“Directed Research” courses with students, on our nonprofits and poverty research.

Others courses including: Cultural Geography, World Politics, Introduction to Africa, a Western Civilization course, American Government, and Micro and Macroeconomics courses.

#### Presentations and media appearances:

2017 Labor Studies Workshop, University of Notre Dame, April 28 2017 Bethany Lutheran College, Featured Speaker, Intercultural Center, March 14. 2017 Harvard University, Workshop in History, Culture & Society, March 3 2017 Rooney Center Workshop, University of Notre Dame, February 24 2016 University of Notre Dame Sociology Culture Workshop, September 5 and March 31 (2017) 2014 University of Brussels (ULB), Belgium lecture “The Dilemmas of Diversity,” June 23. 2014 Guest, “Kids Count Radio Show” Indiana Youth Institute, “Why Working Class Men Are Falling Behind”

### 2013 Guest “Up For Debate” Radio Show Moody Radio on ethics of video game play

2013 Panelist, Community Engagement Faculty Institute, University of Notre Dame 2013 Appearance on “Fresh Outlook” cable talk show, on fandoms and religion. 2013 Presentation to Notre Dame student group on development in Africa 2012 Africa Working Group presentation on “Funerals in Africa” University of Notre Dame. 2012 Appearance on the National Geographic television’s Taboo episode “Living with the Dead” 2011 Interviewed for CNN.com story “Cost of Elaborate Funerals Puts Strain on Africans, 12/6/2011. 2008 Two presentations to SAU campus forums on racial reconciliation, April and September. 2007 Concordia Theological Seminary guest lectures.

2001 Community of Learners lecture, “Alternate Universes of Leisure,” Spring Arbor Univ., December. 1997 “Recent Developments in African History” Concordia University-Mequon. 1994 “Anthropology and History” guest lecture, University of Yaounde, Cameroon 1994 Main subject/interviewee on Talk of the Nation, National Public Radio, on Star Trek fans, May 19. 1994 and ongoing: Numerous TV, radio, and newspaper interviews about research on Star Trek fans. 1993“Learning from Africa.” Keynote Lecture, Teachers Workshop on African and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. 1993 “African Traditional Religions” University of Wisconsin-Madison, periodic guest lecturer for introductory course in African Studies.

#### Papers Presented:

2015 International Association of Critical Realism conference presentation on nonprofits research. 2014 Culture Workshop presentation, “Connecting Culture, Cognition and Poverty: From Theory to Practice Through Bridges Out of Poverty,” University of Notre Dame 2013 Co-organizer, Panel on World Funerals, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago 2013 “Neoliberalism and Antipoverty “Neoliberalism and Antipoverty Nonprofits” The Future of NGOs Conference, Chicago. 2013 “Reframing the Poverty Debate, through the Eyes of Nonprofits” RASR workshop, University of Notre Dame. 2011 Culture Workshop presentation. “Cultural Diversity and Inequality: Reframing the Debate,” University of Notre Dame 2010 “Lifestyle Diversity and Economic Inequality” University of Notre Dame Sociology department colloquium, April 28. 2009 “Structure, Culture, Individual” Neuroanthropology Conference, University of Notre Dame. 2009 “Cultural Sociology and Inequality: Subcultures and Agency.” North Central Sociological Association annual meeting.

2008 “Cultural Sociology and Inequality: subcultures and consumption.” ASA annual meeting, roundtable presentation 2005 “Mortuary Ritual and Religious Change in Africa” Baylor University conference on “Global Christianity,” November. 2004 “The Proliferation of Ancestors under Christianity in the Cameroon Grassfields.” Evangelical