Candidate, Iowa State House of Representatives, District 57, 2022

Candidate, Iowa State House of Representatives, District 63, 2020

No caucus information on file.

Professor of Sociology, University of Northern Iowa, 2007-Present

Co-Chair and Member, Faculty Evaluation Committee

Vice President, United Faculty

Volunteer, AmeriCorps, 2001-2002

Volunteer, Lutheran Volunteer Corps, 2001-2002

Awards:

Faculty Service Award, CSBS 2019
United Faculty Emerging Leader Award, 2016
Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Liberal Arts Core, 2016
University Book and Supply Outstanding Teaching Award recipient, 2011
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award for Untenured Faculty, 2011-2012

Father's Occupation:

Cowboy and was involved in special education.

Mother's Occupation:

Medical technologist and 4H leader

Priority Issues:

Fixing healthcare, investing in education, supporting Main Street, and prioritizing towns and rural areas

Publications:

"'At Least I'm Not Gay': Heterosexual Identity Making among Poor Black Teens"
"The reproduction of inequalities through emotional capital: The case of socializing low-income black girls"
"Making "good girls': Sexual agency in the sexuality education of low-income black girls"
"Inside social life: Readings in sociological psychology and microsociology"
""For the betterment of kids who look like me': Professional emotional labour as a racial project"
"Handbook of the Sociology of Gender"
"Managing emotions in the classroom"
"Leaving the street alone: Contesting street manhood as a gender project"
"Learning about inequality from kids: Interviewing strategies for getting beneath equality rhetoric"
"'They Are Just Like You and Me': Cultivating Volunteer Sympathy"
"Constructing a Color Line in the Twenty-first Century"
"Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa: An Ethnography of (in) vulnerability"
"Inner-city vulnerability"
"Gender and Emotion Management"
"1 in 2 People Say They Are Not 100% Heterosexual"
"Researching Children and Youth: Methodological Issues, Strategies, and Innovations"
"Creating and Contesting Social Inequalities: Contemporary Readings"
"Inside Social Life: Readings in Sociological Psychology and Microsciology, Seventh Edition"
"Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue: Constructing a Color Line in the Twenty-first Century"
"Growing Up in America: The Power of Race in the Lives of Teens"
"Teaching Portfolio"
"Implementing a Teacher Development Pilot Program for MA Students"
"Learning about Inequality from Kids: Interviewing Strategies for Getting Beneath Equality Rhetoric', Researching Children and Youth: Methodological Issues, Strategies, and Innovations (Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, Volume 22)"