2025
The Media History of Modern Labor [panel], History Division and Cultural & Critical Studies (CCSD) Division, AEJMC, San Francisco, 7-10 August 2025.
“Safe Harbor Protections: Shielding Ships and Speech in the United States from Nineteenth-Century Maritime Law to Contemporary Internet Policy,” [extended abstract], ICA, “Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research,” Communication History Division, Denver, 12-16 June 2025.
[granted the Promising Research Award from the Communication History Division]
“Policies and Laws Impacting Religious Expression: Compelled Speech in the U.S. and China” [co-author: Zhifang Wei], ICA, “Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research,” Communication Law and Policy Division, Denver, 12-16 June 2025.
2024
“Religious-Political Discourse and News Coverage on X: Leftist Candidates and the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election,” Religion and Politics in the 2024 Elections: A Comparative Global Framework panel [organizer], AEJMC, Religion and Media Interest Group, Philadelphia, 8-11 August 2024.
My First Year as a Full-Time Faculty Member: Experiences and Lessons from the First Year on the Job panel, AEJMC, Philadelphia, 8-11 August 2024.
“Religious-Political Discourse and News Coverage on X: Leftist Candidates and the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election,” AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, Lexington, 7-9 March 2024.
“Taking Stock of Sullivan on Free Speech and Press in a Historical Context,” 60th anniversary of New York Times v. Sullivan panel, AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, Lexington, 7-9 March, 2024.
2023
“Regulating Religious Expression: Transdisciplinary Teaching in Media Law and Policy,” AEJMC, Teaching Ideas Competition, Law and Policy Division, Washington, D.C., 6 August.
“Regulating U.S. Abolitionist Networks in the 1830s,” ICA, “Reclaiming Authenticity in Communication,” Communication Law and Policy Division, Toronto, 25-29 May.
2022
“Shielding Safe Spaces: Governmental and Public Perspectives on Section 230,” Media Law and Policy Scholars Conference (MLPSC), online, 13-14 January.
2021
“‘Yakety Yak, Don’t Talk Back’: Moderation on Anonymous Platforms,” AoIR, “Independence,” Philadelphia, 13–16 October.
“From Lifestyle Journalism to General News: Field Theory in the Hard News Turn of Religion Reporting,” AEJMC, “Turning the Page,” New Orleans, 4–7 August.
“Section 230 and Digital Disinformation,” International Communication Association Annual Conference, “Engaging the Essential Work of Care: Communication, Connectedness, and Social Justice,” Denver, 27–31 May.
2020
“Preventing Yellow Jack and Yellow Journalism: The Tension in Mississippi Valley News Coverage of the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic,” Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, 12–14 November.
2019
“Right-Wing Populism, Religion, and Reactionary News: Radicalizing United States Christianity,” International Communication Association Annual Conference, “Communication Beyond Borders,” Pre-conference, “Global Populism: Its Roots in Media and Religion,” Washington, D.C., 24 May.
2018
“Regulating Religion in the United States: Mormons, Quakers, and Muslims,” International Communication Association Annual Conference, “Voices,” Pre-conference, “Global Media and Human Rights,” Prague, 23-24 May.
2017
“Surveilling Pacifists in Cold War America: The Quakers, the FBI, and the First Amendment,” International Communication Association Annual Conference, “Interventions: Communication Research and Practice,” Communication History Interactive Poster Session, San Diego, 25-29 May.
2015
“Considering Religious Networks and Media: A Methodological Challenge to Communication Studies,” European Communication Research and Education Association Conference, “Bridges and Boundaries: Theories, Concepts, and Sources in Communication History,” Venice, 16-18 September.
“Misunderstanding the Mongols: Intercultural Communication in Three Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Travel Accounts,” International Communication Association Annual Conference, “Communication Across the Life Span,” Pre-conference, “Communications and the State: Toward a New International History,” San Juan, 21-25 May.
2013
“Mediating Messages in Unchartered Territory: Conceptualizing Profession in 13th-Century Franciscan Travel Narratives,” Columbia University Religion Department—Graduate Student Conference, “Religion on the Move: Movement, Migration, Missions and New Media across Religious Traditions,” New York, 26 April.
2012
“Defacement and Encoding in the Network Society: The Fusion of Evangelicalism and Catholicism in the American Public Sphere,” International Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture, Eskişehir, 8-12 July.
“The Environmental Movement and American Religion in the Network Society: Reconfiguring Hierarchies to Exist within Heterarchical Organizational Structures,” Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference, Chicago, 9-12 August 2012.
Kathryn Montalbano 