2016: Organizer & Chair, “Student Research on the Economic History of Gwinnett County, Georgia” student research poster session, Georgia Association of Historians
2016: “Hostile Takeovers and Modern Corporations in Antebellum Georgia,” American Historical Association
2015: Discussant: Divided Souls of the New South: Agrarian and Industrial Themes in the Works of Robert C. McMath, Jr., Southern Historical Association
2015: Organizer & Chair, “Student Research on the Early American Republic” student research poster session, Georgia Association of Historians
2014: “Connecting Creek Removal to Secession through States Rights in Georgia,” Georgia Association of Historians
2014: Organizer & Chair, “Student Research on the Economic History of Gwinnett County, Georgia” student research poster session, Georgia Association of Historians
2013: “Flash in the Pan; Mr. Smith fights the Bank War,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
2012: “Industrial Component of Indian Removal,” School of Liberal Arts Faculty Research Colloquium, Georgia Gwinnett College
2012: “Creating the Tabula Rasa: The Industrial Component to Indian Removal,” Organization of American Historians
2012: Discussant, Atlanta Economic Development session, Georgia Association of Historians
2011: Organizer & Chair, “Student Research on the Economic History of Gwinnett County, Georgia” student research poster session, Georgia Association of Historians
2010: “Converging on a Diaspora: Augustin Clayton and the Cherokee Removal,” Georgia Association of Historians
2009: Discussant, Public History Session, Georgia Association of Historians
2008: Chair and Discussant, Southern Industrialization Project Workshop, Southern Historical Association
2008: Chair and Discussant, Antebellum Industry Session, Southern Industrialization Project
2003: Discussant, Antebellum Industry Session, Southern Industrialization Project
2002: “Confined to the Margins: Class Issues in Education Reform in Jacksonian Athens, Georgia,” Southern Historical Association
2002: “Industry in the Driver’s Seat; Why Antebellum Industrialists Led the Transportation Revolution in Upcountry Georgia,” Southern Industrialization Project
2002: “Come the Revolution: Importing Skilled Industrial Workers in Antebellum Georgia,” Organization of American Historians
1998: “The Industrial Revolution in 19th Century Georgia: An Evolutionary Model of Textile Industrialization” Economic History Association
1997: “An Economic Transition in Embryo; Railroads & Public Policy in Jacksonian Georgia” Atlanta Seminar on the Comparative History of Labor, Industrialization & Technology.
1997: “The Evolution of Southern Industrial Entrepreneurship in Athens, Georgia, from 1830 to 1875,” New Perspectives in Southern History, Auburn University.
1997: “Discreetly in the Public Eye: Railroad Competition, and the Capitalist Transformation in Jacksonian Georgia,” Economic & Business Historical Society
1996: “The Industrial Milieu of Henry Grady’s Youth: Manufacturing Tradition in Athens, Georgia, 1850-1875,” Southern Historical Association
1996: “Networks of Enterprise: Industry and Internal Improvement in the Transappalachian Lower South before 1848,” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
1996: “The Business Strategies of the Antebellum Textile Firms of Athens, Georgia,” Economic and Business Historical Society
1994: “Commencing Textile Manufacturing in the Antebellum South,” Society for the History of Technology