People

Oral Historian at Narrative Portraits
Ph.D. 1994

Dissertation:  Bilingual Children in School: The Negotiation of Language Use in a First Grade Classroom

Instructor of Psychology at McHenry County College
Ph.D. 2003

Dissertation: What Women Want: The Role of the Social Environment on Romantic Partner Preferences

language creation; gestures; 

Assistant Professor of Psychology at The New School; Licensed clinical psychologist & Applied psychological anthropologist, in-sync
Ph.D. 2013

Dissertation:  Somatic Hope: Practice, Persuasion & the Body-Self in North American Yoga Therapy

McGill University, B.A. International Development Studies
Wayne State University, M.A. Medical Anthropology
Master's Thesis: Present Futures: Possibilities for Selfhood at Community Mental Health Centre in Detroit, Michigan

Interests: Medical anthropology, mental illness, recovery, forms of dependence, clinical ethnography

Principal Investigator and Instructor at Thriving in Ministry, a Lilly-funded VTS initiative
Ph.D. 2004

Dissertation:  Varieties of Young Adult Personal Theologies: Content, formative Influences, and Current Relationships to Everyday Life

Research Assistant Professor, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago

Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Portland
Ph.D. 2004

Dissertation:  Cultural processes of psychosocial competence and middle childhood: Play, self-esteem, and teamwork in two distinct impoverished communities

Research Associate, American Medical Association

Ph.D. 2021

Dissertation: “Making Ends Meet”: The Structuring Role of Financial Distress as Black and Latinx Emerging Adults Enter College

Teaching Fellow, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago 

Ph.D. 2024 

Dissertation: Learning Animacy Through Embodying Others: Plant Diets in the Peruvian Amazon