Profile

Department

Sociology and Anthropology

Role: Faculty
Campus: Springfield

Postal mail

Missouri State University
Sociology and Anthropology
901 S. National Ave.
Springfield, MO 65897

Details

Education

  • PhD, Sociology (with graduate certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2018
  • MA, Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2014
  • BS, Sociology (magna cum laude), Missouri State University, Springfield, 2005

Teaching

  • SOC 150 Introduction to Society
  • SOC 309 Work, Industry, and Society
  • SOC 420 Social Inequality

Research and professional interests

  • Race, Class, and Gender
  • Community-based Research Methods
  • Diverse Economies
  • Creative Economy
  • Work and Occupations
  • Gender and Work-life Balance
  • Public Sociology

Awards and honors

  • Graduate Student Paper Award, Community Research and Development Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2017
  • Best Graduate Student Conference Paper, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2017
  • Residential First-Year Experience Student Choice Award, teaching award presented by Residential Services, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2014
  • Public Sociology Award, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2013

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