Professional Interests
My current research examines how gender, race, and class ideologies organize political participation in local grassroots political movements.
Other Interests
I am active in efforts on campus to empower students to political activism, and I involved in local community organizing and social movements.
Degrees
Specialization
Political participation, social inequality (race, gender, class), militarism, and feminist theory
Representative Publications
Mothers of the Military Support and Politics during Wartime;
Rowman & Littlefield Press;
2018
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538114247/Mothers-of-the-Military-Support-and-Politics-during-Wartime#
The politics of foot powder: depoliticizing motherhood during the US War on Terrorism;
, International Journal of Feminist Politics;
2018
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616742.2017.1419825?scroll=top&needAccess=true
The black citizen-subject: black single mothers in US military recruitment material;
Ethnic and Racial Studies;
Volume
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2016.1160139
Recruiting through mothers: you made them strong, we’ll make them Army Strong;
, Critical Military Studies;
2016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23337486.2016.1162975
Changing Society Through Social Movements;
Sociology in Action; SAGE;
2017
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/sociology-in-action/book249345
Notable Courses Taught
Sociology of Social Movements
Social Stratification
Senior Seminar in Sociology
Principles of Sociology
Research Methods
Sociology of the Family
Social Problems
