When possible, I give talks in the community about political issues that relate to my research or teaching. I have given talks to local library groups, credit union meetings, ministers’ associations, and other community organizations in addition to professional talks. Please contact me if you are interested in having me talk with your group. You can also listen to me and Prof. Jerry Podair for an hour on WHBY in Appleton every other week.
These are selected panels and talks:
- “Symbolic Memory: Maps and the Political Future.” November 5, 2024.
- “This Land is Your Land: How Maps Shape the World.” July 14-19, 2024.
- “How Presidential Primaries Matter, When They Don’t.” March 6, 2024.
- “Federal Revival: The Politics of the People… or Disunity?” February 8, 2023.
- “The 2022 Elections: A Retroperspective.” November 16, 2022.
- “The Rise of Ideology: America’s Surprising Political Journey.” August 7-12, 2022.
- “Predicting Presidential Elections.” October 20, 2020.
- “Political Polarization: The Way Forward.” September 28, 2020.
- “The 2020 U.S. Elections in Global Perspective.” January 9, 2020.
- “Commemorating the Federal Depository Library Program.” November 5, 2019.
- “The Electoral College: Protecting the Republic or Disenfranchising a Democracy?” January 4, 2017.
- “Elections: Candidates, Substance and Personality.” October 12, 2016.
- “Unexpected but not Unprecedented: Upheavals in American Politics from 1856 to 2016.” October 7, 2016.
- “Working with the Media.” Featured Panel, Midwest Political Science Association, April 4, 2014.
- “Party Polarization: Are Voters or Parties Driving Division?” April 2, 2014.
- “Scraping Data and Making ‘Big’ Inferences.” March 6, 2014.
- “Is Anyone Listening? American Presidents and Public Attention.” September 19, 2013.
- “Lincoln, the Constitution, and the Civil War.” National Constitution Center and the American Library Association, January 10, 2013.
- “Bitter Clingers and the 47 Percent: How the Rise of Social Media Has Undercut Honest Democracy.” October 22, 2012.
- “Political Culture and American Political Development.” October 24, 2011.
- “The Walker Budget and Wisconsin’s Fiscal Future.” April 21, 2011.
- “Redistricting and Political Competition.” March 24, 2010.