Beyond Health: Food and Gender Identity Transitions in American Nursing Homes. Paper presented at the 115th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, MN, November 2016.

The Food Politics of the Squeezed American Middle Class. Paper presented at the 114th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Denver, CO, November 2015.

The Cultural Politics of Eating in Middle-Class Philadelphia. Paper presented at the CUNY Graduate Center’s “Back from the Field” series, New York, NY, May 2014.

Secrets from a Food Anthropologist. Paper presented at the University of Delaware’s Anthropology colloquium, Newark, DE, May 2013.

Teaching Food Anthropology. Session organized and chaired at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November 2013

Food and Social Class: Learning from Students. Paper presented at the 112th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November 2013

Deception, Negotiation, and the Pursuit of Happiness: How Parenting Style Affects the Dietary Health of American Children. Invited paper presented at the 108thAnnual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 2009

Kitchen Consequential: The real and symbolic production of food in restaurants Invited paper presented at the 102nd Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November 2003