Conference Presentations

“Decolonial Art and Political Consciousness: Zapatista Textiles, Marxist Aesthetics, and Cusicanqui’s Sociología de la imagen” - University of Oregon, Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory (January 2026)

“Federal Judges and Free Speech: Jurisprudential Regime Theory and Ideological Influences on Appellate-Level First Amendment Decisions” - Northeastern Political Science Association (November 2025), Section: Judicial Politics & Public Law, Panel: Federalism Issues and Lower Courts as Policymakers

“Generative AI’s Implications for Democratic Elections: A Dahlian Perspective” - Electoral Integrity Project, pre-APSA workshop (September 2025), Theme: Technology and Democracy, Panel: Artificial Intelligence and Elections

“Scales of Discontent: State Constitutions, Municipal Sovereignty, and NIMBYism in Offshore Wind Transitions” - Just Energy Transitions (One Day Online Conference), Energy Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society, London (July 2025), with Samuel Ayivi and Dr. Nathaniel Trumbull

“Judicial Ideology, Electoral Justice, and Campaign Finance: A Quantitative Analysis of Supreme Court Decision-Making (1947-2023)” - The Carter Center & Electoral Integrity Project, 5th Annual Virtual Conference (July 2025), Panel: Electoral Justice

“Ideology, Institutions, and Environmental Protections: A Quantitative Analysis of Judicial Behavior in the U.S. Courts of Appeals” - International Society of Political Psychology (July 2025), Theme: Social Identity, Political Conflict, and the Future of Democracy, Section: Political Behavior, Participation, and Civic Engagement, Panel: Economic Anxiety, Judicial, and Political Behavior

“Utopia vs. Uchronia: Social Movements on the Left & Right” - Alternative Futures and Popular Protest, University of Manchester, Movements@Manchester (June 2025)

“Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Law in a Post-Chevron era: Implications for Business Ethics, Corporate Responsibility, and Judicial Decision-Making”* - North East Academy of Legal Studies in Business (May 2025) - *Awarded Best Conference Paper

“Haudenosaunee vs. Habermas: Indigenous Democratic Traditions and the Boundaries of Deliberative Democratic Theory” - New England Political Science Association (April 2025), Section: Political Theory, Panel: Individuality, Uniqueness, and Authenticity

“Mycelial Politics: Radical Ecology & Renewal in the Anthropocene” - Western Political Science Association (April 2025), Theme: A New Requiem for Politics? Racing Toward Catastrophe—or Transformation?, Section: Environmental Political Theory, Panel: Critical Ecology

“Public Acceptance of Offshore Wind’s Landfall in Southern New England” - American Association of Geographers (March 2025), with Samuel Ayivi and Dr. Nathaniel Trumbull, Theme: Making Spaces of Possibility, Panel: Public Acceptance, Justice Perspectives, and Renewable Energy Transitions for Wind Projects: Interdisciplinary Approaches among International and U.S. Case Studies

“Judicial Ideology & Federal Environmental Protections: An Empirical Study of U.S. Courts of Appeals” - Northeastern Political Science Association (November 2024), Section: Judicial Politics & Public Law, Panel: Judges and Courts as Governing Institutions

“Procedural Justice and Offshore Wind’s Landfall in Southern New England” - North American Wind Energy Academy (NAWEA) / WindTech (October 2024), co-author/research assistant, with faculty and graduate students from UConn’s Agricultural & Resource Economics, Geography, and Political Science departments: Samuel Ayivi, Carol Atkinson-Palombo, Oksan Bayulgen, Syma Ebbin, Vanessa Heigel, Lyle Scruggs, Nathaniel Trumbull

“Procedural Justice and Offshore Wind’s Landfall in Southern New England” - New England – St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society (October 2024), co-author/research assistant, with faculty and graduate students from UConn’s Agricultural & Resource Economics, Geography, and Political Science departments: Samuel Ayivi, Carol Atkinson-Palombo, Oksan Bayulgen, Syma Ebbin, Vanessa Heigel, Lyle Scruggs, Nathaniel Trumbull

“Green Anarchy & Red Praxis: An Anarcho-Indigenous Dialogue towards a Democracy of Species” - Caribbean Philosophical Association (June 2024), Theme: Decolonizing Epistemologies, Panel: Afro-Latine Theorizing: Epistemic Harm and Resistance

“Natural Dialectics: Māori & Sioux Ecosophy Encounters the Rule of Law” - American Graduate School in Paris (April 2024), Theme: Global Boiling Point: Old Problems and New Solutions, Panel: Indigenous Issues & Social Justice

“Offshore Wind Blows Ashore: Best Practices for the Equitable Siting of Offshore Wind Points of Interconnection in Coastal Communities” - The Sustainable Clean Energy Summit: Decarbonizing Society and the Grid (October 2023)

“Court Canaries: Black State Court Judges’ Perspectives on the Criminal Justice System and Visions for Its Future” - Law & Society Association (May 2021), co-author/undergraduate research with Professor Taneisha N. Means

“Identity, Methodology, and the Joys and Challenges of Doing Judicial Politics Research” - Southern Political Science Association (January 2020), co-author/undergraduate research, co-author/undergraduate research with Prof. Means

UConn Political Theory Workshop

Discussant for “Fear of a Blank Planet: On the Possibility of a Planetary Turn in Political Theory” by Kamran Moshref, PhD Candidate, Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center (September 2024) 

Discussant for “Of Glaciers and Whiteness: Ecofascism, Genre, and the Existential Risks of the American Environmental Imagination” by Dr. April Anson, Assistant Professor of English, UConn Storrs (November 2023) 

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

Jorgensen Fellowship, University of Connecticut, The Graduate School, 2023-2028
Governor Abraham Ribicoff Fellowship, University of Connecticut, Department of Political Science, 2024
George F. Cole Dissertation Fellowship in Public Law, University of Connecticut, Department of Political Science, 2024 & 2025
Fund for Legal Studies Fellowship, University of Connecticut, Department of Political Science, 2025
American Studies Research Fund, University of Connecticut, Department of Social and Critical Inquiry (American Studies), 2025
Best Conference Paper, North East Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 2025
Conference Participation Award, University of Connecticut, The Graduate School, 2025
Conference Travel Award, Electoral Integrity Project, Technology and the Future of Democracy (Pre-APSA Workshop), 2025