After working for Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, teaching video production in Ecuador, and writing scripts for the Travel Channel, CourtTV, and Discovery, I entered the graduate program in Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. My current research agenda includes media literacy, advertising, and consumer culture.
Articles
The mother’s gaze and the model child: Reading print ads for designer children’s clothing, Advertising & Society Review (2009)
This audience analysis considers how two groups of mothers, one affluent and mostly white and...
Porn And Me(n): Sexual Morality, Objectification, And Religion At The Wheelock Anti-Pornography Conference, The Communication Review (2008)
In the Spring of 2007, I interviewed a panel of four men who, along with...
Don’t Smile for the Camera: Black Power, Para-Proxemics and Prolepsis in Print Ads for Hip-Hop Clothing, International Journal of Communication (2007)
While much has been written on marketing to children, there remains a curious gap in...
Shifting currents in media awareness. (with Erica Scharrer), Academic Exchange Quarterly (2006)
This longitudinal qualitative research study examines how a group of parents and teachers sought to...
Masters Thesis
Trophy Children Don’t Smile: Fashion Advertisements For Designer Children’s Clothing In Cookie Magazine, Masters Thesis (2007)
This study examines print advertising from Cookie, an up-scale American parenting magazine for affluent mothers....