• �Ideology and Anti-Americanism in Post War France�
  for the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, April 3, 2010.
• �Determinants of Roll Call Abstention in the European Parliament� (With Mileah Kromer)
  Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago April 10 2006
• �Welcome to the Club : Public Opinion and the Expansion of the European Union� (With Deniz Bingol)
  Paper prepared for presentation at the Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 4-7, 2005.
• "Balancing Act: Anti-Americanism and European Support for CFSP" (With Gregory Johnston)
  Presented at the Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, January 7-10, 2004.
• "Institutional Power and Public Opinion about EU Institutions" (With Gregory Johnston)
  Paper prepared for the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 28-31, 2003.
• "Information sources and quality of information about the EU"
  Paper prepared for the ECPR meetings on the European Union, Bordeaux France, September 28-30, 2002, and also presented at the 2002 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Savannah Georgia, Nov 7-9, 2002.
• "Intermediary Institutions and Information about the European Union."
  Paper prepared for presentation at the 2001 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta Georgia, Nov 8-10, 2001.
• "The Ideological Structure of Mass Opinion About European Level Policymaking."
  Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco Aug 29- Sep. 1 2001.
• "When Parties Matter: The Conditional Influence of Party Positions on Voter Opinions about European Integration"
  Revision of ECSA paper for presentation at the Western Political Science Association meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 15-18 2001.
• "Differential Success of State Attorneys General in the Lower Federal Courts" with Rorie L. Spill.
  Paper prepared for delivery at the Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Savannah, November 3-6 1999.
• "Support for European Integration: Convergent Policies, Divergent Interests."
  Paper prepared for delivery at the Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Savannah, November 3-6 1999.
• "When Parties Matter: The Conditional Influence of Party Positions on Voter Opinions about European Integration"
  Paper prepared for delivery at the European Community Studies Association biennial meeting Pittsburgh June 3-5 1999.
• "A Natural Sentences Approach to the Computer Coding of Party Manifestos"
  Paper prepared for delivery at the 1999 European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions, Mannheim Germany, March 25-33, 1999.
• " Explaining Party- Electorate Agreement: Testing a Psychological Model of the Party-Voter Connection."
  Paper prepared for delivery at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place and Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers, September 3-6 1998.
• "Do 'Leaders Lead? The Party-Voter Connection in the Norwegian EU Debate"
  Presented at the sixth annual Nasjonal Fagkonferanse i Statsvitenskap, 12-14 January 1998, Geilo Norway.
• "Parties, Voters, and Support for the EU"
  Presented at the 1997 meeting of the European Community Studies Association.
• "Social Cleavages and Support for European Integration"
  Presented at the 1996 meeting of the American Political Science Association.
• "Partisanship, Social Cleavages, and Support for the European Union"
  Presented at the 1995 European Studies graduate student workshop, Harvard University.
• "The Welfare State in Hard Times" with John Stephens and Evelyn Huber.
  Presented at the 1994 meeting of the American Political Science Association.
• "Individual Motivations and Collective Giving: a Theoretical and Empirical Treatment of Altruism."
  Presented at the 1994 meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.

• �Mainstream Euroscepticism: Trend or Oxymoron?�
  Revised paper presented at the VU conference on �Euroscepticism�Causes and Consequences,� June 30-July 1 2005 Pulitzer Hotel, Amsterdam NL.
• �Validity of Measured Party Positions on European Integration: Assumptions, Approaches, and a Comparison of Alternative Measures.�
  Presented at the Workshop on Measuring Party Positions, Free University of Amsterdam, Oct. 16, 2004.
• �Mainstream Euroscepticism: Trend or Oxymoron?�
  Presented at the Maxwell EU Center workshop on Euroscepticism, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY, May 20-22, 2004.
• "Don�t Rock the Boat: Expectations, Fears, and Opposition to EU Level Policymaking."
  Presented at the workshop on �dimensions of Contestation in the European Union� Chapel Hill April 30 � May 2 2000.
• "Convergent Policies, Divergent Interests: Accounting for Cross-national variation in the Social Bases of Support for Eurpean Integration,"
  Presented at the conference on Contestation in the European Union, Chapel Hill, August 30-31, 1999
• "The Nature and Structure of Public Opinion about the EU" Presented at the joint research seminar ARENA and Center for Advanced Study, May 12 1998, Oslo Norway.
• "Partisanship, Social Cleavages, and Support for the European Union"
  Presented at the 1995 European Studies Center Graduate Student Workshop, Harvard University.

Reviewer
For the following journals:
American Journal of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, Electoral Studies, European Union Politics, Journal of Politics, Party Politics, Political Studies, Review of International Organizarions, Sociological Spectrum

Professional Service
Present

2009-2012

Member, LSU Communication across the Curriculum Advisory Council

2005-

Member, Scientific Committee of the Center for French and Francophone Studies

2002-

Member, Executive Committee of the European Politics and Society section of the American Political Science Association

2001-2005

Political Science Department Undergraduate Committee

2005-2009

Undergraduate Advisor

2005-2007

Chair, LSU Faculty Senate Courses and Curricula Committee

2004-2005

Member, LSU Faculty Senate Courses and Curricula Committee

2008-2010

Member, Task Force in Internationalizing LSU

2007-2009

Member, LSU Program Review Council

2009-2010

Chair, Political Science Department reseach committee

2001-2005

Political Science Department Graduate Committee

2001-2005

Member, Arts and Sciences Curriculum and Academic Program Evaluation Committee

2003-2004

LSU Faculty Senate (From Fall 2003)

2003

Member Ad Hoc committee on Secondary Education curriculum

2001-2002

Coordinator APSA European Politics and Society Syllabus Committee

2000-2004

Departmental Webmaster (LSU)

1998-2000

Departmental Representative, Harpur College Council (SUNY Binghamton)

1998-2000

Departmental Webmaster (SUNY Binghamton)

1998-

Departmental Representative, Harpur College Council

1998-

Departmental Webmaster

1997-1998

Review Board Member "Works in Progress: A Cyber Conference in European Studies"

1995-1996

Member, Dawson Chair Search Committee

1995-1996

Member, Departmental Institutional Self Study Committee

1994-1996

President of the Political Science Graduate Student Association

1994-1995

Graduate Studies Representative

1992-1993

Comparative Politics Field Representative