ABOUT
My interdisciplinary research explores sites of informal education to better understand how practices, activities, and place shape individual and group identity, knowledge production, and civic engagement. Using participatory action research and other qualitative methods, I examine mediated and material spaces to trace how power and knowledge is produced, consumed and distributed. I favor working across disciplines in the social and biophysical sciences and reach out to communities who seek out collaborative opportunities.
Currently, my work focuses on fostering interdisciplinary college-community partnerships that support youth leadership, civic engagement, and safe and sustainable urban communities in Syracuse, New York. In June 2021, I joined James Levy (UWW) and Neil Patterson (CNPE @SUNY ESF) and other collaborators on an oral history project entitled Whose Land? Race, Settlement, and Dispossession in Wisconsin and New York. examine environmental and gendered dimensions of popular culture with an emphasis on animated and Hollywood films. Scholarship from sociology, gender studies, cultural studies, education, and youth culture form the intellectual scaffolding of my research and teaching. In the classroom, I embrace and practice critical and feminist pedagogies. |
My academic home is the Department of Environmental Studies at SUNY ESF. My aim is to provide highly motivated students with an engaging and supportive environment for learning, research, and teaching.
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