Conference Presentations

Association for the Study of Food and Society and The Agriculture, Food, And Human Values Society Conference

“The Mary Eliza Project: Where 1920 Boston Food Culture Meets Civic Engagement." Corvallis, Oregon. June 2025.

“Concepts of Healthy Eating: A Late Twentieth Century American Menu Terms Exploration.” (with Dani Willcutt) Syracuse, New York. June 2024.

“Exploring Settler Colonialism in Cookbooks Created in the Hawaiian Islands.” Boston, Massachusetts. May 2023.

“The Possibilities of the John Mariani Menu Collection (1977-2022). Boston, Massachusetts. May 2023.

Textual Analysis, Gendered Cookbooks, and the Developing American Empire (1872-1920). Virtual. June 2021

Exploring Cookbooks through Text Analysis and Data Visualizations. Twitter. July 2020

“Immigrant Foodways in the Pridelands.” Anchorage, Alaska. June 2019Christmas in Popular Culture Conference

“Under the Mistletoe Roundtable” Virtual, November 2025

Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference

“The Mary Eliza Project: Using Computational Tools to Transform a Voter Registry to Public-Facing Programming, New Britain, Connecticut, March 2026

Christmas in Popular Culture Conference

“Under the Mistletoe Roundtable” Virtual, November 2025

The Day of the Princess': Contemporary Understandings of the Disney Princess Phenomenon Symposium

“Presenting Kiara: The Girl-Power Future Lioness Queen” University of Surrey, Stag Hill Campus, UK, October 2024

Food and Communication Conference

“Exploring Settler Colonialism in Cookbooks Created in the Hawaiian Islands.” Orebro, Sweden. September 2023.

IEEE Big Data 2022: Computational Archival Science (CAS) Workshop

“Teachable Insights from Working with the Mary Eliza Project for Gastronomy Students Working with Data.” Osaka, Japan. December 2022.

Northeast Popular & American Culture Association

“Aspirational Commensality in Romantic Winter Holiday Movies (2018-2022).” Virtual. October 2023.

“From Commensality to Event Management: The Character Growth of Rose Lindström Nylund through Food Experiences.” Virtual. October 2022.

“The Possibilities of the John Mariani Menu Collection (1977-2020). Virtual. October 2021

“Paddington and Pineapples: Exploring Food and Fandom Studies.” Virtual. University of Southern New Hampshire. October 2020

“Immigrant Foodways in the Pridelands.” Portsmouth, New Hampshire. November 2019

Oxford Food Symposium

“Food Rules in the Pride Lands.” Oxford, United Kingdom. July 2023

“Provisioning for Adventures: Meanings of Paddington Bear’s Marmalade Sandwiches.” Oxford, United Kingdom. July 2022.

Popular Culture Association

“Miss Marple in Print: The Evolving Food Life of an Intuitive Detective” Atlanta, Georgia. April 2026 (Panel Chair).

‘The Training of the Pride Lands Future Queen Kiara: Raising an Ethical Apex Predator.” ‘ New Orleans, Louisiana. April 2025

‘Exploring Commensality through the Food Lives of Star Trek Captains Sisko, Janeway, and Pike.” Chicago, Illinois. April 2024

‘Aspirational Commensality in Holiday Romance Movies: Creating Supportive Community Relationships through Food Events.” San Antonio, Texas. April 2023 (Panel Chair).

“The Possibilities of the John Mariani Menu Collection (1977-2020). Virtual. April 2022

“Paddington and Pineapples: Exploring Food and Fandom Studies.” Virtual. June 2021

Queer Food Conference

“Slimy but Satisfying”: Eating Grubs as Queer-Coded Foodway in Disney’s The Lion King Universe” Boston, Massachusetts. April 2024

Simmons College Graduate Symposium

“Item Level Description in The Era of More Product, Less Process: The Hazelton Collection.” Boston, Massachusetts. April 21, 2012