News & Events
TV and Other Media Interviews
Filming in Juneau for BBC2, with Michael Portillo (Photo: Bruce Parsell)
March 30, 2022: Interviewed for World Radio podcast hosted by Jenny Rough
July 29, 2018: Interviewed in Juneau for BBC2’s “Great American Railroad Journeys”
March 29, 2018: Consultant to scriptwriter Dan Stashower for National Geographic Live! staged reading of Eliza Scidmore’s work
March 18, 2017: Appeared in Japan TBS network’s “Mystery Hunter” cherry blossom program
February 2017: Interviewed for National Geographic online article
March 30, 2013: Interviewed by Japan’s NHK for evening news segment on my Scidmore research in Japan
March 13, 2012: Interviewed about Scidmore for Washington Post article by Michael Ruane
Speaking Events
April 7, 2021: Gave virtual presentation on Scidmore for Washington Walks
March 27, 2021: Presented virtual talk on Scidmore and D.C.’s cherry trees to English Conversation Group in Japan
July 31 and Aug. 1, 2018: Gave public lecture on Scidmore and briefed park rangers at Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska
April 17, 2018: Presented 90-minute teleconference briefing on Scidmore for seasonal staff at Glacier Bay National Park
With cherry blossom princesses at Parliamentary Museum in Tokyo, April 2013
March 1, 2017: Luncheon speaker for Ikebana International event in Alexandria, Va.
April 2, 2015: Gave talk on Scidmore’s reporting career to D.C chapter of Journalism & Women’s Symposium (JAWS)
April 4, 2014: Met with D.C. Lab School teacher Mollie Walnum and her students studying Scidmore in their Discovery Club
Feb. 20, 2014: Luncheon speaker for Washington-Tokyo Women’s Club, in Arlington, Va.
April 10, 2013: Spoke on Scidmore’s ties to Japan at Japan Cherry Blossom Association, at Parliamentary Museum in Tokyo
April 7, 2013: Addressed Eliza Scidmore Cherry Blossom Society at annual gravesite memorial service in Yokohama, Japan
March 7, 2013: Presented research findings on Scidmore to Women’s History Discussion Group at Library of Congress
Oct. 19, 2012: Panel presenter at 39th D.C. Historical Studies Conference in Washington
June 30, 2012: Read excerpt of biography-in-progress at New Mercury author series in Baltimore, Md.
Published Articles
October 2020: Wrote photo essay on Scidmore’s views of Japan [published in French], GEO Magazine
April 3, 2018: Wrote page on Scidmore for Sierra Club’s John Muir website
Jan. 16, 2018: Authored article on Scidmore for National Geographic News Blog (originally published on March 26, 2012; updated in 2018)
March 28, 2012: Guest contributor to Ken Ackerman’s Viral History Blog
Awards
Receiving BIO Hazel Rowley Award from Gayle Feldman at BIO 2017 conference in Boston (Photo: James McGrath Morris)
May 2017: Received Hazel Rowley Prize from Biographers International (BIO) for best proposal for first biography
July 2012: Received Mayborn Fellowship in Biography, sponsored by University of North Texas and prize-winning biographer James McGrath Morris
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