2018 - Roundtable Panelist: “Undergraduate Research With/In Communities.” Society for Applied Anthropology. April 6, Philadephia, PA.
2016 - “Emerging Adulthood, or How Privileged Classes Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Neoliberalism.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. November 19, Minneapolis, MN.
2014 - (with Linda Horwitz) “Balancing Acknowledging and Distancing the Past: Opening the Vaults Wonders of the 1893 World’s Fair and the Field Museum of Natural History.” The National Communication Association Annual Meeting. November 21, Chicago, IL.
2014 - “Adulthood and American Patterns of Culture.” Central States Anthropological Society Annual Meeting. April 12, Normal, IL.
2011 - “You’re Growing Up Wrong! Emerging Adulthood and the New Normative Order.” (poster). American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. November 17, Montreal, Quebec.
2011 - “Learning by Doing: Service Learning in Methodology Classes.” Central States Anthropological Society Annual Meeting. April 8, Iowa City, IA.
2011 - “Metacognition in Liberal Education: A Report on Student Learning” (Panel Participant). Association of American Colleges and Universities Annual Meeting. January 28, San Francisco, CA.
2010 - “The ‘Pod’ Project.” Understanding Student Learning: ACM-Teagle Collegium Closing Conference. October 2, St. Paul, MN.
2010 - “Burnham’s City Beautiful Tour of Chicago.” Midwest Sociological Society/North Central Sociological Association Joint Annual Meeting. April 1, Chicago, IL.
2009 - “If 30 is the New 20, Is 20 the New 13?” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. December 4, Philadelphia, PA.
2009 - “Developing Classroom Research Projects in Teaching and Learning.” The Many Levels of Assessment: Making Connections (ACM Colleges). September 11, Ripon, WI.
2008 - “Classrooms without Walls: Tips and Tricks for Hands-On City Experiences.” ACM FaCE Teaching the City Workshop. April 12, Appleton, WI.
2008 (with Linda Horwitz) - “From Fantasy Sports to Fantasy Congress: Shifting Terrains and Values of Spectatorship.” Central States Anthropological Society Annual Meeting. March 29, Indianapolis, IN.
2007 (with Linda Horwitz) - “As the Centuries Turn: Sports as Training Ground for Manhood.” Midwest Popular Cultural Association/American Culture Association Annual Meeting. October 14, Kansas City, MO.