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Paper accepted, APSA Annual Meeting 2019, Washington, DC, August 29-September 1, 2019.

Tittle of paper: "Populism, Nationalism, and Conceptual Stretching: Ethnographic Methods and the Nature of Substate Nationalism in Multinational Democracies," in Panel on: Political Ethnography and Fieldwork in the Study of Contemporary Populism.

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Invited speaker, GLOBALCIT Annual Conference, November 17-18, 2022, European University Institute, Firenze , Italia. Citizenship and Political Development: Membership Contestation and Democratic Norms Around the World

Paper accepted, APSA Annual Meeting 2022, on September 14-18, 2022, Montréal.

Invited in-person participant, The State of the Union 2022 conference, "A Europe fit for the Next Generation?", at the EUI, Firenze, Italia, May 5-6, 2022.

Invited Speaker, Workshop on Patriotism, Protest Politics and Political Violence, 5-6 May 2022, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Article published in special issue of "Nationalism and Ethnic Politics," October 2021. Trumpist Ethnonationalism and the Federal Response to the COVID-19 Crisis and Other Natural Disasters in Puerto Rico (2017–21): Nationalism and Ethnic Politics: Vol 27, No 3

Chapter published in Lecours et al. (eds.), Constitutional Politics in Multinational Democracies (June 2021).

Chapter published in Smith and Beeman (eds.), Modern Constitutions (2020).

Book Review of Elliott's "Scots and Catalans" published in The Historian (2020).

Paper accepted for conference at University of Aberdeen, Scotland, on "Beyond the Populist Hype," January 14-15, 2021.

Papers Accepted for World Congress 2020 of IPSA in Lisboa, Portugal. July 25-29, 2020

Field Research on the Scottish National Party and its members in Edinburgh, Scotland, April, 2019.

Article published in Ethnopolitics (UK) (2018), on "Unpacking Political Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationhood in a Federal Political System".

Paper accepted, APSA Annual Meeting 2019, Washington, DC, August 29-September 1, 2019. Tittle of paper: "Populism, Nationalism, and Conceptual Stretching: Ethnographic Methods and the Nature of Substate Nationalism in Multinational Democracies," in Panel on: Political Ethnography and Fieldwork in the Study of Contemporary Populism.

Presentation and Panel Discussion re: my book Visions of Sovereignty, on March 9, 2017, at Interamerican University, San Juan, P.R.

Papers accepted for 24th World Congress of Political Science, convened by the International Political Science Association. July 23-28, 2016, in Istanbul, Turkey.

Paper accepted, Annual Meeting 2017 of the American Political Science Association in San Francisco, California, August 30 to September 3, 2017. Title of my paper: “Microethnography vs. Macroethnography: Varieties of Comparative Field Research.” . It has been placed in the following Full Panel: Separatism and Democratization: Using Ethnography to Identify Mechanisms.

Invited by the National Research Council and Ford Foundation to be a review panelist at March, 2017 assessment at the Beckman Center in Irvine, CA, USA.

University of Pennsylvania Press book published, in their Series edited by Brendan O'Leary.

Palgrave Macmillan UK book published, in their St. Antony's College (Oxford) Series.

Invited Speaker, Sociology and Political Science, McGill University, Montréal, Canada, February 23, 2018 . The Crisis in Spain, 2017-2018

Invited Contributor, World Autonomies Project, by the Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism at the European Academy, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy.

Paper accepted for APSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, September 3-6, 2015. Panel is on “Comparative and Multilevel Citizenship.” Title of my paper: “Varieties of Multilevel and Asymmetric Citizenship.”.

Awarded Fulbright Fellowship for Canada (2014-2015), Fulbright Visiting Research Chair, on Constitutionalism and Federalism.

Paper accepted for 21st Annual World Convention, Association of the Study of Nationalities, April 14-16, 2016. At the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, NYC.

Papers accepted, International Political Science Association Joint Conference, on “Democratization and Constitutional Design in Divided Societies,” at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, on June 24-27, 2017. Sponsored by the following IPSA sections--RC 14: POLITICS AND ETHNICITY, RC 28: COMPARATIVE FEDERALISM AND MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE, RC13: DEMOCRATIZATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Invited Speaker, Seminar Series, Institute for Comparative Federalism, at EURAC, in Bozen/Bolzano, Südtirol, Italia. July 21, 2017.

Papers accepted for APSA 2016 Annual Meeting. . September 1-4, 2016, in Philadelphia, USA

Invited speaker, at Groupe de recherche sur les sociétés plurinationales' international conference on "Constitutional Politics in Multinational States," October 28-29, 2016 in Ottawa, Canada.

Invited by the National Academies and Ford Foundation to be a review panelist at March, 2016 assessment at the Beckman Center in Irvine, CA, USA.

Invited speaker, 2015 EUDO Dissemination Conference at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) on “Spreading Citizenship: Dynamics of Norm Diffusion in Europe and the Americas, November 26-27, 2015. Title of my paper: “Asymmetric Citizen.

Invited by the National Academies and Ford Foundation to be a review panelist at March, 2015 assessment at the Beckman Center in Irvine, CA, USA.

Honorable Mention, Charles Taylor Book Award 2016. Awarded by the American Political Science Association (Interpretive Methods Group) for the best book using interpretive methods or methodologies in 2016. Awarded for Visions of Sovereignty (2014).

Invited speaker, 10th Anniversary International Studies Conference, at Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Barcelona, June 19-20, 2014. .

Awarded Fulbright Visiting Research Chair for 2016-17. In Human Rights and Social Justice, at the University of Ottawa Law School, Canada.

Paper accepted, APSA Annual Meeting 2018, Boston, August 30-September 2, 2018. "Spreading the Federal Idea in Europe: Explaining Variation in Italy and Spain," placed n the following Created Panel: "European Perspectives on Regionalism and Federalism."

Invited to the "State of the Union 2018" Conference at the European University Institute, Firenze, Italia. May 10-12, 2018.

Invited Speaker, Wellesley College, MA, "Visions of Sovereignty and Catalonia in 2017," November 13, 2017.

Book Review in Perspectives on Politics, re: my book Visions of Sovereignty. Vol 14, no. 4 (December, 2016)

Contributor to European Union Democracy Observatory forum on "Independence Referendums" (European University Institute).

Invited Speaker, Nationalism and the Market conference, June 21-22, 2018, Univ La Sapienza, Roma, Italia.

Panel and Paper accepted for APSA 2014 Annual Meeting, on "Approaches to Bridging Comparative Politics and Comparative Constitutional Law in Multinational or Multiethnic Democracies.". August 28-31, 2014

Book award ceremony held in Barcelona, December 4, 2013, at the Institut D'Estudis Autonòmics (of the Catalan government), in Barcelona. Awarded for my book "Visions of Sovereignty."

Invited by the National Academies and Ford Foundation to be a review panelist at March, 2014 assessment in Irvine, CA, USA.

Penn Press book to be published in September 2014 and Palgrave Macmillan UK book as well. Also, The Moral Polity of the Nationalist: Sovereignty and Accommodation in Catalonia and Quebec (1976-2010) published in Barcelona (2013). Published by the Institute of Autonomic Studies, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, by agreement with Penn Press. Awarded IV Vilaseca i Marcet international book prize (2012).

Visiting Fellow, University of Pennsylvania. Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism, 2012-2013. Research focus: Constitution-Making.