Popular Culture/Cultural Studies, Religion, Zombie Films, Sociology of Knowledge, Race/Class/Gender and Heavy Metal, Social Justice, Public Health, Food and Culture, Native American/Indigenous Studies, Interdisciplinarity, Feminist Theory, The Arts, Literary Criticism.

Selected Works:

"twin two three thumb," "mornings with you," and "is she sleeping...i don't think so." in Unlikely Stories.  2008.  unlikelystories.org

Interview with Henry Rollins.  Crusher Magazine.  2007.  crushermagazine.com.

Interview with Lesbian.  Crusher Magazine.  2007.  crushermagazine.com.

“Chapped With Weather and Age: Mixed Blood Identity and The Shape of History.”  Cultural Representations and Contestation in Native America.  Andrew Jolivette, ed.  2006.  AltaMira Press.

“(Dis)Locating Spiritual Knowledge: Embodied Ideologies, Social Landscapes, and the Power of the Neoshamanic Other.”  Cultural Representations and Contestation in Native America.  Andrew Jolivette, ed. 2006.  AltaMira Press. 

“All My Ancestors Have Blisters on Their Toes.”  Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: Breaking the Great Silence of the American Indian Holocaust.  MariJo Moore, ed.  Avalon Publishing Group.  2006.

"Louisiana: Plantation Nation in 2 Beats" and "It Is And I Am" in Unlikely Stories.  2005.  unlikelystories.org.

“’Spirit Guides Me’: An Exploration Into Neoshamanism in Northern California.”  University of California, Santa Cruz, (Ph.D. Dissertation): June 2005.

“The Indigenous Diaspora in Academics and the Impact of the Red Power Movement on the Inclusion of American Indian Scholarship.”  Humboldt State University, (Master’s Thesis): 2000.

Education:

University of California, Santa Cruz
Ph.D., Sociology, June 2005
Parenthetical Notation in American Studies
MA, Sociology, August 2003
Dissertation: “’Spirit Guides Me’: An Exploration Into Neoshamanism in Northern California.” 

Humboldt State University     
MA, Sociology, August 2000
With Distinction
Master’s Thesis: “The Indigenous Diaspora in Academics and the Impact of the Red Power Movement on Inclusion of American Indian Scholarship.”