Conferences


“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