My enthusiasm for sharing my work, my expertise, and my activism extends beyond the classroom. I am available to speak on topics including:
- History of Sexual/Reproductive Health & Justice
- Full Spectrum & Abortion Doula Support
- Community Abortion Support Strategies, Resources and Options
- History of Race and Racism in Nursing and Healthcare
- History of Nursing
If you would like to invite me to speak at your meeting or in your classroom, please contact me.
This special panel debrief edition of the Journal of American History Podcast features a conversation on “Nursing for the Common Good: Health Activism, Social Justice, and the History of Nursing Work,” held at the 2024 OAH Conference on American History.
Read more about the session here, or listen on Apple Podcasts
Video: “Abortion Support After Dobbs.” Featured speaker at Public Meeting of Hampden County Commission on the Status of Women and Girls, July 2022.
Additional Selected Presentations/Guest Lectures
Dynamics of Prejudice: Antiracist Nursing Education and Community Health Activism, 1968-1978. UVA Bjoring Center Nursing History Forum. October, 2024.
Working as Designed: History and Historiography of U.S. Nursing, 1870(ish) to 1970(ish). Guest Lecture for Professor Monica McLemore’s “Foundation of Professional Nursing.” University of Washington, October, 2024.
Dynamics of Prejudice: Antiracist Nursing Education and Community Health Activism, 1968-1978. Organization of American Historians Conference on American History. New Orleans, LA, April 2024.
Reproductive Justice Shabbat. Featured speaker for Congregation Agudat Achim, Schenectady, NY, December 2023.
Rights & Justice: Reproductive Autonomy in the 1970s. Guest Lecture for Professor Emily Hamilton’s “History of Health Care and Medicine in the United States.” November, 2023.
Pregnancy Loss, Reproductive Justice, and Full Spectrum Approaches. Guest Lecture for Professor Kirsten Leng’s “Everything to Expect While You’re Expecting: Confronting Pregnancy Loss.” UMass Amherst, November, 2023.
What’s Going On with the Abortion Pill? A conversation with RHRJ Certificate faculty about the dueling federal court decisions from Texas and Washington state. Panel, UMass Amherst, April 19, 2023. Gatrall, C.E., Aslami, N., Briggs, L. Siegel, D., Nye, J.
Pathfinders: Race and Power in the Historiography of Nursing. 19th Annual Graduate History Conference, UMass Amherst, April 2023.
Determining the Social: Race, Culture, and Ethnicity in Nursing Literature, 1970-1985. State of the Science Congress on Nursing Research: Social and Structural Determinants of Health., Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science, Washington, D.C., September 2022.
Who Cares? Confronting Whiteness in Nursing History. Invited talk for the College of Nursing at Sonoma State University, November 2020.
They Meant Well: Nursing Education, Anthropology, and the Shaping of Cultural Competence. Annual meeting of the American Association of the History of Medicine, Columbus, OH, April 2019.
From Cultural to Structural Competence: A Practitioner’s View. Sigerist Circle scholarly session at the annual meeting of the American Academy of the History of Medicine, Columbus, OH, April 2019.
Reproductive Justice: Uniting Activism and Politics. Panel, UMass Amherst, Amherst, MA, April 18, 2017. Gatrall, C.E., Pizii, M., Briggs, L. Story, E.
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Clinical Practice as the Locus for Social Change in Reproductive Healthcare. The National Women’s Conference, Houston, TX, November 2017.