Peer Reviewed Presentations
"'The Worst Features of the Stormy Times': Obstruction in the Austrian Imperial Parliament." Co-authored with Lauren C. Bell. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association. Nashville, Tennessee. April 2026.
"Much Too Sensuous: Irish Film Censor James Montgomery's Musical Worries in the 1920s." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society. Chicago, Illinois. November 2025.
"Hearing Things: Paranoia and the Censorship of Films Act (1923)." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Political Studies Association of Ireland. Dublin, Ireland. October 2025.
“Pawns or Parasites?: Motion Picture Exhibitors and the Performance Right Debate of 1917-1924.” Presented at the Fall Meeting of the Capital Chapter of the American Musicological Society. Virtual presentation. October 2023.
“The Justices’ Playlist: Music at the United States Supreme Court, 1988-2020.” Co-authored with Lauren C. Bell. Presented at the 2022 Global Meeting on Law and Society. Lisbon, Portugal. July 2022.
“The Court as Concert Hall: Music at the Supreme Court.” Co-authored with Lauren C. Bell. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwest Political Science Association. San Antonio, Texas. April 2022.
“Music’s Quiet Place at the Supreme Court.” Co-authored with Lauren C. Bell. Presented at the annual conference of the Society for American Music. Virtual presentation. Tacoma, WA. June 2021.
“Impressions of Japan in American Silent Film Music.” Accepted for presentation at the 2020 annual ASIANetwork conference. Columbus, OH. April 2020. Conference cancelled due to COVID-19.
“Crafting an Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Community.” Panel presented with R-MC colleagues (Bell, Hayatshahi, Parker) at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association. San Diego, CA. November 2019.
“Sounds of Paradise and Peril: Visions of Japan in American Silent Film Music.” Presented at the annual conference of the Society for American Music. New Orleans, LA. March 2019.
“Status, Standards and Stereotypes: J. S. Bach’s Presence in the Silent Era.” Presented at Bach on Screen. Conference hosted by the Riemenschneider Bach Institute at Baldwin Wallace University. Berea, Ohio. February 2018.
“An International Musical Challenge: Scoring Antony and Cleopatra, 1913-1914.” Presented at the 20th Congress of the International Musicological Society. Tokyo, Japan. March 2017.
“Grand ideas and practical revisions: a rare look at composer George Colburn’s edits to his Special Music for Antony and Cleopatra (1914).” Seminar paper at the annual conference of the Society for American Music. Boston, MA. March 2016.
“The Only Son: Ozu’s soundscape, Ito’s score, and the transition to sound at Japan’s Shochiku Studios.” Presented at Hollywood’s Musical Contemporaries and Competitors in the Early Sound Era. International conference hosted by the University of Surrey. Guildford, United Kingdom. July 2014.
“An Operatic Opportunity: Guazzoni’s Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra (1913) in America.” Presented at Opera and Cinema: the Politics of an Encounter. International conference hosted by Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos and the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Lisbon, Portugal. November 2012.
“Tempering the Twang of Authenticity: Lalo Schifrin, Stuart Rosenberg, and the Banjo of Cool Hand Luke.” Presented at the annual conference of the Society for American Music. Ottawa, ON, Canada. March 2010.
“Leveraging History: Lessons From the Past.” Invited panelist on Arthur Judson. American Orchestras Summit: Creating Partnerships in Research and Performance. Ann Arbor, MI. January 2010.
“Curing Mahleritis and other Philharmonic ailments: Arthur Judson, Clarence Mackay, and the 1923 Fix.” Presented at the joint meeting of the Capital and Southeast Chapters of the American Musicological Society at Christopher Newport University. Newport News, VA. September 2009.
“The Kleine Policy and the Colburn Experiment: George Kleine’s Antony and Cleopatra (1914) and George Colburn’s original score.” Presented at the Music and Moving Image Conference at New York University. New York, NY. June 2008.
“Good Intentions, Bad Timing: The Special Piano Score for George Kleine’s U.S. Release of Antony and Cleopatra (1914). Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Musicological Society-Capital Chapter. College Park, MD. September 2007.
“Show Them What Bad Music Is: the American Premiere of Schoenberg, Op. 9.” Presented at the annual conference of the Society for American Music. Cleveland, OH. March 2004.
“Clarence Mackay and the New Symphony Experiment of 1919.” Presented at the annual conference of the Society for American Music. Lexington, KY. March 2002.
“I Never Planned Anything in my Life: the Music of Cool Hand Luke.” Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Musicological Society-South East. Greenville, SC. September 2001.
“Entering the Lion’s Den: John Barbirolli and the New York Situation.” Panel respondent was Joseph Horowitz, author of Understanding Toscanini. Presented at Musical Intersections: an international meeting of 14 professional music societies. Toronto, Canada. November 2000.
“From a Luxury to a Necessity: the early writings of Arthur Judson.” Presented at the annual conference of the Society for American Music. Charleston, SC. March 2000.
“The Music of Abstraction: Composers of the New York School.” Presented at Beyond the Canvas: The Aesthetics of Abstraction in the 1950s, a symposium sponsored by the Washington University Gallery of Art. St. Louis, MO. January 1999.
“Patriotism, Paranoia, and Programming: Leopold Stokowski, Arthur Judson, and the Philadelphia Orchestra during World War I.” Presented at the annual conference of the Society for American Music. Kansas City, MO. March 1998. Also presented at the multi-disciplinary conference: World War I and the 20th Century. Wichita, KS. November 1998.
“The Politics of Singing: German Choral Societies in St. Louis, 1900-1945.” Presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Musicological Society-Midwest. Chicago, IL. October 1997.