Education: 

Millersville University, 2001
B.A. in Anthropology; Minor in Sociology
Graduated with Departmental Honors and Magna Cum Laude

Temple University, 2008
Master of Arts in Anthropology

Temple University, 2008
Ph.D. in Anthropology

Research and Scholarly Interests: 

Social Constructs of Race and Ethnicity; Racial and Ethnic Relations; U.S. Immigration; Urban Anthropology; Anthropology of Sports; Anthropology of Hip-Hop; Anthropological Theory

Selected Publications: 

"'It Depends on Who's Asking!' Discourses of Latinidad Among Latinos and Non-Latinos in York County, Pennsylvania."  Submitted for review to Latino Studies (currently under review)

"Afro-Mexicans."  In Latinos and Latinas in U.S. History and Culture: An Encyclopedia.  Carmen Lugo-Lugo and David J. Leonard, eds.  M.E. Sharpe, 2009.

"Hispanics/Latinos."  In The Encyclopedia of Jim Crow.  Nikki Brown and Barry Stentiford, eds.  Greenwood Press, 2008.

Selected Conference Presentations:

"Latinos, WASPs,' and ‘Wops": Discourses of Racial-Ethnic Difference in York County, PA."  At 8^th Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association, University of California-Berkeley (March 2010)

"Gang Usage of Graffiti: The Semiotics of Street Culture." Presented at the American Anthropological Association's 102^nd Annual Conference in Chicago, IL (November 2003)

Courses Taught at Millersville:

ANTH 121:  Cultural Anthropology

ANTH 122:  Physical Anthropology

ANTH 226:  Comparative Societies: Race and Ethnicity

ANTH 227:  Culture Through Film (Latino Studies version)

ANTH 227:  Culture Through Film (Sports in Society version)

ANTH 422:  History of Anthropological Theory