I regularly offer two required courses for the Sociology major: Introduction to Sociology and Classical Social Theory. Additionally, I teach a series of courses on environmental issues: Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Food, Animals and Society, and Environmental Social Movements. Other electives I offer include Contemporary Social Theory, Youth Subcultures, History of Social Action, and Social Theory through the Arts (a Castle Scholars Honors Program seminar). I serve as the Director of the Castle Scholars Honors Program at Manhattanville College.

My research focuses on culture and social movements, specifically in cultural analyses of social movements and social movement analyses of contentious subcultures. I am interested in the role culture plays in constraining and enabling collective action, as well as how activists attempt to change culture. Topically, I study issues concerning animals, food, and the environment. I recently published a book on the animal rights movement in France and the United States, and in past projects I've studied veganism, punk, pro-anorexia websites, as well as researcher subjectivity and reflexivity. My current research project focuses on birding as an environmental hobby. 

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Introduction to Sociology
Environmental Sociology
Contemporary Social Theory

Associate Professor of Sociology

Manhattanville College

Ph.D., University of Georgia
Master of Arts, University of Georgia
Bachelor of Arts, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

SAGE/Pine Forge Teaching Innovations and Professional Development Award, 2010

Animals and Society Institute Summer Fellowship, 2007

Chateaubriand Fellowship, French Embassy of the United States, 2006-07