CONFERENCE PAPERS

• 2023 “Remembering Washington’s “Indian Expedition” of the Revolutionary War: New Perspectives from an Onondaga Oral Testimony.” Presented at Native American and Indigenous Studies annual conference, Toronto, Canada, May 13.

• 2022 “Remembering Washington’s “Sullivan Expedition” of 1779 in Contemporary Times.” Conference on Iroquois Studies, October 14, 2022.

• 2020 “A Misplaced Marker: Celebrating Brodhead on Seneca Territory?,” paper presented at Conference on Iroquois Studies, October 17, 2020. Virtual Conference.

• 2019 “Settlers Studying Settlers: Limitations and Possibilities in Exploring Dominance from Within.” Paper presented at panel, The Different and Changing Climate of Ethnography with the Right- Wing, Bill Westermeyer. November 23, 2019, Vancouver, Canada.

• 2019 “Haudenosaunee Resistance to New York State’s Sullivan-Clinton Sesquicentennial Extravaganza,” Iroquois Studies Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 5, 2019.

• 2018 “Celebrating Settler Colonialism in the Empire State: New York’s 1929 “Pageant of Decision,” Paper presented at New York History Conference, SUNY Albany, November 17, 2018.

• 2017 “The Artifact and the Amateur Archaeologist: Haunting and the Settler Imaginary,” Canadian Anthropological Society Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada, May 5, 2017.

• 2017 “Calling the Road “Sullivan’s”: Pinning Settler Biography to the Land,” In panel co-organized with Marian Leech, “The Politics of Road Names and Place-making in Settler North America,” annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 30. Santa Fe, NM.

• 2016 “Vanishing Peasants, Vanishing Indians: The Value and Pitfalls of Cross-Atlantic Comparisons.” Paper presented at panel, “Peasants, Tourists, and the Discovery of Europe: Papers in Honor of Susan Carol Rogers. American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 19, 2016.

• 2016 Solidarity in Oral History and Anthropology. Roundtable Participant (Organized by Amy Starecheski, Columbia). Canadian Anthropological Society Annual Conference, May 14, 2016.

• 2015 “Racism without Races? France’s Gens du Voyage Challenge,” in Making the Familiar Strange: Race in Crisis Europe.” Panel organizer, chair, and presenter. American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 20, 2015.

• 2014 “We are not Syrians!”: The Poetics and Politics of Placemaking,” in “Dangerous Intersections,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, December 5, 2014.

• 2013 “Beyond the Pale”: French Exceptionalism, Hierarchies of Whiteness, and the “Gens de Voyage,” Paper presented at the conference, Messy Europe: Crisis and Whiteness in Postcolonial Europe, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, October 11, 2013.

• 2013 Invited Double Panel Organizer (with Jacqueline Messing, Georgetown University): “Strategies and Performances of Temporal Heteroglossia,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL, November 22, 2013.

• 2013 Smith, Andrea L. and Anna Eisenstein, “Shifting Terms, Shifting Voices in Narratives about a Lost World,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, November 22, 2013.

• 2012 “Shifting Terms, Shifting Voices in Narratives of a Lost World” (with Anna Eisenstein). Paper presented at the Oral History Association meeting, Cleveland, OH (October 2012).

• 2011 “The United States as Settler Society in the Local History Museum.” Academic Research Committee Works-in-Progress Colloquium, Lafayette College.

• 2009 Panel co-organizer with Tamara Neuman, “The Ends of Settler Studies: Settler Colonialism and Nostalgic Anthropology,” American Anthropological Association meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

• 2009 “The U.S. as Settler Colony and the Local History Museum,” American Anthropological Association meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

• 2009 “White Racism, Local History Museums, and the Logic of Settler Colonialism,” Language, Ideology and Semiotics conference, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona.

• 2006 “Conscription in the Colonies: A Fateful Decision.” Paper presented at panel, “Chaos, Confusion and Collapse: The Destruction Resulting from Bad Policy Decisions. AAA Annual Meeting, November 18.

• 2006 “Race and Culture, Nation and Colony: Pied-noir Integration in Contemporary France.” Council for European Studies, Chicago, IL., March 29-April 2.

• 2006 Panel organizer, “Colonials in the Metropole: Understanding Race and Nation through Europe’s Decolonization Migrations,” Council for European Studies, Chicago, IL.

• 2005 “Sacrifice and Destiny: Oral Histories and the Making of a Sacred Frontier History.” Oral History Association Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, November 2-5.

• 2005 “The Settlers Strike Back: Including the Colonial in Post-Colonial France.” Contesting Public Memories, An Interdisciplinary Conference. Department of Communication, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY.

• 2005 “Power, Policing and the Nonspeaker in Silencing the Past,” Paper presented at the panel, “Participation Frameworks and Power,” American Anthropological Association annual meeting.

• 2004 “The Present is a Foreign Country: Repatriate “Lieux de Mémoire” in Southern France.” Entre Autres: Conflict and Encounter in European and Mediterranean Societies. Université de Provence, Marseilles, France.

• 2002 “The Problem of the Missing Colonists: Post-colonial Silences in British Studies.” “Post-Imperial Britain,” Institute of Contemporary British History, University of London, UK.

• 2002 “Learning from Student Autobiographical Writings: Transcending Classroom Divides.” National Women’s Studies Association, Las Vegas, NV.

• 2001 “Pied-noirs Memorials (and the Lack Thereof): Commemorating Colonialism in Southern France,” “Memorials and Memorialization.” AAA. Washington, D.C.

• 2001 “Documenting Silences in Traumatic Memories.” Oral History Association, St. Louis, MO.

• 2001 “Understanding Silences in Interviews: Remembering Colonial Algeria in Maltese Pied-noir Social Memory.” Oral History Association meeting, St. Louis, MO.

• 2001 “Gender and Social Memory: Settler Narratives of the French-Algerian War.” Comparative and Historical Sociology Roundtable, American Sociological Association meeting, Anaheim, CA.

• 2001 “Place as Metaphor: Malta in the Pied-noir Imagination.” Meeting of the Anthropological Association of Ireland , National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.

• 2000 “Attentat à Djerba!: Conflit entre Européens dans la Tunisie proto-coloniale.” Université de Tunis I, Faculté des Lettres de Manouba, Manouba, Tunisia.

• 1999 “Europe’s Invisible Migrants: Implications for the Literature on European Immigration.” Europe’s Invisible Migrants conference, Institute of French Studies, New York University.

• 1997 “Military Service and the Citizen/State Promise in France and Algeria.” Social Science Research Council Younger Scholars Summer Institute, July, Humbolt Universität, Berlin.

• 1997 “Les Maltais en Tunisie à la veille du Protectorat: Un peuple placé entre des catégories sociales.” Colloque International La Tunisie Mosaïque, Diasporas, Cosmopolitisme, Archéologies de l’identité.”Université de Toulouse, France.

• 1996 “Citizenship Law and Colonial Categories: European Implications.” Social Science Research Council Younger Scholars Summer Institute, New School for Social Research, NY.

• 1996 “What and When to Remember: Multiple Identities and Maltese Pied-Noir Memory.” Presented at panel, “Ethnicity, Identity and Oral History.” Oral History Association, Philadelphia, PA.

• 1996 “Les Maltais en Algérie et en Tunisie (fin 19ème - milieu 20ème siècle).” Centre d'Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT). Tunis, Tunisia.

• 1994 “Citizenship in the Colony: Naturalization Law and Legal Assimilation in 19th Century Algeria.” Invited Session, “The Difference Law Makes,” AAA meeting, Atlanta, GA.

• 1993 “Social Memory and Germany's Anti-Foreigner Crisis: A Case of Collective Forgetting.”Rethinking Western Europe conference, Institute on Western Europe, Columbia University.

• 1992 “Social Memory and Germany's Immigration Crisis.” American Anthropological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.