Guest Lecturer, Course: “Cold War Racial Logic and the Road to Barack Obama,” Racial Economic Disparities: Causes and Consequences, New School for Management and Urban Policy, New School, 2009.

 

Presenter, Research Conclave: “U.S. Federal Government Support of Minority Business Development in the Post-Civil Rights Era: The Embedded Racial Approach of the Small Business Administration,” Annual Faculty and Research Fellows “Work in Progress”  Weekend.  Sponsored by the Research Network of the Racial and Ethnic Inequality at Duke University, Durham, 2008. 

 

Presenter, Panel: “Black Immigrants and U.S. Immigration Enforcement,” 38^th annual meeting of the Association of Black Sociologists, Boston, 2008.

 

Guest Lecturer, Course: “Sociology and the Need for Ambivalence,” First Year Graduate Student Symposium, Temple University, Philadelphia, 2008. 

 

Presenter, Symposium: “Racism and Immigration Enforcement,” Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy, Temple University, Philadelphia, 2007. 

 

Guest Lecturer, Course: “Conducting Literature Reviews as Part of an Intellectual Journey,” First Year Graduate Student Symposium, Temple University, Philadelphia, 2007. 

 

Presider and Discussant, Panel: “Regular Session, Race and Ethnicity II,” 102^nd annual

meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, 2007.

 

Presenter, Panel: “Urban Legend or Social Fact?  Exploring the Role of the Federal Government in Shaping Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the U.S,” 77^th annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia, 2007.   

 

Presenter, Colloquium: “Asian Americans as Second-Class Citizens: A Reconsideration of the Asian American Exclusion Narrative,” Asian American Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2004. 

 

Guest Lecturer, Course: “On What Grounds? Assessing the Empirical Basis for the Centralization of Immigrant Detentions and Deportation in the ‘Post-9-11’ Era,” Sociology of Race and Racism, Department of Sociology, Temple University, 2004.

 

Presenter, Panel: “Asian American Entanglement with US Civil Society: Challenging the Asian American Exclusion Narrative,” 99^th annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, 2003.

 

Presenter, Panel: “An Unanswerable Demand?  Avoiding Racial Antagonism in Asian American Studies and Politics,” Why We Write Conference, Columbia University, New York, 2003.

 

Presenter, Panel: “The Selective Embrace of Asian American Community Organizing By Asian American Studies: Getting Back to the Community or a Denial of Power?” Revisiting the Activist Impulse in Ethnic Studies Conference, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, Columbia University; New York, 2003.

 

Presenter, Panel: “When Domination is Dependency: The Relationship between Korean Immigrant Entrepreneurs and African American Customers,” 97^th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, 2002.

 

Organizer, Panel: “Contemporary Racial Politics: Conflicts and Coalitions in Asian America.” Regular session co-sponsored by Asian Pacific American Caucus (APAC) at the 33^rd annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association and International Studies Association (Northeast), Philadelphia, 2001.

 

Presenter, Roundtable: Discussion on Race Issues in Teaching at Temple University, Teaching Matters Conference, Temple University, 2000.