Presentations prior to 2017 are available upon request.

[Click to download] Lotspeich, M. C., II, Tolbert, C. M., II., & Mencken, F. C. (2017, July). The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and nonmetropolitan small business lending. Poster presented at the Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Columbus, Ohio.

[Click to download] Lotspeich, M. C., II. (2017, July). Defining the ’rural’ in social capital; Methodological considerations for targeted instrument design amongst sociocultural and ecological conceptualizations. Paper presented orally at the Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Columbus, Ohio.

[Click to download] Lotspeich, M. C., II. (2017, November). An application of hierarchical data structure to participant-generated imagery: Identification of community assets and liabilites by youth. Paper presented orally at the Baylor Libraries Digital Scholarship Symposium. Waco, Texas.

[Click to download] Fitz-Chapman, B., & Lotspeich, M. C., II. (2018, March). Preventing teen pregnancy in McLennan County, Texas. Poster presented at the Texas Public Health Association Annual Education Conference. Waco, Texas.

[Click to download] Tolbert, C. M., Mencken, F. C., Carpenter, C.W., & Lotspeich, M. C., II. (2018, March). Rural financial sector restructuring and persistent poverty: Looking backward and forward at community banks. Paper presented orally at the ’Rural Poverty: Fifty Years After the People Left Behind’ research conference, Washington, DC. Sponsored by the Rural Policy Research Institute, at The University of Iowa.

[Click to download] Lotspeich, M. C., II. (2018, April). Leveraging spatial participant-generated imagery and GIS technology for youth capacity asset mapping. Poster presented at the Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana.

[Click to download] Lotspeich, M. C., II. (2018, April). Using hierarchical age-period-cohort methods to measure the relationship between rural systemic events and institutional trust. Paper presented orally at the Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. New Orleans, Louisiana.

[Click to download] Lotspeich, M. C., II. (2018, July). Structural explanations of decline in institutional trust over time, as contextualized by socioeconomic conditions. Paper presented orally at the Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Portland, Oregon.

[Click to download] Carpenter, C. W., Mencken, F. C., Tolbert, C. M., II., & Lotspeich, M. C., II. (2018, November). The decline of rural dynamism and locally-owned banks. Paper presented orally at the 65th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association. San Antonio, Texas.

[Click to download] Tolbert, C. M., Carpenter, C. W., Mencken, F. C., & Lotspeich, M. C., II. (2019, June). Locally-owned banks and rural income growth 1970-2010. Paper presented orally at the MidContinent Regional Science Association Annual Conference. Madison, Wisconsin.

[Click to download] Tolbert, C. M., Carpenter, C. W., Anders, J. & Lotspeich, M. C., II. (2019, October). Nonmetropolitan ’vetrepreneurs’: A demographic profile of veterans owning businesses in rural America. Poster presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Southern Demographic Association. New Orleans, Louisiana.

[Click to download] Carpenter, C. W., Anders, J., Lotspeich, M. C., II., and Tolbert, C. M. (2020, April). Born to serve? How rurality, economic opportunity, and civic engagement in place of birth impact the decision to join the military. Conference cancelled. Paper was to be orally presented at the 59th Annual Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association. Savannah, Georgia.

[Click to download] Lotspeich-Yadao, M. C., II. (2021, February) Preliminary work on the demographic, spatial, and temporal characteristics of military veteran-owned firms in the rural United States. Department of Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation, Research Seminar Series. Baylor University, Waco, Texas.

[Click to download] Lotspeich-Yadao, M. C., II. (2021, March) How entrepreneurial ecosystems support veteran-owned firms in the rural United States. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Early Stage Researcher Showcase, Kansas City, Missouri.

[Click to download] Lotspeich-Yadao, M. C., II, Trevino, K., & *Hoekstra, C. (2021, April). Using experiential learning experiences to increase the value of sociology for undergraduates with medical aspirations. Paper presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society. New Orleans, Louisiana.

[Click to download] Lotspeich-Yadao, M. C., II, Carpenter, C., Tolbert, C. M., II., & Mencken, F. C. (2021, April). Spatial autocorrelation and heterogeneity in ecosystem measures that predict the propensity of military veteran-owned, minority-owned SMEs to access Paycheck Protection Program loans. Paper presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society. New Orleans, Louisiana.

[Click to download] Lotspeich-Yadao, M. C., II. (2021, August) Spatial autocorrelation, heterogeneity, and temporality in the propensity of rural military veterans to identify as self-employed. Paper presented at the 2021 American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, Illinois.

[Click to download] Lotspeich-Yadao, M. C., II. (2021, September) Military service as a pathway to entrepreneurship for women and racial/ethnic minorities. Fall Colloquium Series, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

[Click to download] Lotspeich-Yadao, M. C., II, Carpenter, C. W., and Tolbert, C. M. (2021, October) Veterans creating good jobs: The propensity of veteran-owned small businesses to use service as a frame of reference in providing non-monetary benefits to their employees. Paper presented at the 2021 Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society. Reston, Virginia.

[Click to download] Lotspeich-Yadao, M. C., II. (2022, March) Migration patterns of military veterans after service: Cultural, institutional, and historical explanations (1970-2020). Paper presented at the 2022 Eastern Sociological Society Meeting, Military Sociology Mini-Conference. Boston, Massachusetts.

[Click to download] *McGowan, A. & Lotspeich-Yadao, M. C., II (2022, March) The COVID-19 pandemic and military veteran mental health: Findings from Wave 6 of the Baylor Religion Survey. Paper presented at the 2022 Eastern Sociological Society Meeting, Military Sociology Mini-Conference. Boston, Massachusetts.

[Click to download] Lotspeich-Yadao, M. C., II. (2022, April) Motivations for entrepreneurship by military veterans. Paper presented at the 2022 Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting. Birmingham, Alabama.

[Click to download] Lotspeich-Yadao, M. C., II. (2022, October) Considerations for engaging military[1]connected communities in health research. Department of Defense Grant Seeking Workshop, Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana[1]Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

[Click to download] Lotspeich-Yadao, M. C., II. (2022, November) A landscape analysis of research on virtual (extended) reality with military-connected populations. Health Technology Education Program Speaker Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.

[Click to download] Lotspeich-Yadao, M. C., II. (2022, December) (Re)framing the student veteran: Intersectionality and military-connected student services in higher education. RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Collaborative Meeting. Virtual.

[Click to download] *McGowan, A. & Lotspeich-Yadao, M. C., II (2023, March) The influence of mastery on the self-rated health of military veterans. Paper presented at the 2023 Eastern Sociological Society Meeting, Military Sociology Mini-Conference. Baltimore, Maryland.

[Click to download] Lotspeich-Yadao, M. C., II, Tolbert, C. M., & Carpenter, C. W. (2023, June). Military service as a pathway to entrepreneurship for women and racial/ethnic minorities. Paper presented at the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association Conference. Grand Rapids, Michigan.

[Click to download] *Pugh, Y. & Lotspeich-Yadao, M. C., II (2023, July) The impact of military deployment experiences on child social development. Paper and poster presented at the 2023 Illinois Summer Research Symposium. Urbana, Illinois.