Researcher
Writer
Collage Artist
My other project deals with cultural capital vs. socioeconomic realities of touring metal bands and am in the interview stages, talking with band members, metal fans, and industry professionals.
I also study: Popular Culture/Cultural Studies, Religion, Horror Films, Sociology of Knowledge, Food and Culture, Native American/Indigenous Studies, Interdisciplinarity, The Arts, and Literary Criticism.
Selected Works:
Selected Poems in Unlikely Stories. 2005-08. 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.
“’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.”
Be sure to check out all the projects and be in touch if you have any questions!
