Education
The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
Doctoral Candidate, Program in Sociology
Committee: Patricia T. Clough (chair), Victoria Pitts-Taylor, Jesse Daniels
The University of Kansas 2003
M.A., Sociology
The University of Kansas 1998
B.A., Psychology (with Honors)
B.A., Anthropology
Academic Appointments
Instructional Technology Fellow
Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College CUNY 2012-2014
Adjunct Instructor
Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY 2009-present
(Introduction to Sociology, Fashion and Society)
Fordham University 2010-2011. Adjunct Instructor
(Introduction to Sociology, Sociology of the Family)
John Jay College, CUNY 2010-2012
(Society and the Law, Sociology of the Family)
Brooklyn College, CUNY 2008-2010
(Sociology of the Law, Sociology of the Family, Core Seminar in Masters of Liberal Arts, focus on Sociological understandings of “Human Nature”, 2005)
Writing Fellow
Kingsborough Community College, CUNY 2006-2008
Teaching Fellowship
Urban Public Health Department, Hunter College, CUNY 2004-2005
Publications
Essays published in “The Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body” ed. Victoria Pitts,
Greenwood Press, 2008
Book Review, In Recovery: the Making of Mental Health Policy, Contemporary Sociology, 34, 6 November 2005
Book Review co-authored with Gender and Social Control Seminar Fall 1999, Madness in its Place: Narratives of Severalls Hospital, 1913-1997, Contemporary Sociology, July 2000.
Papers Presented
“Labor Goes Online: Technological Transformations of Labor, Value, and Life,” paper presented at The Left Forum. New York, 2013
“Mommy Blogs Rewrite Motherhood,” paper presented at Cultural Studies Association Conference. Chicago, 2013
“Beyond Disciplinarity” round table. Cultural Studies Conference, April 2009
“Global Labor of Fashion,” paper presented at the Eastern Sociological Society New York City, February 24, 2008.
“The Immaterial Materials of Fashion,” paper presented at the conference Producing and Consuming Fashion: Identity in a Global Context, Queens College, CUNY, April 26, 2006.
“Magic To a ‘T’,” paper presented at International Association for Science, Technology and Society Conference Baltimore, Maryland February 3, 2006.
“Entropic Subjectivity and Beyond in Willa Cather’s Lucy Gayheart,” paper presented at the Willa Cather Conference Lincoln, Nebraska June 2005.
“Masculine and Feminine Sprouts: the Weeds of Discourse,” paper presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Washington D.C. March 2005
Service
Founding Member of “Digital Labor Working Group”
https://digitallabor.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
Internet Research Team, at the Graduate Center, CUNY
Awards, Fellowships, and Honors
Instructional Technology Fellowship 2012-
Writing Fellowship 2006-2008
Teaching Fellowship 2004-2005
Conviction Seminar Fellowship 2004-2006
Helen Waddle Roof Scholarship, University of Kansas 2002-2003
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society
Psi Chi National Honor Society
References available upon request
