“Revisiting James Q. Wilson’s Bureaucracy: US Appointee Politics and Agency Observability,” Wagner School of Public Policy, New York University, NY, December 9, 2019
“Unpaid Work? Episodic Recall Bias in Citizen Engagement and Emotional Labor,” ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Catalonia, April 26, 2019
“A Framing Experiment in Shaping Public Opinion of Administrative Rulemaking,” University of Baltimore’s College of Public Affairs, Baltimore, MD, April 2, 2019
“A Framing Experiment in Shaping Public Opinion of Administrative Rulemaking,” American University’s School of Public Affairs, Washington, DC, March 28, 2019
“Deconstructing the Administrative State: The Condition of the U.S. Civil Service,” with Lael Kaiser, George Krause, and David Lewis (moderated by Evan Haglund), Southern Political Science Association, Austin, TX, January 2019
“Policy, Personnel, and the Administrative Presidency,” “Innovation Session” with Gbemende Johnson, Lael Keiser, and Jaime Kucinskas, Annual Conference of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC, November 2018
“When Voting Restrictions Block the Vote,” with Ari Berman, Mark Levine, and Michael Hardy, Harvard Club NYC, New York, NY, October 22, 2018
“Conference on Private and Public Executive Power and Organization,” University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL, October 12-13, 2018
“Thinking Institutionally Again in Public Administration,” Minnowbrook Conference (50th Anniversary), August 17-20, 2018
“Roundtable on Political Appointments,” University of California, Berkeley, June 10, 2018
“Using Behavioral Insights in Public Administration Research,” a roundtable discussion with Christopher Carroway, Greg Van Ryzin, and Sanjay Pandey, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 8, 2018
“Governing across the Divide: The Changing Relationship between States and Local Governments,” a panel discussion with Jack Knott, Chris Hoene, Mark Pisano, and Thomas Reilly, National Academy of Public Administration Regional Meeting, Sacramento, California, August 29, 2017
“Real-Effort Experiments in Motivation Crowding Research,” Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, March 10, 2017
“Trump and the Administrative Presidency: Compliance, Discretion, and Dissent,” Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, March 9, 2017
“Real-Effort Experiments in Motivation Crowding Research,” Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, March 7, 2017
“Presidency Symposium with Matthew Vaeth (OMB Legislative Affairs),” University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, February 25, 2017
“Politics as Theater: Presidential Debate Viewing and Panel Discussion,” a panel discussion with Pamela McCann, Richard Green, Oliver Mayer, and Christina Haatainen-Jones, Los Angeles, CA, October 19, 2016
“Do What You Mean, or Mean What You Say? When Self-Interest Crowds out Prosocial Motivation and Mission Match,” Arizona State University, Pheonix, AZ, October 13, 2016
“Author Meets Critics: Rethinking the Administrative Presidency by William Resh,” a roundtable discussion with Robert Maranto, Sharece Thrower, Susan Miller, and Yu Ouyang, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 8, 2016
Keynote Speaker, “The Price School Challenge: Mission, Motivations, and Marshmallows,” Sol Price School of Public Policy, Staff Retreat, 2016
“How You Work and Why: Real-Effort Experiments in Public Administration,” Bedrosian Center for Governance and the Public Enterprise, Los Angeles, CA, February 25, 2016
“Methods and Directions for the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS),” American Association of Public Opinion Research, the Gallup Organization, Washington, DC, June 24, 2015
“Experimental Innovations in Public Service (and Prosocial) Motivation Research: A Research Agenda,” Kolloquium-Seminar, Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften, Speyer, Germany, June 16, 2015
“Experimental Innovations in Public Service (and Prosocial) Motivation Research: A Research Agenda,” Universiteit Leiden, den Haag, Netherlands, May 27, 2015
“In the Face of Failure: The Persistence of Public Service Motivations under Conditions of Negative Feedback,” Organizations and Society Group, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, April 24, 2015
“Experimental Innovations in Public Service (and Prosocial) Motivation Research: A Research Agenda,” University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, February 27, 2015
“Briefing the G3 Data Users Group: Assessing the Validity, Impact, and Future Potential of the Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey on Public Management Research,” George Washington University, Washington, DC, October 1, 2014
“Controlled Chaos: Goal Entropy, Performance, and Appointed Leadership Continuity,” Annual Congress of the International Institute of Administration Sciences, Ifrane, Morocco, June 14, 2014
“Controlled Chaos: Goal Entropy, Performance, and Appointed Leadership Continuity,” Kolloquium-Seminar, Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften, Speyer, Germany, May 28, 2014
“Effective Administration in a Polarized World,” a roundtable discussion with Carol Weissert, David Konisky, Anthony Bertelli, and Andrew Whitford, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 2014
“Whence to Where? Assessing the Impact of the Federal Human Capital Survey/Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey on Public Management Research,” NASPAA's Data Summit on Entry-level Federal Hiring: Building Research Collaborations between Agencies and Academics, Washington, DC, February 26, 2014
“Junior Faculty in the Classroom: Fresh Insights, Practices and the Wisdom of the First Few Years,” Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA), Washington, DC, October 12, 2013
“Foundations and Barriers for Innovation Adoption and Implementation in the Public Sector,” Trans-Atlantic Policy Consortium’s Annual Colloquium, The Hague, Netherlands, May 29, 2013
“Who to Trust? Leadership Vacancies, Politicization, and Organizational Trust,” Kolloquium-Seminar, Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften, Speyer, Germany, May 14, 2013
“Trust, Presidential Transitions, and the Ironies of the Administrative Presidency: The George W. Bush Experience,” Virginian Polytechnic and State University, Alexandria, VA, February 7, 2013
“The Presidency & Public Administration,” Doctoral Mentoring Program, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Alexandria, VA, February 6, 2013
“Accommodating Risk Requires Managing Relationships,” H. George Frederickson Festschrift, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, April 13, 2012
“Why Trust These Strangers? Reexamining the Administrative Presidency,” German Research Institute for Public Administration Workshop, Speyer, Germany, July 15-16, 2011