- “Kuria Girls and the NGOs,” paper presented at the African Studies Association annual meeting in San Francisco, CA November 16-19, 2006
- “Making the Cut: A Kenyan Community Confronts the Tradition of Female Circumcision.” University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, January 24, 2006.
- “What Do Alternative Rites of Passage Alter?” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, November 30- December 4, 2005.
- “The Abasomi (Readers) and Their World,” American Ethnological Society Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA, April 7-10, 2005.
- “The Costs of Free Education in Rural Kenya,” African Studies Association Meetings in New Orleans, LA, November 11-14, 2004.
- “Genital Cutting as a Threshold in Identity Formation in Rural Kenya,” American Ethnological Society meeting in Atlanta, GA, April 23-25, 2004.
- “New Developments in Family Relations in Kenya,“ Population Studies Research Institute, University of Nairobi, May 15, 2003.
- “Building a House: A Grassroots Perspective on the Fertility Transition in Rural Kenya,” Society of Research on African Cultures 2002 International Conference, Montclair, New Jersey, November 7-9, 2002.
