Speaker: Lectures, Panels, Walking Tours, Podcasts

  • “On Middle Ground: The Jews of Baltimore,” Historic Jerusalem Mill Village, Kingsville, Md., 7 Sep 2024

  • “A Century of Jewish Life in the Appalachian Coalfields,” Otis K. Rice Lecture Series, WVU Tech, Beckley, W. Va., 26 Oct 2023

  • “The Kabakoff Family of Cincinnati,” Over-the-Rhine Museum, Cincinnati, 29 July 2023

  • “German Hill Road Jewish Cemeteries,” Five Minute Histories video series, Baltimore Heritage, Inc., 2022

  • “Old Bay: A Case of Mistaken Identity,” WAMU “Dish City” podcast, 2022

  • “Appalachian Jews with Dr. Deb Weiner,” Appalachia Meets World podcast, 2022

  • “From Convicts to Congregations: The History of Jews in Baltimore,” Beth Israel Congregation, Owings Mills, Md., 1 Nov 2022

  • “The Integration of Gwynn Oak Park,” Panelist, Baltimore Interfaith Coalition for Dismantling Racism, 7 June 2022

  • “What’s the Story of Jewish Migration and Segregation in Baltimore?” WYPR Maryland Curiosity Bureau podcast, 2021

  • “Encountering Appalachia: A Look at the Jewish Experience,” Appalachian Festival Symposium, Frostburg State University, 17 Sep 2021

  • “Old Bay and Oy Vey: An Interesting History of the Region’s Favorite Spice,” Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Classic Boat Festival, St. Michaels, Md., 19 June 2021

  • “Responding to Legacies of Discrimination: Jewish and African American Communities in Baltimore,” Panelist, ICJS (Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies) Teachers Network, Baltimore, 4 Dec 2019

  • “The Impact of Jewish Migration to the United States,” Panelist, Festival of Jewish Literature, Towson University, 11 Nov 2019

  • “History of the Jews of Baltimore,” Senior Institute, Community College of Baltimore County, Owings Mills, Md., 11 Dec 2018

  • “History of the Jews of Baltimore,” Bet Aviv Scholar-in-Residence Program, Oakland Mills Interfaith Center, Columbia, Md., 3 Nov 2018

  • “Life on the Border: The Role of Place in Shaping the Baltimore Jewish Experience,” Baltimore Book Festival, 29 Sep 2018; Baltimore City Historical Society, 21 June 2018; Jewish Museum of Maryland, 10 Apr 2018 (book launch for On Middle Ground)

  • “On Middle Ground: 250 Years of Baltimore Jewish History,” North Oaks Retirement Community, 22 Aug 2018

  • “What Did Marylanders Know?” Panelist, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Program, Baltimore, 23 May 2018

  • “Jewish Life in the Southeastern Kentucky Coalfields,” Kentucky Jewish History Symposium, University of Kentucky, 13 Apr 2018

  • “Insiders and Outsiders in a Border City: Baltimore Jews between the World Wars,” Southern Jewish Historical Society, 3 Nov 2017

  • “Exploring Jewish Immigration: A Walking Tour,” Baltimore Heritage, Inc., 4 Jun 2017

  • “The FJWO at 100,” Federation of Jewish Women’s Organizations of Maryland, 20 May 2015

  • “A 19th-Century American Jew Visits the Holy Land: Mendes Cohen in Jerusalem,” Jewish Museum of Maryland, 19 Apr 2015

  • “The NAACP and the Baltimore Jewish Community,” Baltimore City Historical Society and Morgan State University, 2 May 2014

  • “Insiders and Outsiders: Baltimore Jews in the 1920s-1930s,” Baltimore City Historical Society, 20 Feb 2014

  • “Jewish Heritage in Baltimore,” Baltimore National Heritage Area seminar, “Baltimore Odyssey: Immigration and Migration,” 10 Nov 2012

  • “The Impact of the 1968 Riots on Three Baltimore Business Districts,” B’nai B’rith Menorah Lodge, Baltimore, 27 May 2010

  • “Behind-The-Scenes Tour of the Etting Cemetery,” Baltimore Heritage, Inc., 29 Jul 2011

  • “Baltimore’s Jewish Women: Building a Vibrant Community,” Beth Israel Congregation Annual Sisterhood Service, Baltimore, 9 Jan 2010

  • “The Remarkable Life of Henrietta Szold,” Bluefield Hadassah Chapter, Bluefield, W. Va., 17 Oct 2008

  • “Voices of Lombard Street: A Century of Change in East Baltimore,” Kaleidoscope Lifelong Learning Program, Baltimore, 7 and 13 Apr 2008

  • “Context Is Everything: Exploring the Impact of the 1968 Riots on One Baltimore Neighborhood,” University of Baltimore, “Baltimore ’68: Riots and Rebirth” conference, 4 Apr 2008; Organization of American Historians Meeting, New York, 29 Mar 2008; Urban Planning History Annual Conference, Portland, Me., 24 Oct 2007

  • “On Being Appalachian and Jewish,” Berea College, Symposium on Identity and Diversity in Appalachia, Berea, Ky., 1 Nov 2007

  • “Jews in Appalachia,” Appalachian State University and Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, Boone, N.C., 29 Sep 2007