News and Updates
OTHER RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- November 2019: 2019 George Herbert Mead Lecture: “Making a Multiple Murderer – Crime Coverage, Cultural Meaning, and Violent Role Taking.” Invited presentation at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Baltimore
- November 2019: Author (for The Allure of Premeditated Murder: Why Some People Plan to Kill) on “Author-Meets-Critics” panel session at the American Society of Criminology annual meeting, San Francisco
- August 2019: “Meaning Making on Twitter amid #FanCon Fallout.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, New York City
- May 2019: “Passing on our Interactionist Inheritance: Teaching Graduate Students and Advanced Undergraduates.” Invited panel presentation at the Couch-Stone Symposium (semi-annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction), Des Moines, Iowa
- April 2019: "When Planning is the Payoff: An Understudied Motive for Mass Murder," invited presentation at Delaware State University, Dover
- November 2018: "Mass Murder, Media & Mania: Explaining the Payoff of Extreme Killing, Problems with News Portrayals, and Persistence of Public Misunderstanding," invited presentation at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Millersville, PA
- November 2018: "The Appeal of Cinematic Violence: Effects of Gender, Age, and Torture," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta
