Speaking

I’ve appreciated having opportunities to speak about different interests of mine in a variety of forums. Below are details on a selection of these, along with links to recordings where available:

Conference presentations and invited talks

  • “Causes of Union Decline in the United States: Evidence from a Novel County-Level Dataset” (with Brendan Moore and Suresh Naidu) (June 2, 2022) - Presentation based on a coauthored chapter of my dissertation for the 74th Annual Meeting of the Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA). Included in a session entitled “Challenges of Collective Bargaining” that was chaired by Lorenzo Lagos (Brown University) and featured Matthew S. Johnson (Duke University), Anna Stansbury (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ihsaan Bassier (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Viola Corradini (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

  • “Hedge Funds Running Catholic Schools on the Side? Divestment, Reinvestment, and the Economic Ethics of Financing Catholic Higher Education,“ (April 12, 2021) – Presentation for a virtual lecture series on “Catholic Higher Education in Light of Catholic Social Thought” sponsored by the McGowan Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Event was hosted by Bernard G. Prusak and featured a response from Margarita Rose.

  • “Playing With the Law: Employee Share Ownership and Legal Theory” (posted January 9, 2021) – Virtual panel recorded for the 2021 Mid-Year Fellows Workshop in Honor of Louis O. Kelso, an annual conference sponsored by the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations’ Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing. I appeared as a discussant on the panel alongside Ariana Levinson (University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law), Guy Major (Cardiff University), George Jackson (Virginia Wesleyan University), and David Ellerman (University of California, Riverside).

  • “National ESOP Employee Survey: Preliminary Findings and the Plan for Future Use” (January 11, 2020) – Panel at the 2020 Mid-Year Fellows Workshop in Honor of Louis O. Kelso, an annual conference sponsored by the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations’ Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing. I appeared as a discussant on the panel alongside James Hayton (University of Warwick), Jungook Kim (Rutgers University), Dan Weltmann (Western Connecticut State University), and Richard Freeman (Harvard University).

Podcast interviews