Conference Activities
Directed the “Revolution, Secession, and Liberty: American Independence, The Civil War, and Beyond” colloquium sponsored by the Liberty Fund. September 2005. Big Sky, MT.
Invited participant in the “Liberty, Responsibility, Free Blacks, and Reconstruction” colloquium sponsored by the Liberty Fund. January 2005. Key West, FL.
Chair of the Southern Political Science Association’s Pi Sigma Alpha Award Committee (best paper at the annual meeting). 2004.
Invited participant in the “Property Rights and Liberty” colloquium sponsored by the Liberty Fund. October 2004. Mountain Sky, MT.
Participated in “God and Mammon: Political Economy of Fundamentalism” rountable at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2004.
Invited participant in the “Liberty and Skepticism: A Re-Assessment of the Work of Frank H. Knight” colloquium sponsored by the Liberty Fund. February 2004. Richmond, VA.
Invited participant in the “Political Economy in the Scottish Enlightenment” colloquium sponsored by the Liberty Fund and the Institute for Political Economy at Utah State University. September 2002. Bozeman, MT.
Served as discussant for the “Parties and Roll Call Voting in Congress” panel at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association. November 8-11, 2000. Atlanta, GA.
Served as discussant for the “Voting Studies
III: Political History” panel at the Annual Meeting of the Public Choice
Society. March 10-12, 2000. Charleston, South Carolina.
Participated in “Impeachment” roundtable
at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association. November
1999. Savannah, Georgia.
Invited participant in the “Technology and Liberty: The Thought of George Grant”
colloquium sponsored by the Liberty Fund and the Institute for Political Economy
at Utah State University. May 1999. Savannah, Georgia.
Served as discussant for the “Comparative
Policy Development: The U.S. and Europe” panel at the 1998 Annual Meeting of
the Southern Political Science Association. October 28-31, 1998. Atlanta, GA.
Served as chair and discussant for the
“Ticket-Splitting and Divided Government” panel at the 1998 Annual
Meeting of the Public Choice Society. March 13-15, 1998. New Orleans, LA.
Invited participant in the AHumboldt and
Godwin on Law, Liberty, and the State@ colloquium sponsored by the Liberty Fund
and the Institute for Political Economy at Utah State University. March 1998.
Pasadena, California.
Invited participant in the “Political
Economy and Public Choice” colloquium sponsored by the Liberty Fund and the
Institute for Political Economy at Utah State University. August 1997. Gleneden
Beach, Oregon.
Served as chair and discussant for the
“State Public Finance” panel at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the
Southern Political Science Association.
Served as discussant for the “Formal Models of Political Institutions” panel at the
1995 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.