Presenter, “Philippine Moros and the ‘Savage Olympics’ of 1904,” Presented at CESH 2019: Youth, Youngsters, and Sports From Antiquity to the Modern Day, Lausanne, Switzerland (Sept. 12-14, 2019)

Presenter, “Sanitizing the Taboo: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Moro Exhibit at the St. Louis World’s Fair,” Religion and US Empire Seminar, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston, MA (Nov. 17-19, 2017)

Presenter, “Real News and Alternative Facts: Biases and Narrative Construction as Methodology,” Research From All Angles: The Truth About Lies, Center for Undergraduate Rearch and Scholarship, Creighton University, Omaha, NE (Nov. 2, 2017)

Contributing Expert, “Philippines Economy Maintains Fast Growth,” China Global TV Network interview (July 24, 2017)

Panel Commentator, “America and Islam in the Philippines,” American and Muslim World, ca. 1500-1900, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelpha, PA (Mar. 30-Apr. 1, 2017)

Panel Chair and Commentator, “US Colonialism in the Philippines: Paradoxes of Governance, Resistence and Identity,” American Studies Association Annual Conference, Denver, CO (Nov. 17-20, 2016)

“American Colonization of Muslims in the Southern Philippines: Preserving Savagery and Domesticating Voiolence,” presented by invitation at the Asian World Center Faculty Lecture Series, Creighton University, Omaha, NE (Oct. 2015) (also recorded and featured on NPR’s “Noon Forum”)

“Filipinos vs. ‘Filipinos’: Fair Representation at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition and Beyond,” presented at Philippine and Filipino Studies: 40 Years Hence: An International Symposium, Center for Philippine Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, (April, 2015)

“Muhammad and the Origins of Islam,” “Institutionalization and its Challenges,” “Islam and Empire,” “The Challenges of Modernity, Identity, and Nation,” A four-part lecture series given by invitation at US Strategic Command (STRATCOM), Offutt Airforce Base, Bellevue, NE (January, 2015)

“First Showing: Negotiating Empire at the Greater America Exposition, 1899,” Presented by invitation at the Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Weekly Lecture Series, Dekalb, Illinois (October, 2014)

“The Moro Experience at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair,” presented and discussed by invitation at the Kripke Center Seminar on Religion and US Empire, Creighton University, Omaha, NE (October, 2013)

“Cultural Foundations of China – Philosophical Traditions and the Dynastic System,” “Western Impact, Opium Wars, and Attempts at Recovery,” “Mao’s China – The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution,” “Deng Xiaoping, Reform and Opening, and the Making of Post-Mao China,” A four-part lecture series given by invitation at US Strategic Command (STRATCOM), Offutt Airforce Base, Bellevue, NE (July, 2013)

“A Historical Review of Western Approaches to Alternate Dispute Resolutions Concerning China and Tibet,” Presented at the 8th Inernational Convention of Asia Scholars, Macao (June, 2013)

“Preserving Savagery and Domesticating Violence in the Philippines’ Muslim South, 1899-1914,” Presented at the 9th International Conference on the Philippines: The Philippines and the World, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI (October, 2012)

“Replicated Immersion Learning: Intersections of Language and Culture,” Presented by invitation at the USA John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, Dec. 2011 Commander’s Offsite, Camp Mackall, North Carolina. Presided over by Maj. Gen. Bennet S. Sacolick, USSF, PSYOPS, etc. (December, 2011)

“Managing a Massacre: Savagery, Civility and Gender in the Philippines’ Muslim South (1906),” Presented by invitation at the Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Weekly Lecture Series, Dekalb, Illinois (March, 2011)

“Managing a Massacre: Savagery, Civility and Gender in the Philippines’ Muslim South (1906),” Presented by invitation at the International Conference on Southeast Europe-Southeast Asia: Islam, Mergers and Margins, Selangor, Malaysia (January, 2011)

“Managing a Massacre: Savagery, Civility and Gender in Moro Province in the Wake of Bud Dajo,” Presented by invitation at the 2010 American Studies Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, (November, 2010) [Read by proxy due to travel fund priorities]

“Making Moros: Imperial Historicism and American Military Rule in the Philippines’ Muslim South,” Presented by invitation at the SEASI Brown Bag Series on Contemporary Southeast Asian Politics, Columbia University, New York, New York, (September, 2009)

“Southeast Asia: A Short History” Presented by invitation at the Asia-Pacific Orientation Conference (APOC), United States Special Operations School, Kedena Air Force Base, Okinawa, Japan, (August, 2009)

“Islam and Southeast Asia: A Short History” and “Indonesia: History, Geography, and Current Status” Presented by invitation at the Asia-Pacific Orientation Conference (APOC), United State Air Force Special Operations School, Hurlburt Field, FL, (May, 2009)

“The Next Step: Getting Your Paper Published” A presentation and round table discussion at the NIU History Graduate Association Conference, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois (April, 2009)

“Our Present Concern: Teleological History and the Current Popularity of Islam in Academic Discourse” Presented at the inaugural Islam at the Edges: Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia Colloquium, co-sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Northern Illinois University and the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, The University of Chicago, Dekalb, Illinois (March, 2009)

“Imperial Taxonomies and U.S. Military Rule in the Philippines’ Muslim South, 1898-1913,” Presented at the annual Center for Southeast Asia Studies Conference at Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois (March, 2009) (Awarded top prize, $250)

“Looking at the Philippines’ Muslim South Past and Present: A Fulbright Report,” Presented by invitation at the Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Weekly Lecture Series, Dekalb, Illinois (January, 2009)

“Muslim Integration in the Philippines: A Historiographical Review” Presented at the 2008 National Conference on Theories and Practises of Interfaith Dialogue in the Philippines at De la Salle University, Manila, Philippines (April, 2008)

“Questions of Victimization and Agency: A Case Study of Three Chicago-Area Filipina Migrant Laborers” Public Lecture sponsored by the Silliman Journal and the Center for Research and Development at Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Philippines (November, 2007)

“Imperial Historicism and American Military Rule in the Philippines’ Muslim South, 1898-1913” Presented at the annual Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Conference in Washington DC (June, 2007)

“Reifications, Historical Trajectories, Teleology, and Indigenous Agency: Exploring the Delimmas of Southeast Asian History” Presented at the Northern Illinois University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies Weekly Lecture Series, Dekalb, Illinois (January, 2007)

“Imperialism and Notions of Indigenous Inadequacy in the Philippines” Presented at the annual Center for Southeast Asian Studies Conference at Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois (February, 2006)