| I am currently the Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Quinnipiac University. My teaching and research focus on gender violence [specifically human trafficking and family violence], indigeneity, and the comparative perspectives of front-line workers laboring to end violence against women. My theoretical interest is with the concept of "culture" as it is deployed and self-consciously put to work towards programmatic ends. I have conducted research in North America and Oceania for the past twelve years. I teach courses on violence against women, gender/sex/sexuality, and I participate in the QU seminar series (QU 101). I have also offered courses on development/globalization, and a study-abroad course for students in Morocco. In Spring 2011 I will offer a course on ethnographic theory and practice. I have published and presented my work for the American Anthropological Association, Society for Applied Anthropology, Society for Medical Anthropology, Anthropology Today, Practicing Anthropology, and Global Public Health. My forthcoming book "Anthropology at the Front-Lines of Gender-Based Violence" (co-edited with Jennifer R. Wies) will be published by Vanderbilt University Press. I have also written a series of jargon-free articles with my colleague Jennifer R. Wies on the topic of gender-based violence. You can find these through the Society for Applied Anthropology website (www.sfaa.net) or by emailing me. We all need to work together to end gender-based violence, so I'm happy to share.
My teaching philosophy is driven by the core values of my discipline: respect for, and understanding of, the diversity of cultures that exist on our planet. When students in my classes begin to appreciate a different worldview from their own, I feel like I have accomplished one of my main obligations as an instructor. I work hard to share my love of anthropology, and my discipline's central tenet of "understanding the native's point of view," with students at Quinnipiac. |
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| BA San Diego State University (Cultural Anthropology); Diploma of Arts University of Otago (Social Anthropology); MA, PhD University of California, Santa Barbara (Sociocultural Anthropology) |
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