Curriculum Vitae - Georgia State University

6“Media Coverage of U.S. Supreme Court Judicial Confirmations: Constitutional Debateor Culture War?” (with Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz.) 81 st Annual Meeting of theSouthern Political Science Association. Atlanta, GA: January 7-9, 2010“Textualism vs. Active Liberty: Testing the Doctrinal Approaches of Justices Scalia andBreyer.” (With Cynthia Cates, Rebecca Thorpe, and Wayne McIntosh). Presented tothe Annual Conference of the American Politics Group, University Of London, UK:January 3-5, 2008“Toward a Collaborative Model for Social Science Cyberinfrastructure Development:Lessons from the Digital Docket Project.” (With Wayne McIntosh). Presented at theThird International Conference on e-Social Science. University of Michigan, AnnArbor: October 7–9, 2007“Recounting the Courts? Applying Automated Content Analysis to Enhance EmpiricalLegal Research.” (With Wayne McIntosh, et al.). Presented at the Conference onEmpirical Legal Studies. Austin, TX: October 28, 2006"Beyond the Double Standard: Comparing U.S. Supreme Court Decision Making inProperty vs. Civil Rights Cases: 1978 – 2005." (With Rebecca Thorpe). Presented atthe Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL: April20, 2006"Patterns of Judicial Influence: Tracking Regulatory Takings Policy in the Lower FederalCourts." (With Ken Cousins et al.). Presented at the Annual Meeting of the AmericanPolitical Science Association. Washington, DC: September 1, 2005"Using Information Technology to Examine the Communication of Precedent: InitialFindings and Lessons from the CITE-IT Project.” (With Wayne McIntosh, et al.).Presented at the Annual Conference of the Western Political Science Association.Oakland, CA: March 17, 2005"Only Words or Data? Assessing the Relative Policy Positions in Supreme Court Briefsand Opinions.” (With Wayne McIntosh and Cynthia Cates). Presented at the AnnualMeeting of the American Political Science Association. Chicago, IL: September 2,2004Presentations“Race and the 2012 Presidential Election (I and II).” Invited presentations at OakhurstPresbyterian Church (Decatur, GA). September 22, 2012 and November 17, 2012“Going Publius: Assessing the Influence of Party and Amicus Briefs on the SupremeCourt‟s Use of Federalist Citations.” Presentation at Georgia State University‟sDepartment of Political Science Colloquium. April 27, 2012