Thomas janoski

Conferences and Convention Sessions Organized

Director and Organizer:

“Event History Workshop” May 9-11^th, David Strang, Cornell University. Two day workshop.

Director, Organizer and Conference Presider:

“American Competitiveness in Economics, Crime and Governance” Quantitative Institute in the Policy and Social Research (QIPSR), University of Kentucky. November 15 and 16^th 2015.

Visiting Speakers: Becky Pettit, University of Texas; Sara Binder, George Washington University and the Brookings Institution.

Organizer and Presider: International Sociological Association, World Congress in Yokohama,

Japan, RC 30, Sociology of Work, Lean production, 2015, Yokohama, Japan.

Director, Organizer and Conference Presider:

“Democracy at Risk in the World. Structural Equation Modeling.” Quantitative Institute in the Policy and Social Research (QIPSR), University of Kentucky. November 6^th to 7^th, 2014.

Visiting Speakers: Melanie Hughes, University of Pittsburgh; Elizabeth Zechmeister, Vanderbilt University, Clem Brooks, Indiana University and Amaney Jamal, Princeton University (co-sponsored by the Year of the Middle East).

Session Organizer and Presider: "Lean Production as the New Division of Labor,” Research Committee on the Sociology of Work, (Six speakers for the session). XVIII International Sociological Association, World Congress of Sociology, Yokohama Japan. July 13-19, 2014.

Seminar Organizer and Seminar Presider: "Market Failure, Famine, and Large Crises” Social Theory 600 Seminar, Committee on Social Theory, Spring 2014. University of Kentucky. Four speakers on market failure invited by a working group of four professors: Peter Temin, MIT; Greta Krippner, University of Michigan; Cormac O’Grada, Dublin University;

Director, Organizer and Conference Presider:

“Complex Causality: Non-recursive Relationships and Latent Variables” Quantitative Institute

in the Policy and Social Research (QIPSR), University of Kentucky.

UK Faculty Presenters: Thomas Janoski (Sociology), Peter Wang (Education), . One session organized for faculty and graduate students on social network analysis.

Visiting Speakers: Richard Hoyle, Duke University; Kenneth Bollen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Sandra Marquart-Pyatt, Michigan State University.

Director, Organizer and Workshop Presider:

“Structural Equation Modelling workshop” May 9-11^th, 2015, Sandra Marquart-Pyatt,

Michigan State University. Three day workshop.

Director, Organizer and Conference Presider:

“Reversing Trajectories: Incarceration, Violence and Political Consequences” Quantitative Institute in the Policy and Social Research (QIPSR), University of Kentucky. April 17 and 18^th, 2014. (Co-sponsored by the Sociology Department.)

Visiting Speakers: Traci Burch, Northwestern; Alex Piquero, UT-Dallas, Christopher Wildeman, Yale University; Amy Lerman, University of California, Berkeley; and Robert Apel, Rutgers University.

Session Organizer and Seminar Presenter: "The Growth and Explanation of Financialization,” (Four speakers for the session). Southern Sociological Society convention, New Orleans, March 26-28^th, 2015.

Co- Organizer and Conference Presider:

“Migration and Threats to Democracy” sponsored by QIPSR, March 29 and 30^th, 2012 (Co-sponsored by the Sociology Department.) Invited and guided Douglas Massey, Princeton University, and was discussant for his plenary talk.

Session Organizer and Presider: "Cosmopolitanism and Political Sociology” Political Sociology Section Session, American Sociological Convention. Denver, Colorado, August 2012.

Co-organizer for the “Rising Economic Inequality in the 21^st Century” sponsored by QIPSR, March 2, 2012 (Co-sponsored with UK Center for Poverty Research, Political Science, and Sociology Departments.)

Discussant for Lane Kenworthy, University of Arizona, Leslie McCall, Northwestern University; Marty Gillens, Princeton University. Presenter for session on “Economic Inequality in the Future.”

Co-organizer for the “Immigration Policy in an Anti-Immigrant Era Conference” sponsored by QIPSR, (Co-sponsored with UK Center for Poverty Research, Political Science, Geography, and Sociology Departments), March 10-11, 2011

Discussant for Douglas Massey, Princeton University.

Presenter for session on “International Migration Research in the Future.”

Discussant for Michael Wallace, University of Washington, and Mark Ellis, Dartmouth University. Re-thinking Immigration, ‘Assimilation’, and Urban Space in 21^st Century America Conference, University of Kentucky, February 11, 2011.

Plenary Session Organizer and Presenter: "Immigration and Citizenship,” Political Sociology Section Session, Atlanta, GA, August 2010.

Session Organizer and Presider: "Political Sociology” American Sociological Convention. Boston, Massachusetts; August 2008.

Organizer and Presenter for Social Theory Committee,

Migrations: An Interdisciplinary Seminar: Spring 2007, Lexington, KY.

Four distinguished speakers giving public talks and coming to social theory seminar

on their work. Jeffrey Alexander (Sociology), Chair and Professor of Yale Sociology Dept.

Immigration and Public Space: An Opportunity for Debate: February 2007, Lexington, KY.

Speakers: Jan Rath from the University of Amsterdam and the IMES in the Netherlands; Marco Martiniello, University of Leige; Matt Coleman from UCLA, Alison Mountz from Syracuse, and representatives of the Lexington Hispanic Task Force.

Organized by Michael Samers (Geography), Patricia Ehrkamp (Geography) and

Thomas Janoski (Sociology). .

Organizer: Four Regular Sessions on Political Sociology for the American Sociological Association Presidential Organizing Committee, 2003, Atlanta, Georgia; August 2003.

Presider and Discussant: "Social Movements within the State: Boring from Within.”

Presider and Discussant: "Voluntary Organizations and Citizens versus the State.”

Presider: "Racial Politics and Organizations: Labor Unions, Political Parties and Churches”

Presider: "Comparative Political Movements: Globalization and Protest.”

Organizer and Session Presider: “Quantitative Methodology Committee in the Social and Behavioral Sciences.” (QMC-SBS)

Social Network Analysis: September 2002 to April 2003, Lexington, KY.

UK Faculty Presenters: Thomas Janoski (Sociology). One session organized for faculty and graduate students on social network analysis.

Visiting Scholar: Ronald Burt (Business and Sociology) from the University of Chicago. One public talk on structural holes and strategic advantage, and two social network workshops.

Categorical Data Analysis: September 2001 to April 2003, Lexington, KY.

UK Faculty Presenters: Mark Peffley (Political Science), Arne Stromberg (Statistics), D. Stephen Voss (Political Science) and Graham Ousey (Sociology). Four sessions organized for faculty and graduate students on hierarchical linear modeling.

Visiting Scholar: J. Scott Long (Sociology) from Indiana University. One public talk on women in the engineering and the sciences, and two LOGIT/PROBIT workshops.

Event History Analysis: September 2000 to April 2001, Lexington, KY.

UK Faculty Presenters: Matthew McKeever (Sociology), Donald Lyman (Psychology). Four sessions in three different months organized for faculty and graduate students on event history modeling.

UK Workshop Presenter: Matthew McKeever (Sociology) One computer workshop session on event history in SAS. February 2001.

Visiting Scholar: Bradford Jones (Political Science) from the State University of New York, Stony Brook. One Lectureship and two event history workshops.

Hierarchical Linear Analysis: September 1999 to April 2000 in Lexington, KY.

UK Faculty Presenters: Pamela Rountree (Sociology) and Eric Anderman (Education). Four sessions organized for faculty and graduate students on hierarchical linear modeling.

UK Graduate Student Presenter: Scott Novak (Sociology) One computer workshop session on HLM . February 2000.

Visiting Scholar: Valerie Lee (Education) from the University of Michigan. The Beers Lectureship in Social Theory and Methodology consisting of one public talk and two HLM workshops.

Organizer and Presenter for Social Theory Committee, Fall “Distinguished Author.”

Civil Society and Culture: December 2002 in Lexington, KY.

Jeffrey Alexander (Sociology), Chair and Professor of Yale Sociology Dept.

Organized two public lectures on civil society and two workshops with faculty and graduate

students.

Civil Society and Neo-Functionalism: November 2002 in Lexington, KY.

Seminar on Real Civil Societies and Jeffrey Alexander’s Approach to Social Theory.

Thomas Janoski and Matt McKeever presented to social theory faculty and graduate students.

Post-Modern Theory: October 2001 in Lexington, KY.

Seminar on Social Things and Charles Lemert’s Approach to Social Theory. Two hour

presentation to faculty and graduate students with Brian Gran and Dwight Billings (Sociology).

Organizer and Presider: “Theoretical Challenges to Political Sociology.” May 2001 in New York. This project is funded by an ASA/NSF Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline.

Presenters: Edward Lehmann (NYU), Dennis Wrong (NYU), Edgar Kiser (Washington University) Rational choice; Edwin Amenta (NYU), James Jasper (NYU), Frances Fox Piven (CUNY Graduate Center), Thomas Janoski (University of Kentucky).

Discussants: Robert Alford (CUNY Graduate Center), Alexander Hicks (Emory University), Mildred Schwartz University of Illinois, Chicago, Jeffrey Goodwin (NYU), Francesca Polletta (Columbia University).

Reading Group on Political Economy with John Pickles (Geography). 1999-2001. Monthly

Group meeting reading various books on political economy.

Mini-conference Organizer and Session Presider: “Politics and Markets Miniconference” Session on Economics and Investment.” American Sociological Convention. Chicago, August, 1999.

Presider and Discussant: "Political Sociology: Citizenship − Its Character and Social Roots.” American Sociological Convention. Chicago, August 1999.

Organized a Committee of Sociologists and Political Scientists to establish an International Documents Library at the University of Kentucky. 1999-2000. The library with a full time librarian speaking 5 languages was established in 2001.

Session Organizer and Presider: "Visions of Political Sociology: Directions, Identities, and Roads not Taken” American Sociological Convention. San Francisco, California; August, 1998.

Speakers: Anthony Orum (University of Illinois, Chicago); Frederick Weil (Louisiana State University); Margaret Somers (University of Michigan), Robert Alford (City University of New York, Graduate Center).

Conference Organizer and Co-presider (with Dwight Billings): "Assessing Welfare Reform, A Commonwealth Distinguished Scholar Program.” A speaker series sponsored by the Vice-President of Research and Graduate Studies, and six departments in the social sciences. University of Kentucky; April and June, 1998.

Visiting Scholars: Michael Wiseman (University of Wisconsin & Urban Institute), Mimi Abramowitz (Hunter School for Social Work), Mark V. Nadel (Associate Director of Income Security Issues, General Accounting Office), and panel of four community activists.

UK Faculty Presenters: Joanna Badagliacco (Sociology), Timothy Collins (Appalachian Center), Richard Fording (Political Science), Edward Jennings (Martin School of Public Policy), Claudia Peck-Heath (Human Environmental Science), Katherine Amato von Hemert (Social Work), Jane Jensen (Educational Policy and Evaluation), Mary Secret (Social Work), and Julie Zimmerman (Rural Sociology).

Session Organizer: "Civil Society: Is there Still Hope? Operationalizing Civil Society and the Public Sphere in Social Research.” Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Annual Convention. Montreal, Canada; July 1997.

Speakers: Carey Pieratt, (Duke University), Steven Pfaff (New York University), Margaret Somers, (University of Michigan), Elizabeth Clemmens (University of Arizona), and myself.

Conference Organizer and Presider: "Faculty Seminar on Citizenship and Civil Society." A seminar sponsored by the Center for International Studies Duke University and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. March 1991 through May 1994.

Speakers: Andrew Arato (New School for Social Research), Craig Calhoun (UNC, Chapel Hill), Patricia Connover (UNC, Chapel Hill), Kenneth Fogelman (University of Warwick), Volker Gransow (University of Toronto), John Keane (Polytechnic of London), Jonathan Leonard (UNC, Chapel Hill), Eduardo Robassi (High Court of Argentina), Donald Searing (UNC, Chapel Hill), Joel Smith (Duke University), Steven Smith (University of Washington, Seattle), Günther Schmid (Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin).

Conference Organizer and Presider: “The New Compass of the Comparativist: Methodological Innovations in Comparative Political Economy.” Sponsored by NSF, ASA, Council of European Studies and Center for International Studies Duke University. March 1991.

Speakers: Peter Bearman (UNC, Chapel Hill), Gary Gereffi (Duke University), Larry Griffin (Vanderbilt University), Alexander Hicks (Emory University), Larry Issac (Florida State University), Miguel Korzeniewicz (University of New Mexico), Peter Lange (Duke University), Philip O'Connell (UNC, Chapel Hill), Charles Ragin (Northwestern University), Richard Rubinson (Emory University), David Smith (UC, Irvine), David Strang (Cornell University), George Tsebellis (UCLA), Chikakao Usui (Tulane University), and Michael Wallerstein (UCLA).

Session Organizer (with Günther Schmid), New Institutional Theory, Session 1: Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Paris, France; July 1994. Margaret Landenberger (University of Munich), Günther Schmid (Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin), and Thomas Janoski. Discussant: Göran Therborn (University of Göteborg).

Session Organizer and Presider (with Günther Schmid): New Institutional Theory, Session 2: Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Paris, France; July 1994. Regine Heidenreich (Institute für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Regensburg), Patrick Kenis (European Center for Social Welfare Policy and Research), Stephan Panther (University of Hamburg), and Klaus Schömann, (Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin). Discussant: Bernd Marin (European University Institute, Florence).

Conference Program Organizer: Organized five sessions in political and economic sociology at the Southern Sociological Society Meetings. Atlanta, March 1991.

Session Organizer and Presider: "New Methods in Comparative/Historical Sociology." Southern Sociological Society, Annual Meeting. Louisville, March 1990.

Speakers: Alexander Hicks (Emory University), David Strang (Cornell University), Gary Gereffi and Miguel Korzeniwicz (Duke University).

Session Organizer and Presider: "Comparative/Historical Methods in Sociology" Session. Southern Sociological Society, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, April 1989.

Papers Presented

“Slow to Act but Stings like a Bee: SEC, FRB and CFDT Regulatory Fines and Disgorgements from 1975 to 2014” (with Grace Cale) Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Annual Conference, Lyon, France, July 2017.

“Dominant Divisions of Labor encounters the French Regulation School of Production Models” (with Darina Lepadatu) Organizations, Occupations and Work Session, American Sociological Association Annual Convention, Seattle, WA, August 2016.

“Productive Models of Lean Production” 24th GERPISA International Colloquium – Puebla, Mexico: The “New Frontiers” of the World Automotive Industry: Technologies, Applications, Innovations and Markets June 2016.

“Naturalization Levels and Processes, and Consequences for Social Policy” Conference on Immigration and Social Policy, University of Texas, Austin. March 2015.

“Dominant Divisions of Labor: Lean Production as the New Production Model” (with Darina Lepadatu) Organizations, Occupations and Work Session, American Sociological Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL. August 2015.

“Macro-Economic Views of Structural Unemployment” International Sociology Association, Economic Sociology Section. “Embeddedness and Beyond” Moscow, Russia, October 24-28^th, 2015.

“Citizenship and Civil Society in China” Keynote Speaker. Citizenship and Orientalism Conference, Guangzhou, China. School of Government, Sun Yat-Sen University. May, 2014.

“Differing Views of the Measurement of Naturalization Data and Institutional Barriers to Integration” Political Identity Session, European Sociological Association, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2011.

“Elite Power and Coalitions in City Politics: Bringing Social Networks and Power Dependence to Power Resources Theory” (with Adam Jonas) Political Sociology Regular Session, American Sociological Association Annual Convention, Las Vegas, NV. August 2011.

“Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights in Political Sociology” Human Rights Section, Roundtable. American Sociological Association Annual Convention, Las Vegas, NV. August 2011.

“A Synthetic View of Power in Urban Political Research” (with Adam Jonas) Political Sociology Session, Southern Sociological Society. Jacksonville, FL. April, 2011.

“Citizenship and Cosmopolitanism: The Compromise between Nationes and Kosmos” Plenary Address. Citizenship and Civil Society: The Challenge of Cosmopolitanism” Guangzhou, China. Sun-Yat-Sen University. December, 2010.

“The Politics of Naturalization Policy in 18 Countries with Special Applications to China” Talk at the University of Peking, Beijing, China. December, 2010.

“The Ironies of Citizenship: Naturalization in 18 Countries” Talk presented at the Sociology Department of University of Shanghai. December, 2010.

“Three World of Western Punishment” (with Matt DeMichele) Presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. August, 2010.

“Balancing and Bridging: Theories of Difference in Symbolic Interactionism.” Presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. August, 2009.

“The Spirit of the Civil Sphere: Activating Conceptions of Volunteerism and Citizenship” Presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA. August 2009.

“Volunteering, Civil Society and Activism” Plenary Speaker and overall commentator at the Ersta Sköndal University College, Stockholm, Sweden, September 10-12, 2008.

“Citizenship, Volunteering and Civil Society” Invited Speaker at the Roskilde University, Denmark, September 14, 2008.

“Naturalization in a Multi-cultural Empire and a Mono-cultural Nation-State: Why Austria integrates foreigners much more than Germany” Presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA. August, 2008.

“A New Theory of the Media: A Bargaining Theory of the Media in Politics” Presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Convention, Boston, MA. August, 2008.

"Do Not Pass GO (the Generalized Other): Theories of Difference in Symbolic Interactionism” Presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Convention, New York. (with Darina Lepadatu and Chrystal Grey) August 2007.

“From Manifest Destiny to Multi-Cultural Diversity: The Causes of Naturalization Law in the US, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand” Presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Convention, Montreal, Canada. August, 2006.

“The Causes of Ethnic Violence in Europe and America: Civil Society in the Integration of the Stranger “ Presentation at the American Sociological Association Annual Convention, Montreal, Canada. (with Matthew DeMichele) August, 2006.

“The Ironies of Citizenship: Explaining Immigration and Naturalization Policy in Advanced Industrialized Countries” University of Tennessee, Conference: “The New Latino Immigration to Tennessee” March, 2006. Invited speaker.

“The Dual Ironies of Citizenship: Explaining Naturalization Policy in Advanced Industrialized Countries” Michigan State University, Sociology Department. April, 2005.

“Citizenship by Naturalization in Twenty Countries: A Pooled Cross-Sectional and Time-

Series Analysis from 1970 to 2003" in the International Migration Section of the American

Sociological Association Convention. San Francisco, 2004. (with Karen Diggs)

“Race and Indigeneity in the Citizenship Policies of the Settler Countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States Compared.” in the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association Convention. San Francisco, 2004.

“Citizen Deliberation in the Political Process: Sociological Theories of Meetings, Boards and Polls.” (with Matthew Sargent, University of Kentucky) in The Political Sociology Regular Sessions. American Sociological Convention. Chicago, 2002.

“Conflict Theories of Political Sociology” (with Axel van den Berg) at the “Theories of

Political Sociology Conference” at NYU and CUNY-NY. May, 2000.

“The Double Irony of Citizenship: Explaining Naturalization Policy in Eighteen Countries” Fall University of Kentucky, Social Theory Seminar, 2001.

"Institutional Explanations of Economic Performance” American Sociological Association Convention, Regular Session, San Francisco, California. August, 1999

“Theories and Methodologies of Naturalizing Aliens into Citizens” Citizenship Rights for Aliens Conference, Centre for Research in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (CEIFO), University of Stockholm, Sweden, July 1998.

“Employment Systems and Work in the Federal Republic of Germany” Engineering Department, University of Kentucky. May, 1998.

“The Impacts of Institutional Variables on Unemployment.” Southern Industrial Relations Conference, Lexington, Kentucky. October, 1997.

"The Difference a Multi-Cultural Empire Makes: Comparing Two Germanic Countries on Naturalizing Foreigners" American Sociological Association Convention, Political Sociology Session, Toronto, Canada. August, 1997.

“Operationalizing Civil Society and the Public Sphere in Social Research” Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, Annual Convention, Montreal, Canada. July, 1997.

"Making Institutions Dynamic in Cross-national Research: The Impact of Strong Institutions on Active Labor Market Policy" American Sociological Convention, Comparative-Historical Mini-conference, Washington, D.C., August, 1995.

"Granting Citizenship: Colonialism, Indigenous Decline and Immigration as Causes of Nationalization Rates in Advanced Industrialized Countries." American Sociological Association Convention, Comparative-Historical Session, Washington, D.C., August 1995.

"Being Volunteered: The Determinants of Volunteering to Solve a Community Problem in a Panel Study of Students." Society for the Study of Socio-economics Convention, Washington, D.C. April, 1995.

"Reconstructing Obligations and Patriotism: Obligations, Responsibilities, and Allegiance in Sociology" American Sociological Association Convention, Thematic Session. Los Angeles, August, 1994.

"Comparative/Historical Methodology in the Graduate Curriculum" American Sociological Association Convention, Teaching Session. Los Angeles. August, 1994.

"Who Can be a Citizen in Advanced Industrialized Nations: Colonialism, Immigration and Naturalization in the World System" (Migration, Citizenship and National Identities Session, International Sociological Association Congress, Bielefeld, Germany. July, 1994.

"The Institutions and Cooperation: Institutional Explanations of Policies Oriented Toward Unemployment" Section on New Institutions, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Convention, Paris, France. July, 1994.

"The Effects of Institutions on Active Labor Market Policy in 18 OECD Countries" Handbook of Labor Market Evaluation Conference, Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, Germany. July, 1994.

"Identities of Citizenship: Citizen-selves in the Balancing of Rights and Obligations" American Political Science Association Convention, Identity and Citizenship Session. Washington D.C., September, 1993.

Discussant: Thematic Session on Women and Politics. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Miami. August, 199

"Liberal versus Communitarian Explanations of Voluntarism" (with John Wilson) American Sociological Association Convention, Political Sociology Session. Miami. August, 1993.

"State Intervention in Labor Markets before World War II," American Sociological Association, Annual Meeting, Political Sociology Session. Pittsburgh. August, 1992.

"The Symbolic Balance of Citizenship: Restricted and Generalized Exchange in Rights and Obligations," (with Carey Pieratt) American Sociological Association Convention, Theory Session. Pittsburgh. August, 1992.

"The Emerging International View of Democratic Citizenship" Internationalizing the University Conference of the North Carolina Consortium for International/Intercultural Education. June, 1992.

"Winning the War but Losing the Welfare State" American Sociological Association, Annual Convention, Political Sociology Session. Cincinnati. August, 1991.

“Direct State Intervention in the Labor Market: The Explanation of Active Labor Market Policy from 1950 to 1989 in Social Democratic, Conservative, and Liberal Regimes." New Compass of the Comparativist Conference. Duke University. April, 1991.

"Theories of Citizenship" Center for International Studies Colloquium Series. Duke University, March, 1991.

"Can Active Labor Market Policy be Better Explained by Internal Country Variables over Time or by Institutional Constants across Nations?" Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin. June, 1990.

"Pillars of the Labor Market: Job Placement Policies in Germany and the U.S. Before WWII." American Sociological Association, Annual Convention, Comparative/Historical Session. Chicago. August, 1989.

"Multiple Conjunctural Causation versus Statistical Determinism." Duke University, Department of Religion Colloquium. December, 1988.

"Contradictory Approaches to Citizenship Rights." American Sociological Association, Annual Convention, Political Sociology Session. August 1988.

"Advances in Citizenship Rights Theory." Southern Sociological Society, Annual Meeting, Political Sociology Session. New Orleans, April, 1988.

"Ethical and Economic Theories in Citizenship" Wake Forest University, Sociology/Economics Colloquium Series. Winston-Salem. October, 1988.

"Political Economy or Demographic Reaction: the formation of Active Labor Market Policy." American Sociological Association Convention, Political Sociology Session. Washington D.C., August, 1987

"An Extension of Citizenship Rights Theory" American Sociological Association, Annual Convention. Political Sociology Session. Chicago. August, 1987.

"Citizenship Rights Theory" Duke University Colloquium Series. September, 1987.

"Expansion of Citizenship Rights Theory: Marshall, Bendix and Beyond." Sociology Colloquium, Michigan State University. East Lansing. December, 1986.

"Private Authority Under Law and Consent: The Application of Legitimacy to the Private Firm." 6th Annual Conference on Max Weber. William Patterson College. November, 1986.

"The Application of Legitimacy to the Private Firm." American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, Political Sociology Refereed Roundtable. San Francisco. September, 1986.