Appointments

 Professional Interests

I take an ethnographic approach to the analysis of fission/fusion politics in special interest associations, especially those integral to the origins and continuation of homosexual rights movement in the United States. I am especially interested in the function of symbols, narrative, and ritual in the formation and continuation of such organizations and how institutional affiliations often dovetail with identity politics.

I also work to apply qualitative and mixed methodologies to research questions pertaining to the design, improvement, or implementation of academic library services.

Academic Appointments

Associate Professor, Liberal Arts Division,  Mercer County Community College, West Windsor, NJ. Also serve for New Jersey Corretionals through the STEP program (Scholarship and Transformative Education in Prison) and the Mercer Institute.

Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rochester Institute of Technology

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Indiana, Pennsylvania

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, James Madison University

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, The College at Brockport, SUNY

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Instructor of Anthropology, Anthropology Department, Glendale Community College

Instructor of English, English Division, Glendale Community College

Instructor of English, Department of English, Rockhurst College

Field Archaeologist, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, James Madison University

Library Ethnography (Consulting)

Visiting Scholar, Oviatt Library, California State University, Northridge

Lead Anthropologist, Rutgers University Libraries, Rutgers University

Lead Anthropologists, Morgan Library, Colorado State University

Staff Anthropologist, River Campus Libraries (Digital Initiatives Unit), University of Rochester

Education

Ph.D. in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California, 2005

M.A in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

M.A. in English, Department of English, University of Missouri-Kansas City

B.A. in Anthropology and English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln