I am a sociologist, a teacher, and a musician who helps others to realize their potential. I offer academic support to faculty and students at Occidental College as the Head of Instruction + Research in Scholarship Technology and publish scholarship on technology, labor, culture, and education. I earned my BA in music and sociology at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and my PhD in Sociology at the University of Virginia.
Articles
The Expanding Classroom: Welcoming New Media Into Sociology Courses, ASA Footnotes (2012)
interactive digital media are softening the boundaries between scholarship, public engagement, and the classroom
Performance Art at the (Virginia) Margins: Anthony Restivo's Far off and all Aflame (with Rachel Thompson and Wendy Hsu), The Drama Review (2012)
In a small college town in western Virginia, writer Anthony Restivo searches for unmediated honesty...
Noise in Action: The Sonic (De)Construction of Art Worlds, Studies in Symbolic Interaction, edited by Norman K. Denzin (2010)
This paper investigates the meaning of sound in social life through participant observation of Experimental...
Local Musicians Building Global Audiences, Information, Communication & Society (2009)
This paper builds upon existing work regarding the social contexts of interactive on-line content creation....
Playing, Shopping, and Working as Rock Musicians, Gender & Society (2009)
Masculinities vary by organizational context, demonstrating that organizational culture shapes the gendering of work even...