Co-curator, “Wearing the Movement,” gallery exhibit featuring the extensive and historic t-shirt collection of activist, coal miner, and educator Kipp Dawson (October – December 2025). Watch Dawson’s opening lecture, “A Forward Looking Retrospective: Lessons from the Long Freedom Movement.” Read our process essay, “Wearing the Movement: Reflections on Radical Collaboration” (Pittsburgh Review of Books, November 12, 2025).
Invited to present talk-back with the actors following City Theatre’s production of “Birthday Candles,” to discuss the show’s themes and women’s historical role as caregivers (March 2025).
Content expert, The Frick Pittsburgh, NEH funded reinterpretation project of the museum, broadening the narrative to include labor history, women’s history, and African American history. The resulting new tour, “Gilded, Not Golden,” won a 2024 Leadership in History Award from the American Association for State and Local History.
“Histories of Resilience: The American Historical Review Special Issue,” presentation at the American Historical Association conference, San Francisco (January 2024).
“The Beauty of Struggling Together: Kipp Dawson and the Lessons of Freedom Movements,” National Women’s Studies Association conference, Baltimore (October 2023).
“Rethinking Movement Leadership: Kipp Dawson and Women’s Radical Collaboration Since the 1950s,” Berkshire Conference of Women’s History, Santa Clara, CA (July 2023).
“Class in Everyday Life: Celebrating the Scholarship, Teaching, and Organizing of Priscilla Murolo,” Labor and Working Class History Association (LAWCHA) conference (May 2023).
“Women’s Radical Collaboration in Social Movements,” invited keynote, Duquesne University, Women & Gender Studies (April 2023).
“A Tradition of Caring: Orphanages and Childcare in Pittsburgh,” invited keynote, Allegheny City Society (April 2023).
“Gender Disparities and the Social Determinants of Health,” invited lecture, UPMC Children’s Hospital Pediatric Residency program (July 2022).
“Achieving Gender Equity in Pittsburgh: What Will it Take?” invited lecture, Longwood at Oakmont Lecture Series (May 2022).
“Yom HaShoah 2022: The Liberators and the Liberated,” invited speaker, Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh (April 2022).
“History, Fashion and Feminism,” invited panelist, The Frick Pittsburgh, “Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800-1960” exhibit (September 2021).
“Feminist Futures,” invited keynote, Duquesne University, Women’s & Gender Studies (April 2021).
“Reflecting on January 6th: Insurrection as White Male Rage, Women as Participants, and the Role of Trauma,” Chatham University (February 2021).
“Elevating Women’s Voices in the Workplace,” invited talk, Women of Rodef Shalom speaker series (January 2021).
“Understanding Gender Equity Policy Recommendations,” invited talk, National Council of Jewish Women and Jewish Women’s Foundation of Pittsburgh (November 2020).
“The Woman’s Hour: 100 Years and Counting,” panel moderator, Carnegie Music Hall Lecture Series (August 2020).
“Building an Equitable New Normal,” invited talk, Grantmakers of Western Pennsylvania (July 2020).
“Conversations: The Power of the Individual,” guest speaker, Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh (June 2020).
“Defending and Advancing Equity and Rights in the COVID-19 Economy,” Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance panel (May 2020).
“Lessons from the Report: Pittsburgh’s Inequality Across Gender and Race,” Social Justice Lab (March 2020).
“Advancing Equity for Women and Girls,” invited lecture, Brentwood Baldwin Whitehall Chamber of Commerce (September 2019).
“The Status of Women, Girls, and Gender Equity,” invited lecture, Community Bridge Building Network (June 2019).
“Gender and Inequality in the Age of Neoliberalism,” invited lecture, Humanities Center, Carnegie Mellon University (January 2019 and February 2018).
“The Usable Past: Gender, History, and Social Justice,” Sarah Lawrence College (June 2018).
“On Mother’s Day: The Status of Women, Girls, and Gender Equity,” Westminster Speaker Series (May 2018).
“#MeToo and Lessons from the History of Anti-Gender Violence Activism,” invited panelist and panel organizer, Labor and Employment Relations Association, Pittsburgh (March 2018).
“Repression and Resistance: The Legacy of Tera Hunter’s ‘To ‘Joy My Freedom’,” invited panelist, A Symposium on Black Feminist Histories, University of Virginia (December 2017).
“Gender, Underwear, and the Body,” invited lecture, Frick Art and Historical Center (November 2017). (Related article: “Professor Unveils Underwear’s History,” The Pitt News, November 17, 2017).
“Gender Trouble in the Age of Authoritarian-Neoliberalism,” invited lecture, Sarah Lawrence College (July 2017).
“Taking Stock of Women’s Status in the Post-Election Era,” invited talk, American Association of University Women, North Hills (January 2017).
“Gender Equality in the 21st Century,” invited talk, Longwood at Oakmont Lecture Series (September 2016).
“Gender and Those Killer Heels,” invited talk, Frick Art and Historical Center (July 2016).
“Gender, Neoliberalism, and the Fight for the Public Good,” guest lecture, Sarah Lawrence College (June 2016).
“Gender and the History of Toys, 1950s-1970s,” invited talk, Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh (May 2016).
“Gender Equity Today and What We Can Do About It,” invited talk, American Association of University Women, Fox Chapel (April 2016).
“In Conversation: Jay Kleinberg and Jessie Ramey on Gender and Social Policy in the U.S., 1880-2013,” invited talk, Society for the History of Women in the Americas and the Institute for Historical Research, London, U.K. (June 2013).
Jessie B. Ramey, Ph.D. 