About Me
I am doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at Penn State University. Beginning in Fall 2008, I will be an assistant professor of sociology at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. My research and teaching interests include sociology of the media, social theory, political sociology, and stratification. My dissertation focuses on how the increasingly private funding of public radio outlets has affected their programming content. I previously examined news coverage of Operation Iraqi Freedom, considering particularly the role of the controversial embedding program in putting forward a military-focused account of the war. An article based on this research, entitled "Controlling the Media in Iraq," appears the spring 2008 issue of Contexts.
