I am currently working toward a PhD in cultural anthropology with an interdisciplinary focus on mass communications at the University of Florida. I earned an MPhil in visual anthropology from the University of Manchester in 2015. My current research interest is looking at the reemergence of coffeehouses in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. I focus specifically on value, economics, nostalgia, and social spaces. As a visual anthropologist I use film and photography as the main medium for my output.

I started teaching as an adjunct anthropology instructor at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida. I am currently teaching at the University of Florida while working toward a PhD. I believe in running a discussion based courses where students produce a product or portfolio at the end of the course.
I designed and am the instructor of record for all the classes listed below:

Courses Taught (click for syllabus):
Media Anthropology (Two meetings per week)
Visual Anthropology (one meeting per week, screening heavy)
Visual Anthropology (multiple meetings per week, discussion based)
Digital Anthropology
Food and Culture
Introduction to World Archaeology
Cultural Anthropology
Introduction to Anthropology

Presentations:

2020 Society for Applied Anthropology A New Type of Irish Coffee
2020 Pop Culture Association Conference Friends and Fraser NBC and the Third Place
2019 American Anthropological Association From Public House to Coffeehouse
2016 American Anthropological Association Scadia a feature film on American nostalgia
2015 Southeastern Conference of Art Colleges (chair) Confluence of Art and Anthropology
2015 Keynote and screening for University of Wisconsin-Madison Anthropology Day
2014 Pop Culture Association Conference Sacdia pop culture in medieval reenactment
2014 Southeastern Conference of Art Colleges Scadia art and imagined history
2012 Society for Applied Anthropology Datil Peppers a short film on heritage hot peppers
2011 Society for Applied Anthropology Trap to Table a short film on fishing in north Florida