Appearances

“Assistance as Discipline?: TANF, Refugee Cash Assistance, and the Laborer as Citizen in the United States" 

Dissertation grants from the Refugee Studies Centre (University of Oxford) and St. Antony's College (University of Oxford) funded this project.

• Panel presentation ("Norms and Values in Migration"), 18th Annual IMISCOE Conference, University of Luxembourg (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) (2021). [Virtual due to COVID-19]

“Reducing Health Disparities Through Interventions that Invest in the Community” 

• • Roundtable, 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research: Optimizing the Relevance of Prevention Science to Systems (Washington, D.C.) (2018).

  • Lecture, Friends School of Baltimore (Baltimore, MD) (2017) (invited talk).

  • Lecture, University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) (Baltimore, MD) (2017) (invited talk).

“Beyond Humanitarian Protection: The Labor Market Integration of Refugees in the European Union” 

The J. William Fulbright Program (U.S. Department of State) funded this project. With gratitude for the feedback provided by participants at the below conferences, this paper has now been published as a chapter in Refugees and Higher Education: Trans-national Perspectives on Access, Equity, and Internationalization (2020) (eds. Lisa Unangst, Hakan Ergin, Araz Khajarian, Tessa DeLaquil, and Hans de Wit).

• • Plenary panel (“Labor Market and Health Impacts of Refugees and Asylum Seekers”), Association for Public Policy and Management (APPAM) International Conference: Public Policy and Governance Beyond Borders (Brussels, Belgium) (2017). [Declined due to scheduling conflict]

  • Plenary panel, EU-US Young Leaders Seminar (Brussels, Belgium) (2017) (invited talk).

  • Plenary lecture, EU-NATO Seminar, The College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium) (2017) (invited talk).

“No Date on the Door: Direct Provision Housing, Child Asylum Seekers, and Ireland’s Violations of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child” 

The Boston College University Fellowships Committee, Winston Center for Leadership and Ethics at Boston College, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) International Academic Collaborative, and Office of AHANA Student Programs at Boston College funded this project. With gratitude for the feedback provided by participants at the below conferences, this paper has now been published as a chapter in Children and Forced Migration: Durable Solutions During Transient Years  (2017) (eds. Marisa O. Ensor and Elżbieta M. Goździak).

• • Panel presentation (“Youth and Education Issues in Migration and Asylum”), Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies (CARFMS) Conference: Advancing Protection and Fostering Belonging in a Global Era of the Criminalization of Migration, Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) (2015).

  • Plenary lecture, Forum on Education Abroad Annual Conference: New & Emerging Paradigms for Education Abroad (San Diego, CA) (2014) (invited talk).

  • Lecture, Walsh Exchange Conference: Ideologies, Policies & People: Shifting Dynamics in Contemporary International Affairs, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.) (2014). [Awarded “Best Paper” of the conference]

  • Lecture, Undergraduate Research Symposium, Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA) (2013) (invited talk).

"From Sud-Ouest to Le Parisien: The Portrayal of the Burqa Ban in French Print Media” 

The Boston College University Fellowships Committee and Office of AHANA Student Programs at Boston College funded this project.

• • Lecture, Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Undergraduate Research Conference, Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA) (2012) (invited talk).

  • Lecture, Undergraduate Research Symposium, Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA) (2012) (invited talk).