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CLIENTS & RELATED ORGANIZATIONS 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Scholarship, philanthropy, and activism panel presenter. American Academy of Religion annual meeting, Atlanta, GA.       (forthcoming)                                                                                             2010

Evaluation to change the world. Plenary panel presentation. Colorado Nonprofit Association. Denver.                                                                                                                                               2009

Working with transgender youth. School of Nursing, Kennesaw State University.                          2008

 At-risk LGBTQ youth. Presentation to the grant makers of The Community Foundation of Greater  Atlanta.                                                                                                                                               2007

After school programming for LGBTQ minority youth. Presentation to the Community Investments committee of The United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta.                                                                   2007

Working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, questioning youth. Embracing the Challenge conference, Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice, Office of Behavioral Health, Lake Lanier, Geo.                                                                                                                                                             2006

The educational purposes of student clubs. Testimony to the Georgia State Department of Education                                                                                                                                           2006

Faith and religion, panelist, Finding Better Ways Conference, Child Welfare League of America, Nashville.                                                                                                                                           2006

Religion and Sexuality Consultation, Center for the Study of American Religion, Princeton University.                                                                                                                                          2005

HIV, AIDS, and Fulton County Youth.  Testimony to the Fulton County Commission                   2005

Eight Lessons from Organized Religion for the Conservation Movement, Greater Yellowstone Power of Place Conference 2005, Jackson, Wyo.                                                                                           2005

Earthquakes and Religion: Responses to Natural Disasters in California. The Monroe-Paine Lecture in Religion, University of Missouri, Columbia.                                                                                     2002

The Study of Religion Counts: What We Know and What We Don’t Know About the Shape of the Field. American Academy of Religion, Denver, with Jonathan Z. Smith and Linell Cady, American Academy of Religion, Denver.                                                                                                            2001

Teaching about Religion in the Schools: The Academy and the Schoolhouse. Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education. Denver                                                                                                                  2001

Looking for a City: Ethnography, Identity, and Academic Politics: The Case of the Gospel Hour.       Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and Religious Research Association plenary panel, Houston.                                                                                                                                             2000

Civic Religion, the Green Belt, and the Built Environment along the California Coast. “realEstate”: Transactions in Culture and Space. Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University, Atlanta.          1998

Harvey Milk, Mayor of Castro Street—Christ-Like Martyr. American Academy of Religion, San Francisco.                                                                                                                                            1997

Rebuilding a Public Space: Narrative of Place as Civic Religion. American Places Symposium: Interpreting the Cultural Landscape, American Heritage Center History Symposium, University of Wyoming, Laramie.                                                                                                                            1997

Sacred Brick & Ethnic Mortar: Rebuilding a Church Following a California Catastrophe. Association for the Sociology of Religion, Toronto, Ontario.                                                                                1997

This is Church! Creation of Sacred Space through Ritual and Discourse in Black Churches. American Academy of Religion (Southeast), Columbia, South Carolina.                                                          1996

Amazing, Grace! How Sweet the Sound! Southern Evangelical Religion & Gay Drag in Atlanta. American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia.                                                                                  1995

The Return of the Pioneer: Rhetoric & Recovery Following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire. California American Studies Association, Sacramento.                                                                     1995

Citizens of No Mean City: Religious Visions of the Just Community after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Albuquerque.                              1994

Tongues of the Ancestors: Cultural & Symbolic Sources for an African American Religious Innovation, Azusa Street, 1906. American Academy of Religion, Atlanta.                                        1994

Making the Crooked Places Straight: Region & Culture in the Sociology of Religion. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Raleigh, NC.                                                                                          1993

  This is Church! Creation of Sacred Space through Ritual and Discourse in Black Churches. American   Academy of Religion (Southeast), Columbia, South Carolina.                                                          1996

Amazing, Grace! How Sweet the Sound! Southern Evangelical Religion & Gay Drag in Atlanta. American Academy of Religion, Philadelphia.                                                                                  1995

The Return of the Pioneer: Rhetoric & Recovery Following the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake & Fire. California American Studies Association, Sacramento.                                                                     1995

Citizens of No Mean City: Religious Visions of the Just Community after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Albuquerque.                              1994

Tongues of the Ancestors: Cultural & Symbolic Sources for an African American Religious Innovation, Azusa Street, 1906. American Academy of Religion, Atlanta.                                        1994

Making the Crooked Places Straight: Region & Culture in the Sociology of Religion. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Raleigh, NC.                                                                                          1993

 
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