I. Paper Presentations
“In Defense of Associational Standing,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, September 5, 2026
“A Right to Community: Green v. Miss USA, the Assembly Clause, and Associational Self-Government,” The Ciceronian Society Annual Conference, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, March 12-14, 2026
“Aristotle’s Tyrant and the Suppression of Greatness,” Government and Politics Summit, Wilmington, DE, October 9-11, 2025
“Plurality, Liberty, and Society: First Amendment Rights as Differentiated Self-Government,” The Political Thought of Willmoore Kendall, University of Dallas, Dallas, TX, September 20, 2025
“Toward the Definition of a Social Group: Friendship and the Freedom of Association,” American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, BC, September 13, 2025
“Teaching the Texts as Teaching Self-Government: Virtues, Principles, and Practices,” Civic Education Workshop, Jack Miller Center, Miami, FL, August 4-6, 2025
“A Right to Expressive Association? The Ninth Circuit’s Curious Interpretation of a Challenging Doctrine,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 5, 2025
“Toward the Definition of a Social Group,” The Ciceronian Society Annual Conference, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, March 13, 2025
“Common Law, the Supreme Court, and Parental Rights in Historical Perspective,” Government and Politics Summit, Wilmington, DE, November 8, 2024
“Monism, Pluralism, and the First Amendment,” Midwest Political Science Association, April 5, 2024
“History, Tradition, and Parental Rights,” The Ciceronian Society Annual Conference, March 1, 2024
“A Compound Republic of Speech: Vincent Ostrom, Alexander Meiklejohn, and the Meaning of Free Speech,” Markets and Society Conference, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, October 22, 2023
“Monisms, Pluralisms: The New Right and a Diversity of Constitutional Visions,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, September 2, 2023
“Freedoms Like a Fox,” Wimmer Symposium, Duquesne University, March 14, 2023
“State vs. Community: Nisbet & the Post-Liberal Right,” The Ciceronian Society Annual Conference, February 11, 2023
“The Compound Republic of Speech: Vincent Ostrom, Alexander Meiklejohn, and the Meaning of Free Speech,” Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Annual Conference, November 3, 2022
“State vs. Community: Robert Nisbet and the Post-Liberal Right,” Markets and Society Conference, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, October 22, 2022
“The Social Clerisy: The Political Philosophy of Pluralism,” Workshop at University of San Diego Law School, September 16-17, 2022
“The Contested Common Good: Varieties of Constitutional Monism,” Ciceronian Society, March 11, 2022
“Robert Nisbet and the Plural Constitutional Community,” Estoril Political Forum, Lisbon, Portugal, October 21, 2020 (online)
“Democratic Monism and Liberal Pluralism: Dueling Theories of the First Amendment,” Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 8, 2019
“Plato, Democratic Man, and Psychic Decline in the American University,” APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, February 3, 2018
“Conservative, Pluralist, Sociologist: On Robert Nisbet’s Burke,” Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 9, 2017
“A Laissez-Faire of Communities: Robert Nisbet’s Politics of Pluralism,” Academy of Philosophy and Letters Annual Meeting, June 3, 2017
“Robert Nisbet on Reason and Art in Sociology,” Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 13, 2015
“The Individual, the State, and the In-Between: Robert Nisbet’s Historical Argument for the Demise of Community and Association in the Age of the Modern State,” American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, September 4, 2015
“Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, Individualism, and Community,” Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, MA, November 15, 2014
“Equality, Liberty, and Assembly: Freedom of Association in Light of Christian Legal Society v. Martinez,” American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 28, 2014
“That Hideous Dream: Progressive Idealism, the Lust for Power, and the Nightmare of Scientism in CS Lewis’s That Hideous Strength,” American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 30, 2013
“Guardians of the Word: Kirk, Buckley, and the Conservative Struggle with Academic Freedom,” American Political Science Association, New Orleans, scheduled for September 1, 2012 (uploaded to SSRN)
II. Invited Lectures and Panels
“Pluralism and the Constitution: Living Together Across Deep Difference,” Panelist, University of Pittsburgh, October 19, 2026
“Aristotle and the Meaning of Rights,” The Philadelphia Society, McLean, VA, September 18, 2026
“Alexis de Tocqueville, Robert Nisbet, and the American Tradition of Constitutional Self-Government,” Constitution Day Lecture, Cedarville University, September 10, 2026
“Libertarianism and Traditionalism,” Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, Mecosta, MI, August 11 and 13, 2026
“On Robert Nisbet,” Academy of Philosophy and Letters, College Park, MD, June 5, 2026
“Against the Political Clerisy,” Liberty Fund Constitution Fellows Lecture, Savannah, GA, March 27, 2026
“Popular Sovereignty in the Plural Constitutional Community,” 1776 and Today, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, February 21, 2026
“The First Amendment: Philosophical Principles,” Institute for Governance and Civics Teachers Symposium, Florida State University, June 10, 2025
“‘The People’ of the Tenth Amendment,” Invisible Hand Seminar, George Mason University, March 29, 2025
“The Body of Christ and the First Amendment,” Constitution Day Lecture, Center for Christian Faith & Culture, Malone University, Canton, OH, September 17, 2024
“Comments on ‘Emerging Intellectual Landscape in America and Its Implications for Japan,’ by Hiro Aida,” Sponsored by the Japanese Consulate-General, Tampa, FL, April 21, 2024
“2020’s: The Way Forward,” Roundtable Discussion, Philadelphia Society Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL April 21, 2024
“Comments on ‘Russell Kirk and Japan, Or, Enamored by the Dead,’ by Hiro Aido,” Sponsored by the Japanese Consulate-General, Tampa, FL, April 19, 2024
“Freedom of Association and Supreme Court Case Law,” Coastal Carolina University, Conway, South Carolina, March 28, 2024
“Free Association in a Pluralistic Society,” Center for Constitutional Studies, Utah Valley University, March 20, 2024
“Why Associations Matter: Alexis de Tocqueville and the Freedom of Association in America,” McConnell Scholar Lecture, McConnell Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 8, 2024
“Why Associations Matter: Alexis de Tocqueville and the Freedom of Association in America,” Teacher Scholar Lecture, McConnell Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 6, 2024 (online)
“Monism v. Pluralism in Institutions,” Mercatus Center, January 11, 2024 (online)
“Freedom of Association,” Guest Class Lecture at the University of Mississippi, October 19, 2023 (online)
“The Role of Culture and Community: Renewing Social Institutions,” Philadelphia Society Annual Meeting, Cleveland, OH, September 23, 2023
“Tocqueville’s Once and Future America,” Intercollegiate Studies Institute Honors Conference, Annapolis, MD, August, 4, 2023
“Sorely Needed Help for the Associative Right,” Givers, Doers, and Thinkers Webinar, AmPhil, June 29, 2023 (online)
“State or Community? Robert Nisbet’s Vision of a Humane Society,” Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Duquesne Club, Pittsburgh, PA, April 15, 2023
“Robert Nisbet, Functional Autonomy, and Cross Sector Collaboration,” Guest Speaker in Graduate MPA Program, The University of Pennsylvania, March 21, 2023. (Online)
“Homo Politicus: Freedom of Assembly and Petition and the Human as the Political Animal,” Legal Humanities Fellowship, The University of Pennsylvania Law School and Collegium Institute, February 20, 2023
“Right Ideas: Robert Nisbet,” National Association of Scholars Right Ideas Webinar Series, October 27, 2022 (online)
“The Roots of American Order,” American Founding Principles and History Program, Florida Dept. of Education, Miami, FL, July 26, 2022
“The Roots of American Order,” American Founding Principles and History Program, Florida Dept. of Education, Miami, FL, July 25, 2022
“The Future of American Politics,” Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, Mecosta, MI, July 23, 2022
“The Roots of American Order,” American Founding Principles and History Program, Florida Dept. of Education, Melbourne, FL, July 14, 2022
“The Roots of American Order,” American Founding Principles and History Program, Florida Dept. of Education, Jacksonville, FL, June 22, 2022
“The Structure of the US Constitution,” Florida Dept. of Education, Orlando, FL, May 17, 2022
“Free Assembly: The Constitution’s Protection for Civil Society,” American Enterprise Institute, November 15, 2021 (online)
“Alexis de Tocqueville, Robert Nisbet, and the Art of Association,” Discussion Leader, Little Platoon Seminar with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Duquesne University, September 25, 2021
“Freedom of Association,” Christian Legal Society of Western Pennsylvania, Clark Hill Law Offices, One Oxford Square, Pittsburgh, PA, September 24, 2021
Panelist, “How To Write and Publish A Book as A Junior Scholar,” JMC Webinar, July 14, 2021 (online)
“Strengthening Community: Law, Policy, and Voluntary Associations,” Panel for the Manhattan Institute, May 5, 2021 (online)
“Connection, Community, and Coronavirus: How a Pandemic and the Lockdowns Affect Families and Civil Society,” Panel for The Federalist Society, Georgetown University, February 10, 2021 (online)
“The Plural Constitutional Community as the Humane Community,” The Nursing Health Services and Policy Research HUB, The University of Pittsburgh, October 27, 2020 (Online)
Lecturer, “American Conservatism and the Quest for Community,” Honors Conference, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, September 24-27, 2020
“Pluralism and Democracy: Two Perspectives,” PRRUCS, University of Pennsylvania, January 27, 2020
“Freedom of Association: The First Liberty?” Constitution Day Talk, University of Wisconsin-Stout, September 17, 2019
“State, Individual, and Association: Robert Nisbet and the Freedom of Association,” PRUCCS, University of Pennsylvania, February 21, 2018
“First Amendment on Campus: Know Your Rights,” University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 7, 2018
III. Academic Service: Chairs and Discussants
Roundtable, “Reforming the Academy: Freedom, Responsibility, and Civic Education,” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, September 3, 2026
Discussant, “Theorizing Law, Politics, and Society,” Midwest Political Science Association, April 3, 2025
Chair, “Modernity and Spiritual Corruption: Politics and Literature,” The Ciceronian Society Annual Conference, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, March 13, 2025
Chair and Discussant, “The Language of Rights and the Law,” Midwest Political Science Association, April 6, 2024
Participant, “Roundtable on Patrick Deneen’s Regime Change,” March 2, 2024
Chair, “Mid-20th Century American Conservatism,” The Ciceronian Society Annual Conference, March 1, 2024
Panel Chair, “Social Trust and Social Groups,” Online Workshop with international group of scholars, July 9-10, 2020
Chair for “Historicism and the Norms of Politics,” New York State Political Science Association, New York, NY, April 26, 2014
Discussant for Dr. Ryan Holston, “The Seeds of Democratic Idealism: Examining Sources of Abstraction in the Thinking of Jean-Jacques Rousseau,” American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 29, 2013
Participant for Roundtable on Political Science and Social Science, Northeastern Political Science Association, November 19, 2011
Discussant for Dr. Jeff Polet, “Notting Hill or Nowhere: On Subsidiarity in a ‘Global Age,’” American Political Science Association, September 1, 2011
IV. Colloquiums and Workshops
Discussion Leader, “Alexis de Tocqueville and Religion,” Cedarville University, September 10, 2026
Director, “The Preconditions of Civil Society,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Boston, MA, September 5-8, 2024
Participant, “Kuyper and Antirevolutionary Politics,” Center for Religion, Culture and Democracy, Grand Rapids, MI, April 25-28, 2024
Participant, “Integralism,” Center for Religion, Culture and Democracy, Fort Worth, TX, February 1-4, 2024
Discussion Leader/Presenter, “The Body Politic and the Church as the Body of Christ,” Beatrice Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, February 28, 2024
Discussion Leader, “Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America,” Teacher Scholar Colloquium, McConnell Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 9-11, 2024
Participant, “Integralism,” Center for the Study of Liberty and Democracy, Fort Worth, TX, February 1-4, 2024
Discussion Leader, “Democratic Authority in the Works of Alexis de Tocqueville, Bertrand de Jouvenel, and Robert Nisbet,” Intercollegiate Studies Institute/Liberty Fund Colloquium, Fort Lauderdale, FL, November 9-11, 2023
Participant, “Pluralism Summit,” Mercatus Center, Falls Church, VA, September 7-9, 2023
Participant, “The Search for Truth in a Complex World,” The Agora Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, April 28-29, 2023
Participant, “The Founders After the Founding,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Annapolis, MD, November 10-13, 2022
Participant, “Liberty, Authority, and Power in the Work of Robert Nisbet,” Liberty Fund Colloquium, Indianapolis, IN, July 14-17, 2022
Participant, “Civic Education and the American Republic,” Jack Miller Center, Douglasville, GA, August 1-7, 2021
Participant, “The Moral Foundations of Law,” James Madison Program, Princeton University, July 26-30, 2021
Discussion Leader for “Religious exercise and establishment in early America,” Legal Humanities Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, February 17, 2020
Presenter/Discussion Leader, “Provocation & Civility: Free Speech in Wisconsin High Schools,” University of Wisconsin–Madison, June 20-22, 2019
Participant in “The Political Philosophy of James Buchanan,” Duke University PPE Program, Deer Park, UT, May 26-June 2, 2019
Liberty Fund Conference, “The Legacy of James Buchanan,” Blacksburg, VA, July 23-28, 2018
Presenter/Discussion Leader, “Provocation & Civility: Free Speech in Wisconsin High Schools,” University of Wisconsin–Madison, June 21-23, 2018
Institute for Humane Studies/Liberty Fund, Advanced Topics in Liberty, “Hayek’s Social and Political Thought,” Arlington, VA, January 29-31, 2016
Intercollegiate Studies Institute/Liberty Fund, Advanced Topics in Liberty, “Shakespeare and Plutarch: Liberty and Tyranny,” Mecosta, MI, April 23-26, 2015
Institute for Humane Studies/Liberty Fund, Advanced Topics in Liberty, “Classical Liberalism in Contemporary Political Philosophy,” Arlington, VA, October 17–19, 2014
Workshop participant for “Holland as Montesquieu’s Other Model Republic,” Josh Bandoch, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Political Theory Institute, Brown University, December 14, 2012
Institute for Humane Studies/Liberty Fund, Advanced Topics in Liberty, “City-States as Alternatives to Nation-States,” Arlington, VA, September, 21–23, 2012
Humane Studies Fellows Research Colloquium, Arlington, VA, November 4–6, 2011
“Scholarship and a Free Society,” Institute for Humane Studies Summer Seminar, Bryn Mawr College; Bryn Mawr, PA, June 16–18, 2011
Intercollegiate Studies Institute/Liberty Fund, “The Scottish Enlightenment,” Mecosta, MI, April 14-16, 2011
Institute for Humane Studies/Liberty Fund Advanced Topics in Liberty, “Liberty, the Welfare State, and the New Deal,” Arlington, VA, September 3–5, 2010
