2023   Organized Panel: “Negotiating Identity, Genre, and Representation in Country Music” with Jada Watson and Phoebe E. Hughes
Paper title: “’Reckoning’ with Identity Symbols in 21st Century Country Music,” presented at the Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, October 19

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2023   “’Guns on the Radio’: An Analysis of Top 20 Billboard Hot Country Lyrics, 2002-2021”, presented at the International Country Music Conference, Nashville, TN, June 1

2022    “Old-Time Music and Values of Sustainability: Considering Potentials for Growth in Music Degree Programs”, at the Music, Sound and Climate Justice Conversations Event, New Orleans, LA, November 9

2022    “’No Drama, Just Music’: Country Music Media, Marketing, and 21st-Century Crisis”, at the International Country Music Conference, Nashville, TN, June 1
 
2022    “Art of Inquiry: Practices in an Honors Research Methods and Ethics Course”, at the Western Regional Honors Conference, Albuquerque, NM, April 9
 
2021    “’The All-American [White] Man’: Unpacking Race and Identity Politics in American Country Music in 2020 and Beyond”, at the Society for Ethnomusicology annual meeting, online, October 29
 
2021    “’Don’t Take Your Guns to Town, Boys’: Country Music and a Changing Cultural Politics of Violence”, at the International Country Music Conference, online, June 4
 
2021    “’The All-American Man’”: Gender Trouble and Identity Politics in American Country Music”, at the Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean Chapter annual meeting, online, March 13
 
2020    “Violence at the Old Home Place: Country Music and Mass Shootings, 2017-2018”, at the Society for Ethnomusicology annual meeting, online, October 22
 
2019    “Country Music in the ‘Me Too’ Era: Power, Gender, Identity, and Safety”, at the International Country Music Conference, Nashville, TN, May 31
 
2019    “Pickin’ Halls: Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Performance in Institutional Spaces”, at the Appalachian Studies Association annual meeting, Asheville, NC, March 16
 
2018    “Off the Beaten Syllabus: Multicultural Appalachian Musics and University Representation”, in “Towards a Multicultural Appalachian Music” organized panel, with Travis Stimeling and Emily Hilliard, at the Appalachian Studies Association annual meeting, Cincinnati, OH, April 6
 
2017    “’Lost All My Money But a Two-Dollar Bill’: Country, Bluegrass, and the 21st-Century American Working Class”, at the Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean Chapter annual meeting, Charleston, SC, March 4
 
2016 “The Confederate in the Country: Musical Expressions of Southern Identity,” with Mark Dillon, at the International Country Music Conference, Nashville, TN, May 27
 
2016 “Finding a Place in the Circle: Navigating Your Community Jam Session”, at the American String Teachers Association annual meeting, Tampa, FL, March 5
 
2015    “Tradition meets Creation: Community and Culture in Original Folksong”, at the Florida State University Interdisciplinary Performance Symposium, Tallahassee, FL, October 24
 
2015    “Fiddle Groups at the University Level”, organized panel with Mark Dillon and Christen Blanton, at the International Bluegrass Music Association World of Bluegrass Conference, Raleigh, NC, October 1 
 
2015    “New Tradition-Bearers: Motivations of Young Adult Musicians in Central North Carolina Old-Time Communities”, at Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast and Caribbean Chapter annual meeting, Knoxville, TN, March 14
 
2014    “Low Latency Audio Video: Potential for Teaching Improvisation through Distance Learning” (poster), at the North Carolina Music Educators Association Conference, Winston-Salem, NC, November 8
 
2014    “Low Latency Audio Video: Potentials for Collaborative Playing through Distance Learning”, at the National Association for Music Education Music Research and Teacher Education National Conference, St. Louis, MO, April 11