Poster for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on suicide across time and culture.

Presentation on the author's research and areas of interest. This presentation is from the Conference on Language Endangerment and Political Instability held at the University of North Texas in Denton, Tx on October 4-6, 2018.

Poster presentation for the 2009 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on chiral porphyrins as selective pharmaceutical receptors.

Paper explores the relationship between violence caused by an organization and the likelihood of negotiation with a state.

Paper examines the relationship between characteristics of conflict situations, the participants in mediation processes, and mediation strategies and the influence of these characteristics on mediation success.

Paper explores the relationship between perceptions of legitimacy and the desire for military intervention in politics.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on whether an environmental-themed dance could promote audience awareness of climate change and inspire viewers to live more eco-friendly lifestyles.

Paper explores the changes in our understanding of the defenses of duress and “superior orders” in international humanitarian law over the past several centuries, focusing primarily on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Paper examines teen pregnancy rates across states in the United States and proposes a study that correlates the types of sex education utilized in individual counties or independent school districts and teen pregnancy rates across a sufficiently diverse state, such as California.

Article exploring how religion, social capital, and nativity intersect in the political mobilization of racial minorities. Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey (CMPS) 2016 data is used to examine the connection between social capital, religion, and political behavior in a novel attempt to systematically identify the unique role of churches in the mobilization of racial minority communities.

This investigation is concerned with testing a causal model linking changes in a political system's socio-economic environment with alterations in political characteristics. The specific forces of interest are those relating to urbanization and industrialization, the development of that way of life called urbanism, and the effects of these environmental changes on voter participation and, ultimately, inter-party competition. The test model hypothesizes that the processes of urbanization and industrialization together create urbanism, which then affects party competition both indirectly by means of stimulating participation, and directly as well. To illuminate these processes, this study focuses on the American South of the last 30 years because it is in this region that the kinds of changes implicit in the test model have been observed, and thus the region offers the best arena for examining that model.

This poster discusses a project using Calibrated Peer Review (CPR). CPR is a web-based instructional tool. CPR assignments require students to write an essay, evaluated three 'canned' calibration essays on the same topic, evaluate three of their peers' essays, and finally evaluate their own essay. The authors' goal was to determine whether the CPR process improves student learning of the essay content and whether the CPR process improves student writing.

Introduction to the special section featuring the joint proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates and the American Political Science Association Undergraduate Research Fellows Program in the 2013 edition of The Eagle Feather.

Introduction to the National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Political Science as featured in the 2011 edition of The Eagle Feather.

Introduction to the proceedings of the University of North Texas Department of Political Science 2010 National Science Foundation Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates, featured in the 2010 edition of The Eagle Feather.

Introduction to the Department of Political Science 2012 National Science Foundation Research Experience as featured in the 2012 edition of The Eagle Feather.

Presentation for the first Open Data Hackathon at UNT, organized as part of International Open Data Day. This presentation discusses data access and research transparency in political science journals.

This article examines conflict proneness of authoritarian states and tests whether the monadic democratic peace argument can be extended to explain the conflict behavior of authoritarian states.

Presentation on research interests of the author. This presentation is from the Conference on Language Endangerment and Political Instability held at the University of North Texas in Denton, Tx on October 4-6, 2018.

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on correlations between parent's education and children's test scores.

Video recording of UNT's Constitution Day event for 2021 which highlights the calls for election reform being renewed around the country. The event was a moderated panel presentation with speakers Jan (Janice) Johnson, Co-President of the League of Women Voters of Denton; Linnie McAdams, Co-President of the League of Women Voters of Denton; and Dr. Matthew Wilson, Associate Professor of Political Science, Southern Methodist University; and moderated by Dr. Rafe Major, University of North Texas.

Paper analyzes the factors that contribute to human trafficking worldwide.

Paper analyzes humanitarian peacekeeping interventions led by regional organizations in the developing world and presents results seeking to shed light on the success of these humanitarian interventions and whether they are the better option versus allowing the conflicts to evolve.

Of the plethora of social problems with which government has had to contend in recent history, few have generated more controversy than the non-therapeutic use of drugs. Many of those which are currently in common use did not exist fifty years ago; but the most dramatic growth in non-therapeutic use has been experienced with a drug that man has known for centuries: marijuana.1 Known generically as Cannabis sativa, internationally as Indian hemp, popularly as marijuana, and in American slang as "pot" or "grass," the drug was introduced to the United States as an intoxicant by itinerate Mexican farm workers in the early decades of this century. The acknowledged use of marijuana in the ghettos and communities of ethnic minorities for several decades stimulated no public outcry with the exception of the sensational press campaigns which led to the passage of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937.