Public Speaking

Electoral Geography

United States Presidential Elections
United States Congressional Elections
Legislative Redistricting and Gerrymandering
Civil War Elections
The Confederate Congress and the Civil War South
Reapportionment and Regional Strength in Congress and the Electoral College

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Geography of Wine

Wine Regions of the World
Wine Regions of California
Wine Regions of France
Wine Regions of the Mediterranean

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Selected Speaking Engagements

“Congressional and Legislative Redistricting,” Department of Political Science, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Coastal Carolina University, November 2, 2022. 

 “Congressional and Legislative Redistricting,” Stubblefield Institute for Civil Political Communications, Shepherd University, June 10, 2021.

 “Redistricting,” West Virginia League of Woman Voters, Annual Meeting, May 15, 2021.

 “Redistricting, Geography, and Democracy,” Association of American Geographers, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 5, 2019. [with J. Clark Archer]

Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, Springfield, Illinois, January 30, 2014, “Presidential Elections of Abraham Lincoln.”

United States House of Representatives, Office of the Historian, Washington, DC, July 15, 2010, “Gerrymandering.”

United States House of Representatives, Office of the Historian, Washington, DC, July 16, 2010, “Mapping Congress.”

Washington Map Society and the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, September 25, 2008, “The History of the Election Map.”

Museum of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, April 13, 1996, “South Carolina and the Confederate Congresses.”

The Library of Congress, Madison Building, Washington, DC, February 8, 1989, “Tides of Party Politics: Two Centuries of Congressional Elections 1789-1989.”

Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, World Affairs Program, Royal Viking
London, England, August 24-September 9, 1992
San Francisco, California, December 5-21, 1993
London, England, July 23-August 6, 1994
Copenhagen, Denmark, August 6-August 20, 1994

Crystal Cruises and Cunard 
Montreal, Canada, September 25-October 3, 1994
Hong Kong, China, February 24-March 4, 1995
San Francisco, California, May 12-June 18, 2001
Athens, Greece, June 17-July 11, 2004

Seabourn 
San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 13-22, 1995

Silversea 
Athens, Greece, June 28-July 12, 1997

Royal Olympic 
Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 13-28, 1998

American Orient Express Railroad Company
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 17-26, 2003
Nogales, Mexico, January 25-February 2, 2004
Los Angeles, California October 3-10, 2004