Presentations

• "10 x 6: Snapshots of a Fulbrighter's Sojourn in China," Laird Bell Lecture, Carleton College, 2013
• "King's Dream and Obama's Presidency," invited annual Peace Studies Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, 2009
• '''Sissy Race': The Black Hypermasculine Image in Posters of the Chinese Cultural Revolution," LTC: Faculty Scholarship Forum at the Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching, Carleton College, 2008
• "The Aesthetic of the Antique; or What is Africa to Me," Africana Colloquium, Conversations About Arts and Objects in Everyday Life, St. Olaf College, 2005
• Commentator, Twin Cities Africanist Symposium, 2003
• Commentator, Syl Jones's play Black No More: A Social Science Fiction inspired by George Schuyler's novel, Guthrie Theater, 1998
• "George Schuyler's Black No More," Perlman Center for Learning and Teaching, 1998
• "African American History at the Newberry," The Wednesday Club, Newberry Library, 1996
• "Remembering George Schuyler: The One Hundredth Anniversary of a Black Conservative," Lake Forest College, 1995

Symposia and Service

• Organizer, "Contemplating James Baldwin: Language, Courage, and Tenderness" (weeklong symposium, 2008)
• Chair, Internal Review Committee, Religion Department, 2007-2008
• Technos International Week Faculty Adviser, Japan, 2006
• Dean of Students Search Committee, 2005-2006
• Honorary Degrees Committee, 2004-2005
• Faculty Retreat Panelist, "The Life of the Mind at Carleton," 2004
• Planned and coordinated campus visits of Ghanaian artist and Fulbright Scholar Dr. Richmond Teye Ackam for workshop (2004) and lecture (2003)
• President Search Committee, 2001-2002
• Instructor, Carleton Liberal Arts Experience, 2001-2006
• Instructor, Chuo Program, 2000-2005
• Coordinator, Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program, 2000-03
• Instructor, Summer Teaching Institute, AP US History, 1991-2005
• Outside reviewer for History tenure candidates at large number of institutions, 2000-2009.