Participated in the American Historical Association conference held in New York City (January 3-6, 2025).
Participated in the American Historical Association conference held in San Francisco (January 4-7, 2024).
Participated in a panel on ‘Great Turning Points in History’ (Holy Cross, November 4, 2022).
Organized Constitution Day Lecture, featuring Clyde Ray’s ‘Common Good Constitutionalism Today’ (Holy Cross, September 30, 2021).
Organized Constitution Day Lecture, featuring Richard Garnett’s ‘Religious Freedom & the Constitution Today’ (Holy Cross, September 15, 2020).
Organized Constitution Day Lecture, featuring Yvonne Pitts’ ‘Lincoln, Martial Law, & Political Dissent During the Civil War’ (Holy Cross, September 18, 2019).
Organized Constitution Day Lecture, featuring Patrick Deneen’s ‘The Constitution As a Way of Life’ (Holy Cross, September 18, 2018).
Participated in the American Historical Association conference held in Washington, DC (January 4-7, 2018).
Organized Constitution Day Lecture, featuring Patrick Griffin's 'The Constitution: What it Meant, What it Means' (Holy Cross, September 20, 2017).
Presented a paper titled, 'Carlyle, Ruskin, Morris: Critics of Industrial Labor,' for Labor & Leisure International Conference (Holy Cross, July 11, 2017).
Participated in the American Historical Association conference held in Denver (January 5-8, 2017).
Organized Constitution Day Lecture, featuring A.J. Bellia's 'The Legal Legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia' (Holy Cross, September 27, 2016).
Organized Constitution Day Lecture, featuring Vincent Phillip Munoz' 'Notre Dame, the HHS Mandate, and the Future of Religious Freedom' (Holy Cross, September 17, 2015).
Invited to present a paper titled 'Orestes Brownson: A Re-examination of a Religious Peripatetic' at James Turner conference (University of Notre Dame, April 25, 2015).
Organized Constitution Day Lecture, featuring Linda Przybyszewski's 'Who Won the Bible War? The Making of Modern Religious Liberty & its Myths' (Holy Cross, September 17, 2014).
Invited to participate in a seminar on Orestes Brownson sponsored by the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Studies (December 6, 2013).
Organized Constitution Day Lecture, featuring Michael Zuckert's 'Slavery at the Constitutional Convention' (Holy Cross, September 16, 2013).
Invited to participate in a seminar on the Gilded Age supported by the Andrew E. Mellon Foundation and co-sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History and the Council of Independent Colleges (Stanford University, July 14-19, 2013).
Participated in Notre Dame's 'Public Intellectualism in Comparative Context' conference (University of Notre Dame, April 23-24, 2013).
Presented a paper titled 'America's Constitution: Born of Reconciliation or Rancor?' for Constitution Day (Holy Cross, September 17, 2012).
Organized panel and presented a paper on Richard Arum & Josipa Roksa's Academically Adrift (Holy Cross, March 22, 2012).
Participated in the American Historical Association conference held in Chicago (January 5-8, 2012).
Participated in Notre Dame's 'From Iberian Kingdoms to Atlantic Empires' conference (University of Notre Dame, September 17-18, 2010).
Invited to participate in Notre Dame's Kaneb Center panel on 'Small College Teaching' (University of Notre Dame, November 12, 2009).
Presented a paper titled 'Art's Refuge' at James A. Barnes conference (Temple University, April 14, 2007).
Participated in the American Historical Association conference held in Atlanta (January 4-7, 2007).
Presented a paper titled "'The Good, the True, and the Beautiful' at Vassar and Wellesley, 1865-1900" (University of Notre Dame, February 10, 2006).
Presented a paper titled 'The Great Awakening in New England: A Factory of Melancholia?' (University of Colorado, Boulder, September 23, 2000).