Conference Presentations

“Ideology, Institutions, and Judicial Behavior in Federal Environmental Protections: An Empirical Study of 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

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

“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)