Conference Presentations
Roundtable Participant, "Lessons Learned from the Policy Counter Terrorism Evaluation Group," Georgia Political Science Association, Savannah, Georgia (November 10-12, 2021).
Roundtable Participant, "Tolstoy and the Red-Blue Divide: Does Higher Education Contribute to the Perception Gap?" Georgia Political Science Association, On-line (November 12, 2020).
Panel Participant, "How Solzhenitsyn's Work Survived the End of Communism," Georgia Political Science Association, On-line (November 11, 2020).
Panel Participant, "Tolstoy and the Illusion of Scientific Certainty," British Association of Slavonic and East European Studies, Cambridge, UK (April 14, 2019).
Panel Participant, "Vengeance is Mine: The Obscured Journey of a Righteous Man," Georgia Political Science Association, Savannah, GA. (November 9, 2017).
Panel Participant, "What is Political Science? Is it Possible? Is it Salutary?" Georgia Political Science Association, Savannah, GA. (November 10, 2016).
Panel Participant, "Anna Karenina: The Tragedy of the Cosmopolitan Woman," ACTC, Atlanta, GA. (March 30, 2016).
Panel Participant, "Tocqueville and Dostoevsky on Sacred Truths in Democratic and Authoritarian Societies," ACTC, Liberal Arts and Sciences Education and Core Texts in the European Context, Amsterdam, Holland. (September 2015).
Panel Participant, "Pilgrimage of the Heart: The Power of Conundrum in The Way of a Pilgrim," British Slavonic and East European Studies Conference, BSEES, Cambridge, UK (March 2015)
Panel Participant, "Tolstoy's Hedgehog: Violence, Conflict, and the Deification of Reason", British Slavonic and East European Studies Conference, BSEES, Cambridge, UK, "Tolstoy's Hedgehog", Conference, International, published elsewhere, Accepted. (March 2014)
Panel Participant, Memorial Symposium in Honor of Carl A. Linden, Elliott School of International Affairs, GWU, The George Washington University, Wash., D.C., "Tolstoy's Hedgehog: Violence, Conflict, and the Deification of Reason" (May 10, 2013)
Panel Participant, "Tolstoy and Liberal Education in the Age of Enlightenment" Conference on Liberal and Higher Education, Berry College, Berry College, Rome, Georgia, (April 5, 2013).
Panel Participant, ''Quantum or Spirit? Hedgehogs, Foxes, and the Philosophical Roots of Constructivism,'' Central and East European ISA conference, Krakow, Poland (20-22 September 2012)
Panel Discussant: ISA South Conference 2012, "Terrorism: Motivations and Manifestations" (October 13, 2012)
Panel Participant, "Comparing American and Russian Nihilism," Berry College Conference on Pop Culture, Real Culture and Politics (November 30-December 1, 2012)
Panel Discussant, ''Whole-of-Government Prospects and Challenges,'' KSU-SSI Symposium: Conflict Management: A Tool for U.S. National Security Strategy,'' February 24-25, 2011, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia.
Panel Participant, "The Spirit of Patricide and Patriacide in The Brothers Karamazov." Paper presented at the 9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities (January 9-12, 2011)
Panel Participant, ''This Star Will Shine Forth From the East: Dostoevsky and the Politics of Humility,'' Paper presented at the 2011 American Political Science Association Meeting, Seattle, Washington (September 2011)
Panel Participant, "Confessions of a Reformed Political Scientist" at Berry College's 13th Annual Conference on Religion, Politics, Culture and Community, April 22nd, 2010.
Panel Participant: ''Tocqueville, Race, and the Election,'' 12th Annual Conference on Politics, Religion, Culture and Community, Berry College, Rome, Georgia, April 23rd 2009.
Workshop Speaker, Asian Initiative Faculty Development Workshop, ''Understanding Russia: Terrorism in the Age of Reason,'' Mercer University (October 3, 2009)
Panel Participant, ''Dostoevsky and Tocqueville on Cosmopolitan Politics,'' Northeastern Political Science Association 2008 Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts (November 13-15, 2008)
Panel Participant: ''Tolstoy, Science and the Political Spectrum,'' 11th Annual Conference: The Politics of Science and the Science of Politics, Berry College, Rome, Georgia (March 26-27, 2008)
Panel Participant, ''Cosmopolitanism and its Discontents,'' ISA West, Conference on Diverse Ethics in a Pluralistic World, San Francisco, California (September 28-29, 2007)
Panel Participant, ''The Lion and the Mouse: Dostoevsky and the Hideous Schizophrenia of the West,'' American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (September 2, 2006)
Panel Participant: ''Beauty, Love, and Democracy's Tocquevillian Secret in Casablanca,'' Berry College Conference: Plato and Tocqueville Go to Rick's (November 9, 2006)
Panel Participant, ''The Roots of Terrorist Motivation: Shame, Rage, and Violence in The Brothers Karamazov,'' American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. (September 1-4, 2005)
Panel Participant, ''Dostoevsky and the Psychological Origins of Terrorism: Foreign Causes and Narcissistic Motivations in The Possessed,'' Georgia Political Science Association Conference Annual Meeting, Savannah, Georgia (November 12, 2004).
Panel Participant, (co-authored with Steven Buttrick) ''Russia's Missing Link? Social Capital and Economic Performance in Russia's Regions,'' Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (November 6-8, 2003.
Panel Participant, (co-authored with Christopher P. Carney) ''Winning Hearts and Minds and Public Diplomacy: The Media and Popular Sentiment Toward Russia in the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union,'' Chicago, Illinois (April 3-6, 2003)
Panel Participant, (co-authored with Christopher Carney) ''The Rudder of Public Opinion? Media Affect in the Newly Independent States of the Former Soviet Union,'' School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London, UK (February 10, 2001)
Panel Participant, ''A Democratic Goose Step? Liberal-Democracy and the Military in Post-Communist Russia and the Turkish Third Republic,'' Georgia Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Hilton Head, South Carolina (February 25-26, 2000)
Panel Participant, ''Back to the Future? Tolstoy and Post-communist Russian Military Politics,'' Georgia Political Science Association Annual Meeting (February 18-20, 1999)
Panel Participant, (co-authored with Christopher Carney) ''With Friends Like These: NIS Affect Toward Russia, 1992-Present,'' New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting (May 1-2, 1998)
