Biography
I am presently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Communications at Niagara University in Niagara Falls, NY. Originally from Phoenix, AZ, I attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN where I majored in Communications and Psychology. After graduating, I moved to Boston, MA, where I spent two wonderful and responsibility-free years in restaurant work, temping, and working in offices before moving to Prague to teach English at Charles University. I returned to the U.S. to do my Master’s at Boston's Suffolk University in Communication Studies, eventually taking a full-time position as the Coordinator of Service Learning for the university. I somewhat reluctantly left this very enjoyable position to attend the Doctoral Program in media studies at in the College of Communications at Penn State, where I successfully defended my dissertation in September 2009, entitled ‘Empire’ Records: A Study of Cultural Resistance and the Politics of Music-Making in the Network Age.
My full background and research history can be found on my CV.
And there are some old photos here, too.