Upcoming Events
April 12, 2024
“On the History of African American Genealogy, with Dr. Kendra Field,” Williams College of Music and Art, Williamstown, MA
April 24, 2024
“Out of Breath: Slavery, Ventilation and the Emergence of Epidemiology,” with Dr. Jim Downs, Dr. Ndidiamakah Amutah-Onukhaga, and Dr. Kerri Greenidge, Royall House & Slave Quarters, Medford, MA
May 1, 2024
“Dedication of the 1916 & 1933 Amenia Conference Historical Marker, with Dr. Kerri Greenidge and Dr. Kendra Field,” Troutbeck Hotel, Amenia, NY
past Events
April 2, 2024
“Rachel Jamison Webster with Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family,” hosted by American Ancestors, WGBH
April 2, 2024
“Tisch Community Symposium,” with Kerri Greenidge and Kyera Singleton at Tufts University-Medford Somerville Campus, Medford, MA
March 29, 2024
“Who Owns Black Data?,” Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
August 13, 2023
“Resilient Roots,” Panel with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Richard Cellini, and Dr. Kendra T. Field at Martha's Vineyard Museum, Vineyard Haven, MA
August 5, 2023
“A History of the Black Berkshires and New England's African Diaspora,” Lecture by Dr. Kendra T. Field and Dr. Kerri Greenidge, Trinity Episcopal Church, Oak Bluffs, MA
July 7, 2023
Remarks in Honor of Dr. David Levering Lewis, The Du Bois Forum, Becket, MA
April 27, 2023
Remarks in Honor of Secretary Lonnie Bunch, Secretary of the Smithsonian, American Ancestors Gala, Boston, MA
March 31, 2023
Remarks in Honor of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Women Making History Gala Awards, National Women’s History Museum
March 30, 2023
Opening Remarks, Inaugural Exhibition of the National Women’s History Museum, “We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC,” Martin Luther King Memorial Library
March 3, 2023
“Festival: Voices of Loss, Reckoning, and Hope,” Panel Discussion with Dr. Kendra Taira Field, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston, M.A.
February 2023
Respondent, “Du Bois and The Wounded World,” with Chad Williams, Du Bois Freedom Center
May 12, 2022
Historic Huguenot Street, "W.E.B. Du Bois' Huguenot Lineage and the Work of Family History,"
Virtual presentation with Dr. Kendra Taira Field
April 9, 2022
Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race and Nation after the Civil War with Kendra T. Field, Ph.D.
National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Washington, D.C.
March 16, 2021
“The Road to Democracy Runs Through the Classroom - the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre & Why It Matters Today,” Facing History and Ourselves, San Francisco, CA,
March 6, 2020
“Family Secrets, Shame, and Complicities,” Scholars and Their Kin: A SymposiumNew York University
Tulsa Historical Society and Museum
Booksmart Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Mississippi Book Festival
Boston Book Festival, Memoir: Identity- listen to audio
Southern Historical Association, The Southern Historical Association
Annual Meeting of Organization of American Historians, Sacramento, CA
Pegasus Books Downtown, Berkeley, CA
"The Art of Family History," A Reading by Prof. Kendra Field (Tufts University), Amherst, MA
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Author Panel, Los Angeles, CA
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Tufts University, Medford, MA
African American Intellectual History Society, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, Atlanta, GA
The Harvard Bookstore, Cambridge, MA
Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA
“Public Amnesias,” Center for the Humanities, Tufts University, Medford, MA
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY
The Williams Club, New York, NY
Busboys and Poets, Washington, D.C.
Politics and Prose, Wharf, Washington, D.C.
The Royall House and Slave Quarters, Medford, MA
New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA
Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA