Recent & Upcoming Talks
November 2022, presented to the University of Toronto History Students' Association, Toronto ON
"Chocolate World: Hershey and the Rise of a Modern Tourist Destination"
November 2022, presented to students in HIST 1130 - Empires in Arms: Twentieth Century World 1900-1945 at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey BC
Hershey at War: Chocolate and the First & Second World Wars
March 2022, presented to the University of Toronto History Students' Association, Toronto ON
"Chocolate, Too, Has Gone to War:" Wartime in Hershey, 1939-1945
"Chocolate World: Hershey and the Rise of a Modern Tourist Destination"
November 2022, presented to students in HIST 1130 - Empires in Arms: Twentieth Century World 1900-1945 at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey BC
Hershey at War: Chocolate and the First & Second World Wars
March 2022, presented to the University of Toronto History Students' Association, Toronto ON
"Chocolate, Too, Has Gone to War:" Wartime in Hershey, 1939-1945
April 2021
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Baby "L" Arrives
While taking on a new position at Halyard Inc. and revising her dissertation into a book manuscript, Catherine and her husband also welcomed a little baby into their lives and started their adventure in parenthood. All three are adjusting well. |
November 2020
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Catherine joins Halyard Inc.
Based in Toronto, Ontario, Halyard is a team multidisciplinary engineers, project managers, designers and project support specialists who provide expert services for the minerals processing, minerals handling, infrastructure, water treatment and utility industries. Halyard specializes in small to medium-sized capital projects offering creative solutions and enduring relationships with its clients. Learn more about Halyard |
April 2020
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Catherine joins the historians of Historians on Housewives
The conversation delves into topics surrounding Bravo, US capitalism, the myth of the “self-made” man, and its relation to The Real Housewives. We compare Milton Hershey’s larger-than-life brand to Andy Cohen, Ramona, Bethenny, and Vicki; play high-low with the Housewives’ reported net worth; and use Karen Huger's La' Dame perfume drama to discuss the culture of entrepreneurship, and much, much more! Check out the episode! |
October 2018
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“Making Chocolate American: Labor, Tourism, and American Empire in the Hershey Company,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 142, 3 (October 2018): 339–364.
This article shows how Hershey chocolate became American, traces the history of the town as a destination, and explores the way Hershey’s industrial and imperial past has been obfuscated in favor of a narrative grounded in the brand’s place in American culture and Milton Hershey’s personal legacy. Commitment to welfare capitalism, the desire for Americans to visit the town and the factory, and Hershey's intentionally folksy self-promotion worked to establish the brand as part of American popular culture. |
