- “Teaching U.S. History in the Age of Trump: International Perspectives,” American Historical Association Conference, Jan. 6, 2019.
- "Ideas Where You Find Them: Where Is Cultural History in the Resurgence of Intellectual History?” United States Intellectual History Conference, Nov. 10, 2018.
- "The Traffic of Women: Shopping Ladies and the Uses of the Streets,” Institute for Applied Economics and the Study of Business Enterprise, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, Oct. 19, 2017.
- “From the Levee to the Ladies’ Half Mile: Purifying Chicago’s Retail District,” Society for American City and Regional Planning History Conference," Cleveland, OH, Oct. 29, 2017.
- “Retail Capitalists and the Politics of Mobility in the Modern Consumer City,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders and Sexualities, Hofstra, June 2, 2017.
- “Mashers, Prostitutes, and Shopping Ladies: Consumer Capitalism and the Purification of Downtown Chicago,” Newberry Seminar on the History of Capitalism, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, Feb. 8, 2017.
- “Mashers and Shopping Ladies: Gender and the Purification of Chicago’s Retail District,” Urban History Association Conference, Chicago, IL, Oct. 16, 2016.
- "Conspicuous Consumption in the World’s Fair City: The Hoopskirt War of 1893," Western History Association Conference, Portland, OR, Oct. 24, 2015.
- "Sumptuary Laws and Consumer Rights: The New Woman and Chicago's High Hat Problem," Women and Gender Seminar, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, Sept. 25, 2015.
- Panel Chair, “New York Versus Paris: The Fashion Wars,” Business History Conference, Miami, FL, June 27, 2015.
- "Sumptuary Laws and Consumer Rights: The New Woman and Chicago's High Hat Problem," Business History Conference, Miami, FL, June 25, 2015.
- “For Business or Pleasure: Women Shoppers and the Uses of the Streets,” Vernacular Architecture Forum, Chicago, IL, June 6, 2015.
- “'Her Hat Will Not Down': Sumptuary Laws and Consumer Rights in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago," Boston Seminar on the History of Women and Gender, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Cambridge, MA, Feb. 12, 2015.
- “'Her Hat Will Not Down': Sumptuary Laws and Consumer Rights in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago," Histories of American Capitalism Conference, Cornell University, Nov. 8, 2014.
- "The Hoopskirt War of 1893: Gender, Public Space, and the Making of the Consumer City," Urban History Association Conference, Oct. 10, 2014.
- “Consumers’ Metropolis: The Loop in the Age of Daniel Burnham,” Nickerson Lecture Series, Driehaus Museum, Chicago, March 13, 2014.
- “The Traffic of Women: Chicago’s Congestion Crisis, Women Shoppers, and the Uses of the Streets,” Urban History Seminar, Chicago History Museum, Feb. 20, 2014.
- “Incorporating the Conspicuous Consumer: Sumptuary Laws and the Problem of Female Publicity in Veblen’s Chicago,” Urban History Group, Newberry Library, Nov. 9, 2013.
- “‘A Shoppers’ Paradise’: Gender, Public Space, and the Problem of Legitimacy on Chicago's State Street,” American Historical Association Conference, New Orleans, Jan. 5, 2013.