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Recent and Upcoming Talks

December 2025. “(A)live(D) Catholicism: Ordinary Catholics Amid an Extraordinary Synod.” Keynote, Lived Catholicism Conference (online), Durham University and the University of Notre Dame.

August 2025. Presidential Address, Association for the Sociology of Religion. “From Pews to Popes: Fragility, Continuity, & Resilience in the Sociology of Religion.” Chicago, IL.

June 2025. “From Francis to LeoXIV.” Webinar, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.

April 2025. “Social Science Research in Catholic Contexts.” Webinar, Religious Research Association.

March 2025. Guest Lecture, US Abortion Attitudes. Bio-ethnics in Nursing Program. Westmont College. Santa Barbara, CA.

March 2025. Personhood (Invite-only Convening). Los Altos, CA.

February 2025. “Jubilee Year of Hope & The Sociology of Religion.” Webinar, The Tablet (UK).

January 2025. “Religion & Catholic Studies.” Religion & American Culture Webinar.

December 2024. “Synodality and Encounter.” Oxford University, Oxford, England.

September 2024. “Faith and College Life.” Lilly Fellows Program. Westmont College. Westmont, CA.

August 2024. “A Holistic Conversation Centering Intersections of Reproductive Health.” Faith in Public Life / Chicago Theological Seminary.

August 2024. “They Don’t Love Who I Love: Allyship and Alignment in College Campus Ministry.” Association for the Sociology of Religion. Montreal, Canada.

July 2024. “Inside Out: Understanding Emerging Generations.” Council for Major Superiors of Men. Atlanta, GA.

March 2024. University of Waterloo. Waterloo, Ontario (Canada). “Her Place in the Church: Gender, Power, and Authority in Contemporary Catholicism.”

April 2023. Invited Panel, Religion and Reproductive Politics: A Mary Center/Divinity School Conference. The University of Chicago Divinity School.

March 2023. Invited Panel, Religion News Association Conference. “Roe v. Wade: The Next Chapter.”

November 2022. American Academy of Religion. “Priests, Trust, and Crisis: Findings from the National Study of Catholic Priests.”

October 2022. Westmont College. “Deeper Thinking on Abortion.”

October 2022. Mexico City Congress. “Territorialidad y desterritorialiización de la urbe y de la parroquia.”

September 2022. “Religion, Theology, and Abortion.” Saint Louis University.

September 2022. Association of Pittsburgh Priests. “Abortion: Where Do We Go From Here?”

August 2022. American Sociological Association. “Social Imaginaries and Real Consequences: The Case of Abortion in the United States”

June 2022. Reproductive Rights. 7th Biennial Conference on Religion & American Culture. Indianapolis.

June 2022. Keynote. “Re-Envisaging Catholicism in Late Modernity.” Institute for Catholic Church Statistics. Poland.

August 2021. “Bring a Folding Chair: Constraint and Adaptation in Contemporary Catholic Women’s Leadership.” Association for the Sociology of Religion. (Virtual).

July 2021. “Transformation the Catholic Diaconate.” International Society for the Sociology of Religion. (Virtual).

July 2021. “American Abortion Attitudes.” USCCB Conference. (Virtual).

February 2021. “Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, Post-Roe? New Prospects for the Abortion Debate in America.” Fordham University Center on Religion and Culture. (Virtual).

November 2020. “Where Catholicism Lives.” Lived Catholicism(s) Conference. Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, in partnership with the London School of Economics. (Virtual).

October 2020. “Outside of ‘Church.’” Guild of Liturgical Designers; Manila, Philippines. (Virtual).

April 2020. “Full Parishes; Empty Parishes”
Community of St. Peter (CSP) Adult Education Series; Cleveland, OH (Virtual).

October 2019. H. Paul Douglass Lecture. “I Can’t Keep Quiet: Engaging with Scholarly Research on Religion”
Annual Meeting of the Religious Research Association (RRA) and Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR), St. Louis, MO.

October 2019. O’Callaghan Lecture on Women in the Church. “Carriers of Catholicism: Agents of a Future Church.”
Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT.

June 2019.

Keynote, 2019 Life and Human Dignity Symposium. “Polls, Poles and Pulls”
University of Notre Dame.
South Bend, IN.

June 2019. Invited Panel, “Religion and Refugees”
6th Biennial Conference on Religion & American Culture. Indianapolis, IN.

May 2019. “Scandal, Structure, & Renewal: Sociological Perspectives on Change in the Catholic Church”
Seattle University. Seattle, WA.

August 2018. Two-part invited lecture series: “The Place of Diversity in Contemporary Religion”; “Religious ‘Nones’ in the City.”
Tennessee Wesleyan University. Athens, TN.

August 2018. “Social Scientific Study of Religion.”
Remnin University. Beijing, China.

June 2018. “Data on Polarization in the Church and Nation.” Though Many, One: Overcoming Polarization through Catholic Social Thought.
Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

June 2018. “Research on Asian and Islander Catholics in the United States.” Presentation to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

April 2018.  “Invitation to Sociology of Catholicism: Caveat Emptor” 10^th Anniversary Conference, Centre for Catholic Studies. Durham University, Durham, England.

April 2018. “Losing Our Patrimony? A Working Session on the Preservation of Catholica in an Age of Diocesan Reorganization.”
American Catholic Historical Association. Emmitsburg, MD.

 January 2018. “Parishes and Placemaking: Observations from the Making (and Unmaking) of Catholicism in Modern Communities.” Catholic Theology Research Seminar. Centre for Catholic Studies
Durham University. Durham, England.