March 22, 2010; -  "Finnish Ethnomedicine and Medical Pluralism", Guest lecturer for Dr. Theo Randall's medical anthropology class at IUSB - Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, Indiana.

March 7, 2010; - "Scandinavians in the Winter Olympics - A Review", presented for the Order of Vasa Linne Lodge, South Bend, Indiana.

March 4, 2010; "Finland-Swedes in North America", presented for the West Shore Scandinavian Society, Ludington, Michigan.

December 4, 2009; - “Exploring the Finnish Ethnic Fisheries on the Great Lakes”, guest lecturer at the Western Michigan University Geography Colloquium Series, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

October 24, 2009; - “Differences and Similarities between Finns and Finland-Swedes in America”,  presented at annual meeting of East Lakes Division Association of American Geographers, Fairborn, Ohio.

October 4, 2009; - “Finland-Swedes in North America”, presented for the Order of Vasa Linne Lodge, South Bend, Indiana.

June 17-20, 2007; Invited lecture on "The Role of Gender in Maintaining Finland-Swedishness in North America", presented at FinnForum VIII Conference, Mälardalen University, Eskilstuna, Sweden.

August 14, 2005; "The Finnish Salvation Army in America", presented at FinnGrandFest 2005 Conference, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI.

August 11, 2005; "Remembering the Finnish Fisherman on Lake Superior", presented at FinnGrandFest 2005 Conference, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI.

April 16, 2005; Invited lecture on "The Changing Finnish Ethnicity in North America: Insights on Migration and Identity", presented at FinnPower and Culture 2005, Agricola Lutheran Church, Toronto, Canada.

October 29, 2004; Invited lecture on “Finland-Swedes in Canada: History and Current Trends”, presented at FinnForum VII Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

March 27, 2004;  Invited lecture on “How many fish can a Finn fish?” presented at the Conference on Finnish Immigrants in the Decade of Depression (1929-1939), Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada.

November 1, 2003; "Fishing for Finns on Lake Superior", presented at the Middle States Division of the Association of American Geographers, SUNY Albany, Albany, NY.

May 28, 2003; “Finnish-Canadian Salvation Army, 1970s-1980s”, presented at the Canadian Society of Church History Conference, Dalhousie University/University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

May 24, 2003. “Finnish-American Salvation Army”, presented at the Salvation Army Scandinavian Congress, Camp Ladore Conference Center, Waymart, PA.

May 15, 2003; “Finnish Fishermen of Lake Superior”, invited lecture to be presented for the Minnesota North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum, Tofte, MN.

October 25, 2002. “New York’s Urban Regions Defined by Newspaper Radership”, presented at the Applied Geography Conference, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY.

October 11,2002. “Religious Plurality Amongst Finnish-Americans: The Impact of the Finnish Salvation Army”, presented at the Middle States Division of the Association of American Geographers, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ.

August 8, 2002. "The Finnish-American Salvation Army Movement in the USA and Canada", presented at FinnFest USA 2002, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.

June 1, 2002. "Nokia and Sauna: The Ultimate Finnish Exports", presented at the Canadian Association of Geographers conference, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

April 26, 2002; co-authored paper presentation with Dr.Ain Haas (Sociology, Indiana University),  “The Timing and Extent of Estonian and Finnish Migration as a Factor Affecting the Immigrant Communities”, presented at the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

November 10, 2001.  “The Life and Times of the Louhi Band”, invited lecture presented for the Scandinavian Society of Western Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA.

October 19, 2001. “The Louhi Band of Monessen, Pennsylvania” presented at the Middle States Division of the Association of American Geographers Conference, Long Island University, Brookville, NY.

July 28, 2001; Invited lecturer at the Sauna Symposium, FinnFest USA 2001, Villanova University on the theme "Saunas in American Hotels and Motels", Villanova, PA.

July 27, 2001; "Remembering The Louhi Band of Monessen", presented at the FinnFest USA 2001, Villanova University, Villanova, PA.

June 14, 2001; "Losing Hard Feelings: Finland-Swedes and Finns in Canada", presented at FinnForum VI Conference, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.

March 1, 2001; "The Sauna in American Popular Culture", presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York City, NY.

Nov. 11, 2000; "Suomalainen Sauna Amerikan Hotelleissa", presented at the Geography Days - Finnish Geographical Society Conference, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.

Oct.21, 2000; "The Sauna in American hospitality industry", presented at the Pennsylvania Geographical Society/Middle States Division of the Association of American Geographers Conference, Wilkes-Barre, PA.

July 14, 2000; "Becoming more 'Finnish': The Finland-Swedes of Ontario", presented at the FinnGrandFest 2000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

May 22, 2000; "Faculty Workshop on Changing Paradigms of Cultural, Political, and Ethnic Identity in the Globe", invited panelist at the Faculty Workshop of the International Studies Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

April 8, 2000; "Changing Identities of the Finland-Swedes in Canada", presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA.

March 5, 2000; - “From Monessen to Clarksburg and beyond: The Finnish ethnicity in SW
Pennsylvania and West Virginia”, presented at Piecing it together: Conference of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia, Marshall University, Huntington, WV.

April 18, 1999; - "The Finns of Monessen", presented for the Scandinavian Society of Western Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA.

Nov.23,1998; - "The Post-1950s migration of Finns to Virginia", presented at the conference of the Southeastern Division of the AAG, Memphis, TN.

July 10,1998; - "The historic development of the Finnish ethnic population in Virginia", presented at FinnFest USA '98, University of Maine at Gorham, ME.

May 29,1998; - "Growing together: The Finnish and Finland-Swedish immigrants of Toronto", presented at the Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada conference, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

May 26,1998; - "The post-1950s Finns of Monessen, Pennsylvania" , presented at the Finno-Ugric Studies Assocation of Canada Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

May 14,1998; - "The loss of identity of Finland-Swedes in Canada", presented at the Biennial Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference on North American Studies, May 12-16,1998, at the University of Helsinki Renvall Institute, Helsinki, Finland.

Mar.21,1998;- "Finnish ethnicity in Virginia" , presented at the Virginia Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA.

Jun.21,1997; - "The Finns of Rolla/Rock Lake, North Dakota", presented at FinnFest USA '97, Minot, ND.

Jun.20,1997; - "Shifting attitudes and identities of the Finland-Swedes in Canada", presented at FinnFest USA '97, Minot, ND.

Oct.5,1996;- "The Finland-Swedes of Scandinavia, Manitoba", presented for the Prairie Division of the Canadian Association of Geographers Conference, Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada.

May 29,1996; - "The Historic Finnish Fishing Community at Finn Slough, Richmond, B.C.", presented for the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada, Brock University, St.Catherines, Ontario, Canada.

May 28,1996; - "Discovering the Finland-Swedes of Canada", presented for the Association for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Canada, Brock University, St.Catherines, Ontario, Canada.

May 24,1996; - "The Finland-Swedes of Canada: Past and Present", presented at the FinnForum V Conference, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

Feb.24,1996; - "The Finland-Swedes of Canada: A Disappearing ethnic minority", presented at the MEV (Muutto ja Etnisyys Verkosto - Migration and Ethnicity Network) Seminar, Institute of Migration, Turku, Finland.

Oct.22,1995; - "Struggle for ethnic identity: The Canadianization of Finland-Swedes", presented at the Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Conference, Gimli, Manitoba, Canada.