Matt Gunterman is available for public lectures to civic, religious, business, or other organizations in the Greater New York City area on the following subjects:

Faith and Infection in America: Past, Present, and Future (30-45 mins.)
Water as Weapon: Drinking Water and the American City (30-45 mins.)
The Technology of Individualism: Rise of the American Culture of Disposability (30-45mins)

Selected professional presentations:

“Internalizing Infectiousness: The Immateriality of the Cup,”
Material Culture Series, Yale University, October 2010.

“A Fountain of Indignity: Germs and the Infrastructure of Racial Segregation, 1890- 1920,”
American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting, Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota, May 2010.

“Between Sanitary & Sacred: Holy Communion & the Protestant Response to Bacteriology, 1890-1920,”
Seminar in the Sensory Cultures of Religion,” Yale University, November 2009.

“Disposable by Design: Selling the Dixie Cup to America, 1900-1920,”
American Association for the History of Medicine Annual Meeting, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, April 2009.

“The Germ in the Chalice: A Case When Science Met the Sacred, 1890-1910,”
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2008.

“Jesus and the Germ: American Creationists Confront Bacteriology, 1890-1920,”
American Religious History Working Group, October 2007.

“Echo in the Embryo: Science and the Cultural Construction of Sanctity,”
Holmes Workshop Series, Yale University, April 2007.

“The Business of Germs: Marketing Individuality in the Early Twentieth Century,”
Holmes Workshop Series, Yale University, November 2005.