“Integrating Community Service with Community-Based Writing: How Multifaceted Service-Learning Enhances Academic Success” • Conference on Community Writing • Boulder, CO • October 2017
“Food Insecurity and Precaution: Protecting a Right to Food That Is Safe to Eat” • American Political Science Association Annual Meeting • San Francisco, CA • September 2017
“Improving the Service-Learning Experience: An Empirical Test” • American Political Science Association Annual Meeting • San Francisco, CA • September 2017
“Mistaken About Our Students’ Critical Thinking and Writing Skills: A Proposal for a Keystone Writing in Political Science Course” • American Political Science Association Annual Meeting • Philadelphia, PA • September 2016
“Uncertain Threats of Environmental Harm and Obligations of Due Care” (poster session) • American Political Science Association Annual Meeting • Philadelphia, PA • September 2016
“How Formal Writing Instruction Can Improve Critical Thinking Skills and the Service-Learning Experience” • American Political Science Association Teaching and Learning Conference • Portland, OR • February 2016
“Safeguarding Against Uncertain Threats of Environmental Harm” • American Political Science Association Annual Meeting (poster session) • Washington, DC • August 2014
“The Precautionary Principle As a Matter of Right” • Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting • Seattle, WA • April 2014
“Environmental Harms and the Enduring Appeal and Merit of Natural Rights” • Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting • Hollywood, CA • March, 2013
“An Umbrella of Legitimacy: Rebel Faction Size and External Military Intervention,” co-authored with Michael C. Burch • Peace Science Society Annual Conference • Savannah, GA • October, 2012
“Circumscribed Liberty: Locke’s Tolerance of Restrictions on Individual Rights” • American Political Science Association Annual Meeting • New Orleans, LA • August, 2012 (cancelled due to Hurricane Isaac)
“Lowering the Bar for Justified Military Intervention in Intrastate Conflicts? A Reply to Walzer” • Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting • Portland, OR • March, 2012
“Bottom-up Governance of the Environment and the Global Environment Facility’s Small Grants Programme,” co-authored with María Fernanda Enríquez • International Studies Association Annual Convention • Montreal, Quebec, Canada • March, 2011
“Lockean Libertarianism and Risks of Injury: Is the Lockean Libertarian Really Lockean or Simply Confused?” • Human Rights Conference • University of Connecticut, Human Rights Institute (HRI) • Storrs, CT • April, 2009
“Justice As Fairness and Reinventing Direct Democracy” • Humane Studies Fellowship Research Colloquium • Institute for Humane Studies • Arlington, VA • May, 2008
“Reconciling Libertarianism with Restricted Self-Ownership” • American Philosophical Association Central Division Conference • Chicago, IL • April, 2007