Present | Lecturer, University of Washington Tacoma ‐ School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Honors and Awards
- Recipient, Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Washington Tacoma (Spring, 2015)
- Outstanding Teacher, from the Outstanding Student Ceremony and Recognition (OSCARS), University of Washington Tacoma (May, 2014)
- Tacoma’s Biggest Carbon Loser, from the City of Tacoma’s Sustainable Tacoma Commission (April 8, 2014)
- Outstanding Woman Award, University of Washington Tacoma (March, 2014)
- Voted Extrameritorious by Interdisciplinary Arts and Science faculty, University of Washington Tacoma (2015)
Courses
- TIAS 502, Culture and Public Problems
- T COM 480, Political Economy of Media
- T COM 464, Field Research Methods: Special Topics in Environmental Justice
- T COM 444, Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the Media
- T COM 312, Ecology, Inequality, and Popular Culture
- T COM 310, Contemporary Issues in Environmental Communication
- T COM 258, Children and Media
- T COM 257, Ethical Issues in Mass Communication
- T COM 201, Media and Society
- T COM 101, Critical Media Literacy
- T CORE 103, Introduction to Social Sciences: Race, Gender, Class in Popular Culture
2010 | Ph.D, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ‐ Communications | |
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1998 | M.A., University of Tennessee, Knoxville ‐ Forensic Anthropology | |
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1992 | B.A., University of California, Berkeley ‐ Anthropology | |
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