Selected Presentations & Appearances
The History of American Business Fraud
- Business History Seminar
· December 5, 2016
Invited Talk
Harvard Business School,
Boston, MA
The Evolution of Anti-Fraud Regulation in the United States
- Economic History Seminar
· April 11, 2016
Invited Talk
Paul Bairoch Institute for Economic History, University of Geneva,
Geneva, Switzerland
American Better Business Bureaus, the Truth-in-Advertising Movement, and the Complexities of Legitimizing Business Self-Regulation
- The Legitimization of Private and Public-Private Regulation, Past and Present
· April 7, 2016
Invited Talk
Max Planck Institute of European Legal History,
Frankfurt, Germany
The Dialectics of Modern Regulatory Governance
· October 11, 2015
Lecture
Department of History, University of Florence,
Florence, Italy
Wrestling with the Flim-Flam Man: Business Fraud and the Vexations of Self-Regulation in Post-World War II America
· October 15, 2014
Invited Talk
Department of History, Sorbonne University-Paris 3,
Paris, France
Trajectories of Crisis-Driven Regulatory Policy
- Annual Meeting of the International Risk Governance Council, "Improving Risk Regulation: From Crisis Response to Learning and Innovation
· October 13, 2014
Invited Talk
IRGC and Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development,
Paris, France
The Long Arc of Business Fraud in America
- Conference on "Shady Business: The History of White-Collar Crime"
· September 26, 2014
Invited Talk
German Historical Institute,
Washington, D.C.
Chipping Away at Caveat Emptor: American Fraud Regulation in the New Deal Era
- Bi-annual Meeting of the Policy History Conference
· June 6, 2014
Invited Talk
PHC,
Columbus, Ohio
American Fraud Policy in the Age of Deregulation
- Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference
· March 14, 2014
Invited Talk
BHC,
Frankfurt, Germany
Progressive-Era Business Fraud and the Contingency of Corporate Reputation
- Business History Workshop
· October 13, 2013
Invited Talk
Said Business School, Oxford University,
Oxford, England
Roundtable Discussion on the History of Business Regulation
· March 29, 2012
Lecture
Business History Conference, Philadelphia
Rights of Way, Red Flags, and Safety Valves: Regulated Business Self-Regulation in the United States, 1870-1940
· July 10, 2011
Lecture
Max Planck Institute for Western European Legal History, Bad Homburg, Germany
'Swindle, Swindle, Everywhere': The Social and Psychological Dynamics of Business Fraud in American History
· July 27, 2010
Lecture
Conference on "Emotion, Reputation, and the Market," Said Business School, Oxford University
Regulation over the Long Haul: The Better Business Bureaus and the Policing of Deceptive Markets, 1933-1975
· July 27, 2008
Lecture
American Society of Legal History Annual Meeting, Ottawa
Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
Bass Connections Team Leader - Duke and the Evolution of Higher Education
· 2023
- 2024
Projects & Field Work
Bass Connections Team Leader - American Predatory Lending and the Global Financial Crisis
· 2020
- 2021
Projects & Field Work
Information, Society & Culture
Bass Connections Team Leader - American Predatory Lending and the Global Financial Crisis
· 2019
- 2020
Projects & Field Work
Information, Society & Culture
Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader - Story+ Project Lead
· 2017
Projects & Field Work
Primary Theme:
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Reviewing Retrospective Regulatory Review
· August 2015
- May 2016
Projects & Field Work
United States of America
United States of America
Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Regulatory Disaster Scene Investigation
· August 2014
- May 2015
Projects & Field Work
United States of America
United States of America
Service to the Profession
Director
- Business History Doctoral Colloquium
·
2015
- 2018
Event/Organization Administration
Search Committee for ENTERPRISE & SOCIETY Editor
·
2012
- 2013
Other
Business History Conference Print Media Oversight Committee
·
2012
Other
Editorial Board, BUSINESS HISTORY REVIEW
·
2012
Other
Chair : Business History Conference 2014 Program Committee
·
2012
Other
Elected Member : Business History Conference Board of Trustees
·
2011
Other
Business History Conference
·
July 27, 2010
Other
Manuscript/Proposal Reviewer
·
July 27, 2010
Editorial Activities
National Science Foundation, National Humanities Center, National Museum of American History, Law and History Review, Journal of the Early Republic, P
Editorial Board
·
July 27, 2010
Editorial Activities
Law and History Review
Chair : Business History Conference Grants and Prizes Committee
·
2010
- 2011
Other
Founder and Director : Rethinking Regulation, Interdisciplinary Faculty Working Group
·
2010
- 2015
Other