scholar | creative | advocate

I’m currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon and a Wine & Spirit Education Trust (WSET) Diploma Candidate. My previous education includes a Bachelor of Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin's Moody College of Communication, an MA in Journalism from UT, and a PhD from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Before my academic career, I worked for ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut, and Austin, Texas (RIP Longhorn Network). I also spent time at NPR-affiliate KPCC in Pasadena, California, and with the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks. 

Sport offers a particularly rich opportunity to study pretty much anything in a vibrant, visual way. My research examines issues related to identity, technology, and labor through sport and wine. My forthcoming book, Double Crossover: Gender, Media, and Politics in Global Basketball (University of Illinois, 2025), considers how Black women and non-binary athletes maneuver through the global sports-media complex. I am also co-director (with Dr. Perry B. Johnson) of The Sound of Victory, a multi-platform digital humanities project located at the intersection of music, sound, and sport. Whether I'm following the ways athletes and fans use social media, analyzing branding strategies of women's professional leagues, or tracing the history of a sport from its birth to its current status as a global phenomenon, I am fascinated with the ways sport offers new possibilities for conceptualizing culture, economy, and technology.

You can check out my CV here.