1960,”
presented at the Department of History, University of Sydney, 2001

""Boys, of course, cannot be raped:" Age, Gender, and the Modern Redefinition of Sexual Violence in New York City, 1880-1960,"
presented at the Department of History, University of Newcastle (NSW), May 9, 2001

“Making a Case: Gender, Sexuality and the Evidence from Legal Records, 1880-1950,”
presented at the University of Sydney, May 22, 2000

"Making a Case: Gender, Sexuality and the Evidence from Legal Records, 1880-1950,"
presented at the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association Conference, Sydney, Australia, April 27-29, 2000.

"Making Right a Girl's Ruin: Adolescent Sexuality, Immigrant Working-Class Legal Cultures and Marriage in New York City, 1890-1950,"
presented at the Fulbright American Studies Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, July 9-11, 1999


"Reluctant Heroes: Psychiatrists, Sexual Psychopath Statutes and the Construction of Expertise in the United States, 1930-1970,"
presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History, Seattle, October 23-25, 1998


"Making Right a Girl's Ruin: Working-Class Legal Cultures and Statutory Rape in New York City, 1880-1950,"
presented at the American Bar Foundation Seminar Series, Chicago, January 26, 1998


"Separating the Men from the Boys: Masculinity, Sex Crime and the Prism of Age, 1937-1960,"
presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Washington D.C., October 30-November 2, 1997


"Now We See It, Now We Don't: A Short History of the Persistent Ambivalence About Sexual Violence Against Teenage Girls in Modern American Culture,"
presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, May 29-June 1, 1997


"Speak Like a Child: Age, Language and Sexuality in New York City Rape Cases, 1886-1921,"
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Chicago, March 28-31, 1996

"Rape, Statutory Rape and Sexual Modernity in New York City, 1886-1950,"
presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Atlanta, January 4-7, 1996


"Signs, Marks and Private Parts: The Medical Jurisprudence of Rape in the United States, 1823-1950,"
presented at the F.C. Wood Institute History of Medicine Seminar, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, October 15, 1995


"Making It Right": Working-Class Families and Statutory Rape in New York City, 1886-1916,"
presented at the Carleton Conference on the History of the Family, Carleton University, Ottawa, May 12-14, 1994


" "Doing Away With Consent": Rape, the Age of Consent, and Female Sexual Subjectivity in New City, 1896-1916,"
presented at the Third Social History Conference, University of Cincinnati, October 30, 1993

"Lectures,"
Faculty of Arts Teaching Award Presentation, May 29, 2009

“Tutors and Marking,”
Faculty of Arts Assessment Workshop, November 3, 2008

“Plenary Session: The American History for Australasian Schools Website,”
Australian and New Zealand American Studies Conference, Launceston, July 11, 2006

“Weaving a History Web,”
presented at the symposium ‘American Studies with an Australian Accent: Towards an Australian Website for Secondary Teachers and Students,’ Australian National University, Canberra, July 15, 2005

"The New Deal,"
Sydney Girls High School HSC History Class, September 21, 2009

"The New Deal" & "The 1920s,"
HSC History Day, Barker College, September 9, 2009

Morning Interview, with Margaret Throsby: Martin Luther King, Race & American Politics,
ABC Classic FM, April 10, 2008
[ mp3 file ]

“Race, Religion and The West Wing: New Tensions in Who Americans Are and What They Believe -- a Response to Prof. Bill Chafe,”
presented at the United States Studies Centre National Summit 2007, Sydney, December 12, 2007
[ mp3 file | video ]

Commentator, Panel entitled "Reading Between the Lines: Re-examining the Language of Feminism,"
16th Warren Susman Memorial Graduate History Conference, Rutgers University, April 9, 1994